caner teker is a survivor, fighter, and choreographer working across performance, live music and stage design. Their practice examines the body as a site shaped by discipline, violence, and orientalist projection, using autobiographical material to question fixed readings of queerness and post-migrant identity. Through the manipulation of space, time, and bodily presence, teker develops choreographic situations that foreground lived experience. teker studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and at the SNDO – School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam. Their work has been presented at Gessnerallee Zürich, the Julia Stoschek Foundation Berlin, tanzhaus nrw Düsseldorf, and HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin. In 2022, teker was a danceWEB scholarship recipient and performed at Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, Tanzquartier Wien, and Radikal Jung at Münchner Volkstheater. The work KIRKPINAR was acquired for the collection of Museum Ostwall Dortmund and awarded the ars viva prize 2024. In 2025, teker was a fellow at the Tarabya Academy of Culture, Istanbul, Türkiye.