Marion Sparber

Originally from South Tyrol in Italy, Marion is a professional dancer/instructor based in Berlin, Germany. She received her professional dance training at Varium in Barcelona and Iwanson Contemporary Dance School in Munich. As a teacher she has been working in several schools and festivals in Italy, Spain, Costa Rica, Russia, Portugal, Poland, Switzerland, Austria and Germany a.o at B12 Festival Raumstation Berlin, Cyrkulacje Festival Poland, Munich DancePAT, Iwanson School Munich, Profitraining Freiburg, Profitraining Leipzig, Cyrculacje Festival, Ballettförderzentrum Nürnberg, Kari-Tanzhaus, Deltebre Dansa Festival, Academy Dancer Russia, University of St. Petersburg, Crimea Summer Dance Festival: Summer for friends (Russia), DASS Summer Workshop (Portugal), Varium (Barcelona), Marameo, Dock 11, Etage, Seneca, Danceworks and Tanzfabrik(Berlin). Marion 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”, Eldon Pulak in “The Wetting Party” and as a guest dancer of Weedance Company. Her solo-work “The Ripe and ruin” and her group-pieces”Shell Shock” and “Impromptu” have been performed at several theaters and festivals in Costa Rica, Greece, Spain, Switzerland, Italy and Germany. She is co-founder of the KpiqA-Collective and CuerpOCOllectivo and performed the duets “Eight”, „Porzellan-Haus“, „Acacia confusA“ and the trio “Nefelibata” in Spain, Italy, Poland,Switzerland, Russia and Germany. Recently Marion got invited as a young emerging choreographer to “Certamen Coreografíco de Madrid, Paso a2” to present “Eight”.

For her last pieces „Impromptu“ and „Shell Shock“ with performances at Tanzherbst Kempten and Alps Move Festival Italy she received funding and support from “Amt für Kultur Südtirol” and „Region Trient-Südtirol“. In 2014 Marion was part of “EX-IN”, a one month intensive workshop with David Zambrano learning Flying Low and Passing Through Technique and took many years seminars practising and teaching this technique.