I am a freelance dance artist and urbanist, working at the meeting point of choreography, urban research and participatory processes. My background is an MA in historical Urban Studies (TU Berlin), a BA in Contemporary Dance and Art Management (DMU Leicester, London Contemporary Dance School). Additional qualifications in Design Thinking (HPI Potsdam), as a Scrum Master (2020) and Systemic Change Manger (2022) have supported various activities in the field of Agile Transformation, as a Teamcoach and Urban Design Thinker since 2014. I have led Design Thinking-based workshops and labs in Germany, the United Kingdom and Brazil, moderated public consultation on urban planning processes and worked as a coach and process facilitator for teams and leaders. For my work in the field of Systemic Coaching and Agile Transformation please see my website www.embodiedagility.org

Facilitation and Teaching

I’ve been teaching dance improvisation and composition workshops and classes for more than 20 years across Europe, South America and the Middle East. I have worked as a mentor for young people and dance students in Universities and training institutions the UK and Germany. From 2009 – 2018 I was freelance programmer and curator of the international, intergenerational workshop program of Tanzfabrik Berlin. I am currently on the board of directors at Tanzfabrik and programming the FORUM workshops at Tanztreffen der Jugend (national youth dance festival) at Haus der Berliner Festspiele.

Choreography/Performance/Collaborations

I have worked as a dance artist in various collaborative processes since 2003 and as solo artist/choreographer since 2008. My first solo Inventory/(Räumung) premiered at nottdance08 Festival in October 2008. In 2009 “Inventory” and a lecture performance on cities and spaces connected to the solo material was shown in Berlin (Tanztage), Santiago de Chile (Movimiento6 Festival), Utrecht (Europe in Motion @ Springdance) and London (The Place – springloaded). The group piece “tourist” premiered at Uferstudios Berlin in 2010. It was co-commissioned by the South Bank Centre London and nominated for the prix jardin d’Europe 2010 at idans festival Istanbul.

As part of the Tanzplan Deutschland artist-in-residence scheme at fabrik Potsdam in Germany I developed the interactive dance piece Relay with choreographer Donatella Cabras and media artists Barret Hodgson of Vent Media. The site-specific piece was also reworked for Greenwich Dance Agency in 2008 and for the Goodenough College near Kings Cross London in 2010. Between 2009 – 2018 dance artist Susanne Martin andI conceived, hosted and performed twelve “Susi & Gabis Salon” improvisation evenings with international guests in the UK and Germany in collaboration with Susanne Martin.

My last work for the stage “The Amplitude” was a collaboration with sound designer Mattef Kuhlmey premiered in October 2016 and has been touring in the UK, Germany and Chile until 2018.

My artistic work now lives at the intersection between choreography and urban practice. I have created several audio walks, sound installations and performative city walks during the last years in collaboration with with Mattef Kuhlmey, sound artists Marcelo Schmittner and choreographer Gabriel Galindez Cruz. Please see the website of my most recent artists project KulturInstitutMobil and Salon Raumverstehen for a deeper insight into this work www.kimkommt.de 

“Showing an honest and thoughtful approach to her work, Reuter manages to draw in even the most diverse range of audience members. A must see artist with an original and thought-provoking approach to choreography.”
Fiona Jackson – Arts Award Magazine

“Reuter is a charismatic performer with considerable charm and a real knack for communicating with an audience.”
Martin del Amo – Realtimearts Australia

“Gabriele is a magician of understated virtuosity”
Sue MacLennan – Choreographer