Angela Vitovec aka Angela Schubot born in Berlin, choreographer, dancer, teacher, movement researcher, bodyworker and mother, works since 2000 in Berlin, since 2021 between Berlin and Tkaronto, Canada, with roots in Peru. She collaborated with Jared Gradinger (2009-2022), creating radical works on the debordering of the body and plant consciousness. Angelas methods combine movement research with specific methods of encountering plant entities, searching for bodies of multiplicity in deep communion with plant nature. Her work proposes to shift away from utilitaristic 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 research she has been collaborating with Shelley Etkin, Aune Kallinen, Kate Nankervis, Suvi Kemppainen, Ann Trépanier, Ala Roushan, Kristin Nango, Kika Thorne, Moss, Clover, Yarrow, Oak, Birch, Stinging Nettle, Pine and Spruce among others.

2023 Angela Schubot changed her artistic name, taking the name of her long-forgotten grandfather who was made aware to her by plants: Vitovec.

Following her experimental methods she co-created three main works, the Solo SAMMAL/MOSS (2022), the group piece MOSSBELLY (2023) and the group work YA! - a Yarrow choir (2024).

SAMMAL/MOSS and MOSSBELLY were presented successfully at Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, Moving in November Festival Helsinki and ImPulsTanz Wien. YA! premiered in July 2024 and is Angela’s first time working with a group of performers from Theater Thikwa Berlin, introducing them to her specific methods of encountering plant entities.

Angela is certified practitioner of perceptive pedagogy and fascia therapy/Method Danis Bois.

Angela teaches, coaches and accompanies artists and rehearsal processes through her movement work.

Her artistic research and dance works have been supported by the work and research scholarship from the Berlin Senate in 2016, piece funding from the Capital Cultural Fund (HKF) & Berlin Senate since 2001 and the Research Funds of Fonds Darstellende Künste in 2023. 2024 she will be presented in the frame of Toronto Biennial of Art with support of the Ontario Arts Council, with a previous research supported by the Toronto Arts Council.

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