Rio Hackenberg

Rio Hackenberg (they/them) is a dancer and performer, born and raised in Berlin. Through community organizing, performance creation, political action and mischievous costume making, rio proposes movement as an ever-curious celebration of the awkward, deranged, horny and dreamingly doubtful — that goes AxHHmpqpRrrg in bouncing conversations — to abnormalize everything. They make dances in an attempt to dismantle their white, Global North-centric upraising, challenging western intellectualization and colonization by anarchist ways of dealing with the absurdity of being in a body. Rio Hackenberg is now studying the BA “Dance, Context and Choreography” at HZT in Berlin.