Marion Sparber

Originally from South Tyrol, Italy, Marion received her professional dance training at Varium (2006-2008) and Iwanson International (2003-2006), finishing the education with the scholarship “Student of the year”.

Since 2015, Marion ́s work as a choreographer has been supported by the Office for German Culture South Tyrol and the Trentino-South Tyrol Region and produced by IDEA - Tanz Theater Performance.
As a result, several pieces were created, including her solos "Die Vergänglichkeit der Gänseblümchen", "The Ripe and ruin", the duets "Seelengrund", "Porzellan-Haus", "Eight" “Self-finished” and "Acacia confusA", the group pieces "Von Anfang an der Dreiklangfang", "Stilles Ich", "No, woman, no cry..., but when they do?" "Big boys don ́t cry... but when they do?", "Impromptu", "Ohne Zwei", "Shell shock" “Eight reloaded” and "Nefelibata".

Her piece "Stilles Ich" performed by the Tanzcompagnie at Volkstheater Rostock combines multimedia and dance and is her first work commissioned by a state theatre in Germany.
Marion co-choreographed "Radix", an in-house production by Tanzkollektiv Südtirol which premiered in 2022.
She has also developed work for artists, companies, professional dance training programs and festivals – alone and together with Alan Fuentes Guerra, a.o: Blueprint for Deborah Manavi (Germany, 2024), Side(d)effect for Danza Joven de Sinaloa (Mexico, 2024), a duet for Miguel González Pérez and Fernanda Xanat Córdova Reyes (Mexico, 2024), Eight reloaded for Strado Danza (2023), efecto secundario for OCDP (Italy, 2023), two group-pieces for PERA University of the Arts (Cyprus, 2022 and 2023), casa de porcelana for EPDM (Mexico, 2022), más aire qué palabras for AnDanza contempóranea (Mexico, 2022), Kopfkino for Aorca Summerlab (Portugal, 2021), cine de cabeza for Descalzinha Danza (Spain,2021), Aftermath for Kunsthumaniora Antwerp (Belgium, 2020), The Ripe and ruin group-piece and efecto mariposa for Danceworks Berlin (Germany, 2017 and 2019), The shelf for Etage Berlin (Germany 2018) and Hundert for Kari Tanzhaus (Germany, 2015)

Her interdisciplinary work has been performed at numerous international theatres and festivals in Europe, South and North America, as well as in Asia and also rises interest in the circus community. Recently Marion get´s invited to circus festivals as well, as her work is linking contemporary dance with contemporay circus: Big boy´s don´t cry… but when they do? was performed at Zeit für Zirkus (2023), Lurupina Zirkus Festival 2022) and Katapult Berlin (2019) a.o.
Many of Marion's choreographies are a playful combination of highly physical dance, dance theatre, contemporary circus, partnering, acrobatics, text, live music, video and photo projections. Four of her pieces were created in collaboration with Projeto Solo / Keren Chernizon who is a brazilian video artist working and living in Berlin. Three of her pieces are a collaboration with the Berlin-based italian musician Stefano Ciardi. Agente Costura, a musician and costume designer originally from Brazil and Canada, based in Berlin is one of Marion´s collaboraters making costumes for two of her pieces and the sound design of one choreography. Ellena Stelzer is a german photographer and multimedia-artist she collaborated with in her piece Stilles Ich. Arash Khodayari is the live-musician Marion collaborated with in her latest solo. Marion loves to combine the art forms and learns every time around new skills to achieve a goal as a team.

Communication with the audience and sometimes provocation of the audience is one of Marion's trademarks. With her pieces, she wants to use art as a mouthpiece to draw attention to socio-political situations and injustices as well as interpersonal relationships. For the sake of expression all the different artforms help her to tell a story.

Marion also performs in some of her own pieces as well as in work of other choreographers as a performer. She has collaborated as a dancer with choreographers and companies such as Francisco Córdova - Physical Momentum in the piece To be, Stella Zannou in the piece Strange, Sonia Rodriguez, performing Mabel, ADN-Dialect in the pieces Zeitzone, Urban Shaman and L’affaire Wettstein, Stephanie Felber in Le vide dans l’espace, Eldon Pulak in The Wetting Party,  Philip Amann - Cicadhoc in Fast Forward - eine Reevolution and as a guestdancer of the Wee dance Company.

Together with Alan Fuentes Guerra, she is the co-founder of the platform Shared Levitation Partnering, which internationally choreographs stage-work, teaches workshops and concentrates on using Partnering on stage.

Marion is particularly fascinated by multidisciplinary work. Her choreographies are an interplay of very physical dance, circus elements, dance theatre, live music and video projection.

As a teacher, Marion is active internationally, enjoys the exchange with the participants and is always inspired anew. She has taught at the Deltebre dansa, B12, Circuit-est, Toula Limnaios Company, Atlas Festival, PERA, Tanzcompagnie Volkstheater Rostock, Unusual Symptoms, Tanz Gießen, Of curious nature, Stadttheater Bielefeld, Staatstheater Braunschweig, Cndc Angers, Vim Vigor, The Playground New York, Diavolo Company LA, Flow Movement Colorado, Athletic Playground San Francisco, Kinissis Festival, Performact, Lagos Sea Dance, DASS Summer Intensive, TanzAHOI, Camp In, La Cantera, Encuentros Mutantes, Marameo, Tanzfabrik, Dock 11, Tanzmünster, LAFDK Bremen, Summer Intensive Portugal, CDSH Hamburg, Danceworks, Etage, Seneca, K3 Professional training Hamburg, BFZ Nürnberg, Kari-Tanzhaus, Profitraining Freiburg & Leipzig, Tanzfaktur Köln, Tanzhaus Zürich, Profitraining Basel and Lucerne, Oliva Dance Project, Goa Contact Festival and Play Practice Artist Residency, Cyrculacje Festival, Tanec Bez Hranic, Sfera Ruchu, Academy Dancer Russia, La Macchine Festival, EPDM, Espacio Nómada, Festival Nómada, Descalzinha Danza and Varium a.o.

In 2014 Marion was part of the first EX-IN with David Zambrano learning Flying Low and Passing Through Technique which she includes in her teaching.