Biography

Ebru Altıntaş is a Berlin-based dancer, artivist and awareness practitioner deeply inspired by Afro-diasporic dances like Hip Hop, House and Club Culture, as well as her upbringing in a Muslim Turkish community.

Her artistic practice centers care, collective responsibility, and creates spaces for shared learning and mutual support within the dance scene. As a performer and emerging choreographer, she works in various dance researches internationally and facilitates different projects intersecting with queerness, youth and realities of color.

For Ebru, dance is as a political expression that is informing us of the sensitivities of our bodies and their deepest longings.

Artistic project

Bridging is a public space dance performance rooted in lived experience, drawing upon Black Street and Club Dance cultures, specifically House Dance and Hip Hop. The project traces the origins of these disciplines as practices born from marginalized communities and uses dance as a tool to reflect on political inequalities, economic resources, and the need for interdependence within contemporary cities.

Through a performance on a bridge, this project educates on the social economy of different marginalized realities and encourages participants to their own political and social agency. Its goal is to raise awareness as well as to cultivate a sense of empowerment to speak their own voices.

The performance ultimately proposes public space as a site where movement becomes food for thought and where differences are acknowledged as a potential for building interdependent connections.

Format: dance exhibition, performance

Size of audience: 50-100 people 

Specific location: bridge

Timing/duration: day performance of 30-45min