Sophia Guttenhöfer
Choreography & pysical theatre, Direction
Sophia Guttenhöfer is a freelance artist in the field of choreography, performance and dance. She combines various movement and performance arts with somatic bodywork, queer-feminist concepts of the body, gender and desire, as well as issues of social justice. Aesthetically, she is interested in simplicity, lightness and proximity to the everyday paired with whimsicality in movement, language, sound and image.
Guttenhöfer deals with the body in the field of tension between materiality and cultural attribution (e.g. one armed scissors Hamburg, Cologne, Berlin, Budapest 2012/13; Ver:rückte Körper, Haukijärvi, Finland, DanceKiosk, Hamburg 2014; Two Lips by Regina Rossi, Kampnagel 2019; The Post Queer Dilemma by Guy Marsan, Kampnagel 2023) as well as the relationship between body and space in the interplay of their mutual influence (e.g. No Work No Play by Guy Marsan, Kampnagel 2023). e.g. No Work No Play by Guy Marsan, Cologne 2016, winner of the Kunstsalon Choreography Prize; This City is alive Kreaturenkiollektiv, Hamburg 2017).
As part of the performance collective Bauchladen Monopol, she recently toured Germany on the subject of whining (Jammermobil - eine Homage ans Jammern). She also performs on stages, in bars and urban spaces, searching for the visible and invisible rules that influence movement (e.g. 2010 darf man in the rain tanzen, Hamburg, Berlin, Cologne, Düsseldorf). Guttenhöfer also choreographs for the theater and researches collaborative working methods (e.g. in collaboration with Jochen Ullrich, rennArte, Workforceproductions, Annika Scharm, Guy Marsan, Regina Rossi, Carola Unser, Treffen Total). She is co-initiator of Treffen Total 2016/2018 K3 Tanzplan Hamburg - an international collaboration of 25 artists. At HLTM she worked as a choreographer in several productions with Carola Unser-Leichtweiß (Ab jetzt zusammen 2020; Hair 2021; 800 Ein Theaterstück 2022; Momo 2022; Ein Sportstück 2023) and produced two performances for young audiences (Mein Platz, Dein Platz 2018; Move It 2023).
