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Jette Büchsenschütz
works as a dramaturge, writer, and cultural worker in the fields of dance, performance, and theatre, based in Berlin and occasionally in Vienna. Trained in Sinology and Dance Studies in Berlin and Hangzhou, her practice moves along the edges of theory and movement, language and body. As a freelance dramaturge, she has worked with festivals such as Tanztage Berlin and ImPulsTanz Festival Vienna; choreographers and groups including Peter Pleyer/Cranky Bodies a/company, Anna Nowicka, Deva Schubert, Aliénor Dauchez/La Cage, Marga Alfeirão, Emilie Gregersen, and Anan Fries | web: jettebuechsenschuetz.com
Marta Forsberg
is a Swedish-Polish sound artist and musician based in Berlin. Her music has been released on labels such as Warm Winters Ltd., XKatedral, and Superpang. Exploring language, memory, and archives, her recent work experiments with the interplay of human and synthetic voices to create intimate, ethereal soundscapes. She often collaborates with choreographers and performers including Sindri Runudde, Sheena McGrandles, and Jakub Mędrzycki. With Lo Kristenson, she co-founded Konstmusiksystrar, supporting gender equality in Swedish music. Marta studied electroacoustic composition in Stockholm and Warsaw | web: martaforsberg.com
Martin Hansen
(AUS/DE) is a Berlin-based choreographer and artist working across theatre and gallery contexts. Their practice explores queer temporalities, memory, and the economies of power sustaining theatre, often using archives of photography, film, and video to activate relations between body, object, image, and text. A trained and celebrated dancer, Hansen developed the notion of “Choreographic Inhabitation,” combining somatic, technical, and fantastical practices to build affective worlds from which dance emerges. Their works have been presented internationally since 2015. Hansen was named Germany’s Dancer of the Year (tanz, 2012) | @martinshandsome
Paz Ponce
(ES, 1985) is a Berlin-based art historian and curator. Together with choreographer Sheena McGrandles, she co-founded neue häute e.V. after their earlier collaboration at Agora Collective e.V. Both share a sustained interest in creating collective platforms and infrastructures that connect curation, performance, and community organizing. Paz collaborates often with Sheena as curatorial advisor, focusing on the public reception of her works and on the wider contexts her choreographies can open to. Alongside this, she pursues her own curatorial and research-based projects in Berlin and internationally | web: pazponce.com
Annegret Schalke
is a dancer, choreographer, and lighting designer based in Berlin. She studied mathematics in Leipzig, Hefei (China), and Berlin, and completed her degree in Dance, Context, and Choreography at the Inter-University Center for Dance (HZT) Berlin in 2013. She regularly collaborates with choreographers including Sheena McGrandles, Eva Meyer-Keller, Kat Válastur, and Julian Weber. Alongside her artistic work, she is active as a lighting designer in the fields of dance and performance.
Saskia Schoenmaker
Saskia Schoenmaker is a production manager in the creative sector. As executive producer for performance artist Dries Verhoeven, she has been involved in numerous national and international productions. She has worked with choreographers and artists such as Kat Válastur, Cranky Bodies (Peter Pleyer/Michiel Keuper), Ana Lessing Menjibar, Lee Méir, and Sabine Zahn | @sas.schoen
Claire Vivianne Sobottke Sobottke
(*1982, Duisburg) is a Berlin-based choreographer, performer and dancer. She describes her work as a space of resistance and transformation, questioning norms of perception and thought. Voice, sound and language often drive her choreographic practice, as in her acclaimed solo strange songs (Fm4 Award, ImPulsTanz 2017). She has collaborated with artists such as Meg Stuart and Tian Rotteveel, and engages in both performance and teaching, developing formats at institutions like PACT Zollverein, HZT Berlin and ImPulsTanz Festival.
Stellan Veloce
Stellan Veloce is a Berlin-based Sardinian multi-instrumentalist and composer. They studied cello at the Cagliari Conservatory and composition at the Universität der Künste Berlin and the California Institute of the Arts. Their music focuses on timbral research, iteration and modulations of sound densities, integrating composition with improvisation and band playing. Their background in traditional Sardinian music is an important subliminal inspiration of their work. Beside performing live they compose music for ensembles and for dance performances, favoring collaborative practices. They collaborate regularly with choreographer Sheena McGrandles, composer Neo Hülcker and filmmaker Silvia Maggi | Web: stellanveloce.de