Elsa Artmann is a dancer, choreographer, and visual artist based in Cologne. As part of the ensemble SANFTE ARBEIT, she creates dance pieces and publications that explore themes and formats of communal life. She also works as a freelance dancer for various choreographers and ensembles and teaches drawing and movement. 
She studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig and dance at the Center for Contemporary Dance in Cologne. For her, movement and language are deeply interconnected. In both, she seeks ways to make time-specific aspects of everyday experiences visible while also proposing »exercises for different relations.«