Elvan Tekin (Izmir, 1994) is a dancer, performer, choreographer and community organizer based in Berlin. Driven from her upbringing in the geo-politics of west Asia, her artistic interests deal with the entanglement and fluidity of one’s body, language, identity, and their (trans)formations and how these interact and shape the understanding of self and other. In 2022, Elvan’s research project poetics of political resistance was funded in the frame of #TakeHeart residencies in Kampnagel, Hamburg. In 2023, her solo performance to be a fish in a raki bottle was presented at Tanztage Festival in Sophiensaele, Berlin. Recently, she has completed her master’s degree in Choreography at HZT, Berlin. Moreover, Elvan is the co-curator and organizer of the curatorial project emergent spaces that is centralizing queer and trans* feminist perspectives in the diaspora. 

Elvan Tekin started working at Uferstudios in October within our programme On The Outset.

In December Elvan Tekin is visiting our Swedish network partner MDT in Stockholm in the frame of outsetters abroad.