A woman stands in front of a wall of gray wooden floorboards, looking into the camera and smiling slightly. She has short brown hair and is wearing a black long-sleeved top with a white and gray tribal on the chest. She is wearing small silver hoop earrings. — Photo Moritz Simons

Jette Büchsenschütz

Jette Büchsenschütz (she/her) is a Berlin-based dramaturg, writer and cultural worker in the field of dance and performance. Jette is white and from West-Berlin and has no disability. With a background in Chinese language as well as dance studies, her work is situated at the intersection of artistic practice and theoretical reflection. In addition to her dramaturgical and writing practice she currently works for the German Dance Association (Dachverband Tanz Deutschland). She is part of the transnational collective systering, a group of artists, writers, dramaturges and cultural workers dedicated to practices of comradeship, sistering and critical collaboration.