about me

Edegar Starke is a Brazilian born artist, based in Berlin. Graduate actor from FURB, Brazil, with a strong physical background, he has developed a series of dance/theatre projects with kids and teens at public schools. He has been training Butoh since 2013 with Minako Seki, Masaki Iwana, Yumiko Yoshioka, Ken Mai and Daisuke Yoshimoto.

Always keen on the social aspect and impact of a dialogue through movement, in 2016 he starts co-curating the Moving Bodies Butoh Festival and premières his first solo “The childhood I kept to myself”, engaging with a movement technique very influenced by his Butoh experiments and initiating his research on "Moving Memories".

In 2018 he joined the PAUL Collective Berlin, where he worked curating, directing and producing projects aiming artistic cooperation and the development of an encouraging and fruitful artistic community.

Edegar met the Israeli choreographer Tomer Zirkilevich in 2019 and currently works with him as a Performer, Assistant Director and Producer. Edegar and Tomer also curate and produce together "SpeeDance - The Fastest Choreography Project'', since 2020. SpeeDance is a pop-up encounter space, an intensive art project that offers a fresh insight into Berlin’s dance landscape and builds a continuous and ever growing network for exchange of experiences, artistic support and new collaborations.

From 2020 he performs in collaboration with the queer collective PORNCEPTUAL as well as with the music project KORO, with the musicians Janco Boy Bystron and Dirk Häfner. Since 2022 Edegar has worked with Minako Seki, as a performer and as assistant in teaching her workshops and the Seki Method Teacher Training.