Celia Krefter

is a genderfluid director, choreographer, lighting designer, writer and accordionist who makes live music for dancing, dancing for theatre, and theatre for living.

Currently, she is curious about nonhuman animal languages, interspecies performance, creating high-tech work using analog methods, and the body as a tool for resistance against technocapitalism. Celia’s work is a Fibonacci spiral of geometric movement puzzles and clown face-ography, with an aesthetic equally influenced by Nintendo DS-era Pokémon games and Madonna music videos, grounded in ecodramaturgies and a feral hope for a better world.

Celia’s original devised dance-theatre works have premiered at The Brick Theater’s Brick Aux and the Movement Lab @ Barnard College. As a director and choreographer, Celia’s work spans everything from big gay musicals, to blackbox two-handers, to textless performance art. She designs lights for theatre and dance, and has collaborated with artists including Object Collection, Experiments In Opera, Small Boat Productions, and Radiohole. She plays accordion as one half of the Outdoor Cats, with Pimprenelle Behaeghel on viola. Celia is from Hamburg, Germany, and Cape Cod, MA, where she loves to go shark-spotting with her friends.

Photo by Joe Navas / Organic Photography