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.
Monica Gillette
A choreographer and dramaturg, Monica Gillette brings over 25 years experience in the performing arts, as well as expertise in artist driven networks, participatory projects and transdisciplinary research. After an education in classical ballet, Monica developed a career in the field of contemporary dance in Los Angeles and New York. In 2008, she began working at Theater Freiburg, not only as a dancer and choreographer, but also in areas of community building and project development. Monica was the dramaturg for the EU project Migrant Bodies – Moving Borders (2017-2019) and editor of the resulting publication. She leads workshops and facilitates collaborative research practices, utilising her dance skills for embodied reflection.
Raymond Hilbert
Raymond Hilbert, born in Leipzig, studied at the Palucca-School for Dance in Dresden. He became a member of the Company of Komische Oper Berlin under Tom Schilling for 4 years where he was promoted to Soloist in 2004. Later he returned to Semperoper Dresden for 12 years, where he became a Principal Dancer. He danced solo roles in several ballets of John Neumeier, Jirí Kylián, Mats Ek, Stephan Thoss, Mauro Bigonzetti, Claude Brumachon, and Glen Tetley. In 1995, he became a teacher at Palucca-School, in 2001 he was offered a professorship for contemporary dance and became head of the Department of Education. Between 2014 and 2016, he held a professorship for Modern Dance Technique, Interpretation and Choreography at Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano in Chile. He was a guest dancer in Australia, Poland, Canada, Costa Rica, the USA and in the Netherlands. Raymond also teaches Modern Dance, Choreography, Motion Analysis and Eukinetics. In the beginning of the 2017/2018 season, Raymond Hilbert became the Ballet Master of the National Youth Ballet
Sebastian Matthias
Sebastian Matthias, born 1980, works internationally as a choreographer with production houses and established institutions such as Luzerner Theater and CORPUS / Royal Danish Ballet. He studied dance at Juilliard School in New York and dance studies at Freie Universität Berlin. In his choreographic work, he deals with modular improvisation systems he develops collectively with the dancers. He elaborated his artistic-scientific research approach as an associated artist at K3 | Zentrum für Choreographie and graduated in 2018 within the graduate college Versammlung und Teilhabe: Urbane Öffentlichkeiten und performative Künste at HafenCity Universität Hamburg. In 2018, his dissertation project with the title ” Gefühlter Groove –Kollektivität zwischen Dancefloor und Bühne” was published by transcript Verlag.
Since 2019, Matthias works as a research assistantant at the research project Participatory Art Based Research of HCU Hamburg, K3 and Fundus/Forschungstheater. Due to the KSB funding Doppelpass, he will be cooperating closely with Bürgerbühne/Staatschauspiel Dresden and Theater Basel until 2021.
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