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Fabrice Mazliah

Fabrice Mazliah is a Swiss choreographer, performer, and teacher based between Basel and Frankfurt. Over the past two decades, he has developed a body of work situated at the intersection of movement, language, perception, and relational practices. His choreographies and performance installations explore how bodies are shaped through their continuous interaction with objects, materials, atmospheres, technologies, and other living systems. After many years as a performer and collaborator with William Forsythe and The Forsythe Company, Mazliah developed an independent artistic practice grounded in improvisation, embodied knowledge, compositional thinking, and collaborative processes. His works often place the experience of the observer and receiver at their centre, opening spaces where multiple perspectives, forms of attention, and modes of relation can coexist. Combining movement and language, his projects seek to develop poetic and perceptual forms that question boundaries between bodies, environments, objects, and systems of meaning. Alongside his artistic work, he regularly teaches and mentors internationally in the fields of choreography, improvisation, movement research, and composition. His work unfolds between Frankfurt, Basel, and international contexts.

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Work of Act

Work of Act is a Germany-based production platform initiated by Fabrice Mazliah together with producer Johanna Milz. Founded in Frankfurt am Main in 2018, the platform supports the development, production, and dissemination of choreographic works, artistic collaborations, and research-based projects.


The platform functions as a flexible framework for interdisciplinary exchange and long-term artistic research, working in collaboration with local and international artists, institutions, festivals, and venues.



Fabulous Things

Fabulous Things is a Basel-based association founded to support and accompany the artistic work of Fabrice Mazliah through production, research, collaboration, and dissemination.


The association develops projects in the fields of contemporary choreography and performance while fostering exchanges between artistic practice, embodied knowledge, social questions, ecological thinking, and interdisciplinary research.