During her residency at BUDA, Claire will begin research on her project Étude de Chasse, a choreographic and musical investigation into the history and practice of hunting. Étude de Chasse explores hunting as a ritual act of killing, engaging with questions of power, authority, hierarchy, domination, and violence.

A central focus of the residency will be the choreographic and performative exploration of the hunter figure — a figure intrinsically intertwined with death, endowed with knowledge, power, and socially sanctioned permission to kill. Using practices drawn from drag, Claire investigates how ideas of masculinity are entangled with violence and domination. She develops fragile portraits of male identities, creating a playful, humorous, complex, and eerie choreographic language around the performance of masculinity.

Claire Vivianne Sobottke (DE/FR)

Claire Vivianne Sobottke lives in Berlin and engages in the practices of choreography, performance, and dance. She understands her work as a site of resistance and undoing, where ways of thinking about and perceiving bodies can be questioned, disrupted, and transformed. Her work explores the body as a turbulent accumulation of concepts, collective and personal histories, traumas, memories, projections, identities, and magic. Dancing thus becomes a way of activating the body’s archive and making its inherent turbulence visible. The voice functions therein as a visceral force, a poetic and political phenomenon.