This workshop is part of the educational platform ‘Without Distance’ 2026, within the project ‘Life Long Burning – Future Lost and Found (LLB 3)’, funded under the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. It is implemented in partnership and with the financial support of the Goethe-Institut Bulgaria and the National Culture Fund under the programme ‘Targeted Support – Creative Europe’

This workshop invites participants to explore the interplay of body, voice, and dramaturgical thinking. Led by choreographer Deva Schubert and dramaturg Lotta Beckers, it investigates how collective voice, dissonance, and choreographic practice can open new ways of being together and make space for the unheard.

Drawing on the performance practice of Glitch Choir, participants explore disruption and dissonance as creative tools for body and voice. Through practices such as overtone singing, yodeling, polyphonic dissonance, and the mouth as a resonance space, the workshop focuses on voice as a physical, spatial, and collective phenomenon.

Deva Schubert is a choreographer and dancer based in Berlin. Her artistic practice explores the voice and combines dance, installation and digital media. Her work has been presented at venues including Haus der Kunst Munich, Kunsthalle Zürich, Radialsystem and Sophiensaele Berlin. In 2024 she received the ImPulsTanz Young Choreographers’ Award for “Glitch Choir”. In recent years, she has begun sharing her practice in the form of teachings.

Lotta Beckers (she/they) lives in Berlin and works as a dramaturg and artist. They studied, among other subjects, Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen and are currently part of the Class for Performative Arts at the HGB Leipzig. As a dramaturg, they have a long-standing collaboration with the choreographer Deva Schubert. In addition, they regularly work with director Noam Brusilovsky and scenographer Magdalena Emmerig, developing research-based theatre pieces. Lotta’s own artistic research focuses on the entanglements of desire, power, and feeling, as well as on the historical within the personal.