Laura Saumweber is a freelance dancer, choreographer, and community artist based in Munich. Her artistic practice operates at the intersection of dance, participation, and social engagement, and is driven by the question of how bodies can be understood as archives of memory, identity, and collective experiences. At the heart of her work lies the power of dance to create spaces for encounter, intergenerational exchange, and social reflection, as well as to make themes such as belonging, memory culture, and social participation physically tangible. After completing her professional dance training in Barcelona (2014), she earned a Bachelor of Dance in Education from ArtEZ University of the Arts (2017) and a Master’s degree in International Arts Management from Leuphana University (2024). Since 2016, she has been developing and performing her own choreographic works, which have been presented nationally and internationally in places such as Hong Kong, Cyprus, Barcelona, Paris, Copenhagen, and the Netherlands. 

Since 2020, she has increasingly been creating productions for young and intergenerational audiences, including the Germany-wide touring plays Ode an die Dinge and Die Sache mit den Dingen. She is a co-founder of the contweedancecollective and has been working closely with the Schauburg München—Theater für junges Publikum since 2020. In this context, in 2025/26 she led a Tanzanian-German project together with ASEDEVA and Isack Abeneko on issues of peace and justice, the colonial past, and its continuities that remain effective to this day.

Since 2024, she has been developing the long-term research project Tanztee & Prosecco, which explores dance and aging and investigates how artistic practices can enrich daily life in care facilities and create new forms of participation and interaction. In addition, she works in the independent arts scene, collaborates with the NS Documentation Center Munich on movement projects related to remembrance culture with young people, and is co-director of grenzen | los | tanzen.

Laura is currently conducting research on artistic and body-based forms of memory work as part of her project “Embodied Archives.” The focus is on the question of how bodies can be understood as archives of social experiences, historical influences, and affective traces, and how these can be made visible in participatory or choreographic dance formats—particularly in the context of discrimination, social belonging, and the culture of remembrance. In doing so, she examines the body as a repository of history, identity, and memory, and aims to develop artistic formats that connect individual and collective spaces of experience.