Marianne Tuckman

Marianne is a choreographer, performer, facilitator, and writer based between Berlin and the UK. She has an MPHIL in creative writing (Swansea University, 2022), researching on the relationship between text and embodied performance.

Her mission: to make words sweat.

Her method: to love through conversation.

The communication of stories is what motivates Marianne to make work that combines humor, poetic metaphors, guttural dancing, and chat. As a choreographer, she aims to initiate and hold spaces for dance and talk conversations between diverse groups of people. Marianne performs, engages, and co-creates with and for a wide range of communities, with particular experience with womxn and children with refugee backgrounds.

Since graduating from the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in 2015 with the Writing Award, Marianne's projects have been presented at venues across Europe and South America, including the Arts Printing House (Lithuania), Hasta Trilce (Buenos Aires), the Blue Elephant Theatre (London) and Acker Stadt Palast (Berlin). In Spring 2022 she received a grant from the Arts Council England to fund the final research and development period of her solo piece “The Dirt”, previewed at the Centre for Live Art Yorkshire (CLAY). She has performed with Vinge/Müller for the Theatertreffen festival production “Nationaltheater Reinickendorf” at the Berliner Festspiele (Berlin), with Raul Vargas Torres in “GROTTO 11-13” (Rådstua Teaterhus, Tromso & Nordic Black Theatre, Oslo), as well as with Manque La Banca and Gracefool Collective. Between 2017-2020 she was involved in the project “Junction” (artistic director, Jo Parkes - honorary prize in the German Dance Award 2019) in which she and other dance artists facilitated weekly dance workshops for young people in refugee accommodation centers across Berlin. Each 12-week block culminated in a piece choreographed/performed by the dance artists in collaboration with the young people at Ufer Studios (Berlin).

Over Spring-Summer 2022 Marianne is working with Meeting Point's women's group to choreograph a piece to celebrate the refugee week 2022. Marianne is a recurring guest lecturer in choreography at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance and is currently leading a module in which students are making site-specific dance stories inspired by conversations with their neighbors in the local Chapeltown community.

Marianne Tuckman is a participant of the Tailor-made Fellowships program of Οnassis AiR 2022-23.