Silke Bake (DE)

BIOGRAPHY

Silke Bake is based in Berlin and works as curator and dramaturge. She has worked for diverse festivals (including Theater der Welt 1999 in Berlin) and institutions (including TAT Frankfurt, Hebbel-Theater Berlin, Tanzquartier Wien) and developed topic-bound programme series for the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, the Academy of the Arts Berlin, and Theaterformen Braunschweig. Together with André Lepecki (curator), she was responsible for the IN TRANSIT Performing Arts Festival at the House of World Cultures in 2008 and 2009.

Recently she has been involved as a free-lance dramaturge in various contemporary performances and dance projects, such as with Jana Unmüssig (DE), Anne Juren (FR/AT) and Milli Bitterli (AT). Together with Peter Stamer she was the curator of the biennial NU Performance Festival in Tallinn 2011. In January 2012 she realised a project on John Cage’s Songbooks at the Academy of the Arts Berlin in cooperation with the HZT/Inter University Centre for Dance Berlin (together with Reinhild Hoffman, Kattrin Deufert, Thomas Plischke and Manos Tasangaris). In July 2012 she curated the performance platform. body affects at Sophiensaele Berlin, together with Bettina Knaup.

23.05.2013

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