Lotta Beckers (she/they) is a Berlin-based dramaturg and artist working across performance, dance, and documentary theatre. She’s into awkward presence, pathetic writing, slowness, cutting and feeling touched (by art).
With an academic background spanning applied theatre studies in Gießen, dance and choreography in Copenhagen, European media studies in Potsdam, and further development in the class for performative arts at the art academy in Leipzig, she combines theoretical insight with a strong interest in embodied practices.
Since many years, she is engaged in a collaboration with theatre director Noam Brusilovsky and costume and stage designer Magdalena Emmerig, developing research-based documentary theatre projects that interrogate power structures and explore the limits of representation on stage. Lotta also collaborates closely as a dramaturge and sometimes performer with choreographer Deva Schubert, whose voice-based dance performances explore the power of intimacy in social relations.
Her own artistic approach is situated between the documentary and the poetic, the intimate and the public and searches for the historical and structural within the personal feeling. Theory serves as a driving force in her work, encouraging new modes of perception and experience. At the moment she is particularly curious about choreography and text.
Together with Johanna Ackva and Eliana Kirkcaldy, she is part of footnotes, dedicated to researching on ways of writing and performing desire.