Simone Gisela Weber is a dancer and choreographer based in Berlin, Germany. Her choreographic works unfold on the intersection of Performance, Installation and Sculpture. She holds a BA in Dance, Context, Choreography from HZT Berlin (2019), a MFA in Time & Space Arts (2022, Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki) and a MA in Choreography from DAS Choreography (2023, Academy of Theater & Dance). She is a grant holder of the Dance Praxis Scholarship “Emerging Artist” from Senate Department for Culture and Europe Berlin.
For her graduation work “reverberation” which was presented in the frame of KUVAN KEVÄT 2022 in Helsinki she received the Anita Snellman Prize “A work of art which needed to be made” and the Graduation Grant from the Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki. Furthermore, she has received the ATLAS Scholarship for participating in the Choreographic Training Program in the frame of ImpulsTanzFestival- International Dance Festival Vienna in 2024.
Her artistic practice is a permanent attempt of reflecting her family’s working class background which she interlaces with questions about power, emotionality and visibility. She explores with an enquiring gaze through different media and the use of various materials the collaborative dynamics within human & other-than-human bodies and asks, how choreographic strategies can enable a decentralizing of the human perception and form. She has shown her works nationally and internationally in Uferstudios Berlin, Theaterhaus G7 Mannheim, Milchhof Gallery Berlin, KUVA/TILA Gallery and Ringtheater Berlin, Performática Mexico and Studio Verlin, Theater Strahl Berlin and Tanzhaus NRW. Simone has worked as a performer, artistic collaborator and artistic adviser together with Anna Till (DE), deufert&plischke (DE), Arneout Mik (NL), Sanna Blennow (SE), Amparo González Sola (NL), Zander Porter (DE), Mikko Niemistö (FI), Anna Aristarkhova (DE), Ellinor Ljungkvist (DE), Jan Rozman (DE), Nile Koetting (DE) and Boris Charmatz (DE/FR), whose works were shown in Sophiensaele Berlin, Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, Volksbühne Berlin, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt am Main, Kampnagel Hamburg, Residenz at Schauspiel Leipzig, HELLERAU-European Centre of the Arts Dresden, Zodiak Centre for New Dance Helsinki.