Who I am and where I come from

First of all, I am a Mensch and a mother of two beautiful humans.

I try to, everyday, stay present, be authentic in my expression and interactions, and develop art that speaks of what this consciousness experiences in this moment.

And then I make art…

I am also an award winning German and British freelance Performance Artist/ Butoh Practitioner/ Theatre Maker/ Director/ Film Maker/ Poet/ Artist/ Facilitator/ Mentor/ Lecturer, the founder and co-producer of the One Fell Swoop Project Micro Outdoor Shakespeare Festival, founder and producer of AboutFace Theatre Company, and founder and co-producer of the project .butoh//eXr, which brings together Butoh and new technologies. I am also a member of the Authentic Artist Collective, the JAFY collective, Berlin, the WAKEN collective, London, Sho Synergy Collective, Tokyo and a Path Maker.

I have been writing prose and poetry since my teenage years, mainly for the stage. They say my work is raw and vulnerable. I focus on trauma, mental health, mothering, love, loneliness, longing, desire, sex, death, dying, grief and survival.  

I trained as a PathMaker in an 18 months intensive professional facilitation program with Dr Kath Burlinson and the Authentic Artist Collective, am a qualified Ayurvedic Yoga Massage and Reiki Practitioner, have a 22 years teaching and facilitating practice in primary, secondary and adult education, trained in acting at the Schülerclub at Schauspielhaus Frankfurt, have an MA in English/ Drama and American Studies (with honours) from the Goethe University Frankfurt/M., Germany, which I earned writing my thesis "Variations of the self - Identity in the poems of the Northern Irish poet Medbh McGuckian”, and a professional development degree in physical theatre from Hope Street Ltd. and John Moores University, Liverpool, both awarded while still living under the name Sabine Hauschild. Two of my poems are published in 'Night Bus to Speakers' Corner: Original Prose and Poetry from Brighton' (available on amazon) while you can find several others, as well as my theatre work and my music videos on my YouTube channel TheKitchenSinkArtist.

I have a great passion for film and make and edit (mostly dance) films. I have been filming/ editing my multi media performance pieces since school, and bring these skills to my performance practice. From 2019-2021 I collaborated with the singer songwriter Dedi Madden and made four music videos with/for him, working very intimately, and fulfilling the roles of camera woman, director, script writer, dramaturg and editor. 

For the last 5 years I have been deep diving into Butoh, a Japanese originating performance art methodology, which I fold into my art practice. I have performed Butoh based work in New York, London, Wales, as part of BIG Butoh, Berlin, Yokohama, Miaoli, Taipei, Saruhashi, and Tokyo.

Among others I have worked with Paul Hunter (told by an idiot), Hailey Carmichael (theatre de complicité), All Greek To Me Theatre Company, Company Festival Shakespeare, Anselm Weber, Gavin Robertson, Dr Kath Burlinson, Cirque du Soleil, Ingrid Wendt, Ella Jaroszewicz, Michael Chase, David Glass, Yumino Seki, Marie-Gabrille Rothie, Motoya Kondo, Conan Amok, Tashi Iwaoka, Michiyasu Furutani, Yumiko Yoshioka, Henriette Heinrichs and Yuko Kawamoto.  

I am always interested in collaborations. If you fancy working with me, get in touch.

In April I returned to Europe from my sabbatical in Japan and Taiwan, where I developed two solos, ‘Resonant Void’, music by Keita Miyano, dramaturgy Conan Amok and ‘Fragments of Silence’, music by Mamoru Hoshi, both available on YouTube.

I am also grateful to have had the opportunity to create the duet ‘Luminous Ashes’ with Conan Amok, commissioned by Dance Base Yokohama, the durational performance trio ‘Beyond the Directions of the Wind’ with Tetsuro Yuasa and Ayako Kanisasare, and to extend the performance series ‘Dialogue Without Words’ to East Asia, conversing with (among others) Azu Minami, Memory, Yukio Suzuki, Fumihiro Yoshino, En Tee, Meecho Su Teal, Hida Manabu, Yuma Takeshita and Farabi Toshiyuki Suzuki.

And of course I studied my beloved Butoh, with many fantastic teachers, dancers and artists, amongst others Saga Kobayashi, Yuko Kawamoto, Motoya Kondo, Seisaku, Dakei, Katsura Kan, Yumiko Yoshioka, Imma Tenko, Taketeru Kudo, Atsushi Takenouchi, Daisuke Yoshimoto and the wonderful Kae Ishimoto gently guiding me at the Hijikata Archives at Keio University.

All of the performances are available for bookings, just drop me a line and we can talk.