Angela Vitovec, also known as Angela Schubot, is a choreographer, dancer, teacher, practice-based researcher, bodyworker, and mother. Born and raised in Berlin, Germany, where she lived and worked for over 40 years, she now works between Berlin and Tkaronto (Canada), holding strong roots in both places as well as in Iquitos/Atalaya (Peru). In 2023, she changed her artistic name, taking the name of her forgotten grandfather, who was made aware to her by the oak tree : Vitovec.
Her extensive choreographic history spans over two decades. Together with Martin Clausen, she founded the group TWO FISH in 2000, developing sixteen pieces during its eleven years of existence.
From 2009 to 2022, she collaborated with Jared Gradinger, creating radical works on the debordering of the body to international recognition. This trajectory began with four full-length works circling the dissolution of the self: WHAT THEY ARE INSTEAD OF (2009), IS MAYBE (2012), and the two-part project LES PETITES MORTS (2013), comprising the duet I HOPE YOU DIE SOON and the trio ALL MY HOLES ARE THEIRS . In 2014, HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin hosted their week-long retrospective festival SOON YOU ARE THEIRS. Their work shifted into the non-human realm with the duets YEW (2018) and YEW: outside (2018), the adaptation YEW: Kids (2019), and their first large-scale post-human group choreography, THE NATURE OF US (2019), culminating in THE HUT (2022).
Angela´s Solo Trilogy KÖRPER OHNE MACHT(2015) was awarded as the discoveries of the year 2015 for excellent further developments.
Angela’s methods search for bodies of multiplicity in deep communion with plant nature, proposing a shift away from utilitarian approaches to relationships with plants. Through entering into mutual communications with plant beings, she develops a collaborative body of work in which learning and creating occurs directly from and with the plants. In the frame of her experimental dance research, "trituration into dance," she has collaborated with Shelley Etkin, Aune Kallinen, Kate Nankervis, Suvi Kemppainen, Ann Trépanier, Ala Roushan, Kristin Nango, Kika Thorne, Laura Siegmund, Moss, Clover, Yarrow, Oak, Birch, Stinging Nettle, Pine, and Spruce, among others.
Following her radical experimental methods, she co-created the Solo SAMMAL/MOSS(2022), MOSSBELLY(2023), and YA! (2024) - a Yarrow choir. SAMMAL/MOSS and MOSSBELLY were presented at Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, Moving in November Festival Helsinki, ImPulsTanz Wien, and Toronto Biennial of Art. YA! premiered in July 2024 and marked Angela’s first time working with a group of performers from Theater Thikwa Berlin, introducing them to her specific methods of encountering plant entities.
Her immersive ensemble work for 9 performers LAYERS OF KIN (2026) premiered in June 2026 at St. Lawrence Hall, co-presented by Toronto Dance Theatre and Luminato Festival.
Since 2016, Angela has been trained in traditional Amazonian plant medicine and is a facilitator at Caya Shobo Healing Center Peru. She holds an education in perceptive pedagogy and fascia therapy (Method Danis Bois/AEMF Berlin). She teaches at ImPulsTanz Vienna, HZT-Berlin, Tanzfabrik Berlin, and Toronto Biennial of Arts, among others.
In Tkaronto, Angela is one of six Co-Directors of Collective Space, where she has initiated and co-initiated numerous community offerings, including CHOIRing -a weekly community sounding practice; We Need It -community dance classes co-initiated with Aisha Sasha John, Erin Poole, and Kate Nankervis; and Tender Again - monthly bodywork gatherings for vulnerable communities, co-initiated with Nyda Kwasowsky and Miru Yogarajah.
Her artistic research and dance works have been supported by the work and research scholarship from the Berlin Senate (2016), piece funding from the Capital Cultural Fund (HKF) & Berlin Senate since 2001, and the Research Funds of Fonds Darstellende Künste (2023). In 2024, she was presented in the frame of the Toronto Biennial of Art with support of the Ontario Arts Council, following previous research supported by the Toronto Arts Council.
She has collaborated with numerous institutions in Berlin, including Hebbel am Ufer, Sophiensaele, Tanzfabrik Berlin, Uferstudios, Gropius Bau, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Botanical Gardens Pankow-Blankenfelde, and Theater Thikwa. Internationally, her work has partnered with Moving in November Festival, Organizmo Colombia, Goethe Institut Colombia, Toronto Dance Theatre, and Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, among others.