CharlotteTriebus

Charlotte Triebus is a choreographer, performance artist and multidisciplinary art director. She works across contemporary dance, visual art and digital technology.

Biography

Triebus founded the New Human Body Society in 2018 and directs the ensemble. She has worked as an artistic researcher at the MIREVI Lab at Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences since 2019.

She teaches interdisciplinary courses in design, performance and electronic composition. Since 2024 she has pursued doctoral research on agency in the postdigital performing arts at Promotionskolleg NRW, in the Department of Media and Interaction.

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Education

Triebus earned a BA in Integrated Design at Köln International School of Design (2009–14) and an MA in Dance Studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln (2014–17). At the Academy of Media Arts Cologne she specialised in performance and completed a postgraduate diploma in Media Arts with distinction (2015–18).

Awards, grants and residencies

Film and performance

2026 — We, Brute Force received Best VR+360° Film in the August competition of the Swedish International Film Festival and an Honorable Mention for Best Virtual Reality at the Asian International Filmfare Awards.
2024 — GIFF, quarter-finalist.
2023 — Swedish International Film Festival Award and GIFF Award.
2022 — Honorable Mention at the Tokyo International Short Film Festival. Awards from the Swedish International Film Festival, Calcutta International Cult Film Festival, Knight of the Reels and DIVR.

Grants and residencies

2022–23 — Production and research grant from Medienkunstfonds NRW in cooperation with RuhrgebieterInnen.
2022 — Production and research grants from Dachverband Tanz’s tanz digital programme and the Nationales Performance Netz.
2021 — Scholarship from the Deutscher Künstlerbund and a production and research grant from the Nationales Performance Netz.
2020 — Residency at tanzhaus nrw and production and research funding from Kunststiftung NRW.
2019 — tanzrecherche NRW and a production and research grant from Kunststiftung NRW.
2018 — Residencies at TanzFaktur Köln and tanzhaus nrw, including the Digital Dance Lab at tanzhaus nrw.
2014 — Nomination for the Kölner Design Preis.
2013 — Production and research grant from Choreographenvereinigung Tanztendenz München.
2012 — Research grant in Sweden.
Invitation for a research grant at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Residency at Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden.

Exhibitions and performances

Her work has been presented at the Pinakothek der Moderne, Festspielhaus Hellerau, NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, Berliner Festspiele, Jazzfest Berlin, tanzhaus nrw, PACT Zollverein and Theater an der Ruhr.

Other venues include Galerie Priska Pasquer, Projektraum Julia Ritterskamp, GAP 15 / Ernst & Young, Erholungshaus Leverkusen, the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln, Heinrich-Böll-Haus, Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, Domforum Köln, TanzFaktur Köln, the Studio für elektronische Musik Köln and the Zentrum für Zeitgenössischen Tanz.

Festival presentations include Kurzfilmfestival Köln, the International Dance Film Festival Ankara, Sommerblut, Auftakt Festival, Satelliten Festival, Open Source Festival, Katalyst Festival, Kölner Musiknacht, Stockholm Dansfilm Festival, Flimmer Festival, Temps d’Images and Slamdance Film Festival. Performance contexts also include PerformanceQuartett Köln, the Mesokosmos series, Montag Modus at Collegium Hungaricum Berlin and Atemzug at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln.

Teaching and talks

Triebus began guest teaching at Köln International School of Design and at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln in 2015. She has led interdisciplinary projects in design theory and research at KISD and with students of electronic composition at HfMT Köln.

Further teaching and project invitations include Hochschule Düsseldorf, Folkwang University of the Arts, the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (guest teaching, 2016), Berlin University of the Arts and the interdisciplinary composition class at Osnabrück University. In 2025 she taught at Design Academy Eindhoven and gave a masterclass at the University of Salento.

Her talks have included ISEA 2022, TEDx 2021, Spur.Lab 2021, TEI 2021 and Kultur und Informatik 2020, as well as Performing Arts Festival Berlin, Die Digitale at NRW-Forum Düsseldorf and a Pecha Kucha talk at the design research unconference in Konstanz.

Selected publications

Embodied Transmissions for an Unknown Receiver: Cosmic Noise as a Choreographic First-Contact Protocol. NordiCHI ’26 Adjunct, 2026.Triebus, C., & Geiger, C.
Transformation as Method: Choreographic Forms of Artistic Research – The AR-Comic Multitudes and the Lecture Performance The Code. EVA Berlin, 2026.Triebus, C., & Geiger, C.
Performative Documentation – Communicating Felt Knowledge in New Media Art Through XR Comics. INTED2026 Proceedings, article 1733.Triebus, C., & Geiger, C.
Human-Robot Interaction Using Mixed Reality and Visualization: Overview and Lessons Learnt from Technology, HCI-Design, and Art. INTED2026 Proceedings, article 1727.Gerhardt, E., Säger, M., Triebus, C., & Geiger, C.
Three Languages of Artistic Research – Precious Multitudes as a Performative Documentation of Research in New Media Art. ARTECH ’25 proceedings, article 83.Triebus, C., & Geiger, C.
Precious Camouflage – Artistic Research for the Creation of a Dance Piece with Humans and AI. Expanded, 2025.Triebus, C., Druzetic-Vogel, I., & Geiger, C.
From Tool to Space: Towards Classifying New Media Art. XR Salento, 2025.Triebus, C., Harth, J., Druzetic-Vogel, I., & Geiger, C.
kin_ – Dancing with Believable Avatars. IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops, 2025.Triebus, C., & Geiger, C.
Design and Evaluation of Immersive Technologies for Musical Expressions. INTED, 2025.Feitsch, J., Lückhoff, J., Triebus, C., Nicolai, K., & Geiger, C.
Learning Designs for Music Lessons in Extended Reality (XR). EAS Conference, 2025.Bruns, L., Ahner, P., Rotsch, T., Oehler, M., Voong, T. M., Sauerbier, B., Geiger, C., Feitsch, J., Dalfovo, S., Triebus, C., & Lückhoff, J.
Mixed Reality Theatre – Towards a Theatre of Extended Realities. GI VR/AR Workshop, 2024.Geiger, C., Triebus, C., & Harth, J.
Kin_proxy – An AR Dance Performance for Ethical Discourse. ARTECH ’23 proceedings, 2024.Triebus, C., Geiger, C.
Precious Camouflage – A Dance Performance Interweaving Human Movement and Artificial Intelligence. ARTECH ’23 proceedings, 2024.Triebus, C., Geiger, C.
kin_ – An AR Dance Performance with Believable Avatars. 27th International Symposium on Electronic Art, 2022.Triebus, C., Geiger, C., & Družetić-Vogel, I.
Geschlechterverhältnisse in der Migrationsgesellschaft – ein Versuch mit Begriffen und Methoden im Rahmen politischer Bildung. With Rudolf Leiprecht. In Handeln in Organisationen der Migrationsgesellschaft, Springer VS, 2022.
is a rose – A Performative Installation between the Tangible and the Digital. TEI, 2021.Triebus, C., Druzetic, I., Dewitz, B., Huhn, C., Kretschel, P., & Geiger, C.
is a rose – A Performative Installation in the Context of Art and Technology. Kultur und Informatik, 2020.Triebus, C., Dewitz, B., Družetić, I., Huhn, C., Kretschel, P., & Geiger, C.