Angela Vitovec

Angela Vitovec, also known as Angela Schubot, grew up in Berlin, where she lived and worked for 38 years; she now works between Berlin and Toronto as a choreographer, dancer, teacher, movement researcher, and bodyworker, while also being the mother of her 4 year old son, Nai. She collaborated with Jared Gradinger (2009-2022), creating radical works on the debordering of the body such as WHAT THEY ARE INSTEAD OF ( 2009), IS MAYBE (2012), YEW OUTSIDE (2018) and THE HUT (2022) among others to international recognition. Her Solo Trilogy KÖRPER OHNE MACHT (2015) was awarded as the discoveries of the year 2015 for excellent further developments. Since 2016 Angela is educated in traditional amazonian plant medicine and is a facilitator at Caya Shobo Healing Center Peru. She has an education in perceptive pedagogy and fascia therapy Method Danis Bois/AEMF Berlin and teaches among others at ImpulsTanz Vienna, HZT-Berlin and Toronto Biennial of Arts. Angelas methods are searching for bodies of multiplicity in deep communion with plant nature. Following her radical methods she co-created the Solo SAMMAL/MOSS (2022), MOSSBELLY (2023) and YA! (2024) - a Yarrow choir. 2023 she changed her artistic name, taking the name of her forgotten grandfather, who was made aware to her by the plants: Vitovec. In Toronto, Angela is one of six Co-Directors of Collective Space, where she has initiated and co-initiated numerous community offerings, including CHOIRing - a weekly community sounding practice; We Need It - community dance classes co-initiated with Aisha Sasha John, Erin Poole, and Kate Nankervis; and Tender Again - monthly bodywork gatherings for vulnerable communities, co-initiated with Nyda Kwasowsky and Miru Yogarajah.

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