Cologne choreographer Silke Z. explores private spaces in her interdisciplinarian dance performance, encompassing live performance, video installations, documentary approaches and movie fiction. She strives to find a direct encounter with any member of the audience in a spatial installation transcending the constitution of classic stage situations. Private spaces and intimate events occur before the eyes of a public audience, a retreat impossible to perform. A dynamic and emotional game binds two dancers in a game of nearness and distance, control and loss of control.

A sublime disrobement, beautiful, fascinating and, at the same time, a refined staged reflex to a perverted public addiction. A quite poisonous barb in what is, nevertheless, a great aesthetic pleasure." Nicole Strecker, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger

After having studied at the Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln, Silke Z. closed her formal education at the European Dance Development Center in Arnheim/Düsseldorf. Silke Z. is co-founder of resistdance., Studio 11, a production and working space for independent dance in Cologne, and of the supra-regional performance network die.idee//bewegt sich//artist network. "private spaces (the p.s. project)" was awarded the Kölner Tanztheaterpreis 2008.