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Lisa Bless is an independent artist, dancer and maker based in Heidelberg (DE) & Brussels (BE)

Lisa Bless is a freelance dancer/ performer and maker currently based in Heidelberg, Germany and Brussels (BE). She studied Contemporary Dance at the HfMT Cologne and the post-graduate performance program ‚Performact’ in Portugal. Since 2018 she has been working as an independent dance artist. As a dancer she has been working with Ivan Pérez/ Dance Theatre Heidelberg (DE), Sabine Molenaar/ Sandman Dance Company (BE/NL), Eric Trottier/ La_Trottier Dance (DE), Paola Madrid/ SORTA (BE/MEX). Besides that she has been studying under the guidance of David Zambrano, developing further her practice in improvisation and instant composition.

With her own work, she has been a young resident artist in ZAIK Cologne, Tanzfaktur Cologne and Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf. She was invited with her performances to several festivals such as Now & Next Düsseldorf, Made in Köln by Zaik Cologne, Summer Intensive Portugal, Auf dem Sprung Festival Aachen and is often a guest in the festival series Tanz im Delta, Mannheim. Her work has been showcased in the Exhibition ‚Frauenkörper – der Blick auf das Weibliche von Albrecht Dürer bis Cindy Sherman‘ in Kurpfälzisches Museum Heidelberg. Most recently she created and performed the hybrid solo work Oxy-Gen/ Z(8) during a residency at Theaterfestival Schwindelfrei 22; where also the Film OXY-GEN by Lisa Bless & Pankaj Sihag had its German Premiere.

as a dancer

Guest at Dance Theatre Heidelberg/ Iván Pérez Avilés (DE)
Firebird & Rite of Spring (Feb-June 22)
Waiting for the Barbarians – Schlossfestspiele (June/July 2022)

La_Trottier Dance/ Eric Trottier (DE)
Follow Lucky (2021)
(Con)Fabulations (2020)

Sandman Dance Company/ Sabine Molenaar (BE/NL)
Transmute (2019/20/21)

Sorta/ Paola Madrid (BE/MEX)
AFTER (2019/20/22)

Backsteinhaus Production (DE)
Die tonight, live forever oder das Prinzip Nosferatu (2019)

Johnny Lloyd & Oper Köln
Toybox (2018/2019)