Jasmin İhraç
Creative Crossroads Cycle Two 2025–2026
Jasmin İhraç is a Berlin-based choreographer, dancer and sociologist whose interdisciplinary approach bridges contemporary dance with sociopolitical themes. Her works have been shown at Volksbühne/Roter Salon, Palais de Tokyo, Gorki/Studio R, Ballhaus Naunynstraße, HAU Hebbel am Ufer and Ringlokschuppen Ruhr. Her solo dance project Sahman-Grenze-Kuş and the film Constant changes, silent witnesses, which she developed in the frame of the artist-in-residence grants from Kunststiftung NRW and Kulturakademie Tarabya in Istanbul, were presented in different contexts, festivals, galleries, museums and theatres (e.g On Marche Festival/Marrakesh, KET/Athens, Moovy Festival/Museum Ludwig Cologne, Festival Dansem’Marseille, Salt Beyoğlu/Istanbul).
In 2022/23, she attended various lectures in the frame of the study course Geophysics and Oceanography at the University of Hamburg. She worked with deufert&plischke, Alexandra Pirici, Isabelle Schad, Taldans, Irena Haiduk and andcompany&Co a.o. and formerly as a research assistant in the DFG-project Media and constitutive systems: Archiving performance-based art at HMT Leipzig/HZT Berlin. In 2024 she premiered her solo deep eye sea in Berlin. Her new choreographic work Liquid Boder of Solid Hope will premiere in 2026 at Radialsystem/Berlin. Find out more about Jasmin on her website.
Performative walk in Istanbul
Jasmin İhraç, together with Melisa Kurtuluş, Erhan Kurtuluş and Hatice Yıldız Züreyk from Vaha Hubs/Antakya, is performing in Istanbul at the summer festival of Kulturakademie Tarabya on June 14, 2025.
Treesounds a performative sound-walk in resonance with the knowledge of trees, carried by movement and dance.
In a city that constantly shifts and forgets, trees seem to stand as silent witnesses. Through sound, movement, and stillness, we listen to their voices, and to our own.
Jasmin İhraç & Catalina Fernández at MDT Stockholm
Jasmin İhraç spends her first Creative Crossroads residency at MDT in Stockholm in August, together with light designer Catalina Fernández. Her actual research project deals with the Mediterranean Sea as both a place of own knowledge, contemplation and tragedy. She takes an historic approach while working in archives on migration as well as on new perspective for today. In her residency she will focus together with lightning designer Catalina Fernández on recontextualizing archival material with movement, video mapping and spatial configurations.
Catalina Fernández
Catalina Fernández is a light and sound designer for theater, dance and performance. She composes subliminal spaces and designs site-specific installations. She works as technical director for several productions. Fernández studied film and photography at Unitec University in Bogotá and lighting design at the Instituto Universitario Nacional del Arte (IUNA), Buenos Aires.
deep eye sea
Performance
In deep eye sea Jasmin İhraç explores the ocean and the melting ice – landscapes and habitats where we are lost and at home at the same time.
Through memories and research across various places, she encountered multiple perspectives on sea and water in its aggregate states. Her dance, performed in and inspired by diverse locations such as Phaselis in Asia Minor, Ilulissat in Greenland, the Hanseatic city of Hamburg, above and below water, weaves together journeys, movements, and video material.
The performance investigates how human relationships with the sea and ice can be expressed through the body: to what extent does the body become the site of these relationships? How can we open ourselves to a deeper listening to the ocean and to an understanding of the conditions we are entangled in?
7–8 November 2025
Uferstudios Berlin
Find more information and tickets here.