A network & haus for multi-disciplinary artists & audiences

Berlin Summer dance workshop for ROOTED with Jessica Gaynor at Lake Studios Berlin

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How it Started?

Apricot Productions was founded in 2020, in the heart of the pandemic, by Nadine Freisleben and Angela Fegers. Their vision was to create a one-stop production hub where artists could access the services they needed to bring projects, festivals, and experiences to life for Berlin’s community — while also offering resources to help freelancers navigate and survive in Germany.

Since 2020, what began as a two-person company has blossomed into many forms. Apricots were harvested, collaborations with diverse artists flourished, and our network grew. From producing and marketing to assisting and supporting projects, we expanded beyond Berlin — accompanying artists to the United States (NYC & LA), Portugal, Spain, and across Germany in cities such as Frankfurt, Stuttgart, and Hamburg.

Summer dance workshop, Lake Studios Berlin, Germany

Creative Services

We support with whatever is needed to bring an artistic production to life and carry it into a successful launch. Our work branches into marketing, distribution, production, press, and the development of immersive experiences — always with a creative touch and a collaborative spirit.

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Marketing & PR

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Production

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Immersive Experiences

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Dramaturgy

Over the years, our team has shifted and grown, transforming into the apricot we are today. Along the way, many wonderful collaborators — both artistic and internal — have been part of our journey. Here’s a list of those who have helped shape our story.

Övgü Özen
Past Team Members

Since 2009 Övgü has been working as a freelance photographer, producer and since 2016 she also works as a production manager with freelance artists in the field of visual and performing arts in Berlin. She accompanies the creation of new productions and has been a part of Apricot Productions since 2023. Through careful support in administration, organization and communication, she enables the artists to create more space and time for their conceptual artistic work, which allows the collaboration to be tailored to the individual interests and needs of the artists within their projects.

Yu Bai
Past Team Members

Yu Bai is a producer and performing artist in Berlin's independent art scene since 2019. Prior to this, she worked as a journalist, writer, and conceptual strategist in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She holds a B.A. in culture and language studies and an M.A. in new media and digital culture with a focus on Performing Arts from Utrecht University, NL. She is a member of the production company Apricot Productions, a creative hub for culture and contemporary dance projects that values collaboration, non-hierarchical communication, and aims to create a safer working space. In her role, she facilitates artists in their creative process using practical knowledge and detailed-oriented methods to translate an idea into a concrete project. She is deeply involved with the artists during the pre-production phase, which includes concept development, budgeting, production strategy (securing funding, partners, and venues), and preparing grant applications. Additionally, she provides consultation for performing artists to develop projects, with a preference for themes related to queer ecology, critical perspectives on capitalism, decolonialism, and self-critical working methods.

Angela Fegers
Co-founder

Angela Fegers (1990) is an US American director, producer, archiver and dancer from central Florida, based in Berlin, Germany and Thessaloniki, Greece. As a pre-teen, she began training under the guidance and care of Carol Erkes and Ferdinand DeJesus at Florida Dance Theater in Lakeland, Florida. She holds a BFA in dance from University of Florida/New World School of the Arts and an Associates in Media from Miami Dade College. While in college, she presented work in the Miami Fringe Festival and at the Dorsche Gallery in 2014, in collaboration with visual artist Moira Holohan and independently in the Miami Dance Festival. After extensively training in Florida she relocated to NYC where she danced locally and professionally for Lindy Fines, Erik Montes and interned at the Graham School. She has presented work at Wassaic Dance & Arts Fair, Earl Moseley’s Institute for the Arts and American Swiss Ballet in NYC. While in NYC she also taught computer coding and narrative storytelling at after school programs at notable schools like the Dalton in the Upper East Side. In 2016, she relocated to Europe in hopes of establishing a more stable life as a freelance dancer and choreographer. In Europe she has performed for Sarah Bleasdale, Jessica Gaynor, Katrina Bastian, Nadine Freisleben in Germany and Poland. She has collaborated with Laura Guy for two creations which premiered in Portugal at Temp Studios and Budapest at MoveIn Studio thanks to support from Eva Duda Company. Additionally, she has presented her independent work in the Netherlands at Cloud Dans Lab, The Freezer in Iceland, Let Me In Festival, Berlin, Lake Studios Berlin, Berlin, ACUD & more. She was on faculty at Danceworks Berlin from 2019 until 2022 where she taught Limon, Cunningham and Composition to dancers training to be on a professional level. Besides Danceworks, Angela also was a freelance teacher at the Technical University where she taught hobby dancers and Marameo where she taught the professional dancers in Berlin. After participating in two internships with TanzBüro and LAFT in 2019 on production in Berlin, she co-founded the production company Apricot Productions with Nadine Freisleben shortly after in 2021. The firm started as an international platform offering services in production, marketing, press and distribution for multi-disciplinary artists in Berlin & beyond. Since opening, the firm has supported over 150 artists in marketing & production. In 2022, Apricot founded their educational and community portion of the company, ROOTED- focusing on creating an international and inclusive space for Berlin community members to connect and exchange ideas. The branch has produced its own festivals and offers workshops with local German collaborators (LAFT, Tanzbüro, Plan B, Berlin Schauspiele) and abroad (ADDE DANZA- Basque region) on marketing and self producing projects. In June 2022, she co-founded the Hotel Who? An immersive dance theater company that creates historical non fiction experiences at hotels and non-traditional venues in Los Angeles, she co-directed & produced three shows before closing the company. She is a guest lecturer at New York University, TISCH Berlin, aiding current students with their endeavors on moving abroad from the United States. The position gave her the opportunity to create her educational PDF: Berlin für Dummies- which she updates and distributes to people interested in taking the leap abroad regularly. She was the inaugural recipient of the SPIKE Award for American Dance Festival given by Rosie Herrera and has received funding from Dachverband Deutschland for her project, Hotel Artelier- the beginning of her research for the Hotel Who?

Nadine Freisleben
Co-founder

Nadine Freisleben, born 1989 in Berlin, has been dancing professionally since 2008. In Lagos and elsewhere Nigeria she danced in, and choreographed for various Nigerian contemporary dance companies from 2008 to 2010. She choreographed for festivals of Goethe Institute and Alliance Francaise. During these exciting times she got acquainted with West African Contemporary Dance, which has had a significant influence on her dance and choreographic style. In 2015 she graduated from the school for performing arts 'die Etage Berlin' and since has worked with Chaim Gebber, Jennifer Mann, Sarah Bleasdale, Christine Fricker and Saskia Assohoto / Dancevertise. In 2013 she founded her own dance- theatre ensemble “GAU Company“. Her works were then shown in France, Portugal, Nigeria, Chile , Germany. In 2021 - 2023 she worked at Tanzfabrik Berlin and 2021 founded the production company for freelance artists “Apricot Productions” together with US-American choreographer and dancer Angela Fegers. She learned about production and press autodidactical, through seminaries by Tanznetz Freiburg, Agentur für fast alles, Kanzlei Laaser and through a cultural management course at DAM. Her learning process was funded by Neustart Kultur Hilfsprogramm Tanz. Today she also gives seminaries about production hacks organised by Dachverband Tanz (barcamp23, Distanzen Festival) and Tanzbüro Berlin.