GIULIO DE LEO

Ruvo di Puglia (BARI), 1973. Coreografo e curatore di progetti e programmazioni dedicati alla danza contemporanea e ai linguaggi del corpo. Il suo lavoro si distingue per il rigore e la curiosità verso le comunità, i rituali e l'indagine antropologica della società attraverso la danza.

Dal 1993 al 1996 frequenta il Triennio di Studi Teatrali del Teatro Kismet OperAdi Bari diretto da Teresa Ludovico (Teatro di Rilevante Interesse Culturale) dove studia con i maestri Marco Baliani, Paolo Baroni, Cesar Brie, Pippo Delbono, Raffaella Giordano, Danio Manfredini, Giorgio Rossi, Philippe Saltì, Simone Sandroni, Mas Soegeng e Giovanni Tamborrino. Dal 1997 al 1999 frequenta l’atelier di teatro-danza della Civica Scuola d’Arte Drammatica “Paolo Grassi” di Milano e la Folkwang Hochschule di Essen (Germania). Dal 1999 al 2004 si perfeziona frequentando stabilmente i seminari di Giorgio Rossi e Raffaella Giordano dell'Associazione Sosta Palmizi.

Dal 1995 al 2013 è interprete per Luciano Nattino/Casa degli Alfieri, Teresa Ludovico/Kismet, Carlo Formigoni/Kismet, B. Achiary Trio, Enzo Toma/Kismet, Giorgio Rossi/Sosta Palmizi, Raffaella Giordano/Sosta Palmizi, Monica Bianchi/Teatro delle Briciole, Maurizio Bercini/Teatro delle Briciole, Enrico Tedde e Virginia Heinen/Blicke Dance Company, Virgilio Sieni/Cango. È assistente di Virgilio Sieni in numerosi progetti: Teatro No (2006), Dialoghi sul corpo (2011), Grande Adagio Popolare, Agorà_Bari (2012), Trois Agorà Marseille (2013) e Vangelo Secondo Matteo (2014). Dal 2013 al 2016 è coordinatore del College de La Biennale di Venezia Danza diretta da Virgilio Sieni.

Nel 2009 fonda Compagnia Menhir Danza, organismo per cui crea e interpreta diverse coreografie, dirige numerosi progetti e programmazioni di danza contemporanea e conduce numerosi laboratori per professionisti e amatori di ogni età e professione. Dal 2015 al 2020 coordina le attività danza del Teatro Garibaldi di Bisceglie (Prospettiva Nievskij e Libero Corpo) in collaborazione con Teatro Pubblico Pugliese e Comune di Bisceglie. Dal 2017 al 2021 è direttore artistico della sezione danza di Talos Festival, storico contest musicale realizzato dal Comune di Ruvo di Puglia e finanziato dal Programma triennale 2017-2019 di Regione Puglia e dal Programma Straordinario 2020 in materia di Cultura e Spettacolo di Regione Puglia. Nel 2019 è coordinatore e tutor del percorso EAST MEDITERRANEAN per CRISOL creative processes realizzato da Fondazione Fabbrica Europa di Firenze (in collaborazione con una rete di 14 organizzazioni italiane e internazionali di cui Menhir è partner) e promosso dal Bando Boarding Pass Plus 2° edizione del MIC.

Nel 2021 fonda Le Danzatrici_archeologia del contemporaneo, progetto di ricerca, sviluppo, residenze artistiche e audience engagement finanziato dalla misura "Custodiamo la Cultura in Puglia 2020" di Regione Puglia e il festival Le Danzatrici en plein air con il supporto e la collaborazione di Comune di Ruvo di Puglia e Teatro Pubblico Pugliese. Nel 2022 LE DANZATRICI en plein air viene riconosciuto dal MINISTERO della CULTURA e supportato dal FUS 2022-24.

Ornella D'Agostino is a dancer, choreographer and director. She trained in dance, theatre and music in Italy, France and Holland, where she graduated from the 'School for New Dance Development' in Amsterdam in 1989. Her projects are specified through interdisciplinary artistic research and documentation work, study and investigation of the processes of constitution of cultural and individual identity in different contexts, especially in Mediterranean areas and in the South of the World. The French anthropologist George Lapassade, with whom Ornella collaborated, has significantly directed and marked the investigations produced in this field.

In 1994, she founded the cultural association Carovana S.M.I., of which she is artistic director. With the association, she produces contemporary performing arts itineraries throughout the Mediterranean, attracting people with different geographical, generational and artistic backgrounds.

From 2002 to 2005 she is been president of the international network Danza Bacino Mediterraneo (in which 20 EuroMediteranean countries are participating).

She has carried out intensive production and training activities in Europe and in Arab countries, thanks to her participation in international cooperation networks, investigating the relationships between artistic innovation and social cohesion, creative and curative processes that promote the overcoming of marginality and the enhancement of individual and group talents, in relation to different cultural and environmental landscapes.

Full Biography Here

Gianni Cuccaro, is a dancer, choreographer, dance teacher, dance mediator and artistic director. He completed his training at the Urdang Academy, Covent Garden, London. As a dancer he worked in the theatre in Osnabrück and in Bielefeld for several years. With these theatres, he later collaborated as a teacher and realised his own choreographic works. In addition, Gianni also worked on the free stage, collaborating with various companies and choreographers. He studies cultural mangament and since the 2017/18 season has been working at the Theater Bielefeld for the pedagogy department  jungplusX. He is also artistic director of the Schrittmacher community dance projects, director of E-Motion and choreographer/coach for various musical theatre and drama productions. Furthermore, since August of this year 2022 he has been co-director of the dance department of the Bielefeld Theatre.

https://theater-bielefeld.de/person/gianni-cuccaro.html

Dr Gustavo Fijalkow is an academic and practitioner. He trained as a dancer in Argentina, Germany and the Netherlands. As a professional dancer and performer, he worked internationally, exploring traditional and academic dance forms as well as youth theatre and site-specific, experimental and interdisciplinary formats. He has collaborated with artists from various disciplines in diverse contexts and projects. As a curator, he has (co)curated and (co)conceived dance and interdisciplinary festivals, including Crossings Dance Festival (tanzhaus NRW / Düsseldorf, DE), playoff'06 (Theater Consol / Gelsenkirchen, DE), KulturdifferenzTanz (Kunsthaus Rhenania / Cologne, DE). He was British Council Fellow at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale (UK/IT), juror for the Hull Dance Prize (UK) and Clinicien Dramaturge for Festival TransAmériques (CA). His soundscape ‘Suggeritori', produced in Venice, was exhibited at RIBA North gallery (Liverpool, UK). For ten years he was Creative Producer and Production Manager of DIN A13 tanzcompany, Germany's pioneering mixed-abled dance company, with whom he co-conceived and managed international mixed-abled co-productions with numerous African, Asian and South American artists. Gustavo received his M.A. in International Arts Management with the master's thesis "Bloodbath-Bloodbond. A historical snapshot of the cultural work of Goethe-Institut Tel Aviv (D, 2010)" and his PhD with the dissertation "National Dance Platforms. A comparative study of the cases in Germany, Israel, the UK and Sri Lanka (UK, 2020)". He has written for academic and professional publications and is also a member of the editorial board of "TURBA: the journal for global practices in live arts curation" (CA). He has conceived, curated and talks in has lectured at universities. He has developed and moderated formats to further discourses on performing arts and their contexts in light of globalisation, ableism post-coloniality and intersectionality. On the initiative of LOFFT - DAS THEATER (Leipzig), DE Gustavo led the establishment of FORWARD DANCE COMPANY of LOFFT - DAS THEATER in 2020, of which he has been the artistic project director to date. Since 2022, he has significantly contributed to the development of the programm UNIque@dance (initiated by DIN A 13 tanzcompany), with the aim of expanding the imagination and realities of body images in professional dance education.

Furthering links:

Dancing Europe: Identities, Languages, Institutions

https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Nicole_Haitzinger_Dancing_Europe?id=SNdWEAAAQBAJ&hl=de

TURBA: The Journal for Global Practices in Live Arts Curation

https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/turba/turba-overview.xml

FORWARD DANCE COMPANY von LOFFT - DAS THEATER

https://www.lofft.de/projekte/forward-dance-company

UNIque@dance

https://www.din-a13.de/de/unique-at-dance

Photo: Gera Perl

Nadja Raszewki

Dancer, choreographer, dance facilitator.

She has worked as a choreographer for the Staatsballett München, Komische Oper Berlin, Saarländisches Staatstheater, Sogn og Fjordane Teater / Norway, Holland Dance Festival, GRIPS Theater, Keen Theatre in Ann Arbor, PASICS Indianapolis/USA and many more. Large-scale projects with children, young people, senior citizens, dancers and prison inmates have taken her to the Heilbronn Theatre and the Heidenheim Opera Festival.

For decades she has worked as a choreographer interdisciplinary and internationally, with professionals, with amateurs and in the most diverse contexts. In the many years of her artistic work, she has become an expert in working with the most diverse group combinations and within these projects she has primarily explored how communication is practised through the body. Projects such as sense X with deaf-blind dancers, personal landscapes with people with Parkinson's disease, moving bars with inmates of the Berlin prison and orientation with pupils of a school with the special focus "autism" have deepened this work. Since 2003 artistic director of TanzTangente Berlin  Since 2014 artistic director of the certificate course "Creating Dance in Art and Education - Dance Pedagogy and Choreography", which was developed by her and is organised by TanzTangente in cooperation with the career centre of the Berlin University of the Arts, the HZT (Inter-University Centre for Dance) and the University of Michigan (residential college, school of music, dance and drama). From decades of experience and research with a wide variety of people and groups, she has developed her own dance pedagogical mediation method, which is taught in this certificate course, among others. Since 2017 workshop leader for PURPLE - international dance festival for young audiences. Since 2018 TanzTangente is cooperation partner and venue of the PURPLE dance festival. 2014 - 2017 Juror for the Dance Meeting of the Youth at the Berliner Festspiele. 1999 - 2010 Lecturer and lecturer for dance, improvisation, choreography at the UdK Berlin, Institute for Theatre Education.  In this capacity, active at various international universities, including Finland, Oulu University; Turkey, Ankara University, Trabzon, Istanbul; USA, University of Michigan; Israel, Tel Aviv University / Holon, Sport University Cologne. 2019 Lecturer in the M.A.D.E programme (mixed able dance education), Cologne. 2008/2011 Invitations for a professorship at the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences (1st place) and Folkwang University in Essen, Department of Physical Theatre (3rd place). 

Publications and articles in various books and magazines

Höhne / Raszewski: Dance in the confines of prisons/a look at the juvenile penal system

" Creative/contemporary dance and improvisation as a means and medium of body expression in artistic work with long-term offenders in prison".

The body as a resource in social work, ed. Michael Wendler/E.U. Huster7Springer VS/ISBN 978-3-658-08778-4 (e-book)

A restless art/ Francois Matatarasso/ "TanzTangente" ISBN:978-1-903080-20-7

Contributions to Youth Social Work Issue No.7/ " Dance in Prison

Interview Wamiki /educational magazine # 5 /"You dance dude,are you gay"

Grants:

2020 /21 - Scholarship : Performing Arts / Dance - Scholarships for freelance artists* offering a programme for young audiences / Senate Department for Culture and Europe. 

2021 Scholarship DIS TANZ SOLO "Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in the NEUSTART KULTUR programme, DIS-TANZEN aid programme of the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland."  Network development - www.siida-performing-network.art.

More information about Nadja Raszewski at www.tanztangente.de

Photo Katja Zern

HENRIETTA HORN

Henrietta Horn studiert Elementaren Tanz an der Deutschen Sporthochschule Köln. Anschließend absolviert sie ein Bühnentanzstudium an der Folkwang Hochschule in Essen. Schon während ihres Studiums entstehen erste eigene choreographische Arbeiten, die mit renommierten Preisen ausgezeichnet werden.  Eine besondere Auszeichnung erfährt Henrietta Horn 2008 mit dem „Künstlerinnenpreis des Landes NRW für Choreographie/Zeitgenössischen Tanz".

Von 1999 bis 2008 übernimmt Henrietta Horn gemeinsam mit Pina Bausch die künstlerische Leitung des Folkwang Tanzstudios. In dieser Zeit entstehen zahlreiche Choreographien für das Ensemble, begleitet von einer internationalen Gastspieltätigkeit. Als Solotänzerin bleibt sie während und nach ihrer Zeit beim Folkwang Tanzstudio tätig, neben zahlreichen Vorstellungen mit ihrem Stück „Solo" entstehen zwischen 2007 und 2016 weitere Solo-Choreographien, wie z.B. „Schimmer“, „Treibschatten“, „Rotlicht“ und 2016 der mediale Tanzabend „Kaiserkleider“.

Henrietta Horn wird regelmäßig als Gastchoreographin eingeladen, sowohl national (Theater Bremen, Stadttheater Gießen, Staatstheater Braunschweig u.a.) als auch international (London, Taipei, Damaskus, Beirut, La Paz, Anakara u.a.).

2013 wird sie mit der Rekonstruktion von „Le Sacre du Printemps", choreographiert von Mary Wigman im Jahr 1957, beauftragt, die in den Theatern Osnabrück und Bielefeld, sowie beim Bayrischen Staatsballett München zur Aufführung kommt. 2017 und 2019 rekonstruiert sie erneut Choreographien von Mary Wigman. Unter dem Titel „Danse Macabre“ kommen 2017 zwei Totentänze von Wigman aus den Jahren 1917/21 und 1926 im Theater Osnabrück zur Aufführung, 2019 wird „DIE FEIER“ (1927/28) nach 90 Jahren wieder auf die Bühne gebracht.

2017 veranstaltet sie gemeinsam mit Prof. Dr. Stephan Brinkmann das erste Tanz-Symposium an der Folkwang Universität der Künste Essen unter dem Titel „Folkwang Tanz – Technik, Haltung, Zukunft“

Seit 2019 ist sie mitverantwortlich für die Einstudierung von „Der grüne Tisch“, das wohl bekannteste Werk von Kurt Jooss, welches er 1932 für das Folkwang Tanzstudio kreierte. Bis heute ist die hochpolitische Choreographie weltweit auf den Bühnen zu sehen.

Neben choreographischen Arbeiten und Themen der Tanzgeschichte sucht Henrietta Horn die Auseinandersetzung mit anderen Künsten. Seit 2012 forscht sie gemeinsam mit Klang- und Videokünstlern nach neuen Ausdrucksformen der Bewegung im interaktiven Raum. In ihrem Soloabend „Kaiserkleider“ und dem medialen Auftragswerk „Untier“ verbinden sich Bewegung, Klang und Bild zu einer eigenen Ästhetik, interaktiv, fragmentarisch, medial und menschlich zugleich. Die kontrollierte Ebene der Choreographie verlässt sie bereits 2014. Gemeinsam mit einer wechselnden Gruppe von Tänzer*innen und Musiker*innen erforscht sie die kompositorischen Räume der Improvisation. In Museen, Kirchen, Sälen stellen sich die Künstler*innen den Fragen nach Regeln, Perspektiven, Erlaubtem und Nicht-Erlaubtem, Freiheit und Forderung.

Auch als Pädagogin hinterfragt sie mit den Studierenden das Verhältnis zwischen Komposition, Improvisation und Dramaturgie. Als Lehrkraft ist sie an der Folkwang Universität der Künste/Essen und an der Deutschen Sporthochschule Köln tätig. 2015 wird sie als Gast-Professorin für Zeitgenössischen Tanz an die TNUA Taipei/Taiwan berufen.

Seit Juni 2021 ist Henrietta Horn Professorin für Zeitgenössischen Tanz an der Folkwang Universität der Künste Essen.

Die Künstler spielen in „Kaiserkleider“ auf berauschende und virtuose Weise mit den Modellen der Quantenphysik, wie sie in dieser Klarheit und Qualität sonst nur schmerzlich vermisst werden. Das Ergebnis ist in rarer Weise ein Gesamtwerk - es ist SINNLICH - INTELLIGENT - KUNST und das alles zugleich!

Klaus Dilger, tanzweb.org 11/16

Photo Uwe Ernst.

studierte Tanz und Choreographie an der Theaterschule Amsterdam und Tanz/ Bewegungstherapie am Columbia College Chicago.

Soi is a freelance dance artist living in Hamburg. She works as a dancer, choreographer, actress, singer, dance and music teacher. She grew up in Greece, where she studied German language and literature and came to Hamburg in 2011 for her musical theatre studies. Since 2014 she's been working in the independent scene. At the Jahrmarkttheater in leading roles as an actress (2014-2016), as a choreographer in the inclusive theatre company Minotauros Kompanie (2018-2021) or as a singing actress and creator of "Heaven Can Wait" (2017-2021).

Soi Website

Catherine is a dancer, dance teacher and teacher trainer in both public conservatories and specialized schools for the performing arts.  She is a nationaly certified dance teacher, and has been teaching dance in France since 2008, initially for the Conservatoires à Rayonnement Régionaux, where she taught classical dance (ballet) and movement training for actors. Before that, she was a performer for fifteen years in dance companies in the network of municipal and national theatres in Germany and France.  She is also a teacher, tutor and thesis advisor for the state diploma courses of the Ecole Supérieure de Musique et de Danse Hauts - de - France and of the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse of Lyon. She is regularly asked to teach in the context of dancer training, for workshops and as a jury member for exemple at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, at the Centre National de la Danse of Lyon and Pantin, and at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional of Paris.  And she has chaired the COREIdanse collective since 2015. After being Coordinator of the dance department of the Conservatoire in Aubervilliers - La Courneuve, she is now the pedagogical director of dance studies at the Ecole Supérieure de Musique et de Danse Hauts-de-France.

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Jemima is a dancer and a choreographer.

She completed her studies at the Tanz Akademie Zürich. In 2009 she was a finalist at the Prix de Lausanne.

After completing her studies, she obtained several engagements including the Bavarian State Ballet, Friedrichstadt-Palast Berlin and Ballet of Difference.

As a freelance artist has worked as a guest with Theater Basel, Gintersdorfer/Klaßen, Donlon Dance Collective and Schauspiel Köln, amongst others. Jemima also works as a choreographer and premiered her first solo production “Gaia16aye” in Cologne last year.

Article from 'die Zeit' magazine.