ONGOING RESEARCH >>>>
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The Party Is Over!
In development (2026-2027)
The Party Is Over! is a dance and live music performance in three parts exploring the inner resistance that arises when an ending becomes unavoidable. How do we navigate denial? How do these inner battles take shape in a physical body, and how do we process them? With a live musician and the use of a cassette player, the tape becomes a symbol and a representation of my own thoughts, transitioning in space between visible and hidden, past and present, reality and delusion. A poetic and vulnerable journey through being, denial, and acceptance.
Artistic Research:
Through a multilayered composition, and with the use of the cassette player as a symbol of the past self, the tape becomes an audio support, performative material, and metaphor for recurring throughts and obsessive memories. The scenes melt into a sonic and atmospheric moving sculpture, in which the musician plays live or records onto the cassette player in real time. The Party Is Over! is a lab, a sensorial journey opening new perspectives in a collective space between sound, imagery, and performance. Decentralizing the human yet, connecting our universal stories.
Credit:
Concept and choregraphy: Eve Missio
Performance: Eve Missio
Live music: TBC
Video and documentation: Eve Missio
Documentation video:
Feed Me Data: I Am Just Like You.
In development (2026-2027)
Feed me data: I am just like you. Is a dance and interactive media performance duet, recreating childhood memories through motion capture and text generation. Based on an interaction I had as a kid with a Furby toy, it explores how human-machine conversations slowly reshapes us and transforms our identities. An immersive experience from organic memories to digital embodiements.
“When I was a child I had a Furby, a humanoid robotic toy designed to shake, nod, or speak when fed it plastic flowers, like: "Yummy, I love flowers!" or “do you want to play?” I began to answer and mimic it, discovering a new kind of dialogue, until the game shifted. Addicted to our exchange, I got caught in the loop, overfeeding it, automated. I had become the machine.”
Artistic Research:
Roles are divided between the two performers, as one serves as reference for the human figure, and the other, in collaboration with the creative technologist, embodies the Furby toy of the initial story. With the use of motion capture and text generation, voice and movements are recorded and collected, generating a digital Furby avatar displayed on a screen. The creation of an interactive system via a physical "flower button", allows communication between the two realms.The human will activate the button, triggering the avatar's actions on screen in real time, and simulating a technological addiction and its consequences.
Credit:
Concept and choregraphy: Eve Missio
Performance: Octavia Barvulsky, Eve Missio
Creative technologist/AI Development: Yagmur Denizler
Video and documentation: Eve Missio
COLLABORATIVE WORKS >>>>
Berlau: Königreich der Geister
Berliner Ensemble, Uferstudios Berlin, April 2026
Hybrid-immersive production combining virtual reality with the live play of three protagonists. Equipped with a pair of VR-goggles, the spectators individually enter a scenic installation, coming very close to Ruth Berlau and Bertolt Brecht, both live, and in the virtual realm.
The RAUM+ZEIT collective explores the scope of the new digital medium in performing arts. Reality and identity, the self and the other are called into question.
Credit:
With: Susanne Wolff, Pia Dembinski, Esther Hausmann
And: Martin Rentzsch, Charlie Schrein (in the VR)
VR-Guides: Joséphine Auffray, Eve Missio, Ella Rendtorff, Frauke Wolff
Idea/Concept: Alexandra Althoff, Male Günther, Lothar Kittstein, Bernhard Mikeska
Director: Bernhard Mikeska
Text: Lothar Kittstein
Dramaturgy: Male Günther
Stage design: Steffi Wurster
Costume design: Pauline Hüners
Sound design: Knut Jensen
Evening director: Jenny Krug
Production management: Daniela Guse
360° Video: Raum+Zeit | INVR.SPACE GmbH
Touring: Raum+Zeit
Production: Berliner Ensemble
Funded by: Senate Department for Culture and Community Berlin
Links: https://www.uferstudios.com/de/dance/veranstaltungen/ed268445-7a8f-4c52-bce8-d8ed2729f313/
https://www.berliner-ensemble.de/inszenierung/berlau-koenigreich-der-geister
ANATOMALIA
Stand Up Dance Company, Uferstudios Berlin, August 2025
Performance exploring new archetypes through ritual, ensemble choreographies, and choral processions, celebrating queer joy and healing through sensual, surreal, dark, and humorous movement.
“From gate to forest, from tower to interior, Anatomalia re-sensed the ground beneath our feet. It reminded us that healing was not only a story told in words, but a sensation: the feel of soil, the exchange of breath, the beat of dancing bodies, the weight of a gaze that did not wound.” — So Young H. Kim, 2025
Credit:
Concept and choreography: Meagan O’Shea
Performance: Areli Moran, Cathy Walsh, Nicole Nigro, Holly Sass, Rocio Marano, Debi Kuisma, Ida Loukkaanhuht, Anja Mujic, Jenna Berlyn, Chiara Schmiedel, Hyunsoo Auo, Juana Del Mar, Nikita De Martin, Linda Withelm, Eve Missio, Eleonora Cirelli, Carla Juliane Petzolt, Lisa stewart, Katherine Rojas
Music: Ra Tack
Set: Helen Yung
Producer: Valeria Oveido
Press: So Young H. Kim
Gala
Jérôme Bel, Le Quartz National Theater, Brest, 19/20 January 2024
Conceptual and social dance piece challenging ideals of perfection and blurring boundaries between success and failure. Gala rethinks performance as a communal, inclusive experience, giving stage presence to those usually excluded and highlighting the creative potential of all bodies.
Credit:
Conception: Jérome Bel with the assistance of Maxime Kurvers
Local Restaging Assistants: Chiara Gallerani and Maxime Kurvers
Performance: Ensemble of 20 performers
Costumes: The performers
Production: R.B. Jérôme Bel
Co-production: Dance Umbrella (London), TheaterWorks Singapore / 72-13, KunstenFestivaldesArts (Brussels), Tanzquartier Wien, Nanterre-Amandiers Centre dramatique national, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Theater Chur, TAK Theater Liechtenstein – TanzPlan Ost, Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia, Théâtre de la Ville, HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen), La Commune Centre dramatique national d’Aubervilliers, Tanzhaus nrw (Düsseldorf), and House on Fire.
Supported by: CND Centre national de la danse and Ménagerie de Verre (Studiolab Residency Programme)
Richard Strauss: Der Schattenmann
ARTE-TV, Nauen, August 2024
Documentary film exploring Richard Strauss’s life and ambivalence as a musician and political figure during WWII.
Credit:
Authors: Holger Preuss, Philipp Quirin
Producer: Claus Wischmann
Production Manager: Iris Ehlbeck-Gehlert
Production Assistant: Julia Gschwind
Editor/Editorial: Sylvia Griss
Director of Photography: Sebastian Hattop
Second Camera: Björn Düseler
Production Manager/Location Coordinator: Charlotte Aebischer, Theo Schley
Props: Mariia Schulz
Editor: Ralf Streese
Cast/Performers: Volker Werner (Richard Strauss), Eve Missio (Dancer)
Filming Location: Großfunkanlage Nauen, Graf-Arco-Straße, 14641 Nauen, Germany
Contact Person: Matthias Quolke
SEABIRDS CALLING
Anne Retzlaff, Helgoland, August 2023
“Anmut ist eine Frage der Strömung” Festival, Ahrenshoop, September 2023
Performance and moving sculpture exploring seabird conservation and the impact of environmental threats. Developed with scientists from the University of Kiel’s Westküste research center and supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste & Stepping Out. Costumes made from recycled military parachutes reflect plastic pollution in seabird nests. The performance adapts to each environment, emphasizing movement, adaptation, and awareness. A Braille postcard was created for visually impaired audiences, extending accessibility and the project’s educational impact.
Credit:
Artistic Direction: Anne Retzlaff
Production and Dramaturgy: Hannes Raphael
Performance: Eve Missio, Yujin Jeong, Anne Retzlaff
Costumes: Belinda Isabel Masur
Assistant/Assistant to the Project: Karolina Linge
Scientific Advisor: Dr. Kai. Borkenhagen
Photography and Postcard Design: Caroline Essner, Niklas Schader
Supported by: National Performance Network (NPN) – Stepping Out (NEUSTART KULTUR, Dance Support Programme). With support from Torsten Zils, Helgoland Tourism Service, Vogelwarte Helgoland, and Jordsand e.V.
Initial research supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste.
Video trailer:
Links:
https://www.helgoland.de/bildnachweis/
https://neues-kunsthaus-ahrenshoop.de/ausstellungen/anmut-ist-eine-frage-der-stroemung
Safe and Sound
Animi Motus company, "Wissensstadt Berlin", August 2022
Site-specific performance installation exploring how individuals respond to COVID-19 measures. Through dance in Plexiglas cubes, the piece examines solidarity, resilience, and doubt in times of social isolation and societal tension.
Credit:
Concept & Choreography: Elisabeth Kindler-Abali
Composition: Jaspar Libuda
Dance: Eve Missio, Sofia Seta, Ahmed Soura
Set Construction (Co-created with): Benedikt Wiesmann
Press: Sara Fremberg
Venue: Site-specific @ Rotes Rathaus, Berlin (Wissensstadt Berlin 2021), Germany
Collaborating Partner: Genshagener Kreis e.V.
Funded by: The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media; Dachverband Tanz Deutschland; Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH; Genshagener Kreis e.V.