Angela Alves is a dancer and choreographer living in Berlin. Her artistic work explores spaces between health, equality and sustainability. She is currently developing a dance technique based on the human nervous system as part of the NEW TECHNIQUES residency programme at Sophiensaele Berlin. She is co-founder of "TURN. Neue Bewegung für Multiple Sklerose e.V." as well as "International Association for Medical & Health Humanities and Artistic Research e.V." and is involved in various working groups for a barrier-free and sustainable future of Berlin's cultural sector.
Gordana Ancic is a project manager at the Tanz- und Theaterwerkstatt (TTW), a socio-cultural institution in Ludwigsburg, where she has been deputy managing director since 2012. She studied theatre studies and cultural management and, after working in Berlin (Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz) and Heidelberg (Theater Heidelberg), worked for a long time as a freelance production and project manager at festivals (e.g. Theater der Welt 2005, Tanzplattform Deutschland 2006, Heimspiel! -Theatre Festival of Cultures 2006), dance theatre productions and dance and music projects in the Stuttgart area. She is involved in various networks and committees, including being spokesperson for the "Tanzkunst und Alter" (Dance Art and Age) working group of the Bundesverband Aktion Tanz. At TTW she leads projects with a focus on cultural education, diversity and culture & age.
Gitta Barthel (Dr. phil.) is active in art, mediation and research practice, she creates lecture-performances, is a lecturer for contemporary dance and choreography at universities and training centres, did her PhD on "Choreographic Practice Mediation in Dance Art and Cultural Education" and works in the field of evaluation.
Anika Bendel is a freelance dancer and cultural producer in Stuttgart and Cologne. She works with up-and-coming artists and established companies such as MOUVOIR/Stephanie Thiersch, DIN A 13 tanzcompany, MIRA performance, Helena Waldmann and others. What drives me is the desire to bring dance and the people who perform and facilitate it more into the centre of society. For me, this includes more visibility and accessibility of dance events, and especially the improvement of the social situation of dance practitioners.
Artistic Director TANZ Bremen, member of the management team 'Mecklenburg Vorpommern tanzt an'. As a freelance curator and cultural manager, she has worked for the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe, the Fonds Darstellende Künste and the Bundesverband Freie Darstellende Künste. She directed the first four editions of the Tanzkongress, a project of the Federal Cultural Foundation. She is a board member of the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland, was chairperson of the board of trustees at the Fonds Darstellende Künste for five years and is a member of various professional juries. A graduate in cultural studies, she was dramaturg and director of various festivals at Kampnagel Hamburg from 1994 to 2001.
Born in Hong Kong to parents of Germany and West Africa descent, raised in Berlin and educated through Hip Hop, Raphael Hillebrand uses his multifaceted cultural background to realize his vision of Hip Hop Dance theater. Since 2005 he regularly worked with the Goethe Institut. Through his extensive work internationally, he cultivated an understanding and instinct for social justice and sensitivity for the complexities of cultural identity. He regularly leads international cultural and cooperation programs and creates dance theater productions with the local dancers.
Patscharaporn graduated from Rotterdam Dance Academy. She has worked for dance companies such as the Ballet Preljocaj, Compagnia Virgilio Sieni, Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz and with choreographers in projects around Europe. She co-initiated the re_dance platform which holds projects on topics evoked from the experience of being a parent and dancer. In her own work she is interested to connect with female presenting persons with multiple cultural backgrounds and to develop a somatic interview method.
Freelance dancer, Gyrokinesis/Tonic trainer and ballet teacher. After his dance training at the Hamburg Ballet in 2005, engagements at various companies followed, including the Hamburg Ballet, the Norwegian National Ballet ,the Scapino Ballet Rotterdam andTheater Regensburg. He has also made guest appearances at Scottish Dance Theater and Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch. Between 2011 and 2022 he has realised projects as a choreographer in Germany and the Netherlands.
Prince Ofori was born in Ghana in 1988 and is the founder of the artists' collective M.I.K. Family. He has been dancing since 2004 and specialises in krump and hip-hop freestyle. He is considered a pioneer of krumping in Europe. He has been working as a dance teacher and dance coach since 2005. Prince is known in the battle scene as a successful freestyle dancer. He took part in various music video and television productions and was one of the first to bring krumping to German theatre stages. Since then he has performed in various theatre productions throughout Europe. He distinguishes himself not only by his successful participation in international dance events and battles, but also by organising them. Music is many things to him, but above all it is a cure.
Since 2017, he has also enriched festivals, parties, battles and various events as a DJ. In the summer of 2022, he will be on tour as the opening act for Seeed.
He is artistic director, curator and organiser of the CDC Festival. As chairman of MINCE e.V., he is active as artistic director for dance theatre projects and projects in the field of cultural education in Berlin. He is currently a youth social worker at EOTO e.V.
Anne Rieger is one of the two project leaders of the network project Making a Difference, which promotes disabled and deaf artists in the Berlin dance scene. She also co-directs the project The Future is Accessible at the Sophiensaele and gives basic workshops and consultations on anti-ableist cultural work. Previously, Anne Rieger was production manager of the London-based Candoco Dance Company. She also works as a freelance production manager and dramaturg with deaf, disabled and non-disabled artists in Germany and England.
Simone Schulte-Aladağ, has been artistic director of FOKUS TANZ, dance mediation and production since 2006, including co-founding the network "explore dance". Since 2014, she has been co-director of Tanzbüro München, with a focus on consulting and networking for independent dance professionals. Together with the Schauburg, she curates and organises the international festival THINK BIG! which she founded in 2011. She has a degree in theatre studies and worked as a freelance dramaturg and production manager for dance in NYC and Munich from 1994 to 2006.
Hendrik Quast is a performance and action artist. His productions interrogate queer and (chronically) ill body images with techniques of entertainment culture and means of comedy. His performances have been realised with institutions such as Künstlerhaus Mousonturm (Frankfurt am Main), Gessnerallee (Zurich), FFT (Düsseldorf), Sophiensæle (Berlin) and Kampnagel (Hamburg). These were invited to international performance and art festivals such as Impulse Theater Festival, steirischer herbst and Festival a/d Werf (Utrecht), among others. He is a graduate of the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies in Gießen. From 2011-15 he was an artistic assistant at the Graduate School of the Arts Berlin. Since 2021 he is Research Associate at the Zurich University of the Arts and from 2023 Phd candidate at Stockholm University of the Arts.
Angela Alves (Choreografin, Tänzerin)
Gordana Ancic (Tanz- und Theaterwerkstatt Ludwigsburg)
Dr. Gitta Barthel (Kunst-, Vermittlungs- und Forschungspraxis)
Anika Bendel (Tänzerin und Kulturproduzentin, dancersconnect, Vorstand DTD)
Sabine Gehm (Kuratorin, Dramaturgin und Kulturmanagerin, Vorstand DTD)
Raphael Moussa Hillebrand (Choreograf, Regisseur, Kurator und Dozent)
Patscharaporn Krüger Distakul (Tänzerin)
Yosuke Kusano (Tänzer)
Prince Ofori (Urbaner Tänzer, Tanzpädagoge)
Anne Rieger (Produktionsleiterin und Dramaturgin, Projektleiterin Making a Difference)
Simone Schulte-Aladag (Dramaturgin und Produktionsleiterin, Tanzbüro München, künstlerische Leiterin von FOKUS TANZ)
Hendrik Quast (queerer Aktions- und Performancekünstler)
Angela Alves (Choreografin, Tänzerin)
Gordana Ancic (Tanz- und Theaterwerkstatt Ludwigsburg)
Claudia Feest (Vorstand Dachverband Tanz Deutschland)
Raphael Hillebrand(Choreograf, Tänzer)
Anne Rieger (Sophiensäle – „Making A Difference“)
Simone Schulte-Aladag (Tanzbüro München, Explore Dance)
Susanne Stephani(Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes e.V. – Darstellende Kunst / Bildende Kunst)
Angela Alves (Choreografin, Tänzerin)
Gordana Ancic (Tanz- und Theaterwerkstatt Ludwigsburg)
Heide-Marie Härtel (Deutsches Tanzfilminstitut Bremen)
Raphael Hillebrand (Choreograf, Tänzer)
Anne Rieger (Sophiensäle – „Making A Difference“)
Susanne Stephani (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes e.V. – Darstellende Kunst / Bildende Kunst)
Raphael Hillebrand (Choreograf, Tänzer)
Helge Letonja (steptext dance project)
Corinna Mindt (tanzbar Bremen e.V.)
Anne Rieger (Sophiensäle – „Making A Difference“)
Simone Schulte-Aladag (Tanzbüro München, Explore Dance)
Susanne Stephani (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes e.V. – Darstellende Kunst / Bildende Kunst)
Raphael Hillebrand (Choreograf, Tänzer)
Guido Markowitz (Theater Pforzheim – Ballettdirektor und Choreograf)
Anne Rieger (Sophiensäle – „Making A Difference“)
Susanne Stephani (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes e.V. – Darstellende Kunst / Bildende Kunst)
Jürgen Ball (Präsident Allgemeiner Deutscher Tanzlehrerverband)
Margrit Bischof (Vorstand Dachverband Tanz Deutschland)
Kadir Amigo Memis (Choreograf)
Justo Moret (Vorstand Deutscher Berufsverband für Tanzpädagogik)
Livia Patrizi (Gesamtleitung TanzZeit, Künstlerische Leitung Tanz in Schulen und TANZKOMPLIZEN)
Jürgen Ball (Präsident Allgemeiner Deutscher Tanzlehrerverband)
Margrit Bischof (Vorstand Dachverband Tanz Deutschland)
Kadir Amigo Memis (Choreograf)
Justo Moret (Vorstand Deutscher Berufsverband für Tanzpädagogik)
Linda Müller (Vorsitzende Aktion Tanz – Bundesverband Tanz in Bildung und Gesellschaft)
Jürgen Ball (Präsident Allgemeiner Deutscher Tanzlehrerverband)
Klaus Kieser (Vorstand Dachverband Tanz Deutschland)
Kadir Amigo Memis (Choreograf)
Justo Moret (Vorstand Deutscher Berufsverband für Tanzpädagogik)
Linda Müller (Vorsitzende Aktion Tanz – Bundesverband Tanz in Bildung und Gesellschaft)
Jürgen Ball(Präsident Allgemeiner Deutscher Tanzlehrerverband)
Margrit Bischof(Vorstand Dachverband Tanz Deutschland)
Kadir Amigo Memis (Choreograf)
Justo Moret(Vorstand Deutscher Berufsverband für Tanzpädagogik)
Linda Müller (Vorsitzende Aktion Tanz – Bundesverband Tanz in Bildung und Gesellschaft)