Annabel Koele is a performer, mimer, dancer and maker, creating physical performances in which she challenges time and reality.

After graduating as a dancer at Codarts University in Rotterdam in 2017 and having worked as a dancer in various projects throughout Europe, Annabel Koele has continued her search for physical performance at the Mime School in Amsterdam. By focussing on bringing the two disciplines together she creates physical work that switches between bodily sculptures and dance performance. She is looking for a new way of using the instrument of the body to create surrealistic and absurd images that become stories. Coming from a family of musicians and artists, one of her biggest inspirations and fuels for creating is music and visual art. These sources are translated towards composition and a unique sense of musicality and timing which makes you question your perception of time, space, and the human body.

At this moment she is making and performing solo performances in which she tries to capture our everyday duality between loneliness and the sense of togetherness. How to capture a sense of connection while being alone on stage? This search for expressing universal human experiences is an intuitive reoccurring theme within her work, whilst always bringing it with a sense of lightness and unexpected humor. Her curiosity lies in what will happen when a group of performers will enter this world, which is the next exiting step she looking forward to and developing towards.

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Together with Donna Braber she founded TRACE COLLECTIVE in 2020. TRACE creates tragicomic physical theater for stage, site-specific performance, and film.