Marion Sparber

Originally from South Tyrol, Italy, Marion received her professional dance training at Varium (2006-2008) and Iwanson International (2003-2006), finishing the education with the scholarship Student of the year.

Since 2015, Marion ́s work as a choreographer has been supported by the office for german culture South Tyrol and the Trentino-South Tyrol region and produced by IDEA - Tanz Theater Performance.
As a result, several pieces were created and toured internationally: her solos Die Vergänglichkeit der Gänseblümchen, The Ripe and ruin, the duets Seelengrund, Porzellan-Haus, Eight, Self-finished and Acacia confusA, the group pieces Von Anfang an der Dreiklangfang, Stilles Ich, No, woman, no cry..., but when they do? , Big boys don ́t cry... but when they do?, Impromptu, Ohne Zwei, Shell shock, Eight reloaded and Nefelibata as well as the dance-film to her stage piece Big boys don´t cry… but when they do, the dance-film F.I.A.S.O.M. - freedom is a state of mind and the dance-performance with video-installation Strategies to survive.

Marion is particularly fascinated by multidisciplinary work. Many of her choreographies are a playful combination of highly physical dance, dance theatre, contemporary circus, partnering, acrobatics, text, live music, video- and photo projections, costume design and have been performed at numerous international theatres and festivals in Europe, South and North America, as well as in Asia.

Her piece Stilles Ich comissioned by the Tanzcompagnie at Volkstheater Rostock combines multimedia and dance and is her first work at a german state theatre.

Marion also worked as a choreografic assistant for the australian Choreographer Melanie Lane in her piece Styx comissioned by the Staatstheater Braunschweig.
Marion co-choreographed Radix, an in-house production by Tanzkollektiv Südtirol together with Martina Marini and Riccardo Menenghini, which premiered in 2022.
She has also developed work for artists, companies, professional dance training programs and festivals – alone and together with Alan Fuentes Guerra, a.o: Sinónimos de percepción for Cressida Danza (Mexico, 2025), Sadness comes for Kunsthumaniora Antwerp (Belgium, 2025), Reality check for Mu-Festival together with Parco Culturale Alta langa (Italy, 2025), Instinctive connections, a performance project at B12 Festival (Germany 2025), Blueprint for Deborah Manavi (Germany, 2024), Side(D)effect for Danza Joven de Sinaloa (Mexico, 2024), Laberinto 104 for r.a.b.t.a. (Mexico, 2024), Eight reloaded for Strado Danza (Germany, 2023), efecto secundario for OCDP (Italy, 2023), two group-pieces for PERA University of the Arts (Cyprus, 2022 and 2023), casa de porcelana for EPDM (Mexico, 2022), más aire qué palabras for AnDanza contempóranea (Mexico, 2022), Kopfkino for Aorca Summerlab (Portugal, 2021), cine de cabeza for Descalzinha Danza (Spain,2021), Aftermath for Kunsthumaniora Antwerp (Belgium, 2020), The Ripe and ruin group-piece and efecto mariposa for Danceworks Berlin (Germany, 2017 and 2019), The shelf for Etage Berlin (Germany 2018) and Hundert for Kari Tanzhaus (Germany, 2015) .

Their new collaboration comissioned by the dance company of Landesbühnen Sachsen will premier in autumn 2026.

Marion´s work was invited not only to dance venues, as well as to circus festivals as she is bridging contemporary dance with contemporay circus. Her work Big boy´s don´t cry… but when they do? was performed at Zeit für Zirkus (2023), Lurupina Zirkus Festival 2022) and Katapult Berlin (2019).
Marion collaborates with various visual artists, sound artists and costume designers: a.o. Ky-anh Tran, Projeto Solo / Keren Chernizon, Stefano Ciardi, Agente Costura, Sebastian Vidal, Ellena Stelzer, Ana Root and Arash Khodayari a.o.

Her art speaks by inviting the audience in. Through immersive experiences, interactive installations, and thought-provoking performances, it turns viewers into participants. Meaning is not fixed - it emerges in dialogue, reflection, and shared experience, making her art a conversation rather than a monologue.

Marion aspires to use her work as a mouthpiece to draw attention to socio-political situations and injustices as well as interpersonal relationships and individual existential questions. For the sake of expression all the different art-forms line up to communicate with the audience and the performing artist.

As performer Marion Sparber dances in several of her own creations as well as in work of other choreographers. She has collaborated as a dancer with choreographers and companies such as Francisco Córdova - Physical Momentum in the piece To be, Stella Zannou in the piece Strange, Sonia Rodriguez, performing Mabel, ADN-Dialect in the pieces Zeitzone, Urban Shaman and L’affaire Wettstein, Stephanie Felber in Le vide dans l’espace, Eldon Pulak in The Wetting Party,  Philip Amann - Cicadhoc in Fast Forward - eine Reevolution and as a guestdancer of the Wee dance Company.

Together with Alan Fuentes Guerra, she co-founded the platform Shared Levitation Partnering in 2017. Shared Levitation choreographs stage work and teaches internationally. The main goal of the platform is the dramaturgy and communication through Partnering. In winter 2026 their own creation program GROUND ZERO starts off, inviting 20 international artists to create work based on their Shared Levitation Partnering principles.

As a teacher, Marion works internationally, values exchange with participants, and continually draws inspiration from these encounters. She has taught at the Deltebre dansa, B12, Circuit-est, Toula Limnaios Company, Atlas Festival, PERA, Tanz Kassel, Tanz Luzern, The Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève, Konzert und Theater St. Gallen, Konzert und Theater Heidelberg, Tanzcompagnie Volkstheater Rostock, Unusual Symptoms, Tanz Gießen, Of curious nature, Stadttheater Bielefeld, Staatstheater Braunschweig, Staatstheater Regensburg, Landesbühnen Sachsen, Cndc Angers, Vim Vigor, The Playground New York, Diavolo Company LA, Flow Movement Colorado, Athletic Playground San Francisco, Kinissis Festival, Performact, Lagos Sea Dance, DASS Summer Intensive, TanzAHOI, Camp In, La Cantera, Encuentros Mutantes, Marameo, Tanzfabrik, Dock 11, Tanzmünster, LAFDK Bremen, Summer Intensive Portugal, Riga On, Summer Intensive Vilnius, Bluebox, CDSH Hamburg, La Corriente Festival, OCDP, Danceworks, Etage, Seneca, K3 Professional training Hamburg, BFZ Nürnberg, Kari-Tanzhaus, Profitraining Freiburg & Leipzig, Tanzfaktur Köln, Tanzhaus Zürich, Profitraining Basel and Lucerne, Oliva Dance Project, Goa Contact Festival and Play Practice Artist Residency, Cyrculacje Festival, Tanec Bez Hranic, Sfera Ruchu, Academy Dancer Russia, La Macchine Festival, EPDM, Espacio Nómada, Festival Nómada, Descalzinha Danza and Varium a.o.

In 2014 Marion was part of the first EX-IN with David Zambrano learning Flying Low and Passing Through Technique which she includes in her teaching.