About

Breeanne Camille Saxton

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is a choreographer, trouble and music maker, dance teacher, and performer currently based in Berlin, Germany. After receiving a BFA in modern dance from the University of Utah in 2015, Breeanne has had the pleasure of working and collaborating with a variety of freelance contemporary dance artists and companies around the world. They divide their time evenly between choreography, performance, and teaching; the three practices constantly influencing each other. Play, serious fun, and non-hierarchical respect are some of the core values they bring into the studio. They had the honor of being a company dancer with Ririe Woodbury Dance Company and performing the works of Ann Carlson, Raja Feather-Kelly, Joanne Kotze, Doug Varone, Daniel Charon, Adam Barruch, and Alwin Nikolais with Alberto Del Saz of the Murray-Louis Foundation worldwide. Other artists with whom they collaborated include Marion Sparber, Phillip Dechamp, Stefan Winter (Winter and Winter Productions), LajaMartin, Yael Cibulski, The Utah Opera, Daniél Desnoyers, Kyle Lang, and Molly Heller. They currently work often and joyously in Munich as a dancer with Jasmine Ellis Projects and Bad Posture Productions. Their choreography has been shown in various theaters and venues in the USA, the Czech Republic, Germany, and Spain. Their queer work legaxy xx received the 3rd prize in choreography from the Solotanztheater Festival Stuttgart the 3rd prize in the solo contest at the Mazdansa International and enjoyed a successful European touring season in 2021. Their most recent work choreographic "durch Hilma'', in collaboration with Melissa Kieffer and Alica Minar, premiered at Dock 11 in Berlin in March 2023 with generous support from the Fonds Darstellende Künste #Takeheart Residenz Förderung.

Breeanne believes in performance as a precious and timeless meaning-making ritual between performer, audience, and the performative space. Using the lived experiences within the mindbody as material to work with, Breeanne sources sensation, memory, story, imagery, and groove to create choreographies that offer empathy inducing intimacies between audience and performer. Their practice and works incorporate a variety of mediums including hand puppets, cranky puppetry, digital media, and costume design. Their studio research orbits around the cultivation of a holistically expressive performative body that has access to vocalization, theatrical precision, and dynamic physicalities. They enjoy observing such bodies in science fictional, fantastical, obscene, grotesque, humane and remarkable performative situations. At this moment in time their research is focused on weaving together various states of inter-being which have been characterised as binary systems; human and animal, feminine and masculine, life and death, giving and receiving, communion and solitude. Their work engages in “story-telling as thinking” in order to create imaginative new possibilities for a gently subversive world (Dona Harraway).

As a teacher, Breeanne has had the great fortune to share their perspective with students across the world and of every age range. Their teaching philosophy places a great deal of focus on facilitating the construction of the anatomical, intellectual, and social circumstances necessary for dynamic learning and physical performance to be possible. Their classes are heavily focused on guided imagery and the power of the imagination on the body flowing from the influence of their contemporary training in the following techniques: release, Humphrey/Limon, Graham, flying low, Gaga, Butoh, Contact Improvisation. Breeanne continues to expand their teaching practice through the study of hypnotherapy to heighten the potency and impact of their guidance. They recently shared professional practices with students at Tanzfabrik (Berlin), Tanzhalle (Berlin), Marameo (Berlin), Berlin Contemporary Dance (Berlin), Bad Lemons (Munich), and through the self-initiated platform for female and non-binary teachers in Berlin, The Practice.

Breeanne is involved in an eternal process of unknowing, unfolding, mis and un derstanding-

You are invited along.