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SARA ANGIUS

contemporary performer and coreographer

Sara Angius is interested in existential themes that allow her and the audience to have an introspective look at what happens “inside”.

She is interested in the human emotional layers: what is hidden beyond the surface, beyond the blurry border that separates everything real from what exists only in the mind. There is nothing we are incapable of thinking, no place where the human mind cannot go: this is what Sara likes to experience in theatre, as a performer as well as a spectator and this is the read thread that guides her ideas.

Sara’s research is interdisciplinary and combines contemporary dance, puppet theatre, object animation, physical theatre and illusion.

For Sara, illusion – whether in dance, “Magie Nouvelle” or in puppetry – by defying the rules of reality, it helps to understand it better.

Illusion connects to the surreal or metaphysical dimension, it opens up new ways of thinking and push the spectator’s imagination further than is normally possible.

portrait ©Ole Plönnigs

B I O G R A P H Y

Biography /

Sara Angius is a contemporary dancer and choreographer based in Braunschweig, Germany, where she has lived since 2013. She received her professional dance training at the Accademia DanceHaus in Milan, while simultaneously completing a degree in Communication Sciences for the Performing Arts at the State University of Milan.

Following her engagement as a company member at the Staatstheater Braunschweig, Sara went on to work with various companies in the international independent dance scene, including the Xie Xin Dance Theatre in Shanghai, China. She also collaborated as a performer with James Thierrée in the creation of Frôlons at the Opéra Garnier in Paris.

As a choreographer, Sara has received several awards for her short pieces at international competitions. She was a prizewinner at the 17th Stuttgart International Solo-Tanz-Theater Festival in 2013. Her duet „The Fish Bowl“ was a finalist at the International Choreography Competitions in Hannover and Copenhagen, and won first prize at the Certamen Internacional de Coreografía Burgos–New York in 2016.

Sara Angius continues to develop her personal movement research, which she shares through regular teaching engagements with professional dancers, emerging artists, and dance enthusiasts. Since 2024, she has also been collaborating as a contemporary dance teacher and guest choreographer with IDA – Institute of Dance Arts, at the Anton Bruckner Private University.

She is also regularly invited as a guest teacher at various institutions and festivals, including Milano Contemporary Ballet, Tanzpunkt Hannover, Tanzharz Stadtebühne, Contemporanea Dance Week, and T.A.N.Z. – Braunschweig.

In 2022, Sara Angius presented her first film work, INCOGNITUM—a dance film that has since garnered international acclaim across experimental and dance film festivals worldwide. In 2023, it was screened at numerous festivals around the globe, including its Austrian premiere at the Dance on Screen Festival in Graz on November 2, where it received the Audience Award. Shortly after, the film had its Georgian premiere at the Art Experimental Screenings – Film Festival Fresh Stream in Tbilisi on November 10, winning Best Experimental Film. These accolades, along with its wide international circulation, highlight the film’s strong resonance with audiences and its artistic relevance within the global experimental dance cinema scene.

Sara continues to develop her artistic voice on the independent scene while also working as a guest choreographer at established theatres across Germany, including the Staatstheater Braunschweig, Stadttheater Gießen, Theater der Jungen Welt Leipzig, Theater Hameln, and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf.

Since 2022, she has been a member of the leadership team of TANZKOOP, a cooperative of dance artists founded to strengthen and stabilize the production and working conditions of the independent dance scene in Braunschweig and Lower Saxony.