Silke Bake
Silke Bake lives in Berlin, and works as curator, dramaturge and mentor. In collaboration with collegues, artists, and institutions she develops topic bound programms, talks, and research formats in the field of performing art. She has worked for diverse festivals (including Theater der Welt 1999 in Berlin) and institutions (including TAT Frankfurt, Hebbel-Theater Berlin) and realized programs for the House of World Cultures, the Academy of the Arts Berlin, Kanuti Gildi Saal Tallinn and Thea-terformen Hannover/ Braunschweig. She worked as the dramaturge, responsible for new production and research development at Tanzquartier Wien, and as a full-time member of the board of curators for independent theater and dance in the city of Vienna (2002-06). She was the dramaturge and managing director of IN TRANSIT Performing Arts Festival at the House of World Cultures in 2008 & 2009.
As a free-lance dramaturge she has been involved in various contemporary performance and dance projects, and worked as a artistic manager with Anne Juren (F/A) and Claudia Bosse (D/A) as well as mentor and teacher in art educational environments. Together with Peter Stamer she was the curator of the biennial NU Performance Festival “On Hospitality” on the occasion of the cultural capital program of Tallinn 2011. She realized “Performance platform. Body affects.” at Sophiensaele Berlin 2012. Together with a group of artists, dramaturges and architects she initiated and realised the space performance project “A Future Archeology” in Berlin, Vienna and Cairo 2012/13, and together with with Peter Stamer “A piece you remember to tell – A piece you tell to remember” - a project on dance-history-telling.
She is continuously working on formats for discussion and discourse as “from dusk till dawn and further”, a 12 hours talkshow together with Peter Stamer at ImpulsTanz Festival Vienna, “Studio 13 – Let’s talk about work and life” a series of talks and “Visionärer Widerstreit”, a seven hours at Tanzfabrik Berlin, both together with Jacopo Lanteri. In 2016/17 she conceived with Alice Chauchat, Bettina Knaupt and Siegmar Zacharias “Ecologies of practice”, a talk & practice format with guests. She has been the artistic director oft he biennial program Tanznacht Berlin in 2016 and 2018. In 2018, she was guest professor at the MA program‚ Solo Dance Authorship‘ at HZT Berlin.
Recent publications: “Audience and cοmmunities? Between policies, marketing and true desires”, published by Szene Salzburg in the context of APAP - Advanced Performing Arts Project, edited together with Jacopo Lanteri, 2013, and “How to collaborate? Questioning Togetherness in the Performing Arts”, edited together with P. Stamer and Ch. Weiler, Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2016.
