reta Gauhe
Choreographer, Dancer, Producer, Researcher
Deborah and Greta
Artistic Duo
About:
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We are Deborah and Greta, an interdisciplinary duo working across dance and visual arts since 2023. Our collaboration spans community-based projects in Germany and the UK, including work with students at FH Kiel, the Women of the WAA group (KielKreativ), and people living with chronic pain (Coventry University, UK).
Community practice is at the heart of our work. We are interested in art as a form of social engagement, creating spaces for connection, empowerment and shared experience. Through our projects, we aim to build micro-communities that bring together intergenerational participants and diverse perspectives, offering creative tools for communication and collective reflection.
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Alongside community work with older adults in Kiel, we created the interdisciplinary performance 'Collapsing into the Equilibrium Line' (2025/26), premiered at Resolution Festival, London (January 2026). We also developed an outdoor sensory performance in Crystal Palace Park (London, 2023), guiding audiences through the environment via touch-focused audio-recordings. In parallel, we collaborated on Greta’s PhD research (2023–2026), co-developing touch-focused audio experiences for remote contexts with people living with chronic pain.
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Across our practice, we are particularly interested in the relationship between bodies and the more-than-human environment. Responding to ongoing ecological and social crises, we approach artistic practice as a space for care and responsibility. Concepts of radical kindness and collective attunement underpin our work, shaping how we create and engage with others.
Projects:
Community Dance Project
Be(in)g Touch
Until we Meet
Audio-touch Snacks for Chronic Pain
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Greta Gauhe is a freelance choreographer, dancer, producer, and researcher working across dance, somatics, visual art and digital performance. Her multidisciplinary practice explores political, social, and ecological themes, with a focus on empathy, intimacy, and connection. Since 2015, she has created performances that challenge traditional boundaries between performers and audiences, offering immersive, participatory experiences that foster collective reflection and micro-communities.
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Greta is the Artistic Director of the Follow Through Collective, producing work for theatres, museums, and public spaces across the UK and Europe, including The Place, Chisenhale Dance Space, RichMix, NordArt, and the University of the Arts Berlin.
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She holds a BA in Contemporary Dance from Trinity Laban, an MA in Performance from London Contemporary Dance School, and has completed an MFA in Choreography at Trinity Laban. Currently she is completing her PhD at the Center for Dance Research at Coventry University, funded by Midlands4Cities.
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Deborah Di Meglio received her Bachelor of Science in Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Rhode Island in 1979 and a Master of Fine Arts at Hunter College in New City City in 1985. In the early eighties she was actively involved in working in urban disadvantaged communities with underprivileged young people and with disadvantaged women with different community and political activitist artist groups such as The Gurrilla Girls, Faith Ringgold. She also work many years with the writer and feminist Kate Millett to develope and build a Women’s Artist Coloney in Upstate New York. In 1992 she moved to Germany putting herself in another cultural environment to further her artistic pursuits. She also became Culturally Politically active serving on many Trustee Boards in Schleswig-Holstein. Her work to further the use of Arts for Social Change won her the Verdienstordens (Order of Merit) from Schleswig-Holstein in 2010.
Deborah Di Meglio has been working as a visual artist for 40 years and has had numerous exhibitions in the USA and Europe. In the last 30 years she has been developing “Art Projects for Social Change” successfully and with multiple grants and awards.
Her artistic objective has always been to anchor her artistic message more deeply and broadly in local communities. Creating real change through inter-active visual and performative art, she wants to bring art practices to the lives of people in a real way to promote cultural change and sustainability.
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