Dr. Lea Maria Spahn sees herself as a researcher and performer with a feminist attitude – mostly in and through movement. In addition to the EU research project, she is a teacher for special tasks for body education/dance and module leader in the continuing education master’s program “Cultural Education in Schools” at the Philipps University of Marburg. Together with Anne Decker, she is developing participatory projects as a resident artist in rural areas of Hessen from 2022-2024 (funded by FLUX Netzwerk Theater und Schule e.V.). She used to live part-time in Brno, Czech Republic, where she was part of the German-Czech Agronauts*Collective, which combines performative research and environmental activism in annual international symposia.
Lea has been a dance mediator for many years with a focus on somatic experiences, improvisation and sensual experience. She reflects on her scientific and practical experiences in writing processes – in the examination of corporeality and physicality under conditions of digitality, (more-than-human) collectives, aesthetic and cultural education, movement and dance, feminist and intersectional theories as well as political ecologies.