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 dance projects in Germany, including work with students at FH Kiel, Women of the WAA group, and with people who experience different chronic pain conditions.
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Our work emerges from questions of intimacy, touch, memory, and how we relate, to each other, to place, to the unknown. We are drawn to slow shifts, quiet tensions, the weight of what is carried and the inevitability of letting go. Holding, collapsing. Supporting and slipping apart. We work inside those contradictions, softness and structure, resistance and release.
There’s messiness in this. A kind of radical not-knowing. We move through it not to resolve or fix, but to stay with what is fragile, changing, unresolved. To notice what’s emerging, even if it's unclear.
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Our process invites participation. We engage the public not as spectators but as co-creators, shaping experiences together. Through movement, somatic listening, and the act of making, with materials like paint, plaster, casts, and cloth, we explore how bodies remember, respond, and resist. These materials become extensions of our inquiry: they hold impressions, tensions, and traces of care.
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We work across disciplines and generations. Our differences are not something to solve, they are part of the fabric of our collaboration. In this space of exchange, we explore the intersections between personal and collective memory.
Projects:
Community Dance Project
Be(in)g Touch
Until we Meet
Movement 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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