Performing Arts

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In the field of performing arts Marie Scherzer works as a choreographer, performance booker and creative director in the field of performing arts. She creates performances for festivals and club environments—particularly within Berlin’s vibrant subcultural landscape. Her artistic language fuses dance theater, contemporary dance, performance art, and political expression, using the body as a tool for storytelling, resistance, and transformation.

As artistic director of the dance theater project DisTanz, she choreographed works that translated the emotional and social states of the pandemic into physical language. In 2020, she presented several DisTanz performances, including at Neu am See, Hamburger Gängeviertel, and Christopher Street Day Berlin. That same year, she directed the politically charged live show Save Our Schwuz for Sara at the iconic club Schwuz.

Marie has also served as performing arts booker, creative director, and showrunner for Garbicz Festival in Poland. She curates immersive stage experiences and develops avant-garde performance formats—such as the choreography for the Opening Ceremony 2024, and performs solo in numerous walking acts and shows.

Since 2010, she has worked across theater, film, music videos, festivals, and immersive live formats. Highlights include the video series Movement Journal, which she directed and performed in, as well as experimental pieces like Wadden Sea Mermaid and Runaway Bride, blending performance art with natural elements like water.

She also performed at the tour finale of 2raumwohnung at Columbiahalle Berlin and appeared as a dancer in the DFFB film Climacteria, directed by Berglind Thrastardottir.

Marie has created performances for brands including Adidas, Apple, BMW, Mercedes, Zalando, Magnum, Zeiss, JenaPharm, Schott Jena, and for festivals such as Bucht der Träumer, SonneMondSterne, MELT, Fusion, Garbicz, Karneval der Kulturen, and Christopher Street Day.

Her practice is deeply rooted in Berlin’s club and underground culture, where she was active for over a decade. The raw, unfiltered expressiveness of that scene continues to shape her artistic vision—especially in cinematic contexts—through powerful movement sequences, physical storytelling, and choreography inspired by nightlife aesthetics.

In 2024, she was invited to lead a masterclass at Cyprus Film Days titled “Body Language & Storytelling through Physical Movement.”c