David Kummer (born 1989) is a dancer, choreographer, and Shiatsu practitioner based in Berlin. He studied contemporary dance at Tanzfabrik (Berlin), the Danish National School of Performing Arts (Copenhagen) under the direction of Jeremy Nelson, and at the Institut del Teatre (Barcelona). He has received scholarships from Künstlerhaus Lukas, Zumikon Kulturstiftung, Dachverband Tanz, and others for his artistic works Resonanzsphären (2018), Raumstaunen (2019), and Stadtlauschen (2021). David has danced for Isabelle Schad, Daniela Georgieva, Stella Geppert, Sabine Zahn, Anne-Mareike Hess, and many others, as well as for collectives such as See!, Badco., and WeGo. He collaborates closely with Kilian Jörg on their artistic-activist, post-anthropocene intervention Diverting Public Spaces, and with DISCOllective on the ecological-choreographic practice Planthroposcene Pause. He is also a member of the Mobile Ensemble Wiesenburg Berlin.

“My work moves through an ongoing dialogue between the ecology of the self and the ecology of the environment. I am interested in how inner archival landscapes — memories, dances and dance practices, losses and reliefs and others — can be reused, recycled, and re-choreographed into new constellations of meaning.”

Read more about David Kummer here.

With Choreographic Turn #10, Nomad Dance Academy explores the ecology of (not-only-human) relations by using choreographic means: what eco-choreography is, where we can already be in touch with it and what are its potentials.

Choreographic Turn #10 is composed of several segments that differ from each other on many levels and will be presented over three intervals during the whole of 2025. Its content, formats, organization, everyday life, production, humans and other beings involved, are in constant dialogue.

The curatorial team (Jana Jevtović, Bojana Robinson, Mojca Prešern Levstek, DISKOlektiv) intends to facilitate and nurture an environment where these dialogues can take place. Rather than delimiting the space of this environment from outside, it defines the environment of Choreographic Turn #10 from within by proposing the directions of movement: dialogue, tuning in and out, egalitarian approach to everyone present (humans, non-humans, objects... ), non-dominant temporalities in art, and trust in artistic proposals.

Find the programme here.

During his residency at Nomad Dance Academy in Ljubljana, David Kummer will be working with Krater, which is a temporary production space that emerged from an abandoned, crater-like construction site near the city center of Ljubljana. It acts as a prototype of a mechanism for regenerating the earth's surface, creating new worlds on the ruins of urban ecosystems. At Krater, David will have a public sharing of his research on 10 June 2025 in the middle of his residency as part of the programme of the first segment of Choreographic turn #10.