Marc Ates is a director, dancer, performer, choreographer, musician, programmer, filmmaker, light- and stage-designer. Educated in dance and acting (School for New Dance Development, Amsterdam / Etage, Berlin - studies with Anzu Furukawa, Andras Keskesc, Maya Brosch, Yumiko Yoshioka; sculpture and graphic design (Grafik Department Rheinbach, Alanus University for Art). He studied directing, film, free & performing arts (University of Fine Arts, Braunschweig, gifted and talented apprenticeship) with Anzu Furukawa as his primary professor and teacher.
Ates is the Founder and Artistic Director of loplop (performing arts space in Berlin) and Devilangelo (dance theatre company). He is a practitioner of concrete transcendental structures of (mad) logic.
Since 1990, his various art and performance projects (as actor, dancer, performer and director) have spanned Germany, USA, Italy, Poland, GUS, France, Spain and Denmark.