Lars Schmidt
Dance, Performance and Visual Artist, Poet, Natural Thinker, Facilitator
Master in Fine Arts Practice and Performance, Glasgow School of Arts
Diploma of Applied Permaculture Design
Exploring the fundaments of cultural and spiritual matters, he often establishes transdisciplinary spaces, in order to support the emergence of a new narrative.
Formative years in New York City, Berlin and Glasgow.
Regular periods of retreated life in mountain regions of France and Norway.
Background and studies in music and the performing arts, fine arts, somatics, photography and film, ecology and anthropology, focusing on indigenous cultures and Eastern philosophies.
He has worked as actor for film and TV, as acting coach and director.
His main acting coach and mentor was Susan Batson, for whom he worked as longtime assistant and as acting instructor in New York City.
In dance and bodywork his path led from classical and modern dance training to working with postmodern dance forms, tango and improvisation.
He is an advocate and activist for nature protection and regeneration, creating wildlife gardens and pursuing research in animal behavior and communication, as well as in different fields of traditional craftsmanship and land use.
After initiating and facilitating the Art, Ecology & Education Project in 2006 in Berlin, in 2010 he conceived The Natural Circus (2010-2018) as a life-art project, that might probably be best described as a pilgrimage and form of resistance.
He holds a diploma of Applied Permaculture Design (applied ecological design) and has worked and lived with shepherds and on organic farms in France, Italy and Norway.
His artistic work meanders through the fields of music and sound art, photography, film and visual arts, poetry and performance.
He holds a Master of Fine Arts and Performance from Glasgow School of Art.
As curator and consultant he aims at building bridges towards indigenous and Eastern understanding, linking vision and practice, knowing and creating.
Lars has lived, worked and taught in major cities like New York, Paris, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Barcelona or Oslo.
He currently lives in Paris and in the Belgian countryside.
Lars is a member of the International Ecoart Network, as well as a practitioner of Zazen meditation since many years.
CV on demand
Personal website: www.passiveactivism.net
Get in touch at: info (at) contemplative-arts.org