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Courtney May Robertson – Sophiensæle | Freies Theater in Berlin

Program

Saison 26/27

Courtney May Robertson

Courtney May Robertson is a performer and interdisciplinary maker based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Upon graduating from The Scottish School of Contemporary Dance in 2013 with a Bachelor of Arts, she began her professional career with Club Guy & Roni’s Poetic Disasters Club. In 2017 Robertson entered into an on-going collaboration with Flemish choreographer Jan Martens, performing in RULE OF THREE (2017), any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones (2021) and VOICE NOISE (2024). Meanwhile, she performed in Festzug (2021) and A Divine Comedy (2021) by Austrian performance artist Florentina Holzinger. Most recently, she worked as a performer with Maxime Dreesen in Peekaboo (2025) and soon with Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe in A RITE OF SPRING (2026).

Robertson’s own choreographic voice began emerging in underground spaces in the Netherlands. Her work as a maker is driven by the raw, the rigorous, and the ruptured, often exploring sociopolitical questions through the lens of the personal, the grotesque, and the uncanny. She crafts work that insists on emotional intensity, layered contradiction and sharp conceptual edges, inviting audiences into sensorial universes where feeling precedes understanding. 

 Though rooted in her background in a range of dance styles, Robertson’s practice is in constant dialogue with various artistic disciplines cutting across performance art, video, computer coding, puppetry, and visual design. Whether battling light beams, surrendering to algorithmic systems, or navigating a monstrous double, she builds haunting and immersive encounters that blur the boundaries between control and collapse, rigor and rebellion, chaos and structure.

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