LAYTON LACHMAN is an artist living in Berlin. They create performances which channel experiential physical practices into immersive, sensory complex worlds. Utilizing a diverse range of performance contexts, Layton’s choreographies are seen on stage, in galleries, museums, and in public space. These works include voice, spatialized sound, and intense physicality, that once combined are often distinguished by their surrealist, dreamlike qualities. Most recently their work has been performed in Haus der Kunst München, Shedhalle Zürich, Das Kunstmuseum Bonn, Amant Brooklyn, River-to-River Festival NYC, Theater Im Depot NRW, Sophiensaele Berlin, and featured in Berlin Art Week 2025. In addition to their performative practice, Layton is often involved in collective space/curation projects, as well as regularly teaching in Berlin and as a guest artist at universities in the USA. Their teaching draws from extensive somatic research and experiential anatomy, including their training as a teacher of Open Source Forms, working as a Pilates teacher for 10 years, their intensive study of Yoga and their improvisational practice and choreographic research alongside Abby Crain, mara poliak, Maria Scaroni, Kathleen Hermesdorf, Alice Chauchat and Sara Shelton Mann. Before moving to Berlin, Layton worked and lived in the San Francisco Bay Area of California.

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