PRESERVE - Call for attention

Preserve – Call for Attention, a research in collaboration with movement artist Susanna Yilkoski, composer Roi Becker, and dramaturge Maya Weinberg. It is supported by Residenzförderung 2025 des Fonds Darstellende Künste in cooperation with flausen+ and Schloss Bröllin.

“PRESERVE – Call for Attention” is a choreographic research toward a stage work that will premiere in September 2026 in Berlin. The work was developed during a residency at Schloss Bröllin in August 2025.

It explores how the body– both individual and collective – carries and responds to processes of decay, collapse, transformation, and connection in an age of constant sensory overload.

The research unfolds natural processes of erosion, decomposition, and regeneration, opening pathways into mythical landscapes, and examines human decay by connecting the physical body to broader cultural, social, and political fractures.

Together, these perspectives investigate what happens when an overstimulated body, nature, and social environment enter a state of numbness.

Through movement, voice, and sound, the project examines how we perceive and respond to internal and external catastrophes. Against the backdrop of contemporary urban life – filled with signals, alarms, and continuous notifications—the work asks: What truly demands our attention?

PRESERVE – Call for Attention explores the tension between growth and decay while searching for moments of emotional transformation and renewed sensitivity within an overstimulated world.

BIO

Susanna Ylikoski

Performer & Co-creator

(FI) is a Berlin dancer, writer, and creator. She received her BA in Dance from SEAD – Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance in 2019. As a dancer, she has worked with choreographers including Rotem Weissman, Beatrix Joyce, Saori Hala, Alma Edelstein-Feinsilber, Ceren Oran, Barnaby Booth, Omer Keinan, and Moritz Macje. She has been an active member of nein9 kollektiv Berlin since 2021 and Stream – Live Art Platform since 2020. As a creator, she touches on questions of queer human and non-human ontologies and agencies and their application to co-existence. Her works have been described as “vulgar”, as “edging the dance”, and as “silhuettes of punchiness”. Her previous works have been toured in Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, and Finland and include continuing containing, eventually, and womb. As a writer, she has been published by Tanzfabrik Berlin, the dance mag, the magazine Care Where Zine and in the book Are you here? Zine.

Maya Weinberg

Dramaturg

Maya is a dramaturg, choreographer, and teacher who sees the practice of art-making as an on-going exploration of touch, relationality, and the fluidity of narratives in space and time. A former dancer and teacher at Yasmeen Godder Dance Company, she studied at Kibbutzim College of Arts and Technology and taught at schools such as: The School of Visual Theater in Jerusalem Tanzfabrik and HZT Berlin. In Berlin, Maya has collaborated with various artists, co-curated the "Nah Dran Extended" series at Ada Studio (2020-2022), was founder and member of the B A G dancemaker collective and established herself as freelance dance dramaturg. in her current practice, Are We In Touch Now, she explores modes of tactility in the sensory-perceptual in-between space of things. The research was presented in July 2024 at Wyvern’s Invisible Networks exhibition. Maya is also a Tanzpraxis Scholar awarded for 2024-2025 by the Berlin Senate.

Roi Becker

Composer

Roi Becker is a musician and composer currently based in Berlin. He graduated from Thelma-Yellin school for the arts (IL, 2014), and received a composition bachelor's degree from Buchmann-Mehta school of music (IL,2020). His further training has been influenced by teachings of: Amit Friedman, Matan Chapnizky, Dekel Bor, Ruben Seroussi, Yair Klartag (IL). Roi’s work includes, amongst others, Double Duo (Premiere IL 2019) at Claremont hall; original music for “Azathoth” by choreographer Omer Keinan (Premiere 2022 DE) at DOCK 11 theater, at LakeStudios’s residency; music for “Opaque Wild Berries Familiar Ache” choreographer Omer Keinan (Premiere 2019 AU) at Szene Theatre; Musical editor and consultant for “HED MAYNER”, showed at Paris fashion week 2018-2020; music for “Piece of heart” by choreographer Mayra Wallraff (DE); music for“AGADA” (Premiere 2022), performed at Acker Stadt Palast (2022, DE), Dock 11 (2022, DE) and Habait Theatre (2022, IL), original music for the piece “IMA” by choreographer Mami Shimazaki (2023, japan), original music for the choreographer Michael Getman (2024, Israel).

Rotem Weissman

Performer & Choreographer

Rotem Weissman is a choreographer and dancer based in Berlin, Germany.

Weissman graduated from the Dance Department at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance (2015) and the Maslool Professional Dance Program (2017). She holds a postgraduate diploma in choreography from the International Choreographic Exchange at SEAD – Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (2018), where she also completed the Artist-in-Residence program (2019). Her artistic development has been further supported through residencies at Studio Alta (CZ), Sadnaot Habama (IL), Tanz Station (DE), and Cie La Baraka (FR). Her choreographic research Alpha & Omega was funded by NEUSTART KULTUR #TakeHeart (Fonds Darstellende Künste) and the flausen+ bundesnetzwerk residency at Schloss Bröllin.