Amanda Pi\u00f1a is a Chilean- Mexican Artist living in Vienna and Mexico City. Her artistic work is concerned with the decolonization of art, focusing on the political and social power of movement, temporarily dismantling ideological separations between contemporary and traditional, human and animal, nature and culture. Her work has been presented in institutions such as Tanz Quartier Wien, Kunsthalle Wien and MUMOK Museum of Modern Art of Vienna, Fondation Cartier pour l\u2019Art Contemporain Paris, Kunsten Festival des Arts Brussels, De Singel Antwerp, Royal festival Hall London, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico,  NAVE and Festival Santiago a Mil, Chile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She studied Painting before going into performance, Studied Physical Theater in Santiago de Chile, Theater Anthropology in Barcelona and  Contemporary Dance and Choreography in Mexico, Barcelona, Salzburg (SEAD) and Montpellier (Ex.e.r.ce Choreographic Centre Montpellier) . In 2006 she received the danceWEB scholarship and in 2007 the scholarship for Young Choreographers from Tanzquartier Wien. In 2018 she was awarded with the Fonca Arts grant from the Mexican Government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2008 she leads the gallery space specialized in expanded choreography and performance nadaLokal in Vienna which she founded together with the Swiss Visual Artist Daniel Zimmermann. Currently works on the realisation of the long-term project Endangered Human Movements,<\/em> concerned with the re appearance of ancestral forms of  movements and cultural practices. Four volumes of research in the scope of this project have been already realised which include performances, Installations, Videos, publications, curatorial frames, workshop and lectures. She is a research fellow at DAS THIRD, from the department of Theatre, Dance and Performance at Amsterdam University of the Arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Parvathi Ramanathan<\/h3>

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Parvathi Ramanathan is a dancer, researcher and writer who has early morning affairs with poetry. In her sensed and written work, she is curious about the body\u2019s relationship with manifested and layered identities. She holds an MPhil in Theatre and Performance Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Parvathi was a core member of Gati Dance Forum where she led the creation and publication of Tilt Pause Shift: Dance Ecologies in India<\/em><\/p>\nWeiterlesen →<\/a><\/div><\/span><\/div>

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Brit Rodemund<\/h3>

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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 N\u00fcrnberg.<\/p>\nWeiterlesen →<\/a><\/div><\/span><\/div>

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David Russo<\/h3>

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David Russo is a dancer, choreographer and dance instructor. After training at the John Cranko School in Stuttgart he was a solo dancer in Saarbr\u00fccken as well as at the Staatstheater am G\u00e4rtnerplatz, a national theatre in Munich, the city where he lives and works today. Alongside his permanent engagements, since 2004 he has regularly choreographed individual pieces for a range of institutions, including the Birgit Keil Dance Foundation, the Ballet Philippines, the Universal Ballet in Seoul and the Ballett Dortmund. He also organises community evenings with dance professionals and transdisciplinary performances on Munich\u2019s independent scene. Since early September 2010 he has been a teacher at the Ballet Academy of the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich [Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik und Theater M\u00fcnchen, HMTM]. In 2019 he founded the dancer initiative TanzQuelle, a project to build self-confidence and solidarity among Munich-based dance professionals.<\/p>\nWeiterlesen →<\/a><\/div><\/span><\/div>

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Vera Sander<\/h3>

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Vera Sander is director of the Centre for Contemporary Dance and Professor for Contemporary Dance at the University for Music and Dance Cologne and has since been central to its development. Choreographer, dancer or teacher with e.g. Tanzforum K\u00f6ln (D), Dansgroep Krisztina de Chatel (NL), Itzik Galili (NL), Semperoper Dresden (D), DV8 (UK), Adventures in Motion Pictures (UK), verasanderartconnects (D). Her interest centres on choreographic and body knowledge as a source for interdisciplinary and intercultural creativity. She has been regularly invited to choreograph, to teach as well as to collaborate in lectures and is occupied with the development of study programs and exchange formats in the field of dance.<\/p>\nWeiterlesen →<\/a><\/div><\/span><\/div>

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Isabelle Schad<\/h3>

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The Berlin-based dancer and choreographer Isabelle Schad\u00a0studied classical dance in Stuttgart, and worked with numerous choreographers before beginning to develop her own works in 1999. Her research concentrates on the relationships between bodies, choreography, (re)presentation, form and experience, and sees physical praxis as a place for learning processes, community and political participation. Isabelles work is situated between dance, performance and visual art. Her innovative projects are shown around the world in various contexts at festivals, museums or theatre spaces. She teaches internationally and is co-organiser of the work space Tanzhalle Wiesenburg in Berlin. Isabelle Schad is a daily practitioner of Zen shiatsu and aikido zen. In the frame of Deutscher Tanzpreis 2019, Schad was honored for outstanding artistic developments in contemporary dance.<\/p>\nWeiterlesen →<\/a><\/div><\/span><\/div>

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Constanze Schellow<\/h3>

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Dr. Constanze Schellow is Juniorprofessor for Cultures of Knowledge and Transmission at the Centre for Contemporary Dance at the University for Music and Dance Cologne. Her focus is on interdisciplinary formats dealing with their*stories of body-based and -related cultures and economies of knowledges and practices \u2013 dance being one of them. She just completed a research on concepts of \u2018theory\u2019 operative in contemporary dance educations in Western Europe. As a dramaturge Constanze collaborated with e.g. Eva Meyer-Keller and Doris Uhlich.<\/p>\nWeiterlesen →<\/a><\/div><\/span><\/div>

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Isabelle Severs<\/h3>

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Isabelle Severs was born in Brussels, Belgium. She graduated from the\u00a0John-Cranko-Schule\u00a0in Stuttgart. After first professional experiences with the Stuttgart Ballet, she joined the Ballet of the\u00a0Deutsche Open\u00a0in Berlin and the Bavarian State Ballet in Munich. She worked with many different choreographers and danced classical and neo-classical repertoire as well as contemporary pieces. Since September 2015, Isabelle Severs teaches classical ballet at the\u00a0Ballettakademie der Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik und Theater M\u00fcnchen. In July 2021 she obtained a Master degree in dance pedagogy at the Palucca University of Dance Dresden.<\/p>\nWeiterlesen →<\/a><\/div><\/span><\/div>

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Katelyn Skelley<\/h3>

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Katelyn Skelley is a dancer working in the realm of education, research and performance. She holds a BFA in dance from New York University and a MA in Contemporary Dance Education from the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. Katelyn has a Lehrauftrag at HfMDK and initiated the platform re-dance in 2020 that centers parenting dancers, through which she pursues her master thesis research on the theme of Motherhood and Dance.<\/p>\nWeiterlesen →<\/a><\/div><\/span><\/div>

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Isaac Spencer<\/h3>

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Isaac Spencer is a dancer, teacher, rehearsal director and choreographer. He danced with Cullberg Ballet, Gothenburg Opera Dance Company, and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Juilliard School. Since 2011, he has been active in independent dance scenes throughout Germany and Sweden as dancer, choreographer, and mentor. He teaches dance and leads workshops for professional dance companies and universities throughout Europe and was rehearsal director at Norrdans in Sweden for two seasons. He is currently acting professor for dance at the HfMDK in Frankfurt.<\/p>\nWeiterlesen →<\/a><\/div><\/span><\/div>

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Dino Spiri<\/h3>

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Dino Spiri works as a production manager with Sasha Waltz & Guests, Martin Nachbar, The Shakespeare Company Berlin, Tanzkongress Hannover (WILSON*BORLES Arts Management), Biennale Tanzausbildung (Konrad Ekhof GmbH\/ Buero Boragno), Performing RomArchive Festival (sauerbrey | raabe gUG), FELD Theater f\u00fcr junges Publikum, Dan Armon, Britta Wirthm\u00fcller, Joerg Hassmann and Hanna Hegenscheidt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is since November 2020 in charge of the organizational management for the Biennale Tanzausbildung.<\/p>\nWeiterlesen →<\/a><\/div><\/span><\/div>

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Nicola van Straaten<\/h3>

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Nicola van Straaten is a South African artist, writer and performer who works across multiple mediums with a background in Western classical and contemporary dance. She completed an MA in Solo\/Dance\/Authorship in 2019 and currently works as a freelance artist in Berlin. She is concerned with the ways in which belief shapes practice and approaches the body\/bodies as sites for confronting and transforming inherited imperial contracts.\u00a0<\/p>\nWeiterlesen →<\/a><\/div><\/span><\/div>

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Diana Thielen<\/h3>

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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 \u201cNicht nur M\u00fctter waren schwanger- unerh\u00f6rte Perspektiven auf die vermeintlich nat\u00fcrlichste Sache der Welt\u201d (\u201cMother\u2019s weren’t the only ones who were pregnant \u2013 unheard perspectives on the supposedly most natural thing in the world\u201d, edited by Alisa Tretau) and, along with Florence Freitag, curates the DIY performance series \u201cThe Urge to…\u201d in Berlin.<\/p>\nWeiterlesen →<\/a><\/div><\/span><\/div>

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Susanne Triebel<\/h3>

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Susanne Triebel is coordinator of the internationally oriented MA Contemporary Dance Education (MA CoDE) and lecturer at BAtanz. Before completing her MA in Contemporary Dance Education in 2009, she danced for several years at city and state theaters and in the freelance scene. Since 2012, she has supervised teaching projects and teaching rehearsals in MA CoDE and teaches in BAtanz. In the expert commission Body and Movement at HfMDK she is responsible for the organization and content of the offers of THE ARTIST’S BODY and advocates for the implementation of movement in artistic education. She has been a member of the AK|T speaker group since 2017 and 1st speaker of the Dance Education Conference since two years.<\/p>\nWeiterlesen →<\/a><\/div><\/span><\/div>

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Lina Venegas<\/h3>

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Lina Venegas (COL\/PE\/AT) Dancer, performer and choreographer with engineering background and Colombian \u2013 Peruvian roots, based in Austria. Her artistic work focuses on cultural and social contents and it has been presented in diverse contexts in Austria (Odeon Theater Wien, Argekultur Salzburg, Festspielhaus St P\u00f6lten, Schlossmuseum and Landesgalerie Linz, a.o.), Colombia (Alzate Avenda\u00f1o Theater, Delia Zapata Theater, Artestudio Bogota), Japan (Saitama Arts Theater), Peru and Ghana. She holds a BA and MA in Contemporary Dance, Movement Research and Pedagogy from the Bruckner University in Linz, and an MS in Engineering from Los Andes University in Bogota. In Colombia she has collaborated on sustainable development projects with the Ministry of Environment, United Nations and NGOs, and coordinated the cultural space Artestudio Bogota. She has danced with Odeon Theater Vienna, featured in performances by Amanda Pi\u00f1a\/nadaproductions, Kandis Williams, Fanni Futterknecht, Renato Zanella, Tanzfabrik-wien, Obj\u00eatsFax Co, a.o., and has taught dance in different artistic and community based contexts.\u00a0<\/p>\nWeiterlesen →<\/a><\/div><\/span><\/div>

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Jens Weber<\/h3>

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Prof. Jens Weber was born in Berlin, where he completed his dance studies at the Staatliche Ballettschule Berlin. After graduation, he joined the ballet company of the State Opera Berlin. In 1998, he was appointed principal dancer by director Micha\u00ebl Denard. Weber has performed with numerous international ballet companies, including Ballet Zurich, Queensland Ballet (Australia), Les Ballets de Monte Carlo and Morphoses in NYC. Additionally, he studied acting in NYC, Los Angeles and Berlin. During and after his active dance career, Weber taught ballet classes at the Architanz Studio in Tokyo, the Peridance Capezio Center in New York and the Center of Dance in Berlin. In recent years he has been engaged as ballet master at the Staatstheater Augsburg and the Theater Plauen Zwickau. He is a constant guest teacher with Theater Koblenz and the Friedrichstadtpalast Berlin. Weber completed his studies as a dance pedagogue at the Centre National de Danse in Paris and the Palucca Hochschule in Dresden. In Sept. 2021 Jens Weber was appointed Professor for Classical Dance at the Folkwang University of the Arts.<\/p>\nWeiterlesen →<\/a><\/div><\/span><\/div>

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johannes wieland<\/h3>

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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 b\u00e9jart 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a>), which runs annually in berlin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a>) <\/p>\nWeiterlesen →<\/a><\/div><\/span><\/div>

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Britta Wirthm\u00fcller<\/h3>

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Britta Wirthm\u00fcller is achoreographer and dancer. In her work she attends to that which usually remains invisible, e.g. bodies lacking social visibility, the forgotten dances of Jean Weidt (\u201cPhysical Encounters\u201d) or the hidden layers of a city\u2019s history in \u201cThe Silent Walk\u201c. She holds a position for artistic research and teaching at the HZT Berlin.<\/p>\nWeiterlesen →<\/a><\/div><\/span><\/div>

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Zuzana \u017dabkov\u00e1<\/h3>

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Zuzana \u017dabkov\u00e1 is doing art, dance, and choreography in the frame of performance, video, and installation. She pokes failing utopias and really likes to move as a reptile. She works alone and together with friends on platform bjornsonova. Zuzana holds M.A. in Academy of Fine Arts and Dance Academy in Bratislava, Slovakia, M.A. program Choreography in Institute for Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen, Germany and postmaster in Collective Research program in Royal Academy of Art in Stockholm. <\/p>\nWeiterlesen →<\/a><\/div><\/span><\/div>

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Arkadi Zaides<\/h3>

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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).<\/p>\nWeiterlesen →<\/a><\/div><\/span><\/div>

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