Bait are Michelle Madsen and Lizzy Margereson  

Bait is an award winning UK/Berlin performance duo led by artists and performers Michelle Madsen and Lizzy Margereson. Bait works through the mediums of live art, poetics, sound, play and site specific work to create experimental, innovative, interactive and sustainable performances and installations. We explore how shared experiences create dialogues with and about intangible undercurrents of the human experience.

The people

Michelleis an Argentinian/Danish British-born multidisciplinary artist. She makes performative installations and happenings which use sound, movement and ritual to queer dominant narratives. She is co-director of the award-winning theatre company Bait (Cronivision, Kill The Princess, Desperately Seeking Circe) and her poetry has been performed and published internationally (Alternative Beach Sports, Burning Eye,La Ninfa Eco). Michelle is the host of Bears at a Picnic Naked and Laughing (Resonance FM). Her recent work has been performed at Odin Teatret, Denmark (Off With Her Head) and as part of Berlin’s 2021/22 Performing Arts Festivals (Bar Was Immer,Artwat) She has collaborated with artists including Kate Tempest, Salena Godden and Marianne Costa and her journalistic work has been broadcast on the BBC (My Fake News WhoDunnit). She is a Visiting Lecturer at City University and is exploring collaborative and disruptive practices as  a member of theMake-Up artist collective in Berlin. She holds an MA-certificate in Integral Movement and Performance Practice at the Thomas Prattki Center (Lispa/Arthaus Berlin), where she is also part of the core teaching team.

Lizzy is a multidisciplinary artist and facilitator. In her work she uses live performance to explore epic, mythical and intangible spaces existent within the everyday human experience. She has training in physical theatre & clowning (Ecole International Jacques Lecoq, Jonathon Young). She creates performances that span storytelling, drag, cabaret, clown and live art that are audience/participant centred and are propelled by the unexpected.

Her work as an artist is nourished and in turn nourishes her work as a facilitator. Play, learning & curiosity underpin her creations and creativity & imagination are central to her facilitation practice.

Lizzy believes in doing whatever is possible to challenge boundaries created by prejudice, social discrimination and unconscious bias in order to create accessible work and learning and working environments. She believes in listening, discussion and questioning to create work for and with communities that speaks about the lived human and more than human existence.