Susanne Grau (*1988 in Passau, Germany) is a dancer, choreographer, and certified Rolfing® practitioner based in Berlin. Across projects, she explores the relationships between language, physicality, imagination, and rhythm. She approaches performative practice as a facilitation of encounters. She is interested in multiple points of attention, the simultaneity of visible and invisible activities, and what those movements of attention are inviting to appear. Her choreographic work seeks to open a space for collective experience playing with affects around control and change.

She studied Contemporary Dance at the University of Music and Dance in Cologne, the MA program Performing Arts Practice and Visual Culture (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha and Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid), and the MA New Performative Practices at the University of the Arts in Stockholm. In 2015, she received the danceWEB scholarship at ImpulsTanz Festival in Vienna. From 2012 to 2020, she was a member of the Cologne-based MichaelDouglas Kollektiv. As a performer, she has worked with artists such as Fabrice Mazliah, Alexandra Pirici, Rocio Marano, Davis Freeman, Juana del Mar, Özlem Alkis, Choy Ka Fai, May Zarhy, Hend Elbalouty, Prue Lang, and Reut Shemesh. Through her work, she navigates various roles within the creative process, as well as diverse contexts and constellations of collaboration.

Since 2023, she has been a certified practitioner of Rolfing® Structural Integration—a hands-on myofascial bodywork method integrated with movement studies. She is part of Coole Kinder, a collectively run project she initiated and that is supported by Seitenwechsel e.V. The team organizes and teaches regular dance classes for children and teenagers living in refugee centers in Berlin, as well as excursions. She has developed different teaching formats for professional as well as non-professional dancers focusing on bringing somatic practices and improvisation into a relational and performative space. Since 2024, Susanne has been a member of considering network—a group of artists with bodywork practices interested in the intersection of choreography, bodywork, and the politics/poetics of touch. Her teaching, bodywork, and artistic practice as a dancer, performer, and choreographer continuously inform and inspire each other.