Rebecca Mary

Performances - „Findings Vol 12“
2025-05-23 20:00 - 21:00 (Europe/Berlin) | E-Werk Freiburg, Eschholzstr. 77, Freiburg im Breisgau, 79106, Germany
„Findings Vol 12“ – Instant Composition
Accomplices of Instant Composition – they act freely and unprotected. They are wild, unpredictable, idiosyncratic and united in their interaction, inappropriate, appropriate. Here, risk is desired, confrontation and yet always: closeness. Intuitive composing guides the creative flow while capturing the magic of the moment.
“The Accomplices” are a team of freelance professional artists – performance, dance, choreography, who have performed numerous Instant Compositions in various constellations at different locations since 2022 under the direction of Lilo Stahl.
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This is part of the onCe instant composition Festival Freiburg. The onCe Festival celebrates the richness and diversity of improvised performance art every two years.
Instant Composition is based on democratic action and presence in the moment. In Freiburg it dates back to the 1980s and is known and recognized nationally and internationally. We are convinced that it is more important than ever to give this democratic art form a visible space.
At the festival you can explore the potential, diversity and origins of improvisation and get to know it all over again. Artists from different disciplines, generations and cultural backgrounds meet and exchange ideas. For a week we celebrate improvisation as the ART OF THE MOMENT and as a living stage art. During the day there are workshops for dance professionals, enthusiasts and interested amateurs and an active supporting program. In the evenings various performances by improvisation artists from all over the world take place in the E-WERK Freiburg and SÜDUFER.

Unwritten Bodies - Residency, Open Studio & Showing
2025-08-04 - 2025-08-15 | Tanzzentrale der Region Nürnberg e.V., Germany
“Unwritten Bodies: Seen and Unseen” by dance artists Rebecca Mary Narum and Purnendra Meshram will carry out their first rehearsal phase in August as part of the For Exchange+ residence at Tanzzentrale der Region Nürnberg e.V.
As part of their rehearsal process they will have an open studio on August 8th where they invite people in to research with them along with a work-in-progress showing on August 15th.
For more info on the two events please check the Tanzzentrale website.
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“Unwritten Bodies: Seen and Unseen”
A German-Indian project about bodies, identity, and social conditioning. Rebecca Mary Narum (DE/USA) and Purnendra Meshram (IN) encounter each other with their visibly different bodies and experiences. Using contact improvisation, real-time composition, and a transparent plastic sheet as a symbol of social “skins,” they explore closeness and difference, visibility and withdrawal. The project invites the audience to actively participate—not only as spectators, but as co-researchers. In open rehearsals, interactive workshops, and performances “Unwritten Bodies” becomes a space for encounter. Sound (Fiona Combosch) and film (Satya Gautam) expand the dialogue on a sensory level. This artistic research is not a finished product, but a living, site-specific process: an invitation to encounter oneself and others anew in the space between imposed identity and freedom.
Funded by the Goethe Institute, Kulturamt Freiburg, Friedrich Stiftung, Schopf 2, Tanzzentrale der Region Nürnberg e.V..

Performance - "Fragments of One"
2025-09-26 19:30 - 20:30 | E-Werk Freiburg, Eschholzstr. 77, Freiburg im Breisgau, 79106, Germany
Miriam Cheema and Rebecca Mary will be performing “Fragments of One” once again in the Kammertheater of E-Werk Freiburg!
Two people, one body. Two bodies, one organism.
Not black, not white, not red, not blue.
Connected, unconnected. One and yet separate.
Touched yet neutral, empty yet filled, orderly and yet not perfect.
When do we merge into one and when do we remain separate? How transparent are we, were we, have we become? What does it mean to walk alone, or together?
In the dance performance “Fragments of One,” Rebecca Mary Narum and Miriam Cheema explore the layers of being connected. The two performers invite you into the different states of an individual’s being within two bodies. They explore the permeability of their bodies and beings, a dance between two and one.
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Performance - "Fragments of One"
2025-09-27 19:30 - 20:30 | E-Werk Freiburg, Eschholzstr. 77, Freiburg im Breisgau, 79106, Germany
Two people, one body. Two bodies, one organism.
Not black, not white, not red, not blue.
Connected, unconnected. One and yet separate.
Touched yet neutral, empty yet filled, orderly and yet not perfect.
When do we merge into one and when do we remain separate? How transparent are we, were we, have we become? What does it mean to walk alone, or together?
In the dance performance “Fragments of One,” Rebecca Mary Narum and Miriam Cheema explore the layers of being connected. The two performers invite you into the different states of an individual’s being within two bodies. They explore the permeability of their bodies and beings, a dance between two and one.
Miriam Cheema and Rebecca Mary will be performing “Fragments of One” once again in the Kammertheater of E-Werk Freiburg!
More info on the piece here.

Workshop: “The Listening Body” – Contact Improvisation Workshop
2026-01-10 - 2026-01-11 | Karnataka
“The Listening Body” is a Contact Improvisation workshop with a simple proposal: arriving without forcing, opening the body to listening and following where that openness leads. In the workshop, we explore how the body can be understood through minimal movement—how even the smallest shift, pause, or touch can carry depth and information.
The workshop is intended for people with experience in Contact Improvisation or another dance field. Through guided explorations, participants are invited into a state where listening becomes visible, the body speaks in subtle ways, and space transforms into a playground of possibilities.
We aim to cultivate a listening body—creating a readiness so complete that, although nothing is planned, anything is possible. Opening the body so that falling onto the shoulder of another body becomes as natural as following it to the floor. Rather than forcing, we cultivate trust in the sensing body, to catch the opportunities as they appear and let go of them as they pass by. This practice does not aim to invent something new but instead to return more deeply to the basic principles of Contact Improvisation: giving time and space for the senses to heighten, and for the body to truly open.
This workshop is grounded in the ongoing research for Purnendra Kumar Meshram and Rebecca Mary Narum’s newest improvised dance piece, “Unwritten Bodies: Seen and Unseen.”
When: Saturday, 10. Jan. 2025 from 14-18:00 & Sunday, 11. Jan. 2026 from 11-15:00
Where: Studio FE6a, Ferdinand-Weiss Strasse 6a, 79106 Freiburg
For who: professional dancers and experienced amateur dancers
Registration: workshop@bewegungs-art.de

Teachers:
Purnendra Meshram is an Indian contemporary movement artist whose passion for dance began in childhood. In 2013, he launched his professional career by joining the Attakkalari diploma program for Movement Arts and Mix Media, where he honed his skills in various contemporary dance techniques. In addition to contemporary dance, he is proficient in hip-hop and Kalaripayattu, a traditional Indian martial art.
Purnendra has collaborated with esteemed choreographers in India and abroad and has spent a year as a performer at Dubai Parks and Resorts. He continues to perform, teach, and create his work, always seeking new creative avenues.
His choreography “2 Men” has garnered several accolades, including first place in the Festival 10 Sentidos Choreographic Competition in Valencia, Spain, in 2019, and second place in the Prakriti Excellence in Contemporary Dance Awards (PECDA) in Chennai, India, in 2018.
His dedication to his artistry has earned him the Serendipity Arts Residency 2024, Pina Bausch Fellowship 2023, and Artlink 100 Artist Grant 2022. Purnendra is an artist who continually pushes his boundaries and explores new artistic possibilities. He serves as an inspiration to aspiring dancers and artists by sharing his knowledge and expertise with others.
Rebecca Mary Narum is an American contemporary dance artist based in Freiburg, Germany since 2015. She began dancing as a child, training in ballet, jazz, and tap, and later performed on her high school dance team. After working with Misch Mash Dance Company in New York, she continued her studies in Spain from 2013–2015, where she also encountered contact improvisation. She then completed her professional training at bewegungs-art Freiburg / TIP – School for Dance, Improvisation and Performance.
Since 2017, Rebecca has worked as a freelance dancer, choreographer, and teacher. Her teaching and artistic work draw from improvisation, contact improvisation, and a wide range of dance techniques. She is particularly interested in the interplay between clarity and precision with freedom and playfulness. She teaches regularly in the vocational programs at bewegungs-art Freiburg, at Profitraining Freiburg and Basel, and at various festivals, and evening schools.
With an interest to actively support the local dance scene, alongside her teaching she organizes the onCe Festival for Instant Composition, coordinates Profitraining Freiburg, and serves on the consultation board of Tanznetz Freiburg. As a choreographer and dancer, her works have been presented in Germany, Serbia, Croatia and the USA.

Performance - Unwritten Bodies: Seen & Unseen
2026-01-16 19:30 - 20:30 | Karnataka
A German-Indian project about bodies, identity, and social conditioning. Rebecca Mary Narum (DE/USA) and Purnendra Meshram (IN) encounter each other with their visibly different bodies and experiences. Using contact improvisation, real-time composition, and a transparent plastic sheet as a symbol of social “skins,” they explore closeness and difference, visibility and withdrawal. The project invites the audience to actively participate—not only as spectators, but as co-researchers. In open rehearsals, interactive workshops, and performances “Unwritten Bodies” becomes a space for encounter. Sound (Fiona Combosch) and film (Satya Gautam) expand the dialogue on a sensory level. This artistic research is not a finished product, but a living, site-specific process: an invitation to encounter oneself and others anew in the space between imposed identity and freedom.
Funded by the Goethe Institute, Friedrich Stiftung, Kulturamt Freiburg, Tanzzentrale der Region Nürnberg e.V. & forExchange+ Residency. Supported by Schopf 2, BLMK, Kuli Khirkee, Vinyasa EARTH & bewegungs-art Freiburg e.V.
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Performance - Unwritten Bodies: Seen & Unseen
2026-01-17 19:30 - 20:30, 2026-01-18 19:30 - 20:30 | Schopf2, Schopfheimer Str. 2, Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, 79115, Germany

Performance - Unwritten Bodies: Seen & Unseen
2026-01-25 19:00 - 20:00 | Tanzzentrale der Region Nürnberg, Kaiserstraße 177, Fürth, 90763, Germany
A German-Indian project about bodies, identity, and social conditioning. Rebecca Mary Narum (DE/USA) and Purnendra Meshram (IN) encounter each other with their visibly different bodies and experiences. Using contact improvisation, real-time composition, and a transparent plastic sheet as a symbol of social “skins,” they explore closeness and difference, visibility and withdrawal. The project invites the audience to actively participate—not only as spectators, but as co-researchers. In open rehearsals, interactive workshops, and performances “Unwritten Bodies” becomes a space for encounter. Sound (Fiona Combosch) and film (Satya Gautam) expand the dialogue on a sensory level. This artistic research is not a finished product, but a living, site-specific process: an invitation to encounter oneself and others anew in the space between imposed identity and freedom.
Funded by the Goethe Institute, Friedrich Stiftung, Kulturamt Freiburg, Tanzzentrale der Region Nürnberg e.V. & forExchange+ Residency. Supported by Schopf 2, BLMK, Kuli Khirkee, Vinyasa EARTH & bewegungs-art Freiburg e.V.
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Performance - Unwritten Bodies: Seen & Unseen
2026-01-30 18:00 - 19:00, 2026-01-31 17:00 - 18:00 | BLMK – Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst – Cottbus, Uferstraße/AmAmtsteich 15, Cottbus, 03046, Germany

Performance - Unwritten Bodies: Seen & Unseen
2026-02-06, 2026-02-07 | Goethe-Institut/ Max Müller Bhavan Bangalore, 716, Chinmaya Mission Hospital Rd., Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560038, India

Performance - Unwritten Bodies: Seen & Unseen
2026-02-14 | Vinyasa EARTH, Maheshwas Khurd, Jaipur, Rajasthan, 302012, India

Performance - Unwritten Bodies: Seen & Unseen
2026-02-15 | Vinyasa EARTH, Maheshwas Khurd, Jaipur, Rajasthan, 302012, India
A German-Indian project about bodies, identity, and social conditioning. Rebecca Mary Narum (DE/USA) and Purnendra Meshram (IN) encounter each other with their visibly different bodies and experiences. Using contact improvisation, real-time composition, and a transparent plastic sheet as a symbol of social “skins,” they explore closeness and difference, visibility and withdrawal. The project invites the audience to actively participate—not only as spectators, but as co-researchers. In open rehearsals, interactive workshops, and performances “Unwritten Bodies” becomes a space for encounter. Sound (Fiona Combosch) and film (Satya Gautam) expand the dialogue on a sensory level. This artistic research is not a finished product, but a living, site-specific process: an invitation to encounter oneself and others anew in the space between imposed identity and freedom.
Funded by the Goethe Institute, Friedrich Stiftung, Kulturamt Freiburg, Tanzzentrale der Region Nürnberg e.V. & forExchange+ Residency. Supported by Schopf 2, BLMK, Kuli Khirkee, Vinyasa EARTH & bewegungs-art Freiburg e.V.
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Performance - Unwritten Bodies: Seen & Unseen
2026-02-18, 2026-02-19 | Khuli Khirkee, New Dehli, Dehli, India

Performance - Vom Schrei zur Bewegung
2026-04-24 | E-Werk Freiburg, Eschholzstr. 77, Freiburg im Breisgau, 79106, Germany
In “Vom Schrei zur Bewegung” (From Scream to Movement), Chilean choreographer Andrea Lagos Neumann, together with Felipe González Berríos, Florencia Lagos Neumann, Lola Villegas Fragoso and Rebecca Mary Narum, poses a fundamental question: How can we hear the voices of the FLINTA* community (women, lesbians, intersex, non-binary, trans and agender people), who have often been silenced throughout history?
Using dance, music, video and embroidery, a powerful archive of memories and resistance is created that keeps testimonies of survivors of the Latin American dictatorships (1970-1990) alive. At a time when democracy is under threat worldwide, the question arises: How can we prevent these stories from falling silent again?
From Cry to Movement offers more than a performance – it is an invitation to actively engage with the past and question what responsibility we have today for justice and remembrance. An appeal that is now more urgent than ever.
With:

Artistic direction: Andrea Lagos Neumann
Co-producer: Felipe González Berríos
Concept: Florencia Lagos Neumann, Felipe González Berríos and Andrea Lagos Neumann
Dance: Felipe González Berríos, Rebecca Mary Narum and Lola Villegas Fragoso
Music: Francisco C. Goldschmidt
Video: Konrad Bohley
Costume: Bianka Heck
Production management: Linda Pilar Brodhag/alado.productions
Technology: Team E-WERK Freiburg

Supported by the Freiburg Cultural Office, the Baden-Württemberg State Association of Independent Dance and Theater Artists with funds from the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts and the Baden-Württemberg State Bank Foundation.
In cooperation with E-WERK Freiburg eV, Tertulia Freiburg eV, Nuestra América eV, Archiv Soziale Bewegung eV, Feministische Geschichtswerkstatt Freiburg eV, Feministisches Zentrum Freiburg eV

Performance - Vom Schrei zur Bewegung
2026-04-25 | E-Werk Freiburg, Eschholzstr. 77, Freiburg im Breisgau, 79106, Germany
In “Vom Schrei zur Bewegung” (From Scream to Movement), Chilean choreographer Andrea Lagos Neumann, together with Felipe González Berríos, Florencia Lagos Neumann, Lola Villegas Fragoso and Rebecca Mary Narum, poses a fundamental question: How can we hear the voices of the FLINTA* community (women, lesbians, intersex, non-binary, trans and agender people), who have often been silenced throughout history?
Using dance, music, video and embroidery, a powerful archive of memories and resistance is created that keeps testimonies of survivors of the Latin American dictatorships (1970-1990) alive. At a time when democracy is under threat worldwide, the question arises: How can we prevent these stories from falling silent again?
From Cry to Movement offers more than a performance – it is an invitation to actively engage with the past and question what responsibility we have today for justice and remembrance. An appeal that is now more urgent than ever.
Tickets coming soon!
With:

Artistic direction: Andrea Lagos Neumann
Co-producer: Felipe González Berríos
Concept: Florencia Lagos Neumann, Felipe González Berríos and Andrea Lagos Neumann
Dance: Felipe González Berríos, Rebecca Mary Narum and Lola Villegas Fragoso
Music: Francisco C. Goldschmidt
Video: Konrad Bohley
Costume: Bianka Heck
Production management: Linda Pilar Brodhag/alado.productions
Technology: Team E-WERK Freiburg

Supported by the Freiburg Cultural Office, the Baden-Württemberg State Association of Independent Dance and Theater Artists with funds from the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts and the Baden-Württemberg State Bank Foundation.
In cooperation with E-WERK Freiburg eV, Tertulia Freiburg eV, Nuestra América eV, Archiv Soziale Bewegung eV, Feministische Geschichtswerkstatt Freiburg eV, Feministisches Zentrum Freiburg eV

Performance: Yaku Samay – Atem des Wassers
2026-05-22, 2026-05-23 | E-Werk Freiburg, Eschholzstr. 77, Freiburg im Breisgau, 79106, Germany
“I called my world Earth, but I thought it should really be called Water” (Maja Lunde)
The mixedabled dance piece Yaku Samay takes the essence of water as a metaphor to artistically explore the connection between humans and nature.
The diversity in quality and intensity of the element is reflected in the movement and sound of the dancers, transforming them into deeply human forms of expression.
As the source of life, water symbolizes a universal, reliable constant – the sound of waves, the flow of rivers, the cyclical nature of water in a dramaturgy of a permanent cycle in and around the earth.
Six dancers and a movement choir immerse themselves in the facets of water and create a sensual experience from the perspective of their lived experience, in which the boundaries between body, sound and water dissolve.
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Residency: Atelier Mondial - Tijuana, Mexico
2026-09-01 - 2026-09-30 | Karnataka
In 2026, choreographer and dancer Rebecca Mary Narum undertakes a one-month research residency in Tijuana, Mexico, together with Chilean choreographer Andrea Lagos Neumann. Supported by Atelier Mondial the project explores Danzas Fronterizas—the transborder dance practice developed by Mexican choreographer and dance scholar Minerva Tapia. By engaging directly with Tapia and the artistic community along the Tijuana–San Diego border, the duo will immerse themselves in the cultural, political, and emotional realities that shape this choreographic language.
This residency forms the initial phase of a new dance-theater production on borders and undocumented migration, created from their perspectives as non-EU artists living in the Tri-Regio (France–Germany–Switzerland). Through embodied research, interviews, border visits, and studio explorations, they investigate how border experiences are carried, transformed, and expressed through the body. The research will culminate in a work-in-progress presentation in Tijuana and has plans to continue to develop into a full-length production premiering in Freiburg in 2027.
This residency is funded by Atelier Mondial.
