About
Contemporary dancer
Choreographer
Videographer
Larissa Potapov is a freelance dancer, choreographer and videographer and has lived in Hamburg since 2018.
She is currently working as a choreographic assistant at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg. She teaches regularly and is currently in further training at the Psychotherapeutic Institute for Dance Therapy Hamburg.
She completed her five-year dance degree at the Palucca University of Dance Dresden in 2012 with a Bachelor of Arts, during which she presented her first own choreography, Infinity 2.0, at the Festspielhaus Hellerau.
From 2012-2018, she was a dancer at the dance company Volkstheater Rostock, where she worked with choreographers such as Katja Taranu, Elias Lazaridis and Johannes Härtl. There, she has already produced various trailers and video stage projections in the fields of dance, drama and music theatre.
In Hamburg she has worked at Kampnagel, K3 Center for Choreography | Tanzplan Hamburg, the Thalia Theatre, Deutsches Schauspielhaus, LICHTHOF Theatre, Ohnsorg Theatre and the State Opera, among others. Together with Ann-Leonie Niss, she formed the choreographic duo NISS | POTAPOV. Her own dance production But what if you fly? premiered at the LICHTHOF Theatre in Hamburg in 2022. Larissa Potapov has worked with Hamburg choreographers such as Regina Rossi, Marcelo Doño, Sabine Glenz and Guy Marsan. She was a co-founder of the feminist dance collective Kollektiva.
Beyond the borders of the Hanseatic city, she has performed at the Glocksee Theatre, FFT Düsseldorf, fabrik Potsdam, Festspielhaus Hellerau and internationally in South Korea, Chile and Portugal.
She has created video works in collaboration with choreographers such as Meghna Bhardwaj, Robert Ssempijja, Israel Akpan Sunday, Marcelo Doño, Ann-Leonie Niss, Yamile A. Navarro L. and Teresa Lucia Forstreuter. Furthermore, with the Chorosom dance company, with the performance artist Ellen Kobe and with the US-American band Tribe of Love.
Vita
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//DU BIST DRAN! - CH: Regina Rossi - FFT Düsseldorf, fabrik (Potsdam), Politik im Freien Theater (Leipzig)
//BAROCCO - D: Kirill Serebrennikov - Thalia Theater (Hamburg), Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers (Paris)Choreographer’s assistant
//A PERFECT SKY - CH: Anouk van Dijk, D&T: Falk Richter - Deutsches Schauspielhaus HamburgVideo
//ALIENATION III - CH: Robert Ssempijja - TanzHochDrei: K3 Zentrum für Choreografie | Tanzplan Hamburg
//BLABLABLA - Tanzcompany Chorosom - CH: Katharina Jacobsen & Dancers - Sprechwerk Hamburg -
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//BAROCCO - D: Kirill Serebrennikov - Thalia Theater (Hamburg),
//BAMBI UND DIE THEMEN - by Bonn Park, D: Jonas Vietzke, CH: Larissa Potapov, Nina Melcher, Jonas Vietzke - Theater an der Glocksee, Hanover
//METAXIS, OR THE CONDITION OF IN-BETWEENNESS - CH: Marcelo Doño - Kampnagel, Hamburg
//DU BIST DRAN!- CH: Regina Rossi - K3 Zentrum für Choreografie | Tanzplan Hamburg
//FOLLOW THE DOPAMINE - CH: Merle | Mischke | Klee - Theaterwerkstatt Pilkentafel Flensburg, SE Kultur Bad SegebergVideo
//WE, THE FLANEUSE - D+CH: Meghna Bhardwaj - Installation - TanzHochDrei: K3 Zentrum für Choreografie | Tanzplan Hamburg -
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//BAROCCO - D: Kirill Serebrennikov - Thalia Theater, Hamburg
//WE ARE TRYING - CH: Johannes Härtl - Bürgerhaus Unterföhring, Munich -
Own Work
// BUT WHAT IF YOU FLY? - NISS | POTAPOV - LICHTHOF Theater, HamburgDancer
//CAMPING ROYALE - Corpus Dance Projects - PIT Festival Norwegen, 1. FRINGE Festival Trier, ViaThea Görlitz
//LES MOUTONS - Corpus Dance Projects - STAMP Festival Hamburg, 1. FRINGE Festival Trier
//ALGORITHMIC BODIES - CH: Marcelo Doño - LICHTHOF Theater, Hamburg
//DAS MORTON FELDMAN-PROJEKT - CH: Sabine Glenz - Installation WIESE, HamburgVideo
//PORTRAIT OF DANCE(R) - Anna Schneider & Larissa Potapov - documentary
//AFROCONFUSIONIST - CH: Israel Akpan Sunday - Sprechwerk, HamburgChoreography
//DAS FROLLEIN WUNNER - D: Murat Yeginer - Ohnsorg Theater, Hamburg -
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//DAS MORTON FELDMAN-PROJEKT - CH: Sabine Glenz - Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
//VON GRENZEN UND GÄRTEN ODER THE SPACE BETWEEN - CH: Sabine Glenz - Diana Garden, City Park Hamburg
//A FLOCK OF FLYERS - Corpus Dance Projects - Springfestival, Copenhagen & Passagefestival, Helsingør, Denmark
//ICH SEHE WAS DU NICHT SIEHST - CH: Guy Marsan - City center (public space) Hamburg//QUARANTULA - Larissa Potapov (Dance and video) & Jan Paul Werge (music) - online series
Video
//IJAKADI OKAN - CH: Israel Akpan Sunday - Limited Edition, K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg
//WHO IS RESPONSIBLE (WIR)? - CH: Israel Akpan Sunday - Hauptsache Frei Festival, Kraftwerk Bille
//IN_CONNECTION - dance documentation - D: Ann-Leonie Niss & Mayo Rodriguez -
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//ALCINA — CH: Beate Vollack — Staatsoper Hamburg
//EMERGER — CH: José Vidal & Cía — Festival A Mil, Santiago de Chile
//MEASURABLE SUCCESS - Kollektiva. - Accent Festival, Berlin
//NATUR - EINE LIEBESERKLÄRUNG - Kollektiva. - Kultur Gut Dönkendorf
//SCHÖNE BÜHNE - Improvisation evening with Gewerkstatt e.V. + Kollektiva. — HamburgChoreography
//LAAT UNS FRÜNNEN BLIEVEN! - D: Murat Yeginer - Ohnsorg Theater, Hamburg
//DES KAISERS NEUE KLEIDER - D: Nora Schumacher - Ohnsorg Theater, Hamburg
//TUSSIPARK - D: Murat Yeginer - Ohnsorg Theater, HamburgVideo
//GRIND ME - CH: Marcelo Doño - LICHTHOF Theater, Hamburg
//I AM LOST TO THE WORLD - Teresa Lucia Forstreuter - HELLERAU - European Center for the Arts -
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//WHISPERING WIDOWS - CH: Yamile A. Navarro L. - On-tour Portugal//EMERGENZ - CH: José Vidal & Cìa - Kampnagel, Hamburg
//CONTROL IS A STATE OF CHAOS - Kollektiva. - Eigenarten Festival, Hamburg
//CONTROL IS A STATE OF CHAOS, CHAOS IS A STATE OF CONTROL - Rising Dance Collective - Explosive Festival, Bremen & Reeperbahn Festival, Hamburg
//SCHÖNE BÜHNE - Improvisation evening with Gewerkstatt e.V. - HamburgChoreography
//ALARM IN’T GRANDHOTEL - D: Murat Yeginer - Ohnsorg Theater, HamburgVideo co-production
//HOPE - music documentary - Tribe of Love - Quebec, Canada
//LA LLORONA - music documentary - Tribe of Love - New York + Quebec, Canada
//BLUE SPACE - dancer film - Rising Dance Collective -
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//WHISPERING WIDOWS - CH: Yamile A. Navarro L. - Linie08 - Festspielhaus Hellerau // Societaetstheater, Dresden
//MUSHROOMS ZONE - CH: Khai Ngoc Vu - Ayang Young Choreographer Competition, Daegu, South Korea - 1st prize for the best choreographyChoreography & dance
//HAVE A LOOK V - Young choreographers - Tanzcompagnie Volkstheater RostockVideo production
//IWANSON - image film - International School Of Contemporary Dance, Munich
//FRENCH KITCHEN - trailer - dance piece by Johannes Härtl, Munich
//CORNELIA WÖß - ’About Me’ & Showreel video (actress), Rostock -
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//CHRONOS - CH: Elias Lazaridis - Tanzcompagnie Volkstheater Rostock
//ROCK’N’ROSTOCK - CH: Katja Taranu - Tanzcompagnie Volkstheater RostockChoreography & dance
//HAVE A LOOK IV - young choreographers - Tanzcompagnie Volkstheater RostockVideo co-production
//HAVE A LOOK IV - Trailer - Tanzcompagnie Volkstheater RostockKamera
//DUALIAD SIN SENTIDO - video installation // art video by Yamile A. Navarro L. - Linie08 - Connected Limits, Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden -
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//MESSIAH - CH: Katja Taranu - Tanzcompagnie Volkstheater Rostock
//CAFÉ COLORÉ - CH: Katja Taranu - Tanzcompagnie Volkstheater RostockChoreography & dance
//HAVE A LOOK III - young choreographers - Tanzcompagnie Volkstheater RostockVideo co-production
Trailer: HAVE A LOOK III | DER MESSIAS | FEUERHERZ | FALSTAFF | CANDIDE | SPUR DER STEINE | PARIS! PARIS! - Volkstheater Rostock
//CAFÉ COLORÉ - stage video projection & trailer - Tanzcompagnie Volkstheater Rostock
//SNOWY SUMMERS - dancer film - In collaboration with the musician Franz Bargmann - Berlin & RostockExhibition (photography & video)
//SCHAU MAL RAUM. - Schillerie Rostock -
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//SACRE DU PRINTEMPS - CH: Katja Taranu - Tanzcompagnie Volkstheater Rostock
//SCHWARZ // WEISS // SCHWAN - CH: Katja Taranu - Tanzcompagnie Volkstheater Rostock
//(NO) SATISFACTON! - CH: Johannes Härtl & Katja Taranu - Tanzcompagnie Volkstheater RostockVideo co-production
Trailer: (NO) SATISFACTION! | EIN VOLKSFEIND | AUFSTIEG UND FALL DER STADT MAHAGONNY | DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL - Volkstheater Rostock
//SCHWARZ // WEISS // SCHWAN - stage video projection & trailer - Tanzcompagnie Volkstheater Rostock -
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//BERNARDA ALBAS HAUS - CH: Katja Taranu - Tanzcompagnie Volkstheater Rostock//PRIVATE ROOMS - CH: Johannes Härtl - Tanzcompagnie Volkstheater RostockChoreography & dance
//HAVE A LOOK II - young choreographers - Tanzcompagnie Volkstheater Rostock//MINNETRONICS - D: Amina Gusner - Volkstheater RostockVideo co-production
Trailer: BERNARDA ALBAS HAUS | HAVE A LOOK II | MINNETRONICS (editing) - Volkstheater Rostock -
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//WIDERNATÜRLICHE LIAISON - CH: Bronislav Roznos - Tanzcompagnie Bronislav Roznos, Volkstheater RostockChoreography & dance
//HAVE A LOOK I - young choreographers - Tanzcompagnie Bronislav Roznos, Volkstheater RostockVideo production
//HOUSE OF MEMORIES - dancer film -
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//FRIDA KAHLO - CH: Bronislav Roznos - Tanzcompagnie Bronislav Roznos, Volkstheater Rostock
//DIE ERSCHAFFUNG DER WELT - CH: Bronislav Roznos - Tanzcompagnie Bronislav Roznos, Volkstheater Rostock
//SYMPHONY IN RED - CH: Avatâra Ayuso - Kleines Haus, DresdenChoreography & dance
//INFINITY 2.0 - Bachelor work - Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden -
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//SET IN STONE - CH: Hugo Viera - Semperopera, Dresden
//SOUL AFTER SOUL - CH: Zongwei Xu - Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden//11/21 - CH: Katharina Christl - Semperopera, Dresden
//PICTURES BEFORE MEMORY - CH: Mario Picardi Luna - Kleines Haus, Dresden
//WATCH OUT - CH: Irina Pauls - Kleines Haus, Dresden
