Valeska Gert Guest Professorship 2026/27: Nach The Powerful Margins. Dance of Struggles and Bodies of Resistance

About the artist

As a dance artist with a background in Krump, Nach explores her identity as a dancer and as a woman, whilst defying restrictive categorisations. Having grown up in Bobigny, France, in a family with Senegalese, Cape Verdean and Vietnamese roots, she recalls the constant presence of music and dance as part of social and community life.

As a Valeska-Gert Visiting Professor, Nach is engaged in practice-based research into the power of the marginalised, their narratives and their independent, self-assured and resistant creativity. Can protest dance unleash liberating and political power through the writing of movement, the development of choreographic scores and the telling of stories? What is the relationship with historical and personal archives? How can we break free from inherited attitudes and traditional bonds by writing new scores? And if so: what actually constitutes a score?

Valeska Gert Visiting Professorship

Each semester, the Academy of the Arts, the Free University of Berlin and the DAAD’s Berlin Artists’ Programme invite students on the Master’s programme in Dance Studies to engage in artistic and academic work and research alongside a visiting professor. The seminar content is introduced to the audience in a lecture at the start of the term, and the results are presented in a final presentation at the end.