Deva Schubert is a choreographer with a focus on vocal practice based in Berlin. She studied dance in Salzburg, Kassel, Copenhagen and at HZT Berlin, as well as fine arts at the Kunsthochschule Kassel. At the intersection of dance, installation, and digital media, her works address questions of intimacy, collectivity, and synergies of transdisciplinary practices. As a dancer and performer, she has worked for Isabelle Schad, Michael Portnoy and Julie Favreau at festivals such as the Venice Biennale, documenta 14 and steirischer herbst. In 2021, she participated in the danceWEB Scholarship Programme in the frame of ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival. Her work was shown at Kunsthalle Zürich, Gessnerallee Zürich, Kunstmuseum Uppsala, Radialsystem Berlin, and Transart Festival in Bolzano. In recent years, she has been researching the connection between AI and culture with Mosaick Kollectiv. Glitch Choir premiered in June 2023 at Reinbeckhallen Berlin and opened Tanztage Berlin at Sophiensaele in January 2024.

Unity in dissonance – Deva Schubert takes up an ancient tradition that, across cultures, has predominantly been practiced by women: the work of grieving and lamenting. With the tool of the “glitch” – the interruption or faulty transmission of an image or a video – she deconstructs an Italian lamento. Usually a strictly digital, intangible phenomenon, Schubert and her co-performer Chihiro Araki make the glitch audible, visible and palpable in dance through their bodies and voices. Glitch Choir invites the audience to understand disruption as an opening, in which complex, resistant and historically oftentimes disregarded forms of grief can be expressed. The mumok’s white cube becomes a resonance chamber where discords and jarring notes form a collective song.