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SABRINA SADOWSKA
© Gunnar LueschChoreographer, deputy ballet director, BallettVorpommern/Theater Vorpommern (D)
After being trained to become a dancer and ballet pedagogue in Basel, she had engagements at Theater Trier, Stadttheater Bremerhaven and Opernhaus Halle. From 1986 to 1992 she was a stipend recipient at the Royal Danish Ballet in Copenhagen. As a ballet pedagogue she taught at, among others, the State Ballet Academy Warsaw, the ballet school of the Oper Leipzig, the Palucca Schule Dresden, and the Aalto Theater Essen. In 1997/98, she began working as a ballet master together with Ralf Dörnen and since 1999/2000 also as deputy ballet director of BallettVorpommern. As a choreographer for drama and musical theatre, she has worked for more than 50 productions, including ‘Sechs Tanzstunden in sechs Wochen’ and ‘Romeo und Julia’. She is a presidium member of the Bundesdeutsche Ballett- und Tanztheaterdirektorenkonferenz and one of the donors of Stiftung Tanz–Transition Zentrum Deutschland.
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ISABELLE SCHAD
Dancer, choreographer (D)
co-directs a working space at ‘Wiesenburg’ in Berlin. Her main areas of research are: The body and its materiality, the body as process, place and space, origins of movement deriving from the body and its (embryological) developments, relations between body, choreography, (re)presentation, form and experience, somatic practices like BMC®, practice as site for learning process, community, political engagement. Her teaching takes different shapes such as open practice sessions, workshops or short period projects that take place worldwide. Her recent productions are: ‘Unturtled #1–#4’, ‘Der Bau’ (both with Laurent Goldring), ‘Musik (Praticable)’, and ‘Experience #1’.
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UTE SCHÄFER
Minister for Family, Children, Youth, Culture and Sport, NRW (D)
studied until 1975 in Münster and Bielefeld. Until 1996 she worked as a teacher and deputy rector at primary and secondary modern schools. She has been a member of the Landtag since 2000, and was Minister for School, Youth and Children of the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) from 2002 to 2005, as well as deputy chairperson of the SPD Landtag faction and education-political speaker from 2005 to July 2010. Since 2010 Ute Schäfer has been the Minister for Family, Children, Youth, Culture and Sport of the federal state of NRW and deputy chairperson of the NRWSPD. She is furthermore engaged in the field of early childhood education, the state programme Culture and School and the project ‘An Instrument for Every Child’.
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HEIKE SCHARPFF
© Filiz DindinQualified psychologist, theatre director, theatre therapist
After studying psychology, she co-founded the independent theatre venue Waggonhalle Marburg. After three years as an assistant director at the Staatstheater Darmstadt, she works as a freelance director at the Stadttheater and in the independent scene (among others, Schauspiel Leipzig, Theater Oberhausen, TAT Frankfurt, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Ffm). She became known for her social choreographies: ‘besitznichtbesitz’ at TAT Frankfurt, ‘Attacke Alter’ and ‘Jackie B.’ at the Theater Oberhausen and her documentary theatre pieces: ‘leidenschaftlich Hannah Arendt’ (festival prize Theaterzwang 2006).
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CONSTANZE SCHELLOW
© lalaDance scholar (D/CH)
studied theatre studies, philosophy, German studies, and performing arts in Berlin and Antwerp, and is currently doing her doctorate at the Institut für Theaterwissenschaft in Bern. Until 2009 she was a full-time writer for, among others, Theater der Zeit, tanzjournal, Frakcija, and the web platforms Sarma and Corpus. Constanze taught as a guest in the field of dance and theatre studies in Berlin, Hildesheim and Bern, the MA ‘Dance Mediation’ in Cologne and the BA ‘Dance, Context, Choreography’ in Berlin. As a dramaturge, she has worked with Sara Manente and Doris Uhlich, among others.
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MARTIN SCHLÄPFER
© Gert WeigeltBallet director (D/CH)
Martin Schläpfer was one of the most prominent solo dancers of the ballet of Basel under Heinz Spoerli, and also of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. From 1994 to 1999 he was director of the Bern ballet, from 1999 to 2009 of ballettmainz. New choreographies of his were performed by the Bavarian State Ballet and the National Ballet of Amsterdam. Since the 2009/10 season he has been director of Ballett am Rhein Düsseldorf Duisburg, which is regularly invited to appear at home and abroad. In 2010, the ballet magazine ‘tanz’ voted him as “Choreographer of the Year”. The prizes he has been awarded include the Arts Prize of the German province of Rheinland-Pfalz, the dance prize of the Spoerli Foundation, in 2006 the Prix Benois de la Danse, and twice, in 2009 and 2012, the German theatre prize “Der Faust”.
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MARC-ANDRÉ SCHMACHTEL
Director Goethe-Institut Nigeria (D)
studied intercultural communication and Romanic cultural sciences, modern history and Latin American studies in Saarbrücken with residencies abroad in Canada and Burkina Faso. Marc-André Schmachtel wrote his master thesis on intercultural aspects in francophone film funding in Africa. Afterwards he a lectureship at the University of Saarland on francophone filmmaking in Africa and worked reelance for several film festivals (Max Ophüls Preis, African Film Series Saarbrücken, Cinéfleuve) and cultural festivals. Since February 2008 he was working for Goethe-Institut in Cameroon. Since 2010 he is director of Goethe-Institut Nigeria. His work is focused on documentary film, performance art, contemporary dance and urbanity: “Art in public space”.
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KATHARINA SCHNEEWEIS
Dance manager, cultural mediator (D)
After studying in the field of tourism industry at the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien and 10 years of experience in tourism marketing, her intensive dealing with contemporary dance led her to change the sector. From 2001 to 2011 she was active in various contexts, predominantly for the nrw landesbuero tanz (internationale tanzmesse nrw, tanz in schulen) and as a freelance dance manager (IPtanz, VeraSanderArtConnect) in Cologne. She is the co-founder of the Bundesverband Tanz in Schulen e.V., from 2007 to 2011 she managed its branch office as well as diverse projects, and is currently on its board. Katharina Schneeweis lives in Berlin.
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HOLGER SCHULTZE
Director of the Theater und Orchester Heidelberg (D)
studied German and theatre studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. During this time, he assisted the theatre directors Jürgen Bosse, Michael Gruner, Peter Palitzsch and others. Since the start of the 2011/12 season, Holger Schultze has been the director of the Theater und Orchester Heidelberg as well as the artistic director of the ‘Heidelberger Stückemarkt’. From 2005 to 2011 he was the director of the Theater Osnabrück. In 2007, he was awarded the Preis der Deutschen Theaterverlage with the Schauspiel of Theater Osnabrück. From 1999 to 2005 he worked as the senior director of the Theater Augsburg. As a stage director he has produced pieces at, among others, the Freie Volksbühne Berlin, the Staatstheater Darmstadt, the Nationaltheater Mannheim, and the Staatstheater Stuttgart. Schultze is a board member of the group of directors and since mid-November 2011 chairman of the Artistic Committee of the Deutsche Bühnenverein.
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FELIX SCHULZE
© Beate ZiegerTeacher trainee physics and sports (D)
will complete his Master of Education in sports and physics at the Humboldt-Universität Berlin in spring of 2013. He is a permanent member of the TanzZeit youth company EVOKE since its inception in early 2008. He has danced in numerous productions such as ‘W.h.A.v.T’ by Livia Patrizi, ‘Crossing The Line’ by Jo Parks, ‘Brief an L.F.’ by Livia Patrizi and Florian Bilbao, ‘ohne mich’ by An Boekmann, and as Don José in ‘Carmen’ with the Berliner Philharmonie Orchester and the choreographer Sasha Waltz. Since 2009 he has been working with TanzZeit as an assistant teacher and was included in the team of dance teachers in 2011.
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DR. EDITH SCHÜTTE
Psychologist (D)
has gained years of experience as a qualified psychologist and pedagogue at schools, universities, companies, and administrations. For 14 years she has worked as a freelance trainer and coach with additional qualifications in staff and organisational development; NLP trainer according to DVNLP (Deutscher Verband für Neuro-Linguistisches Programmieren). She works with managers and teams seeking to create an inspiring and pleasant work climate and find constructive solutions in cases of conflict. She coaches managers in conflict with colleagues or employees and people from various occupational groups who want to pursue their professional development in a targeted way or give their professional biography a new turn.
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STEFAN SCHWARZ
Programme director, tanzhaus nrw (D)
has been the programme director of the stages of the tanzhaus nrw since 1998. He completed his studies of culture pedagogy/arts management at the Universität Hildesheim with a diploma thesis on postmodern dance. From the beginning of the 1990s onwards, he danced with, among others, Ormand Performance in Cologne and organised theatre and dance film festivals. In 2004, he co-curated Tanzplattform Deutschland and in 2005 curated the European artists’ lab Colina. Since 2006 he has been in charge of the media dance festival ‘Temps d’Images’. Furthermore, he is currently the project head of the exchange programme ‘Dance Dialogues Africa’. He was active as a jury member in Tunis at the choreographic competition ‘Danse L‘Afrique danse’ in 2008, and at the Dutch dance film festival ‘Cinedans’ in 2013.
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OLA SCIBOR
Dancer, interpreter, contemporary dance teacher (D)
graduated from the School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and completed postgraduate studies in Cultural Management (WSE). Between 2005 and 2011 she danced with Alter Dance Theatre. Her main dance influences are Nigel Charnock and Witold Jurewicz. Ola is interested in social work through dance, Aikido, BMC and living process of creation. In April 2012, she joined the Master’s Program Contemporary Dance Education at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts to develop her pedagogical expertise in the field of contemporary dance.
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PROF. DR. DR. H.C. MARIA SHEVTSOVA
Theater scholar (UK)
holds the Chair of Drama and Theatre Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London and has pioneered the sociology of theatre and performance, including dance. Her Masters course at Goldsmiths 'Performance and Culure' is devoted to his area of research. Her books include 'Dodin and the Maly Drama Theater: Process to Performance' (2004), 'Robert Wilson' (2007), 'Sociology of Theatre and Performance' (2009). She is co-editor of 'New Theatre Quarterly', and on the editorial team of 'Critical Stages' of the International Association of Theatre Critics. -
SILKE Z.
Choreographer (D)
lives and works in Cologne. She studied dance at the European Dance Development Center in Arnhem/Düsseldorf and Moving On Center – School for Participatory Arts and Research in San Francisco. Silke Z. is a co-founder of resistdance. of Studio 11, a production and work space for independent dance in Cologne, and of die.idee//artist network – a nationwide dance network. Since 2007 Silke Z. has been increasingly working with partners abroad, including Kanuti Gildi Saal, Tallinn, Estonia; Gravity San Francisco/Berlin; DanceCity Newcastle; Vo’arte, Lisbon; Pavilion Dance, Bournemouth; Stelá, St. Etienne and many more. In 2009 she initiated the intergenerational project ‘unter uns’ with ‘Felix mit Felix’. The second part, ‘Jess trifft Angus’, premiered in fall of 2010.
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DR. MED. LIANE SIMMEL
© Markus HäseDance physician (D)
combines her experience gained as a professional dancer with her medical-functional knowledge as a physician, sports medicine specialist and osteopath. The main focus of her work is on the prevention of dance injuries. She is a lecturer of dance medicine at the Palucca Hochschule für Tanz, Dresden, and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Munich, and is high in demand throughout Europe as a lecturer on topics related to health. Her book ‘Tanzmedizin in der Praxis‘ published in 2009 has become a standard reference for dance medicine. Liane Simmel is a founding member of tamed e. V. and for more than 15 years, as a member of the board, has decisively shaped the development of dance medicine in the German-speaking world.
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ANDREAS SIMON
© Ludger F. J. SchneiderChoreographer (D)
studied in Amsterdam at the School for New Dance Development (Amsterdam School of the Arts). The character of his work is based on research. Everyday spaces, forms in motion, chaos and order blend to a vivid hustle and bustle. He has been producing his own pieces in Germany and abroad since 1996. Andreas Simon teaches dance in schools. He has been producing full-length pieces with children and youths for several years at, among others, the tanzhaus nrw and Junges Schauspielhaus (Düsseldorf), KreschTheater and Werkhaus (Krefeld). Dance with boys is a further focus of his work.
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DR. SABINE SÖRGEL
Theatre scholar (D/UK)
received her PhD in Performance and Media Studies from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. In 2003 she was visiting scholar at the University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica. Her book ‘Dancing Postcolonialism – The National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica’ was published in 2007. From 2008 until 2012 she was Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance at the Department of Drama, Theatre and Performance, Aberystwyth University, Wales. In 2011/12 she was research fellow at the International Research Centre ‘Interweaving Performance Cultures’, Freie Universität Berlin completing her monograph on ‘Dance Interventions: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Choreography and Performance’. Since 2013 she is Senior Lecturer in Dance and Theatre at the University of Surrey.
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DR. MICHAEL STEINBUSCH
Architect (D)
received his diploma in urban planning from the Technische Universität Berlin in 1999 and completed his doctorate in architecture in 2009 at the Berlin University of the Arts. After working as a freelancer and in a research project of the Daimler Benz Foundation, Michael Steinbusch has been a research associate at the Technische Universität Dresden since 2007. In teaching cooperation projects with the Palucca Schule Dresden, students of architecture, dance and choreography have jointly examined the interrelations between social perception, movement and architecture. In his works, Michael Steinbusch deals with the transitions between different forms of media – everyday language, diagram, image and model – between information and knowledge, structures and events.
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JO STRØMGREN
Choreographer (N)
was educated as a dancer. He works as freelance choreographer with a vast range of commissions for ballet companies and contemporary ensembles. Frequently he is engaged as a theatre director, predominantly with Henrik Ibsen plays. Member of the Writer’s Guild of Norway with a long list of plays produced by national and municipal theatres in Scandinavia. As an artistic director of Jo Strømgren Kompani, founded 1998, he has developed a significant personal style with a mix of theatre, dance, puppets, film, and live music – wrapped in a nonsensical language frame.
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MELANIE SUCHY
Journalist (D)
studied general and applied linguistics in Bonn, while playing theatre on the side and becoming enthusiastic about dance. She worked in cultural institutions until she completed her Master’s study course in Frankfurt am Main: music theatre, theatre and dance critique. She managed the organisation of a festival in Dortmund and since 2006 has been writing on dance and performance as a freelance journalist for daily newspapers, cultural journals and specialist magazines. She is a member of diverse juries awarding prizes to artists and project funding, and she was a member of the selection jury of Tanzplattform Deutschland 2010. Since 2012 she has had a teaching assignment at the Folkwang Universität der Künste.
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ESTHER SUTTER
© Andreas StraubCritic (CH)
To combine the practice of dance with reflection and research – that is Esther Sutter’s leitmotif. After her career as a dancer – among others, at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf under Erich Walter – and training to become a journalist, she began writing as a freelance critic for Swiss print media and the radio station DRS 2. For a period of twelve years, she was on the board of trustees of the Swiss culture foundation pro helvetia in the areas of dance and international exchange. She is the president of the jury of the first Schweizer Tanzpreis (Bundesamt für Kultur, BAK) and member of the concept group of the Migros Kultur-Prozent Steps Dance Festival.
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DR. KATERINA TEAIWA
Anthropolgist (FJ/AUS)
is of Banaban, I-Kiribati and Afro-American decent, grew up in Fiji and is one of the founding members of the Oceanic Dance Theatre in Suva. In 2006 she facilitated with April Henderson and Sean Mallon ‘Culture Moves’, the (yet) biggest dance convention in the South Pacific at Te Papa in Wellington. She currently lectures at the Australian National University in Canberra at the Department for Pacific Studies.
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STEPHANIE THIERSCH
Choreographer (D)
studied classical and contemporary dance in Wiesbaden and Montpellier, as well as media art under Valie Export at the Academy of Media Art Cologne. With her company Mouvoir, founded in 2000, she has produced stage pieces, films and installations. In addition to her activities with the ensemble, Stephanie Thiersch works as a visiting choreographer, last year with the Staatstheaterkassel, and a visiting lecturer at, among others, the Institute of Applied Theatre Studies in Gießen and abroad, most recently in Kenya and Tanzania. She is the artistic director of the international festival ‘Globalize:Cologne’. Her latest productions include ‘The Happy Living Trilogy’ (2012); ‘As if (we would be)’ (2011); ‘Near Miss (Happy Living N°3)’ (2012), ‘Nature Morte (Happy Living N°2)’ (2011); ‘White Landing (Happy Living N°1)’ (2011).
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THOMAS THORAUSCH
© Bettina StößDeputy director, Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln
After studying theatre studies, general and comparative literary studies and American studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, he worked as an assistant director and dramaturge in Essen, Cologne and Regensburg, as well as for diverse independent theatre productions in North Rhine-Westphalia. In addition, he worked as a project research associate for the Deutsche Akademie des Tanzes, the Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln and the Historical Archive of the City of Cologne (project ‘Dokumentation des Kölner Kulturleben nach 1945’ / ‘Documentation of Cultural Life in Cologne after 1945’). Since 1996 he has been the deputy director of the Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln.
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JALAL TOUFIC
is a thinker and a mortal to death. He was born in 1962 in Beirut or Baghdad and died before dying in 1989 in Evanston, Illinois. He is a participant in the 9th Shanghai Biennale, in Documenta (13), the Sharjah Biennial 10, the 3rd Athens Biennale, Meeting Points 6: Locus Agonistes-Practices and Logics of the Civic (Beirut Art Center and Argos), Art in the Auditorium III (Whitechapel Gallery, GAMeC, Fundación Proa …), and Wunder (Deichtorhallen Hamburg); and, in 2011, he was a guest of the Artists-in-Berlin Program of the DAAD. Many of his books, most of which were published by Forthcoming Books, are available for download. -
DR. VASSILIS TSIANOS
Sociologist (D)
born in Hamburg, he received his MA in sociology of migration and racism. His PhD thesis discusses the relationship between new Migration and Precarity in the EU. Presently he is lecturer at the Department of sociology at the university of Hamburg and Senior Researcher with the European project ‘Mig@Net, Transnational Digital Spaces, Migration and Gender’. His research interests and publications include contemporary political theory, labour studies, qualitative methods, discourse analysis, critical urbanism, Border studies, Biopolitics and the concept of the autonomy of migration. He is co-editor of the books on ‘Empire and the biopolitical turn.’ (2007), ‘Transit Migration’ (2008) and ‘Biopolitics in the Debate’ (2011). And with Dimitris Papadopoulos and Niaamh Stephenson the author of ‘Esapes Routes. Controll and Subversion in the 21st Century’ (2008).
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MARGARITA TSOMOU
© MissyMagazinePerformer, co-editor Missy Magazine (GR/D)
is a Greek journalist, researcher and performer based in Berlin. She is an editor of the popfeminist Missy Magazine and writes for print and German radio. Her performances were shown in contexts like Volksbühne Berlin or Hebbel am Ufer Berlin. She obtained a Phd-Fellowship in the research program ‘Assemblies and Participation: Urban Publics and Performance’ launched by HafenCity Universität Hamburg, Kampnagel Theatre and Fundus Forschungstheater Hamburg. She writes, lectures and performs on New Feminism and sexuality, as well as on cultural activism, interventionist art, capitalism and social movements.
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MAREIKE UHL
© Jörg BaumannProject head Tanzlabor_21 (D)
studied applied theatre studies in Gießen and Rennes (France) and during her studies worked as a production manager and dramaturge for dance, performance and film productions. In 2007/2008 she was the production manager of the project ensemble PET_2, and since the end of 2008 she has been a permanent team member of Tanzlabor_21, of which she became the project head in October 2012.