Mariana Senne, born in São Paulo, Brazil, is a Berlin-based theatermaker and performer, who in her current research explores intercultural theatrical practices, developing new forms of staging, with a focus on feminist and postcolonial themes. She is especially interested in finding different ways of dealing with space in theater and therefore producing different spectatorships within each performance she creates.
She was a member and co-founder of one of the most innovative groups in São Paulo (Brazil) called Cia São Jorge de Variedades. The group had as its main research theme the discussion of ethical issues inherent to the diversity and paradoxes of Brazilian culture, from its formation in colonization to contemporaneity.
After this long period working with São Jorge, Mariana started to conceive her own authorial projects, inviting collaborators to work with. They are: “Madame B- Fita Demo” (São Paulo/ 2013/ Sesc Pinheiros), “Landscape with Argonauts” (Hildesheim/Giessen/Berlin 2015/Ackerstadt Palast), and “V:U:L:V:A – A lecture performance” (São Paulo/Berlin 2019- in the context of MIT/ International Theater Festival). She moved to Germany in 2014 and through the support of the DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauchdienst) she was able to develop further her research in the University of Hildesheim, where she experienced one year studies, as a guest-student.
As a performer, she collaborates with other collectives and directors, among which Schmitt/Adamczak (2019 “Everybody needs only you – Liebe in Zeiten des Kapitalismus”/HAU-Hebbel an Ufer), Andcompany&co (2010 “Fatzerbraz”, 2018 “Invisible Republic”/ both in HAU-Hebbel an Ufer), Joachim Robbrecht, Jan Brokof and De Warme Winkel Groupe (2017 “Exoot – Tropical Healing/ Galerie Vriend van Bavink-Amsterdam), Karin Beier (2014-2016 “Pfeffersäcke im Zuckerland”/Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg) and Friendly Fire (2015 “Secret Secrets of the Beehive”/ Loft-Leipzig).
Mariana is at the same time an experienced, many-sided artist, but also a thinker with a heart for actvism. She is currently pursuing the Das Theater master’s degree at the University of the Arts in Amsterdam (supported by the Talent Grant Scholarship and Jan Kassies Founds) where she prepares her new project called “I love you but I want to kill you now”.
Mariana Senne 