Otto Calmeijer Meijburg

Otto Calmeijer Meijburg  (they/them) works as a physical theatre maker and performer. Their work is driven by the desire to use art as a strategy for joy, resistance, hope, escape and (political) imagination. Live music and improvisation play an important role in Otto's work. With each new project or collaboration they are exploring different cross-overs between live music, dance and theatre. Otto prefers to work inclusively and most of their projects centre around inclusion in one way or another.

 

In 2020 Otto co-founded Starlab, together with choreographer and performer Filu Sampé and mucisian Marius Lambertz. Starlab is a long term artistic empowerment project for people with and without disabilities. Starlab created a stage production in 2021 (Im Rampenlicht, see 'projects'), collaborated with MAISKIND for a project in public space, and organised a performance disco series in the queer space KU: in Cologne. Starlab also offers performance workshops several times a year.

 

In 2023 Otto co-founded WILD Producties together with Teddy Slootman and Storm Vogel. WILD Producties is a theatre collective and an artistic empowerment project based in Utrecht (NL).  WILD creates performances with genderqueer and trans teenagers, as well as trans adults of all ages. WILD's projects include: WACHT, The Queer Nature of Everything, UITGEKLEED, Het Verhaal Dat Nooit, a site specific art making camp for trans youngesters, Crowded Bodies XL (in collaboration with What You See Festival) and De Boodschappers. 

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Otto grew up in The Netherlands and South Africa, and is now living in  Utrecht, The Netherlands. Otto works as a freelance artist in The Netherlands and Germany since 2020.