Sophie Hauenherm
Butterfly Effect

Dance and psychology are equally part of my life, which makes me want to include a connection between art and science in my work. Coming from chaos theory, there is a concept which interests me in particular: the butterfly effect. It is a phenomenon of nonlinear dynamics and will be the focus of my solo research. The effect occurs in nonlinear dynamical systems. It manifests itself by the fact that it is unpredictable how arbitrarily small changes in the initial conditions of the system will affect its evolution in the long run. In contrast to the snowball effect, this is a matter of the unpredictability of the long-term effects. An explanation of how chaos arises in the world. This phenomenon has been taken up in fiction, movies, video games and series. I would like to deal with this topic artistically.

How does the effect work transferred to the movement of the body and the spread in space? What effect do thought processes have on the body and vice versa? This process includes both literature research and exploration within the solo dance work.

Sophie Hauenherm works as a freelance dancer, choreographer and dance teacher. She completed her training at the Palucca Hochschule für Tanz Dresden. Half a year before completing this, she was diagnosed with incomplete paraplegia. Despite this, she decided to continue a life with dance and choreographed her bachelor thesis "Behind human understanding" in a wheelchair in 2018. Engagements followed at the Theater Pforzheim, under Gregory Darcy in Esslingen and in "Echogedicht", a production by Tiago Manquinho in Braunschweig . In 2020 she led the inclusive dance workshop "Triple A" at the Landesbühnen Sachsen and could also be seen there in "nussKnacker" and "Difference". Currently she is working in the productions "Balance" at the Kulturhaus Steinfurth, "Drüben" at the Kulturpalast Dresden and at the Projekttheater Dresden for "Fusion 2" under René Rothe. At the same time, Sophie Hauenherm is studying psychology at the Technical University of Dresden.