Martina Gunkel lives in Stuttgart and works as a freelance dancer, performer, educator, and choreographer in Germany and the Netherlands. She holds a Bachelor of Performing Arts from the Fontys University of Applied Sciences (NL). With the interactive and interdisciplinary performance It is there. Around the corner (dance, theatre, contemporary circus; 2018), she demonstrates her artistic interest in exchange with other art forms as well as with audiences.
Since 2021, she has mainly worked within Stuttgart’s independent scene, including projects by Instant PIG, Blomst!, with Nestor Gahé, and the collective multipluralwesen. She is part of the artistic direction of the platform SAAL FREI for interdisciplinary improvisation and is engaged in production, cultural mediation, and dance education. She also completed training as a Gyrokinesis teacher and teaches body training at the Academy of Performing Arts Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg in the acting department.
In 2025, she appeared with L-MOVEMENT by Nestor Gahé for the first time at the KUYUM Tanzplattform. In 2026, she returns with De Là à Là, which will celebrate its Berlin premiere as part of the festival.