About Us

Prognoses on Movement(s) has been created and organized by the Zentrum für Bewegungsforschung at the Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies Department of the Berlin Free University, in cooperation with Hebbel Am Ufer (HAU) theatre. It is sponsored by Kulturstiftung des Bundes.

Project Management: DepArtment Berlin

Artistic and Scientific Directors:

Prof. Dr. Gabriele Brandstetter
is a professor at the Dept of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies, Free University, Berlin. Her research activities focus on: theories of representation in literature, theatre and dance; concepts of the body in performance and dance; studies on the history and theory of movement. Present research projects on virtuosity, ‘swarm’ choreographies, and cross-cultural networks in theatre and dance. In 2004 she was awarded the Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Preis of the German Research Foundation, through which she formed the Centre for Research on Movement at the Free University.

Dr. Sibylle Peters
born in 1972, is a performer engaged in projects that interconnect art and science. She graduated with an M.A. (German literature and philosophy) and a doctor’s degree from Hamburg University. Since 1998, she has been working as a teacher and researcher at the universities of Munich, Basel, and Berlin. As an independent performance artist she has realised a large number of projects, e.g. at the Hamburger Schauspielhaus, the Kampnagel factory, and the Ruhr Triennale. Her theatre experiments at the Fundus Theatre in Hamburg are concerned with exploring new forms of performance and participation in theatre for children. Presently, she is working on her Habilitation thesis on “The lecture as performance.” She has published books and articles on the use of time, the theory of the ‘improbability drive,’ and on the figuration of evidence, and has recently been hitting theatres and performance venues in Germany, Britain, Croatia, and Switzerland with her lecture performances.

Dr. Kai van Eikels
studied at the director’s class in Hamburg, and in addition studied philosophy and literature at Hamburg University. After working as a director at German theatres, he acquired his doctor’s degree, taught in Hamburg, and accomplished a research project at Tokyo University. Since 2005, he is working at the Free University’s interdisciplinary research cluster “Kulturen des Performativen” in Berlin. His books and articles deal with the philosophy and poetics of time, theories of action, intercultural studies, notions of (in)compentence, time management, politics of the ultimatum and concepts of war/peace, social swarms and “smart mobs,” and new forms of collectivity. His latest projects are: “Social Virtuosity – paradoxes and aporiae of performance in post-Fordism,” and “The art of the collective: Performance politics”.