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Angela Alves is a performer, artist, activist, researcher and mother based in Berlin.
She studied dance at ArtEZ (NL) and science of dance at Freie Universität Berlin. After some years of struggle she found comfort in the mode and art of unavailability and unpredictability. She is researching on rest as a cultural and political technology and has a vey strong interest in shaping the emancipation of diverse bodies, to soften the tension between strong and weak bodies, hyper and exhausted bodies, healthiness and illness in order to create an inclusive body of society.
In 2014 she founded TURN. Neue Bewegung für Multiple Sklerose e.V. – an association that enables MS to be seen as a tool for cultural research, offering art projects, dance workshops and round-tables.