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Clay AD – Tanztage Berlin 2026

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2026
35 edition

Current

Clay AD

Clay AD (they/them) is a Berlin based interdisciplinary artist, writer, tarot reader and bodyworker. Their practice engages with stories and storytelling about illness, ecology, science fiction, transformation and structures of care -- by themselves, collectively and with their clients. Their first novel, Metabolize, If Able is available through Arcadia Missa Press UK and was named a finalist in the 31st Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror.

Isabel Gatzke (Dramaturgy) works as a dramaturg in the field of dance and performance. She studied multidisciplinary Cultural Studies and Theatre at the University of Hildesheim, Art in Context (M.A.) at University of the Arts Berlin and Dramaturgy (M.A.) at Zurich University of the Arts. Isabel worked with the choreographer Anna Aristarkhova, Annegret Schalke, Frida Giulia Franceschini, Olympia Bukkakis (Gender Euphoria, Sophiensæle Berlin, 2019 / Work on Progress, The Present Is Not Enough - Performing Queer History and Futures, HAU, 2019 / Under Pressures, Gessnerallee Zürich, 2019) and Judith Förster (SHOWDOWN, Vierte Welt Berlin, 2020). Since 2018 she is a research assistant for the artistic-research project Non-knowledge, Laughter and the Moving Image led by Professor Annika Larsson (HFBK Hamburg / RIA Stockholm). In this frame she curated the two-day symposium The Dance of Disorder with contributions by a.o. Oona Doherty, Dana Michel and Tracy Maurice, Kélina Gotman and Jasmin Schädler (HFBK Hamburg, 2020).

MINQ is a Berlin-based DJ, Sound Artist and Cultural Producer. Their practice is held in a belief that music is a place of connection – to the self, others and the world at large. MINQ’s work is a mode of storytelling – stories from the past, present, or future. From non-fiction to fantasy.

Emese Csornai studied architecture at the Technical University of Budapest and fine arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Her research in fine arts led her to lighting design, which two principles keep informing each other in her work as a practicing lighting designer. www.emesecsornai.com

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