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DIRECTOR|DOP
PHOTOGRAPHER
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR

NXN Sonique

Marie Zechiel joined forces with photographer Tatsiana Tribunalova and stylist Halla Farat to create a visually captivating project for the DJ duo NXN. Serving as the Movement Director, Zechiel helped bring this surreal concept to life, crafting a world where NXN feels as though they have emerged from another universe. The collaboration seamlessly blends photography, styling, and movement direction, resulting in an otherworldly visual narrative that pushes the boundaries of creativity. Describing the vision behind the project, the team states: “Through the void, they appear—shaped by stars, reborn in fire. A transformation of essence into untamed energy. NXN arrives.” This poetic framework sets the tone for the visuals, presenting NXN as ethereal beings transformed by cosmic forces, embodying raw, unrestrained energy. Zechiel s role as Movement Director was instrumental in shaping the dynamic expressions and physical presence of NXN within this surreal environment. By guiding the duo through fluid, evocative movements, she amplified the project’s themes of transformation and energy, ensuring that every pose and gesture aligned with the concept’s celestial and fiery undertones. Her expertise in movement brought an organic, almost otherworldly quality to the imagery, blurring the line between the human and the cosmic. The synergy between Zechiel s direction, Tribunalova s photography, and Farat’s styling resulted in a project that feels both otherworldly and profoundly visceral. The intricate costumes, dramatic lighting, and expressive movement coalesce into a vision of NXN as beings reborn from the stars. This project exemplifies Marie Zechiel s ability to collaborate across disciplines and use movement as a storytelling tool, crafting a narrative that transforms visual art into an immersive, multi-dimensional experience.

As a movement director Marie Zechiel researches, develops and instructs sophisticated movement and body languages for a project aiming to create a suitable and unique physical narrative that raises production quality and authenticity.
In exchange with the director and team she proposes a motion vocabulary and choreography which fits best to the project’s vision, before she develops specific training methods and teaches all necessary skills to the performers (e.g. actors, singers, dancers, models, extras).
Especially on set with the production Marie Zechiel is a valuable motion supervisor to translate last-minute improvements as a movement director. Her skill-set includes underwater movement, cross-gendered movements and chorus work as well as doing choreographies in different dance styles.
Her field of work is specialised in camera productions such as commercials, music videos, photo shootings but also fashion shows and gallery spaces and the movement mentoring for artists. As a Choreographer and Movement Director Marie Zechiel has been involved in many music videos, commercial shoots and fashion shows. Clients include: VOGUECalvin Klein, Longines, Heidi Klum, Rammstein, Herbert Grönemeyer, Mercedes Benz.

Read more about Marie Zechiel´s Movement Director work HERE.