15 March 2026
28 March 2026
Hanna Sybille Müller
Choreographic Garden
Dance
Public presentation: Friday 20 March 2026, 5:00 PM
DesPrés — 57 Principale Nord Street, Sutton, QC
Public presentation
The Choreographic Garden explores listening to the ground and how movement can become a form of plant empathy. We draw inspiration from lichen, our primary scientific metaphor, to imagine relationships based on interdependence, mutual adaptation, and resilience. The premiere will take place in November at Tangente, in Montreal. After several research phases, the project is now entering its creation phase. At Espace DesPrés, Hanna will work on a solo, a performed reading, and a gesture dance around collective listening, then deepen the research with Diego Gil and Nate Yaffe.
Biography
Hanna Sybille Müller is a choreographer living in Tiohtiá:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. Her work focuses on movement, language, and their interrelations. She is fascinated by the strange power, both magical and ordinary, of the body. Her practice sits at the boundary between dance, performance, and installation. She is interested in interspecies collaborations, as evidenced by her project Polymorphic Microbe Bodies (with poet Erin Robinsong, as part of the OFFTA 2023 festival), which explored the microbial world. Her current project, “The Choreographic Garden,” draws inspiration from plants to understand what it means to think, move, and be vegetal. Originally from Germany, she studied dance at the Rotterdamse Dansacademie and earned a degree in media studies from the Berlin University of the Arts in 2012. My work focuses on language, movement, and their interrelations. I am interested in the curious, strange, magical, and ordinary powers of language and the body, as well as their interaction. I navigate daily between three spoken languages: German, French, and English. Developing playful and humorous relationships with and among audience members is part of my work.
I want to choreograph the multitude. I want to be contaminated by my collaborators, my partners, by the air I breathe, and I want to acknowledge this contribution in the artistic result. In recent years, I have specialized in science-art collaborations. I am extremely curious about the embodiment of scientific knowledge and non-traditional approaches to audiences. I often use the somatic movement practices Body-Mind-Centering and Continuum as a method to translate scientific information into movement material.
Approach
My work focuses on language, movement, and their interrelations. I am interested in the curious, strange, magical, and ordinary powers of language and the body, as well as their interaction. I navigate daily between three spoken languages: German, French, and English. Developing playful and humorous relationships with and among audience members is part of my work.
I want to choreograph the multitude. I want to be contaminated by my collaborators, my partners, by the air I breathe, and I want to acknowledge this contribution in the artistic result. In recent years, I have specialized in science-art collaborations. I am extremely curious about the embodiment of scientific knowledge and non-traditional approaches to audiences. I often use the somatic movement practices Body-Mind-Centering and Continuum as a method to translate scientific information into movement material.
