Marc Ates

Marc Ates is a Berlin based director, choreographer performer and lighting designer. From 1993 to 2000, he was a student/dancer of Anzu Furukawa whom he considers his primary professor and teacher. Since 1990, his various art and performance projects (as dancer, performer and director) have spanned Germany, the U.S., Italy, Poland, GUS, France, Spain and Denmark. In the U.S. he has collaborated with the San Francisco based company inkboat. In 1995 Ates founded loplop performance space in Berlin. The same year he formed the dance company cokaseki along with dancer Yuko Kaseki