About

Prior to his 2018 relocation to Berlin, Jason Corff lived for more than 15 years in New York City. During that time, in addition to dance and choreography, Corff worked in the field of interior design. This split career path allowed him to develop his aesthetic focus and build a multi-faceted understanding of ways in which space can be defined from artistic, utilitarian, and theoretical standpoints.

While in New York, Corff had been a dancer with a+s works as well as a frequent collaborator with videographer Effy Grey and multimedia design house Paradox Vested Relics. Trained in dance at Oberlin College, Corff was a company member of 277 Dance Project and worked with Laboratory Theater, theARTcorps, Gushue Moving Arts, and Craig Hoke Zarah. He has performed at various locations in New York City including Triskelion Arts, Dixon Place, The Performing Garage, and Bryant Park. STORM [2013], one of his dance works for film, premiered at Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts in Massachusetts.

Corff received his MA in Solo Dance Authorship at the Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin (HZT). His practice focuses on the pairing of cartographic principles with choreography to recontextualize the body in space. He was a founding member of Mineralwasser Kollektiv, and has appeared in Berlin at Uferstudios, Universitätsbibliothek der TU/UdK, and Sophiensaele. Corff has been an Artistic Research Associate and guest teacher for both the BA Dance, Context, Choreography and the MA Solo Dance Authorship programs at HZT as well as a guest teacher in the architecture department of the Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus (BTU). Additionally, Corff was an invited artist for Dance in Residence Brandenburg (DiR), performing his work-in-process The Approach and the Square 2021] at the Brandenburg State Museum for Modern Art Cottbus (BLMK).

In 2023, Corff focused on two research projects: One of the Roughs, exploring the fixity of place/time through the lens of historical figures Walt Whitman and Kaspar Hauser, and throughLINES, examining the geocaching movement’s subversion of urban planning. These projects were funded by Fonds Darstellende Künste and Dachverband Tanz Deutschland, respectively. Corff is currently preparing for a period in residence at the Institute for Contemporary Art Yerevan (ICA). Here he will create at the edge of Somewhere, a site-sensitive work to be performed in March 2025 at the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art (NPAK) in Yerevan, Armenia.

Curriculum Vitae can be found here