Eylül Fidan Akinci
Eylül Fidan Akıncı is a Ph.D. Candidate in Theatre and Performance program at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her dissertation project analyzes the dramaturgy of objects and materiality in contemporary choreography through a feminist lens, and creates a trajectory across Pina Bausch, Eiko Otake, La Ribot, Mette Ingvartsen, Gisèle Vienne, and Geumhyung Jeong. She works as an independent dramaturg across theatre and dance. Her writing on performance has appeared in TDR: The Drama Review and Etcetera Magazine.
Tim Reuscher
Tim Reuscher is working at zine production and distribution outfit Sternstunden des Kapitalismus, where he has more or less regularly published poetry/illustration zine Pareidolia since 2008 while also illustrating and printing various zines and publications. Currently Tim is also running the nachladen riso studio/zineshop/recordstore in Hamburg.
Brontez Purnell
Brontez Purnell is a zinester, writer, dancer, and musician who lives in Oakland, California. Originally from Triana, Alabama, Purnell has been publishing, performing, and curating in the Bay Area for over 17 years. Brontez has written for various publications, including Cakeboy, San Francisco Weekly, Maximum Rock & Roll and Harpers. He is the author of »Fag School«, »The Cruising Diaries«, and »Johnny Would You Love Me If . . . (My Dick Were Bigger)«. He is a 2018 Whiting Award winner in fiction for his book »Since I Laid My Burden Down«. He is the front man for the band The Younger Lovers and cofounder with Sophia Wang of the Brontez Purnell Dance Company (BPDC). Composed of movers and artists of all disciplines, the company builds works that combine punk rock subversion and free jazz improvisation. He has also created several works for dance on video.
Claire Cunningham
Claire Cunningham is a performer and creator of multi-disciplinary performance based in Glasgow, Scotland and a current Factory Artist with Tanzhaus NRW Düsseldorf, Germany as well as a Work Place Artist with The Place, London. One of the UK’s most acclaimed and internationally renowned disabled artists, Cunningham’s work is initially rooted in the use/misuse, study and distortion of crutches. Through these objects she not only engages physically with the world, exploring the potentiality of her specific physicality as a disabled individual, crafting a unique vocabulary which aims to challenge conventions around virtuosity, classical aesthetic and dance, but are also her means to relate and connect to the world as an artist. She is interested in non-normative bodies and keen to highlight the enrichment to be gained in contemporary performance, especially dance, by embracing this. By extension she is also driven to make work that will attract those often disenfranchised from watching contemporary dance due to the conventional body aesthetics or because of the seeming abstractness of dance. Her interest in combining artforms stems from this intention.
Natsuko Tezuka
Natsuko Tezuka is a dancer and choreographer born in Yokohama Japan. She started her career as a solo dancer in 1995 and worked with themes of exploring her own style that does not employ conventional techniques. She produced her Anatomical Experiment series with the theme of body observation in 2001. She is living and working in Berlin since April 2018.
Zwoisy Mears-Clarke
Zwoisy Mears-Clarke is a choreographer of the encounter. He uses the expanding potential of dance and choreography to confront mechanisms of oppression, like racism and ableism, that sabotage human interaction on both a structural and interpersonal level. Zwoisy holds a Bachelor (B.S.) in Biomedical Engineering from Columbia University, USA and a Bachelor (B.A.) in Engineering and Dance from Oberlin College, USA. Currently, Zwoisy is based in Rösrath, Germany. www.zwoisymearsclarke.com
Peter Boragno
Peter Boragno is a graduate in business administration and has worked in cultural management since 1995. His clients include the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, the Federal Cultural Foundation, the Federal Ministry of Culture and Media, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Goehte Institute. From 2010 onwards he accompanied the Ausbildungskonferenz Tanz and headed the office for the Biennale Tanzausbildng. Since January 2020, he has taken over the management of the Europäische Theaterakademie GmbH “Konrad Ekhof” Hamburg and is in charge of the Bundeswettbewerb deutschsprachiger Schauspielstudierender and, in the future, the Bundeswettbewerb Biennale Tanzausbildung.
Fabrice Mazliah
Nach seinem Tanzstudium in Genf, Athen und Lausanne war Fabrice Mazliah einige Jahre Teil des Nederlands Dans Theatre, schloss sich 1997 dem Frankfurter Ballett unter William Forsythe an und war bis Sommer 2015 Teil der Forsythe Company.
Parallel dazu produzierte Fabrice mehrere eigene Werke und Arbeiten in Zusammenarbeit mit anderen Künstlern, darunter “The Manufactured Series” (2018-2020), “In Act and Thought” (2015) für die Forsythe Company, “Eifo Efi” (2013) ) und “Cover up” (2011) mit dem Kollektiv MAMAZA. Diese Stücke werden auf wichtigen Festivals und Veranstaltungsorten weltweit präsentiert. Fabrice unterrichtet in Workshops, Seminaren und Ateliers auf der Basis von Recherche und Improvisation.
Boy Henry and Boy Bernd
Boy Henry and Boy Bernd are members of „the other kind of coverband“ (discogs) Boy Division for over 20 years. They have been organizing shows for themselves as well as for other bands, released their own and other bands´ records, performed in their own theater plays, released fanzines, directed videos. They work as DJs and spend their spare time planning and running various events of all sorts. They also contributed to works by God`s Entertainment, Geheimagentur and Showcase Beat Le Mot. All below mainstream`s radar for over 30 years and still loving it.
Bea Carolina Remark
Bea Carolina Remark is a dance teacher, performer, creative dance and movement therapist, body therapist, dance and theatre practitioner, poet and alternative practitioner (HP). Spastically paralyzed since birth, she is an expert in her own field.
She has worked for years with choreographers, dance and theatre professionals, therapists, colleges, universities and other institutions and gives workshops at home and abroad. The development of diversity in cultural and political education, the development of equivalence in the world, but also the development of peace processes – in the sense of reflecting on and changing the view of the normal ideal of a society – is a major concern of hers.
Her curiosity is especially directed towards a constant examination and encounter with the foreign, the other, nature and life itself. Movement must be found, is always new. A pendulum between attention and devotion. After each deep encounter, we are no longer who we were, each encounter transforms us.
Numerous further education and training courses in the fields of dance, theatre, bodywork, body therapy, trauma therapy, systemic therapy, yoga.
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