2022 "Under Moon"
Thomas Klein and Karen Bößer will present the performance "Under Moon" on June 15, 2022
as part of the Schumannfest 2022, "Neuland Vol. 2". The performance is a scenic-musical
collaboration in which the animalistic, essential in humans is reflected. An adapted ego and
its animal instincts wrestle with each other, become visible in turn. Morals and drives, forms
of egoism, passion, controversial attitudes and desires flash up and want to dominate.
Opposed to this is the desire and insight for balance. Karen Bößers dance performance leads
into a scenic world of density, intensity, transparency, lightness and abstraction - congenially
carried by Thomas Kleins aka Solyst electro and tribal beats with drums. Together they
struggle to balance the kaleidoscopic centrifugal forces towards humanity and justice.
More information and tickets: Neuland Vol. 2 | Tonhalle Düsseldorf
Thank you to: Lise Brenner
Sponsored by Tonhalle Düsseldorf and the friendly support of Kabawil e.V
At the Premiere of S3NSE at the Bambi Film Theater in Düsseldorf on 29 January 2023 at
12 noon. Misael Lopez and Karen Bößer at the Q&A after the screening. Photo by Susanne
DIesner.
Archiving my artistic works
(Photo around 1993 at Kunstakedemie Düsseldorf, Germany. Performing for Elaine
Shipman.)
Research supported by the Dance Federation. The intensive research laid the foundation
for a comprehensive documentation of my artistic work in the independent scene and
paved the way for the preparation of a publication in book format for further
dissemination.
Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the
framework of the initiative NEUSTART KULTUR, aid programm DIS-TANZEN by the
Dachverband Tanz Deutschland
„Intersection/The Art of Identity“ at Goethe-Institut Marokko
Date/Time: July 19 from 6 p.m.
Performance & Film
Contemporary performance art - live and on film
Getting to know the work of Karen Bößer, Düsseldorf
What do we look for when we watch dancers? What do we expect? What do we feel?
What does their performance have to do with us?
Karen Bößer has been exploring these and other questions in her work as a
choreographer and dancer for years. Her performances open up spaces for intensive
encounters between audience and dancers. Her latest project "Intersection/The Art of
Identity" is no exception.
Together, audience members and performers embark on a journey of encounters,
traversing a course of rapprochement and mutual discovery. The focus is as much on the
individual as on the group as a whole.
Following the performance, Karen Bößer's award-winning dance film S3NSE will be
shown at the Goethe Institute in Rabat. S3NSE is a cinematic experiment full of poetry
and intensity. The English word for "sense" means both rational understanding and
sensual perception. It acts as a bridge between the individual and the world. One that
must be crossed anew every moment. S3NSE is an invitation to empathize, to listen and
simply to be authentically human.
For all those who would like to exchange ideas, there will be a discussion with Karen
Bößer and the participating performers at the end of the film.
Funded by:
Special thanks for support to:
A production by karen-boesser-projects, 2024.
Photos Credits : Bößer& Szörenyi
Upcoming Event – GTF-Symposium 2025
Karen Boesser will present a lecture performance as part of the GTF-Symposium 2025 in
Vienna:
Die andere Vernunft. Rausch, Trance, Ekstase
This lecture performance revisits the performance project from 2020, exploring altered
states of consciousness — exaltation, trance, and ecstasy — as forms of embodied
knowledge and alternative reason. The presentation interweaves theoretical reflection with
performative practice, creating a resonant space of inquiry and shared experience.
September 25, 2025, 7:00 pm
Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien (mdw), Rennweg 8, 1030 Wien (3. Bezirk)
Announcement: Filmpremiere ÉTANT
at PAZ - Performing Arts Zone, November 15th 2025, 2. SESSION –
International Competition, 6:30 pm
How can movement and dance be realized cinematically? How can the perspectival space be
opened up in the filming process before the film is returned to a perspectivally fixed state,
equated with theater, in the presentation. The eight-minute short film is a black and white
collage of performative recordings with Karen Bößer, created in 2006, 2002, 2003, 2004, and
2005. The footage served as the starting point for the productive process of critically
exchanging editing ideas with the artist Dirk Dietrich Hennig, which culminated in the present
film.
Body – Space – Material – Resonance
An artistic research–based performance project by Bößer & Szörenyi, developed with
students from the Department of Media and Cultural Studies Heinrich Heine University
Düsseldorf - In cooperation with Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, ES365, and RfK
DANCE AND MEDIA JAPAN
International Dance Film Festival 2026
June 2, 2026 Online streaming on the official website
Dance films (dance videos) are films with a dance motif, and there are specialized film
festivals worldwide. Dance and Media Japan has been organizing dance film festivals since
2003. It is the only international dance film festival that takes place continuously in Japan.
In 2026, a new documentary film category will be introduced, in which 30 selected
documentaries will be screened and distributed. The feature film category will feature
carefully selected works from a pool of 130 films.
INTERSECTION / CSOMÓPONTOK
is a participatory performance project by Karen Bößer and Beatrix Szörényi
that focuses on individual and collective perception. The boundaries
between audience and performers dissolve: in one‑to‑one encounters and
open movement processes, a temporary communal field emerges, reshaping
itself with each new group. INTERSECTION / CSOMÓPONTOK does not
appear as a finished form, but as a site-specific event that is continuously re-
created through the interactions of new participants.
The performance takes place as the closing event
of the exhibition “The Golden Repair.”
“INTERSECTION / CSOMÓPONTOK” – Bößer & Szörényi
Date: 8 March 2026
Time: 5:00–6:00 p.m.
Venue: Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
Address:
Komor Marcell utca 1, 1095 Budapest, Hungary
Tickets & Infos:
ludwigmuseum.hu/en/online-tickets
Supported by
Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
and the
Monika Werhahn-Mees Foundation for International Cultural Exchange
Intersection / EINE MENGE
Bößer & Szörenyi – a collective performance
With: Alun Michels, Anna Matzek, Elke Neuenhaus, Lu Biondi, Tomoko Tezuka
Venue: Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf
Date: May 2, 2026, 6:00 p.m.
Admission: Donations
In cooperation with Weltkunstzimmer
Funding: U.H. and Bößer & Szörenyi
More information is available on the Weltkunstzimmer website:
https://weltkunstzimmer.de/kontakt/
You can also apply directly by email: boesser.szoerenyi[at]gmail.com
