Azzie McCutcheon (she/they) is a choreographer, movement practitioner, dancer and teacher based in Berlin. Her work focuses on the uncanny, illusion, and disrupting perceptive experience. She is interested in the spaces in between: what lies on the boundaries of categories such as un/familiarity, un/recognisability, un/human, and how exploring these perimeters can inform a re-questioning of what it means to be human.

Her work investigates interactions of movement, light and sound to create what Josephine Machon terms as ‘(syn)aesthetic performance’; referring to “a fusing of the somatic and the semantic in the creation, reception and analysis of performance”. This work has been part of Azzie's research for many years, beginning as an associate to the DAP-lab London and continuing in Berlin such as her recent project in-between. in between explores the uncanny through visual and aural ambiguity and the phenomenon of 'uncanny valley' and ‘pareidolia’. Within Azzie's work the moving body is key within the interaction of performative elements, acting as a gateway for the audience into the multi-sensual world being created and experienced. 

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Azzie also uses her choreographic and physical practices in the research of archetypes. She is fascinated in how an audience may 'read' a particular character in performance and how movement can subvert these processes and reveal human intricacies. She is exploring how movement vocabularies pertain to specific archetypes, probing questions of what it means to be human in relation to the structures of our society and community. 

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