Soroa Lear (she/her) is a queer Cuban-American dancer, performer, and writer based in Berlin. She sees performance as a way to break hearts and make people laugh, with a particular interest in using the body as a living archive to play with storytelling, camp, and absurdity. She has worked for the Staatsoper Berlin, Deva Schubert, Julia B. Laperriere and Wojciech Kosma amongst others, and has performed in space such as Schwankhalle, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlinische Galerie, Sophiensaele, and Schinkel Pavillon, as well as in many nightclubs with many drag queens. 

Sarah Butler likes making things. Working with movement, embroidery, poetry, film, wearable structure, and vocal harmonies, she is interested in exploring how the weaving of seemingly separate mediums can result in something surprising and honest.Sarah trained primarily in classical ballet growing up, and graduated from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, WA with a BFA in Dance in 2012. She was a founding member of Danielle Agami’s Ate9 Dance Company in Los Angeles from 2012 – 2020. Since 2018, Sarah has worked closely with Tom Weinberger, assisting on the creation of dance-theatre works in and around Europe. She has been a guest teacher with Iceland Dance Company, Nagelhus Schia Productions, Cornish College of the Arts, California Institute of the Arts, John Hopkins University, and Ryan Heffington’s The Sweat Spot, among others. Sarah relocated to Berlin from the States in early 2023 and is happy to be here. (www.kickinbutler.com)