Bahar Gökten is a dancer and choreographer whose process-oriented work is shaped by the movement principles and cultural practices of urban dance cultures such as hip-hop and breaking. Her creations focus primarily on the power of improvisation. Bahar has been a fellow of Sprungbrett<>Tanzrecherche NRW and Beat Riders New York. Her choreographies and interdisciplinary dance formats have been presented at Ballet am Rhein, the Haus der Berliner Festspiele, the MAKK, and the Staatstheater Stuttgart. She has held artist residencies at the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, the Stadt:Kollektiv at Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, the Cité internationale des Arts in Paris, and as a Factory Artist at tanzhaus nrw with her collective nutrospektif. Following “Real Fake”, VATERMAL is her second collaboration with Bassam Ghazi at Schauspiel Köln.