Talk #162
Tanztheater Adrian Look
Tuesday 24 March 2026, 5.30pm
Salutation Pub (upstairs)
Higher Chatham Street
Manchester
M15 6ED
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A video recording of this talk will be available from 24 April.
“the human in the art” through Tanztheater
In this Bunker Talk, hosted by Andrea Maciel (Manchester School of Theatre), Adrian Look—director of Tanztheater London—will offer an in-depth reflection on his creative processes and artistic trajectory. Drawing on his formative training with Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch school in Grman, Adrian will discuss how he develops choreography and performance through a blend of community-focused practice, pedagogical approaches, and philosophical inquiry. His work expands the possibilities of observing and expressing human experience through the distinctive lens of Tanztheater. With over two decades of experience as a lecturer, director, and creator, Adrian brings a rich perspective that invites us to rethink Tanztheater as a space where embodied knowledge, creativity, and critical reflection intersect.
Adrian Look (born in Germany 1983) is a Tanztheater practitioner working as teacher and choreographer in London. He studied at the Folkwang University in Essen (Germany) whose almuni include leading figures in German Dance Theatre including Pina Bausch. After a relatively short career as a dancer (5 years) Adrian gravitated more towards teaching and choreographing his own works which ultimately led him to London in 2014.
His mission for the past 11 years has been to make his Tanztheater Philosophy accessible to a wider audience and to position the beautifully fragile, subtle and fundamentally human art form of emotional storytelling through states into a bigger context beyond the realms of dance and theatre towards a life philosophy.
To do so, Adrian is teaching regular dance classes in London (The Place, Morley College) as well as workshops and intensives in universities and dance institutions in the UK (Rambert School, Trinity Laban, University of East Anglia) and abroad (Mexico, Brazil, China, Japan).
