Author Archive Dino Spiri

Jee-Ae Lim

Jee-Ae Lim studied traditional Korean dance in Seoul and completed her master’s degree in Solo/Dance/Authorship at the HZT Berlin. In 2014 she was voted ‘Hoffnungsträgerin’ (‘Promising Artist’) in the Tanz Magazine Year in Review issue as well as ‘Young Leading Artist 2015’ by Gaeksuk Magazine. Between 2017 and 2020 she received several grants from the Berlin Senate and the Arts Council Korea. Since 2018 she has been teaching and mentoring at the HZT Berlin in the frame of the BA program.

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Myriam Lucas

Myriam Lucas is a dancer and teaching artist from San Diego, California. She began her dancing as a freestyle Hip-Hop artist and has since moved into other urban dance forms and various contemporary movement techniques. She completed a 3 year Teacher Training with Eveoke Dance Theater. In 2018 she completed her BA in Dance, Context and Choreography at HTZ Berlin. Since graduating, she has focused her research on Urban Session spaces. She aspires to document, create dialogue and spread knowledge about the inner workings of Urban Dance culture in artistic and practical ways.

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Eiko Otake

Born and raised in Japan and a resident of New York since 1976, Eiko Otake is a movement-based, interdisciplinary artist. After working for more than 40 years as Eiko & Koma, she now performs as a soloist and directs her own projects collaborating with a diverse range of artists. Eiko has performed her solo project A Body in Places at over 70 sites and has travelled to Fukushima six times to create A Body in Fukushima, her collaboration with William Johnston. Eiko regularly teaches at Wesleyan University, NYU, and Colorado College. She received an honorary degree from Colorado College in 2020.

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Eylül Fidan Akıncı

Dr. Eylül Fidan Akıncı received a Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance at The Graduate Center-City University of New York (CUNY). She works independently as a dramaturg and performer across choreography, theatre, and visual arts between the U.S., Europe, and Turkey. Akıncı’s writing on dance and performance has appeared in academic and popular publications such as TDR: The Drama Review and Etcetera Mag, and is forthcoming in Performance Research. She also published on public protests in Turkey, “Sacred Children, Accursed Mothers: Performativities of Necropolitics and Mourning in Neoliberal Turkey” in Performance in a Militarized Culture (eds. Sara Brady and Lindsey Mantoan, Routledge, 2017). As an educator, Akıncı has been teaching at Hunter College and Baruch College of CUNY and giving workshops on dramaturgy and dance history.

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johannes wieland

conceived in lisbon and born in berlin, johannes wieland earned his bfa at the amsterdam university of the arts, and worked thereupon in various companies with an extensive array of choreographers. after performing with the béjart ballet lausanne, he relocated to new york city where he received his mfa in contemporary dance and choreography at nyu / tisch school of the arts. while running the company ‘johannes wieland’ in new york, he built from scratch what is now known as the contemporary dance company at the staatstheater of kassel, germany for 15 years, holding positions as a resident choreographer, artistic director and director of the dance department.

his continued cinematic interest led him to making movies and he continues to create multi-disciplinary work through his berlin company mind eraser/johannes wieland. aside from being commissioned and teaching for companies and universities, his critically acclaimed pieces have been invited to tour internationally to festivals and events. johannes is also directing and curating b12 – the festival for contemporary dance and performance art (www.b12.space), which runs annually in berlin.

he is a 1st prize winner of the kurt jooss prize, and has been awarded numerous other prizes, recognitions, scholarships, and grants. johannes is a nominee for the german theater prize der faust in 2016 for his creation you will be removed. he works on non-categorizing art. (www.minderaser.johanneswieland.org) 

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Brit Rodemund

Brit Rodemund, educated at the Staatliche Ballettschule Berlin, is a freelance dancer and teacher. In the last two decades she has worked together with various artists, among them Helena Waldmann, William Forsythe and Deborah Hay, and has also been a member of the Dance On Ensemble for two years under the direction of Christopher Roman. Before that she has worked as a soloist with engagements at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Aalto Ballett Theater Essen and Ballett Nürnberg.

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Arkadi Zaides

Arkadi Zaides is an Israeli independent choreographer and visual artist of Belorussian origin, currently living in France. In Israel, he performed in several companies such as the Batsheva Dance Company and the Yasmeen Godder Dance Group before embarking on an independent career in 2004. He obtained a master’s degree at the AHK Academy of Theater and Dance in Amsterdam (NL), and currently obtaining his practice-based PhD degree at the UAntwerp and the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp (BE) . His performances and installations have been presented in numerous dance and theater festivals, museums, and galleries across Europe, North and South America, and Asia. Over the years he has curated projects such as New Dance Project (2010-2011) with choreographer Anat Danieli, Moves Without Borders (2012-2015), and Violence of Inscriptions (2015-2018) with the scholar, curator, and dramaturge Sandra Noeth. The latter gathered artists, thinkers, and human-rights activists to negotiate the role of the body in producing, maintaining, legitimizing, representing, and aestheticizing structural violence. He is a recipient of numerous prizes, among them a prize for demonstrating engagement in human-rights issues, awarded to Zaides by The Emile Zola Chair for Interdisciplinary Human Rights Dialogue (IL).

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Diana Thielen

Diana Thielen is a dancer, performer and blogger, and teaches the methodologies of dance, performance, body politics and yoga. Diana completed her degree at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD) and studies Gender Studies and Educational Science in Berlin. Her work encompasses interdisciplinary perspectives related to her interest in queer theory, intersectional feminism and postcolonial studies, as well as her lived experience as a queer woman*. Diana co-authored the book “Nicht nur Mütter waren schwanger- unerhörte Perspektiven auf die vermeintlich natürlichste Sache der Welt” (“Mother’s weren’t the only ones who were pregnant – unheard perspectives on the supposedly most natural thing in the world”, edited by Alisa Tretau) and, along with Florence Freitag, curates the DIY performance series “The Urge to…” in Berlin.

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Ilse Ghekiere

Ilse Ghekiere is an artist, writer and activist. She studied dance at the Antwerp Conservatory and art sciences at the Free University of Brussels. In 2017, she received a scholarship from the Flemish Government to investigate sexism in the Belgian dance field. She is the founder of ENGAGEMENT ARTS, an artists’ movement that tackles sexual harassment, sexism and abuse of power in the Belgian art world. Since then, Ghekiere writes, lectures and gives workshops on these topics. She has also worked as a consultant and researcher in art organisation and education.

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Allison Brown

Allison Brown is Professor of Classical Ballet for Contemporary Dancers at the Center for Contemporary Dance at the Academy for Music and Dance in Cologne. From 2010 to 2019 she was on faculty at the University for Musik and Performing Arts in Frankfurt.  An important focus of her teaching is trying to work on a daily basis towards the development and advocation of anti-competitive, democratic frameworks and formats welcoming diverse bodies and artistic practices. Strength training and sports science are additional areas of concentration in her work with young dancers. Allison danced with the New York City Ballet, Twyla Tharp and Dancers, Amanda Miller’s Pretty Ugly Dance Company and Saburo Teshigawara’s Karas Company. From 1996 to 2004 she was a member of William Forsythe’s Ballet Frankfurt.

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