Silke Bake

Silke Bake lives in Berlin and works as curator, dramaturge, and mentor. She has worked as a dramaturge for diverse institutions (including TAT Frankfurt, Hebbel-Theater Berlin, Tanzquartier Wien) and realised prorgammes (festivals, series, laboratory- and discourse formats) for the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), the Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts) Berlin, the Kanuti Gildi Saal in Tallinn, Theaterformen Braunschweig/ Hannover, Impulstanz Vienna, and Tanzfabrik Berlin.

Silke Bake worked as dramaturg and project manager for the performing arts festival IN TRANIST at HKW in 2008 and 2009, she was the cocurator of the biennial NU Performance Festival On Hospitality on the occasion of the cultural capital programme of Tallinn 2011, and of performance platform. body affects at Sophiensæle Berlin in 2012. In 2016 and 2018, she was the artistic director of the biennial programme Tanznacht Berlin. In 2018, she was guest professor at the MA programme SODA / HZT in Berlin. Silke Bake is currently the general and artistic manager for the programme FEMINIST FUTURES of the European network apap.