Photographer Sebastian Runge
Evelin Uus (1993, Estonia) is a Berlin based choreographer, performer and researcher exploring subjects of fantasy world building, flora, subcultures and artificial environments. Their work is thematically driven by recurring keywords: intersectional queer-feminism, strength and vulnerability of bodies, and community. Uus’ work is characterized by a care-centered and philosophical approach to sensual expression that expands from adult industry, electronic music and visual art. They analyse adult industry as a phenomenon, examining bodies and perception of sexual and sensual mannerism on aesthetic, expressive and political levels. They take inspiration for creating dance from nature and its movement patterns, as well as expressions found in artificial and subculture environments. Currently, their work delves into hyperreality — synthetic intimacy, simulated affection, and the essence of connection.
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I create from a place where pleasure meets politics and vulnerability becomes power. My choreographic work exists in the tension between raw physicality and gentle beauty, blending somatic intelligence with conceptual analysis. Inspired by rhythm, gaze, and the interplay between bodies, I cultivate movement language that is powerful, poetic, sensual, and subtle. I center the voices and experiences of womxn, marginalised bodies, and subcultural communities — not as subjects, but as co-authors of culture. Feminism, eroticism, and embodied resistance form the core of my practice, which seeks to reframe dominant narratives through dance. Each performance becomes a space for intimacy, disruption, and transformation, where aesthetic and political urgency coexist. I create to communicate, educate, and offer visually pleasing imagery as a mode of activism. Working across performance and digital media, I aim to expand the possibilities of what dance can be. I position myself within a framework that challenges elitism in dance, insisting that care, desire, and criticality share the same stage. My mission is to use movement as a tool for connection, social change, and radical truth-telling.
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