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• ANNE DO PAÇO

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  Dramaturge (D)

  studied musicology, German studies and art history at the Freie Universität Berlin. From 1995 to 2009 she was engaged as a music dramaturge at the Staatstheater Mainz, since 2009 she has been working as a dramaturge for opera and ballet at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and is responsible for, among other things, the publications and the dramaturgical work of the Ballett am Rhein. In addition, she closely cooperates with the Rheingau Musik Festival, the Konzerthaus Dortmund, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, and the cultural department of BASF Ludwigshafen. She has published a number of academic and journalistic texts on the history of opera and the choreographies of Martin Schläpfer.

• JO PARKES

  

  Choreographer (D)

  has been realising innovative, participatory dance projects under the name MobileDance for 15 years. Jo Parkes is a “documentary dancemaker”: her work explores the history of people and places. Since 2011 Jo Parkes has been the director, together with Fiona Edwards, of EdwardsParkesDance, an ensemble of 20- to 80-year-old dancers. She is in charge of programme development and process accompaniment at TanzZeit. Jo Parkes received the Bonnie Bird New Choreography Award (GB), is a Fulbright grant recipient and has a Bachelor’s degree in English and German literature (Oxford University) as well as a Master’s degree in choreography (University of California, Los Angeles).

• LIVIA PATRIZI

  © Jean Francois Bauret

  Choreographer (D)

  is the initiator and artistic director of the project ‘TanzZeit – Zeit für Tanz in Schulen’ in Berlin, which has been awarded numerous prizes since its foundation. Since 2008 she is also the artistic director of the TanzZeit youth company Evoke, which has already performed various productions in Germany and abroad. After completing her dance training at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen and a number of engagements with, among other, the Cullberg Ballett, Pina Bausch, Joachim Schloeme, and Maguy Marin, Livia Patrizi has also been working as a freelance choreographer since 1994. She has directed dance productions of the independent scene nationally and internationally. She has been repeatedly invited to international dance festivals with her own productions.

• ANTJE PFUNDTNER

  © Simone Scardovelli

  Dancer, choreographer (D)

  studied ‘Moderne Theaterdans’ at the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Amsterdam. As a dancer, she has worked with, among others, Michele Anne de Mey, Marcelo Evelin, Tony Vezich, and David Hernandez. She performed her first solo ‘eigenSinn’ (2003) at the Tanzplattform Deutschland 2004 and has toured internationally with great success. Further group pieces then followed, including ‘selbstinschuld’ (2005), ‘In Deckung’ (2007) and ‘RES(E)T’ (2008) as well as the cooperation work ‘Outlanders’ (2006) with the Chinese choreographer Wen Hui from the Living Dance Studio in Beijing/China and ‘TIM ACY’ (2010), which was shown at, among others, Tanzplattform Deutschland 2012. With her company Antje Pfundtner in Gesellschaft, founded in 2012, she created the piece ‘THE NUTCRACKER’ (2012). In addition to various commissioned works, Pfundtner holds international workshops and is ‘Modul-Dance-Artist‘ 2013.

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• CLAUDIA PITT

  © Steffi Henn

  Dancer, health coach (D)

  completed 8 years of training to become a stage dancer at the Staatliche Ballettschule Berlin. She danced for national and international productions both in permanent engagements and as a freelancer. Apart from that, she began establishing herself as a dance pedagogue for all performance classes. She received further training in the Gyrotonic Expansion System, girokinesis, Four Seasons Qi Gong and Yoga. She additionally studied sports science with a main emphasis on sports psychology and was trained to become a craniosacral therapist. As a body trainer, she today trains young actors and works in her own practise as a craniosacral therapist focusing on burnout and depression.

• JAN PUSCH

  © Bernd Karwasz

  Choreographer (D)

  After his training at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts (HfMDK) and the Heinz-Bosl-Stiftung in Munich, he danced for several years at the Hamburg Ballett with John Neumeier. From 1994 to 2010 he worked as a freelance choreographer, director and composer in Hamburg. From 2007 to 2010 he was “Choreographer in Residence” of the Tanzcompagnie Oldenburg at the Staatstheater Oldenburg. Since 2010 Jan Pusch has been directing the contemporary company at the Staatstheater Braunschweig. His dance pieces have received several awards and been presented in the frame of numerous, international guest performances and tours in Russia, Latin America, India, Japan, and elsewhere.

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• PROF. MARTIN PUTTKE

  

  Ballet master, ballet instructor (D)

  After his training at the Staatliche Ballettschule Berlin, he was engaged at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin until 1970. In 1979, Martin Puttke was appointed as artistic director and instructor for male dance at the Staatliche Ballettschule Berlin, and two years later he became the director of the institute. After the school was reorganised to the “Staatliche Ballettschule Berlin und Schule für Artistik” (1991), he was artistic director of stage dance (until 1994). In 1987, Martin Puttke was appointed professor. From 1990 to 1992 he was also the artistic director of the Ballett der Deutschen Staatsoper Berlin in addition to his tasks as an instructor. From the 1994/95 season until 2008 he directed the aalto ballett theater essen. As second chairman, Martin Puttke is a member of the board of the Deutsche Berufsverbandes für Tanzpädagogik e.V..

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• MATTHIAS QUABBE

  © Thies Rätzke

  Theatre scholar, dramaturge (D)

  studied at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies of the Universität Giessen. He then received a research grant from the Japanese Ministry of Culture to the Tokyo Gaikokugo University and the Senshú University Kanagawa to study philosophy and conduct research on Kabuki, Bunraku and Butoh. From 2002 to 2005 he worked as a freelance dramaturge, production manager and director in Düsseldorf, from 2005 to 2007 as a dramaturge at Kampnagel, Hamburg, and 2007/2008 as a freelance production manager and dramaturge. Since 2007 he has been a dramaturge at K3 – Zentrum für Choreographie | Tanzplan Hamburg, where he is responsible for the residence programme, among other things. In 2011 he was a jury member of the promotion of excellence of Tanz NRW.

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• GÜNTHER REBEL

  Dance pedagogue (D)

  received his dance training at the Folkwangschule in Essen. As a solo dancer, training director and choreographer, he worked at the Staatstheater Oldenburg, the Städtischen Bühnen Essen, the Folkwang Ballett, and the Städtischen Bühnen Lübeck, and from 1971 onwards as ballet director at the Städtischen Bühnen Münster. Since 1973 he has been a lecturer for movement pedagogy at the Fachhochschule Münster, the University of Applied Sciences and other institutions. He worked on drawing up guidelines for the competitions of the Deutsche Tanzsportverband e.V., and since 2002 he has been engaged in the study group on dance pedagogy of the Deutsche Berufsverband für Tanzpädagogik e.V. He has also contributed to a number of specialist periodicals and publications.

• REPNET

  Network of Repertory Dance Companies

  is the first network of its kind in which five repertory companies join forces internationally to share knowledge and experience. Since 2008, Carte Blanche (N), Iceland Dance Company, Scottish Dance Theatre (UK), Skanes Dansteater (S) and Tanzcompagnie Oldenburg (D) are closely collaborating in a program of mutual sharing and learning to inform future strategies, nurture creative development, develop models of best practice and share these with the broader dance community. In 2011, RepNet was granted a three years subsidy by Nordic Culture Point.

• BENEDETTA REUTER

  

  Choreographer (D)

  completed her dance studies at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen in 1995 and has been a teacher at the Alexander-Technik-Verband Deutschland (ATVD) since 1999. Living in Cologne since 2004, she is a founding member of the artists’ group 687, and her performance work is dedicated to the interaction between dance, music and fine art. Furthermore, she regularly cooperates with the nrw landesbuero tanz in all school types.

• FALK RICHTER

  

  Director, author (D)

  studied directing under Jürgen Flimm at the Universität Hamburg. Since then he has been working as a freelance author, translator and director. His pieces, including ‘Gott ist ein DJ’, ‘Electronic City’ and ‘Unter Eis’, have been translated into more than 15 languages and are performed throughout the world. From 2000 to 2004 Falk Richter was resident director at the Schauspielhaus Zürich under the direction of Christoph Marthaler. Staring in 2000, he also regularly directed at the Schaubühne Berlin, where he was resident director from 2006 to 2011. In 2010 and 2011, he and the choreographer Anouk van Dijk realised the dance theatre productions ‘Trust’ and ‘Protect Me’ there. Falk Richter is meanwhile working as an opera director as well. Since the 2011/12 season he has been the resident director at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus.

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• BEN J. RIEPE

  © Ursula Kaufmann

  Choreographer (D)

  studied dance and choreography at the Folkwang Universität der Künste in Essen. He worked with the Compagnie Neuer Tanz in Düsseldorf and as a guest dancer with Pina Bausch in the ensemble of Tanztheater Wuppertal. Already during his postgraduate studies in choreography, he attracted attention with his own pieces, and in 2004, he founded his company with which he has been continuously working in his own studio in Düsseldorf. In 2009, he presented his productions in China and South Asia, among other places, and in 2010, he was invited to Tanzplattform Deutschland and a tour of India with the production ‘Liebe | Tod | Teufel – Das Stück’. Since 2009 the ensemble has been receiving the promotion of excellence from the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. In 2011, Ben J. Riepe was awarded the Förderpreis für darstellende Kunst of the City of Düsseldorf.

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• MARGOT RIJVEN

  

  Dance pedagogue, former coordinator of Dance & Health (NL)

  began her career in 1979 as a qualified dance teacher and was certified in Body-Mind Centering in 1989. Since the 1980s she has been working at the theatre school of the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten. In 1993 she initiated a dance and health programme for all dance departments of the theatre school, which she coordinated until 2012. She advises other professional dance schools and dance companies in regard to the health of dancers. She was the co-founder and for a period of ten years a member of the board of the Dutch Health Care Foundation for Dancers and is a member of the training committee of the International Association for Dance Medicine & Science IADMS.

• MADELINE RITTER

  Fully qualified lawyer, director of TANZFONDS (D)

  was the artistic director of tanz performance köln, an international production and presentation platform for contemporary dance and new media, from 1989 to 2004. In 2004, she was called to the German Federal Cultural Foundation as a project manager for her concept Tanzplan Deutschland. Since 2011 she has been the director of the new Tanzfonds of the German Federal Cultural Foundation. She a certified Facilitator in Transformational Leadership and teaches cultural management at various European universities.

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• JOCHEN ROLLER

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  Choreographer, dancer (D)

  Choreographer, dancer (D)

  has been working as a freelance choreographer and dancer for the last 15 years. He created over 50 choreographic works for stage, film, fashion and galleries. At the moment, Jochen develops a series of works on tourism, identity, folklore and postcolonial exotism: ‘aber aber? arm. sexy sexy’ (2012), ‘The Dance Touris’ (2012, Campbelltown Art Centre Sydney), ‘Trachtenbummler’ (2013, Sophiensaele Berlin), ‘Patiplattler’ (2014, Mangere Art Centre Auckland) and ‘Tweed ‘(2015, An Lanntair Stornoway). Also, he currently organizes an online archiv (on the choreographic oeuvre of Viennese expressive dancer Gertrud Bodenwieser who migrated to Sydney in 1938 to flee Nazi prosecution. Roller writes dialogues for the German television series ‘Rufus’ about an aspiring art curator in Berlin and was hired as one of the choreographic advisers for the opening ceremony of the FIFA soccer world-cup 2022 in Doha/Qatar. He lives in Berlin and Sydney.

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• PROF. DR. CRISTINA ROSA

  

  Dance scholar (BR/USA)

  is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Florida State University’s School of Dance (Spring semesters) and a Fellow at the International Research Center ‘Interweaving Performance Cultures’, Freie Universität, Berlin (2012 – 2013). Previously, she taught at CalArts, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and University of New Brunswick. Rosa holds a PhD in Culture and Performance from UCLA. She is currently working on a book centered on a particular kind of bodily syncopation connected to Afro-Brazilian heritage – commonly known as ginga – in order to address the relationship across embodiment, knowledge production, and processes of identification in Brazil.

• DR. CHRISTIANA ROSENBERG-AHLHAUS

  

  Sports scientist (D)

  studied ‘Play-Music-Dance’ at the Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln, and after completing her studies she worked as a teacher in the field of rhythm and dance there. Since 1984 she has been a scientific assistant at the Universität Konstanz, where she is in charge of training in the field of dance and dance research, among others. Since 1986 she has been directing the dance group of the Universität Konstanz and collaborating as a dancer in several contemporary productions. She is also the author of various specialist books on the topic of dance and movement, and has been the chairwoman of the Gesellschaft für Tanzforschung since 2012.

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• CLAIRE ROUSIER

  dance scholar, deputy director, Centre national de danse contemporaine – Angers (F)

  After having finished her studies in architecture, Claire Rousier worked as a dancer in several companies of choreographers such as Karine Saporta, Francois Verret, Jean Gaudin, Hideyuki Yano, and Paco Decina and others. Afterwards, she focused on cultural politics and art production. She taught and worked as a production director. From 1996 to 1998 she was responsible for the dance department at the Cité de la musique in Paris. From 1999 to 2011 she headed the department ’Memory and Research’ at the Centre National de la Danse where she regularly organised international colloquia and exhibitions. Since January 2013, she is deputy director of the Centre national de danse contemporaine – Angers.