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DR. SCOTT DELAHUNTA
© Jessica SchäferResearch Coordinator Motion Bank (USA/D)
has worked as writer, researcher and organiser on a range of international projects bringing performing arts with a focus on choreography into conjunction with other disciplines and practices. He is currently Senior Research Fellow Coventry University/R-Research Director, Wayne McGregor|Random Dance and Program and Research Coordinator Motion Bank/The Forsythe Company. He serves on the editorial boards of Performance Research, Dance Theatre Journal and the International Journal of Performance and Digital Media.
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REINER DEUTSCHMANN
Cultural-political speaker of the FDP in the German Bundestag
was born in Kamenz, studied German and geography at the Humboldt Universität in Berlin and worked as a teacher in Dresden and Kamenz from 1978 to 1989. He was active, among others, as a joint secretary and city councillor for culture in Kamenz. His constituency is Bautzen. As a member of the German Bundestag, he deals with digitisation, the creative industry, the protection of cultural assets, and the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. He was strongly committed to Stiftung Tanz and the promotion programme ‘Initiative Tanz’. Reiner Deutschmann is the cultural-political speaker of the FDP faction in the German Bundestag and a member of the Committee on Cultural and Media Affairs and of the Federal Foreign Office.
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PROF. INGO DIEHL
Dancer, dance pedagogue (D)
has been working as a dancer, choreographer, training head, and choreographic assistant since 1988 at, among others, Tanzforum Köln, Tanztheater Bremen, Island Ballett in Reykjavik. From 2005 to 2011 he was in charge of all educational issues and the overall concept of the training projects at Tanzplan Deutschland. In 2008 he organised the ‘1. Biennale Tanzausbildung-Tanzplan Deutschland’ and developed the research project ‘Tanztechniken 2010 – Tanzplan Deutschland’. In 2011 he and Madeline Ritter founded the Kulturbüro Diehl+Ritter. Until March 2012 he was responsible for the Tanzfond as project head. He is a founding member of the Bundesverband Tanz in Schulen and initiator of the Ausbildungskonferenz Tanz. Since April 2012 he has been directing the Masters programme Contemporary Dance Education at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts (HfMDK).
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ANOUK VAN DIJK
© Szilvia SztankovitsChoreographer, dancer, teacher (NL)
After graduating in 1985, she featured over ten years as a lead soloist at the Rotterdamse Dansgroep and Amanda Miller’s Pretty Ugly Dance Company. She began choreographing professionally as early as 1989, and in 1998 started her own company, anoukvandijk dc. Her work toured extensively internationally, in particular the shows she created with German playwright/director Falk Richter. Anouk van Dijk is also founder of the Countertechnique, a movement system that is taught by 15 teachers globally and was featured in Tanzplan Deutschland’s publication Dance Techniques 2010. In 2012 Van Dijk received the prestigious Golden Swan lifetime award for her contribution to the development of dance. Anouk van Dijk is currently artistic director of dance company Chunky Move in Melbourne, Australia.
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IVO DIMCHEV
© Marian IvanovChoreographer, performer (BG)
studied at, among others, the DasArts Academy in Amsterdam. The performer and choreographer has until now created more than 30 performances. In 2011 he was nominated for a ‘Bessie Award’ in New York for his ‘Lili Handel’, and his current production ‘P Project‘ was named one of the 10 best theatre pieces by the online portal ‘Nachtkritik‘ in the frame of the virtual Theatertreffen 2013. He founded his own performance space ‘Volksroom’ in Brussels. He teaches Master classes at, among others, the National Theatre Budapest, the Dance Conservatory in Antwerp, the Hochschule der Künste in Bern, and DanceWeb in Vienna. Since 2013 Ivo Dimchev has been “artist in residence” at the Kaaitheater in Brussels.
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PROF. DR. HUBERT DINSE
Neurologist (D)
studied biology and chemistry in Mainz and Marburg. He did his doctorate and habilitation in zoology in Mainz. After a post-doctorate stay at the University of Pisa in Italy, Hubert Dinse was a freelance associate at the Battelle Institute from 1986 to 1987. In 1988, 1989, and 1991, he taught as a visiting professor at the University of California San Francisco. From 1990 onward, Dinse was at the Institute for Neural Computation of the Ruhr-Universität in Bochum, and since 2006 he has been deputy director of the Chair of Cognitive Systems and a member of the board of directors. Since 2005 he has also been the managing director of haptec GmbH and the director of the ‘Neural Plasticity Lab’, which he both founded. His main interests lie in learning, aging, perception, and the development of new forms of learning and therapy.
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JEANINE DURNING
Dancer (USA)
since 1998, the native of New York has been creating dance pieces for solos and groups in the frame of projects. In 2006 she worked together with Deborah Hay on ‘O,O’ and then again in 2008/09 on ‘If I Sing to You’. The solo ‘No Time to Fly’ is Jeanine Durning’s first adaptation of a piece by Deborah Hay, while the trio ‘As Holy Sites Go’ marks her third joint ensemble work. During the past two years, Jeanine Durning has been teaching as a visiting lecturer at the School for New Dance Development (SNDO, Amsterdam) and in the frame of the Master of Arts Solo/Dance/Authorship (SODA, Inter-University Centre for Dance, Berlin) as well as an associate professor at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York. Jeanine Durning’s current solo project ‘inging’ and her adaptation of ‘No Time to Fly’ will be shown in Amsterdam in November.
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PROF. DR. PETER ECKERSALL
Theatre scholar (AUS)
is Associate Professor in Theatre Studies in the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne. His research interests include contemporary Japanese theatre and culture, experimental performance and dramaturgy. His latest publications include ‘Kawamura Takeshi’s Nippon Wars and Other Plays’ (Seagull Books, 2011) and ‘Theatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific: Regional Modernities in the Global Era’ (forthcoming Palgrave 2013). He is visiting fellow in the International Research Center ‘Interweaving Performance Cultures’ at the Freie Universität. Peter has also worked in contemporary performance for 30 years as a performer, director and for the last 15 years as a dramaturg. He is the resident dramaturg for the performance group Not Yet It’s Difficult (NYID).
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NANA EGER
Qualified sportswoman, dance therapist, Bundesverband Tanz in Schulen (D)
is a research associate at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum engaged in establishing cultural education in teacher training. She did her PhD on international approaches to arts education. Nana Eger has gained a great variety of dance-artistic experiences, among others, through projects with children and youths in cooperation with (educational) institutions in and outside of schools. Since more than ten years, she has been working at different institutions of higher education in the field of education and advanced training of pedagogues and artists. She coordinated the Tanzplan Deutschland project dedicated to developing the Master module ‘Tanz in Schulen’ at the Deutsche Sporthochschule and the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz, Cologne.
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GERKO EGERT
Theater scholar (D)
studied Theater Studies and Sociology in Berlin and Potsdam. He works as research associate at the International Research Center ‘Interweaving Performance Cultures’ at the Freie Universität Berlin. From 2010 – 2012 he worked at the Cluster “Languages of Emotion” Freie Universität Berlin. In 2012 he was visiting fellow at the SenseLab, Concordia University Montréal. He is writing his PhD on touch, movement and affect in contemporary dance.
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DR. KERSTIN EVERT
© Thies RätzkeDirector K3 – Zentrum für Choreografie (D)
studied Applied Theatre Studies in Gießen, where she did her doctorate on the theme of ‘DanceLab – Contemporary Dance and New Technologies’ (the doctoral thesis was awarded the Tanzwissenschaftspreis NRW 2001). From 1997 to 2000, she was a doctoral candidate in the post-graduate program ‘Körper-Inszenierungen’ at the Freie Universität Berlin and founded the production label ‘Stadt Raum Inszenierung’ together with Oliver Behnecke. From 2002 to 2006, Kerstin Evert was a dramaturge at Kampnagel. She founded the choreographic center K3 in Hamburg in August 2006, and is the artistic director of K3 since then. She was Jury Member for the German Tanzplattform 2012 in Dresden.
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MATTEO FARGION
Performer, composer (I/UK)
was born in Milan. He studied composition with Kevin Volans and Howard Skempton. After graduation he played bass guitar for a time in the rock band headed by Chris Newman. His interest in contemporary dance began after seeing the Merce Cunningham Dance Company perform at the Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London. He first wrote music for dance through which he met the choreographer Jonathan Burrows, with whom he has collaborated for more than twenty years. Since 2002 Burrows and Fargion have made a series of six duets together. Fargion has written music a.o. for the English choreographer Siobhan Davies, al well as for theatre, (e.g. Residenz Theater Munich and Berlin Schaubühne). Matteo is a visiting member of faculty at P.A.R.T.S.
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GUSTAVO FIJALKOW
© Gera PerlProduction manager DIN A 13 tanzcompany (D)
studied at the Rotterdamse Dansacademie (NL). For more than 20 years, he worked as a dancer and performer in independent productions and theatres in South America and Europe. Since 2005 his focus has been on developing and managing international dance and theatre projects and festivals. He worked with the youth theatre festival ‘play off’ (2006) and was responsible for the festival ‘KulturDifferenzTanz’ (2006). Together with Gerda König he established the ‘Crossings Dance Festival’ (2006, 2008, 2011). Since 2005 he has been the production manager of DIN A 13 tanzcompany. He created the mixed-abled film performance ‘Junction’ (2008) and in 2010 received his MA from the Center for International Arts Management (Cologne)with a thesis on the construction of German identities in Israel.
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DR. RALPH FISCHER
Cultural scholar (D)
is director of cultural studies at the Evangelische Akademie in Frankfurt am Main. He studied theatre studies, German studies and art history in Mainz, Vienna and New York. He was Junior Fellow at the Internationales Forschungszentrum für Kulturwissenschaften in Vienna (2005 – 2006) and Visiting Scholar at the Department of Performance Studies of New York University (2007 – 2008). Ralph Fischer conducts research on performance, contemporary dance and artistic border zones. In addition to his theoretical work, he realises performative works in public space. He is the author of the book ‘Walking Artists. Die Entdeckung des menschlichen Ganges in den performativen Künsten’ (2011).
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JUN. PROF. DR. SUSANNE FOELLMER
Dance scholar (D)
is professor of dance and theatre studies at the Institute for Theater Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. Her research focuses are on contemporary performing art with a main emphasis on aesthetic theory, body concepts and gender difference in dance, performance and visual media, as well as dance of the 1920s. Selected publications: ‘Valeska Gert. Fragmente einer Avantgardistin in Tanz und Schauspiel der 1920er Jahre’ (2006), ‘Am Rand der Körper. Inventuren des Unabgeschlossenen im zeitgenössischen Tanz’ (2009). She also works as a dramaturge, among others, with Tanzcompagnie Rubato, Isabelle Schad and Jeremy Wade.
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WILLIAM FORSYTHE
© Dominik MentzosChoreographer (D)
ranks among the leading choreographers in the world. His works are known for detaching the practice of ballet from its identification with the classical repertory and transforming it into a dynamic, 21st-century art form. Forsythe’s profound interest in organisational basic principles has led him to realise a broad range of projects in the fields of installation, film and internet-based knowledge production.
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MICHAEL FREUNDT
Deputy director ITI (D)
studied theatre studies, philosophy and dance studies. He worked as a freelance journalist and theatre critic and was engaged in directing independent dance and theatre projects in Leipzig, Münster and Berlin. Since 1997 he has been a staff member and in 2001/02 the artistic director of euro-scene Leipzig. In early 2003 he became deputy director on the executive board of the Internationales Theaterinstitut (ITI) – Zentrum Deutschland. Since 2004 Michael Freundt has been engaged in the Ständige Konferenz Tanz, today’s Dachverband Tanz Deutschland, and was appointed its managing director when it was founded in March 2006.