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After engagements at the Texas Ballet Theater and the ballet of the Hannover State Opera, Michael Foster’s repertoire includes many leading roles in ballets by Jörg Mannes (including ‘Madame Bovary’, ‘Alice in Wonderland’, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and ‘Ein Stück Zeit’) as well as works choreographed by Ben Stevenson, Mauro Bigonzetti (‘La Piaf’) and Hans van Manen (‘Five Tangos’). Having traine...

Jo Parkes is a dance artist, facilitator and educator (D/UK). For over two decades, she has worked internationally with co-creative, participatory dance and creates installations, encounters, performances and videos. She is the founder and artistic director of Mobile Dance e. V. Mobile Dance offers art projects at the intersection of artistic and socio-political concerns. Mobile Dance has created...

Ingo Diehl  is head of the Master for Contemporary Dance Education (MA CoDE), Vice President of the University for Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt (HfMDK) and President of the Hessian Theatre Academy. He studied dance in Hanover and New York, dance education in Cologne and worked as a dancer, choreographer and rehearsal director. From 2005 - 2011 Ingo Diehl was responsible for the issu...

Margrit Bischof ist Tanzforschende und Tanzdozentin. Sie setzt sich ein für eine vielseitige Vernetzung von Forschung, Bildung und Kunst im Tanz. Die Bildung des Menschen, insbesondere die pädagogische Arbeit, zieht sich wie ein roter Faden durch ihr Leben. In Bern aufgewachsen und ausgebildet als Volksschullehrerin und Sportlehrerin vertiefte sie sich an der Sporthochschule Köln in den elementare...

Anja Ofenstein works as a sports scientist (MSc, TU Munich) in Munich and is a freelance sports psychology expert (German Association of Sports Psychology). Having participated in national  and  international dance competitions herself since childhood, she became interested in dance medicine and dance science during her sports science studies. Since 2016, she has been working with  ...

Gilda Rebello Multidisciplinary Artist - M. A. Dance Teacher - Highlights of her career were the Folkwang Tanzstudio and the Tanztheater Wuppertal (guest) under the direction of Pina Bausch . Until 2009 she performed as a soloist at the Theater Dortmund . As musician she also collaborated with the bands Alien Café and Tape Five until 2014, on several albums and world tours. In 2015, she was the he...

Alban Pinet is a dancer, choreographer and dramaturge. Born in France, he studied at the Bordeaux Conservatoire, at the ballet schools of the Opéra National de Paris and the Hamburg Ballet, at the Centre Chorégraphique Christian Conte et Martine Chaumet and with Florence Compagnon.  From 2009 to 2013 he was a member of John Neumeier's Hamburg Ballet. In the 2013/14 season he became a member o...

Andreas is a dancer, choreographer, contemporary dance and improvisation teacher and dance facilitator. He has been working in the Düsseldorf and Krefeld area since 1998. He received his dance education in Amsterdam at the School for New Dance Development (SNDO). He also has a degree in biology, which always influences his work. Driven by curiosity and a joy for research and experimentation, he re...

Catharina Gadelha is a dancer and choreographer. After training as a classical dancer in Brazil, she studied elementary dance and play, music and dance/movement theatre at the Deutsche Sporthochschule in Cologne. She completed her studies in dance pedagogy at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne. Among others, she works for the internationally renowned AGORA Theatre in Belgium and choreogr...

GIULIO DE LEO Ruvo di Puglia (BARI), 1973. Coreografo e curatore di progetti e programmazioni dedicati alla danza contemporanea e ai linguaggi del corpo. Il suo lavoro si distingue per il rigore e la curiosità verso le comunità, i rituali e l'indagine antropologica della società attraverso la danza. Dal 1993 al 1996 frequenta il Triennio di Studi Teatrali del Teatro Kismet OperAdi Bari diretto...

Ornella D'Agostino is a dancer, choreographer and director. She trained in dance, theatre and music in Italy, France and Holland, where she graduated from the 'School for New Dance Development' in Amsterdam in 1989. Her projects are specified through interdisciplinary artistic research and documentation work, study and investigation of the processes of constitution of cultural and individual ident...

Gianni Cuccaro, is a dancer, choreographer, dance teacher, dance mediator and artistic director. He completed his training at the Urdang Academy, Covent Garden, London. As a dancer he worked in the theatre in Osnabrück and in Bielefeld for several years. With these theatres, he later collaborated as a teacher and realised his own choreographic works. In addition, Gianni also worked on the free sta...

Dr Gustavo Fijalkow is an academic and practitioner. He trained as a dancer in Argentina, Germany and the Netherlands. As a professional dancer and performer, he worked internationally, exploring traditional and academic dance forms as well as youth theatre and site-specific, experimental and interdisciplinary formats. He has collaborated with artists from various disciplines in diverse contexts a...

Nadja Raszewki Dancer, choreographer, dance facilitator. She has worked as a choreographer for the Staatsballett München, Komische Oper Berlin, Saarländisches Staatstheater, Sogn og Fjordane Teater / Norway, Holland Dance Festival, GRIPS Theater, Keen Theatre in Ann Arbor, PASICS Indianapolis/USA and many more. Large-scale projects with children, young people, senior citizens, dancers and prison i...

HENRIETTA HORN Henrietta Horn studiert Elementaren Tanz an der Deutschen Sporthochschule Köln. Anschließend absolviert sie ein Bühnentanzstudium an der Folkwang Hochschule in Essen. Schon während ihres Studiums entstehen erste eigene choreographische Arbeiten, die mit renommierten Preisen ausgezeichnet werden.  Eine besondere Auszeichnung erfährt Henrietta Horn 2008 mit dem „Künstlerinnenprei...

Fabian Chyle, Dr. rer. medic. studierte Tanz und Choreographie an der Theaterschule Amsterdam und Tanz/ Bewegungstherapie am Columbia College Chicago. Seit 1995 ist er freischaffend als Choreograph und Performer tätig. Seit dieser Zeit entstanden mehr als 25 abendfüllende Produktionen, die Tanz, Theater, Musik, Performance und Bildende Kunst auf eigenwillige Art in Interaktion bringen. Er erhielt...

Soi is a freelance dance artist living in Hamburg. She works as a dancer, choreographer, actress, singer, dance and music teacher. She grew up in Greece, where she studied German language and literature and came to Hamburg in 2011 for her musical theatre studies. Since 2014 she's been working in the independent scene. At the Jahrmarkttheater in leading roles as an actress (2014-2016), as a choreog...

Catherine is a dancer, dance teacher and teacher trainer in both public conservatories and specialized schools for the performing arts.  She is a nationaly certified dance teacher, and has been teaching dance in France since 2008, initially for the Conservatoires à Rayonnement Régionaux, where she taught classical dance (ballet) and movement training for actors. Before that, she was a perform...

Jemima is a dancer and a choreographer. She completed her studies at the Tanz Akademie Zürich. In 2009 she was a finalist at the Prix de Lausanne. After completing her studies, she obtained several engagements including the Bavarian State Ballet, Friedrichstadt-Palast Berlin and Ballet of Difference. As a freelance artist has worked as a guest with Theater Basel, Gintersdorfer/Klaßen, Donlon Dance...

Chen Yufei is a dancer, teacher and choreographer, one of the top ten Chinese Dance Lotus Award dancers. She is currently a senior professor of contemporary dance at the Shenzhen Arts School in China. In 2013, she was invited to Germany for an exchange visit as a cultural delegate. Since 2016, she has joined the international cooperation project between Shenzhen Arts School and Tanzart Ostwest and...

Bridget is an American woman living in Germany since 2006. Bridget has lived and taught dance  in Finland, Russia, Alaska, Austria, Germany and California. She came to Germany at 18 to work as a dancer and teacher at the Werkstatt e:V. In Düsseldorf  and brought the new discipline of Hip Hop dance with her, teaching the very first kid’s Hip Hop dance class at the Werkstatt. Along wi...

Alessandro Lumare is a Dancer, Performer, Art Trainer, conductor of creative Workshop for Children, Illustrator, visual artist, video Maker and Socio-cultural worker. As a performer, he participated in many international festivals and events throughout Europe. As social worker he works with minors at risk in the suburbs of Rome, participates in international exchanges and leads creative workshops...

Laura started her training at Linda Butler School of Dance, aged 5.  Having sustained a spinal injury in 1998, Laura went on to become the first wheelchair user to complete 100% of the A-Level dance syllabus.  Since then, she has accumulated a wealth of experience, working with numerous choreographers, gaining extensive creative and performance experience, touring internationally in both...

Benoît Lachambre (CA) ist seit über 30 Jahren Choreograph, Tänzer und Lehrer. 1996 gründete er seine Kompanie PAR B.L.EUX und schuf damit eine Plattform für die Realisierung seiner Forschungsprojekte und der Entwicklung neuer kreativer Prozesse. Lachambre ist die Galionsfigur eines neuen Zugangs zu Improvisation und Körperbewusstsein und wird regelmäßig als Workshop-Leiter oder Lehrer für internat...

Alejandra Jara is a Performer, choreographer, dance teacher and certified GAGA teacher based in Cologne. “I am interested in seeing people’s passion to move while they move, more than wonderful shapes. The possibility to combine choreography with textures, sensations and delicacy is my inspiration when I am working on a new piece.” Alejandra was born in Paraguay, and is currently living in Cologne...