Terra Kell (she/her) is a Canadian artist based in Munich, Germany. Her artistic practice is centered around empathy and connection. Working as a contemporary dancer and choreographer, Terra’s primary medium is the body. She has danced in multiple contemporary dance companies throughout North America and Europe, performing on stages around the world. Now as a freelancer, Terra dances, choreographs, teaches, and engages in a variety of artistic projects.
photos: Robert Fischer and Ethan Ribeiro
MOVER
For Terra, movement is the basis from which all creation begins. She continues to redefine, for herself, what it is to be a moving, sensing being. Continually exploring the breadth of her body’s potential, she seeks to use movmement as a tool for connection, innovation, and healing.
CREATOR
What is the embodiment of a reference? What shape does a memory — or a vision — take, and can it be distilled? Rooted in research of “marking” as a part of the Tanztendenz Open Studios, we do nothing, and you watch explores all that is fragmented and traced. This work is inspired by fleeting synchronicities and dissonances, wavering between shared and individual timelines. Lingering in an ephemeral, intentionally incomplete world — almost unseen, but fully felt.
Created in collaboration with Ria Girard
*Winner of the HIER=JETZT 2026 Audience First Prize and scholarship from Norbert Janssen Stiftung*
premiere: 2026, Schwere Reiter - Munich, DE
performers: Ria Girard/Fanny De Ponti and Terra Kell
duration: ~18 min
We, alone begins from the reality of the world we live in, where disconnection and loneliness are increasingly familiar. Following the journies of seven characters, the piece explores solitude, isolation, choosing to be alone, and the paradox of feeling alone within a crowd, quietly asking: who we are when we are truly alone with ourselves? The universality of these themes aim to remind the audience that even our most individual moments of loneliness connect us to one another.
premiere: 2023, Staatstheater Augsburg - Augsburg, DE
performers: Gabriela Finardi, Yeonjae Jeong, Geivison Moreira, David Nigro, Afonso Pereira, Adrià Vilar, Chiara Zincone
duration: 20 min
Start the Thing
installation @ max neu[n] Gallery - Augsburg, DE
created/performed in collaboration with Ria Girard
premiere: 2023
duration: ~30 min
space splash
A wet encounter in a small room. Pressure of skin agianst glass and a poem about my big toe.
created in collaboraiton with Lisa Gareis, Ilaria Rabagliati, Gabriele Rolle, Flavio Quisisana
premiere: 2021, Satellit Off-Space - Zurich, CH
performers: Lisa Gareis, Terra Kell, Ilaria Rabagliati, Gabriele Rolle, Flavio Quisisana
duration ~15 minutes
Inspired by Cunningham and Cage, performers use chance operations to create scenes of chaos and cohesion.
created in collaboration with Lisa Gareis, Luigi Imperato, Gabriele Rolle
Supported by Luzerner Theater
premiere: 2021, Luzerner Theater UG, Luzern, CH
performers: Lisa Gareis, Luigi Imperato, Terra Kell, Gabriele Rolle
music: Luigi Imperato, John Cage
duration: ~20 minutes
2026
October
28-01 (Nov) - Flock’s International Dance Festival (Schwäbisch Hall, DE) - Performing ‘2 Things Existing at Once’ by Ria Girard
November
14 - Performance at Tanztheater Festival Erfurt (Erfurt, DE) - Performing ‘2 Things Existing at Once’ by Ria Girard
27-28 - Performances at Centro Danza Matadero (Madrid, SP) - Premiere of ‘Apex Timing’ by Alfonso Lopez
December
14-19 - Residency at Dance Space Munich (Munich, DE)
ARCHIVE
2026
September
7-11 - Residency with Alfonso Lopez @ Centro Coreográfico de La Gomera (Tenerife, SP)
August
25-29 - Teaching @ DanceFrom Apulia Edition (Mola di Bari, IT)
july
17-19 - Teatri Riflessi Festival (Zafferana Etnea, IT) performing 2 Things Existing at Once by Ria Girard
april
12 - HIER=JETZT Choreogrpahic Platform (Munich, DE) - choreographed/performed new work we do nothing, and you watch
* awarded Audience First Prize and Scholarship from Norbert Janssen Stiftung *
march
25-27 - Lugar Futuro Festival (Viesu, PT) - performed 2 Things Existing at Once by Ria Girard
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19 - Lothringer 13 Antifascist Cultures of the Present (Munich, DE) - researcher/performer for Ana Dragič’s residency showing
january
26-8 (Feb) - Tanztendenz Open Studios Residency (Munich, DE) - 2 week research with Ria Girard
16-17 - Performances at Schwere Reiter (Munich, DE) - Skirts in fur, unwinding by Anima Henn
2025
september-december
Creation and Dutch Tour of Afternoon of a Nymph by Dunja Jocič
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Staatstheater Kassel (Guest)
Thorsten Teubl
2024-2025
Staatstheater Augsburg
Ricardo Fernando
2021-2023
Luzerner Theater
Kathleen McNurney
2020-2021
Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal
Louis Robitaille
2018-2020
Visceral Dance Chicago
Nick Pupillo
we do nothing, and you watch
Schwere Reiter, Munich, DE
2026
Start the Thing
Max Neu Gallery, Augsburg, DE
2024
We, alone
Staatstheater Augsburg, Augbsurg, DE
2023
Space Splash
Satellit Off-Space, Zurich, CH
2021
Transoceanic Hope
Luzerner Theater UG, Luzern, CH
2020
University of Arizona
Bachelor of Fine Arts - Dance
2016
Performance Research Project
Lesley Telford
2017-2018
Springboard Danse Montreal
2016 + 2017
Balanced Body Pilates
2024
terra.kell@gmail.com
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