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Be van Vark Born 1965/ based in Berlin, choreographer and teacher.

The range of her choreographic work is characterised by a passion for bringing together different people and styles, for moving both one and hundreds of people, and for developing projects for the stage as well as for public spaces. She works in established theatres and OFF theatres as well as museums, in urban spaces as well as in nature.

On 2 October 2018, she was awarded the Cross of Merit on Ribbon by the German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier for her work. The laudation gets to the heart of her work (and the systemic relevance of culture in general) - it says: "Be van Vark shows that culture is not an elitist luxury activity, but belongs to the existence of every human being".

Here are a few stations and reference projects:

In 1994 she founded the van Vark company (until 2002).

Since 2002 she has been working with the concept "tanztheater-global", which she developed and which brings together amateurs with professional performers. To date, more than forty projects have been realised internationally within this framework.

Since 2011, she has been chairwoman of the association "Tänzer ohne Grenzen e.V." (Dancers without Borders). In 2021, she created the dance film "Nur der Augenblick zählt" (Only the Moment Counts) with seven dancers and older people with and without dementia.

From August 2022 - May 2023 she is working with "Tänzer ohne Grenzen e.V." with the Kulturlandbüro on a production for 22 villages in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Since 2016, she has been working with the Genshagen Foundation in the "Nomadic Laboratory" format, with which she initiates international transcultural dance projects. This work will continue in 2021/2022 with the project "Neighbours".

2011-2018 she choreographed large stage pieces with up to 300 performers for the education projects of the Brandenburg State Orchestra.

Since 2012, she has worked closely with the Bürgerstiftung Halle as part of the "Max macht Oper" programme. The work "Little Poem for Big Stutterers" was an award-winning project in the "Children to Olympus" competition of the Kulturstiftung der Länder. The work will continue with a new project in July 2022.

In 2017- 2021, she realised intergenerational dance projects with over 100 dancers at the Halle/ Saale Opera House in cooperation with the Halle Civic Foundation "Eine Stadt tanzt".

From March to August 2021, she worked on the project Salvage . Funding from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in the NEUSTART KULTUR programme, aid programme DIS-TANZEN of the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland (umbrella organisation for dance in Germany) enabled her to archive and deal with her creative history. This work will be continued and deepened from February 2022 thanks to further funding.

She is active as a lecturer at the Braunschweig University of the Arts (3/2022, at the University Mozarteum Salzburg ( 11/2021), at the Berlin University of the Arts_Career College (since 2018 ) and at the Zurich University of the Arts (3-10/2021), among others.

In the winter semester 2020/21 she held the Berthold Brecht Guest Professorship of the City of Leipzig at the Institute of Theatre Studies. The appreciation, presentation of the scenic project and a discussion evening with Dr. Vito Pinto will take place in April 2022.

Information on current projects at:

https://bevanvark.wordpress.com

https://www.taenzerohnegrenzen.de/

"I originally studied dance but see my work as positioned between visual and performing arts. I am fascinated by the field of tension in which the body finds itself and its roles as an instrument, as an object, as a living art object and as a human being itself. I am also interested in the ephemeral and the permanent, the content and expression, the political, social, emotional and aesthetic, but also the possibilities, opportunities, problems and demands. I work on the art of seduction and the seduction of art."

Ben J. Riepe, Jahrgang 1979, studierte Tanz und Choreographie an der Essener Folkwang Universität der Künste. Nach dem Abschluss war er als Bühnentänzer u. a. beim Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch für die Produktionen „Das Frühlingsopfer“ und „Tannhäuser“ sowie bei V.A. Wölfl/NEUER TANZ engagiert. Der seit 2006 freischaffende und bereits mehrfach ausgezeichnete Choreograph betreibt seit 2010 eine eigene Produktionsstätte in Düsseldorf und realisiert regelmäßig eigene Produktionen mit verschiedenen Tänzer*innen und Auftragsarbeiten u. a. für das Goethe-Institut Malaysia in Kooperation mit DPAC DANCE COMPANY, die Korea National Contemporary Dance Company in Kooperation mit dem Goethe-Institut Korea, das Folkwang Tanzstudio Essen, für die Tanz-Absolvent*innen der Folkwang-Hochschule und das Theaterfestival FAVORITEN. Immer wieder wird Riepe auch als Gastchoreograph für renommierte Kompanien eingeladen, so z.B für das Ballet am Rhein (2017), die Dance Company Osnabrück (2019) oder die AURA Dance Company (2020).

In Workshops, wie zuletzt beispielsweise im Rahmen von SYNERGIZE! des NRW-Kultursekretariats, werden seine Arbeitsweise, Recherchethemen, sein Verständnis von Choreographie sowie der Umgang mit Raum und Zeit für Interessierte zugänglich gemacht. Seit 2009 erhält Ben J. Riepe die Spitzenförderung Tanz, seit 2018 die Exzellenzförderung Tanz des Landes NRW sowie seit 2015 die Spitzenförderung der Stadt Düsseldorf.

2018 erdenkt und initiiert Ben J. Riepe den FREIRAUM, einen kollaborativen, interdisziplinären Konzeptions- und Arbeitsort für die Künste und kunstnahen Wissenschaften, der durch die Förderung von TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund realisiert und im Januar 2020 in Düsseldorf eröffnet wird.

Von 2013–2016 war Ben J. Riepe Affiliated Artist bei PACT Zollverein in Essen, wo er mehrere Produktionen erarbeitete und uraufführte. Im Frühjahr 2017 erhielt er ein Stipendium für das Residenzprogramm Vila Sul des Goethe-Instituts Salvador de Bahia, Brasilien.

Für seine Arbeit Livebox: Persona wurde Ben J. Riepe 2016 mit dem Jurypreis des Theaterfestivals FAVORITEN Dortmund ausgezeichnet. 2018 erhielt er den durch die Stiftung der Freunde und Förderer der Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften vergebenen Konrad-Arnold Preis und 2019 die George Tabori Auszeichnung des Fonds Darstellende Künste. Im März 2020 wird Ben J. Riepe als Mitglied der Kunst-Klasse der Nordrhein- westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste gewählt.

Ben J. Riepe lebt mit seinem Partner und ihrem achtjährigen Sohn in Düsseldorf.

Foto (Markus Feger)

https://www.benjriepe.com/

Career:

2020-2022 Teacher, Stage movement with the basics of acting, Academy of Music in Katowice, Jazz and Popular Music Department

2020-2022  Coordinator and choreographer in the Art Spaces Katowice - Ministry of Culture Program

202-2022 Dance teacher: developing the program and conducting regular dance classes More years means more life for people after 50 years of age

2020 Dancer, choreographer: By the time, an intergenerational performance

2020 Dancer, choreographer in: LEGREBI, dir. Per Spildra-Bord,

2020 Choreographer's Assistant: I'll Be Back for My Heart , chor. J. Łumiński

2019 Dancer in : Orfeusz i Eurydyka, dir. M. Piekorz

2019 Researcher- dancer in: Polish contemporary dance technique. Body, modernity, tradition, identity, dr Jacek Łumiński

2019-2020 Expert in : Polish Dance Chronicle, documentation of activities related to the art of dance in the province. Silesian and Opole

2019 Panelist: National Conference "The Art of Education" , Zachęta National Gallery of Art 2019 Dancer in: Dzień, chor. Aleksandra Nowakowska , project inspired by Polish folklore . Gdańsk Dance Festival, ŻAK Club Residence.

2018 Actor in: Mannequin Ball, dir. J.Stuhr, Och-Teatr

2018 Dancer in: Rozkosz , dir. Jakub Lewandowski, performance presented in the finals of the Polish Dance Platform

2018 Assistant professor: Scenes, Prof. Allen Kuharski, AST WTT Bytom

2017 Dancer in: Bezdech , chor. Sylwia Hefczyńska-Lewandowska

2017 Researcher-choreographer in:  Oral History of Dance in China , research project led by Dr. Jacek Łumiński

2016-2017  Actor, choreographer in: Nowe Athens, dir. Maciej Gorczyński

2016 Choreographer in: Circovita: I hvalens buk, dir. Per Spildra-Borg

Performance based on the history of whaling and the inhabitants of Sandefjord

2015-2016  Dancer in: Shamans Dream, dir. Per Spildra-Borg

Education:

2013-2018 Academy of Theater Arts St. Wyspiański in Krakow - Faculty of Dance Theater in Bytom, Specialty: dance theater actor, Interests: anthropology, perception and imagination, the role of theater and dance in social and cultural processes, Polish Contemporary Dance Technique

2011-2013 State Higher School of Theater L. Solski in Krakow - Department of Drama Directing, Major: theater directing Interests : methods of working with an actor, dramaturgy and narration

2013 Academy of Alternative Theater  All-Poland, annual project of educating young leaders

2010-2011 University of Derby, UK

Joint honors: Theater Arts, Dance and Movement

Interests: techniques of acting and dance training, sociology

TINA WEILER

- 2002-2006 Studied Directing/ Choreography, Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts, Berlin

- 1996-2000 studied dance pedagogy, Palucca University of Dance Dresden

- since 1998 freelance pedagogue (early childhood education, youth, higher education, work with the hearing and speech impaired, training and further education of performing artists and professionals in cultural education)

- since 2004 freelance choreographer (APRITI SCENA - Festival internationale di teatro e danza Milano, Freie Kammerspiele Magdeburg, Kammertheater Dresden, Theater am alten Gaswerk Hamburg, Theater Putbus, Theatersommer Netzeband, Bar jeder Vernunft etc.) 

- since 2008 educational director SENECA INTENSIV - educational programmes for artistic movement  

- since 2020 Advisor within the framework of the advisory programme for artists of the PAP Berlin          

- 2006-2015 Chair of the Board of Directors of Landesverband für Tanz und Tanzpädagogik Berlin e. V.   

- Author (Publishers an der Ruhr, area of movement and language development)

- Tina lives in Berlin and Leipzig and is a mother of three children.

www.senecaintensiv.de

Stefanie Nelson is the Founder and Artistic Director of Stefanie Nelson Dancegroup (SND) a contemporary performance group based in NYC, and DANCE ITALIA, a month-long, international, summer dance program in Lucca, IT, as well as Motore592, a new cultural center opening soon in Lucca, Italy.  Nelson’s work as a choreographer has been described as ‘instinctual, untamed, and edgy’ (Eva Yaa Asanantewaa) known for an intuitive approach that distills deeply personal ideas into highly kinetic, expressive, and provocative works of art, rooted in cross-media collaboration with artists working in music, video, and visual arts.  Nelson has extensive experience in designing and teaching dance-based educational programs both locally and internationally since 1997.  Since 2015 Nelson leads the Dance Initiative at AHRC NYC, a disabilities service organization. Having danced with many local New York City choreographers, Nelson also works on independent choreographic projects. Highlights include feature film Plan-B, starring Diane Keaton, NY Fashion Week, and the NYC store opening of Flying Tiger. Nelson served as a Choreography panelist for New York Foundation for the Arts Artists’ Fellowships, was selected as an NYFA 'Emerging Leader' in the field of dance for a year-long mentorship in Arts Administration, and was an NYFA mentor for the 2018 & 2019 cohort of ‘Emerging Leaders’. Recent support for her work includes the National Endowment for the Arts, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone, and the US Small Business Administration.

www.sndancegroup.org

www.danceitalia.com

www.motore592.com

Michael Langeneckert works freelance as a choreographer, teacher and dancer and lives in Freiburg/Germany. In October 2018 he founded his new label moving orchestra (www.movingorchestra.com). He creates dance projects in Freiburg supportet by the City Freiburg and State BW, works international as a guest choreographer for companies as well for schools and universities. He teaches contemporary classes across Europe at companies, schools and free institutions. In the next season beside his freelance work he will be guest professor at Folkwang University Essen. He is teaching and creating at Codarts Rotterdam/N, Fontys Tilburg/N, Tanzwerk 101 Zürich/CH, Amsterdam University/N, Danceworks Berlin, Marameo Berlin, Sozo Kassel, Profitraining Zürich, Basel, Luzern/CH, Theater Bern/CH, Staatstheater Braunschweig, Skanes Dans Teater Malmö/S, Arterballetto Reggio Emilia/IT and many more.

https://movingorchestra.com/movingorchestra

Since 2019 lecturer for contemporary dance at Schule für Bühnentanz Pergel-Ernst ( Düsseldorf ); 2001-2007 lecturer for jazz dance, contemporary dance and choreography at Tanz Akademie Arnheim ( ARTEZ ), Netherlands; since 1989 lecturer for jazz dance and contemporary dance at TANZHAUS NRW ( Düsseldorf ); 

Guest teacher 

2019 Lecturer for Contemporary Dance at TANZ LAND IM MÜNSTERLAND, 2003 Lecturer at Internationale Workshop INNSBRUCK, 2000 Guest Lecturer at Theater der Stadt Heidelberg ; 1997-99 Guest Lecturer at Neuer Tanz ( Wanda Golonka, Va Wölf ), 1995-2005 Lecturer for Contemporary Dance in Lugano ( Switzerland ), Since 1989 Weber Schule ( Düsseldorf ), Tanzinitiative Köln, Tanztage Tübingen, Sommerakademie Aachen and others.

Choreographic activities and projects 

Since 2008 various choreographies and projects in the context of Dance in Schools, and Chance Tanz; 2001-2007 various choreographies for the students of the Dance Academy Arnhem ( ARTEZ ); 1996 "L'ultimo sguardo" in the context of Tanz- Hautnah ( Dance Initiative Cologne ); Since 1989 various productions and performances in Germany, Italy, Switzerland ; 1987 "Distonico" as a young choreographer at the Folkwang Hochschule.

Dance performances 

Since 1989 Versch. Companies of the independent scene and own productions; 1991-94 Salzburg Festival ( Austria ); 1990 1st. Jazz Dance World Congress ( Chicago, USA ); 1980-86 Various dance companies, theatres and television. Dance companies, theatre and television in Italy.

Acting activities

1978 Performances with Living Theatre in Rome; 1975-86 Coop. Teatro di Sardegna, Arka h.c.e. ( founding member ), Akroama ( founding member ), Italy.

Education

1986-89 Further education at the Folkwang-Hochschule Essen, under the direction of Pina Bausch;1983 Dance diploma at A.S.M.E.D. ( Associazione Sarda Musica E Danza ); 1973-79 Theatre training at Coop. Teatro di Sardegna ( Cagliari ), Teatro Alberico ( Rome ), with A. Boal, Julian Beck, Judith Malina ( Living Theatre ), S. Scierskij ( Teatr Laboratorium Wroklaw von J. Grotowskij ).

PRIZES AND COMPETITIONS

1988 1st prize Profumi di Sardegna ( with distinction ); 1986 scholarship of the regions of Sardinia in collaboration with the EU for study abroad.

David Zambrano has been a monumental figure in the international dance community for more than 35 years, and his passion for cultural exchange continues to influence his work. Zambrano is an ambassador and liaison across many borders, bringing together artists from all over the planet for his projects. He has taught his own approach to dance in more than 75 countries and has performed at hundreds of venues across the world. His pieces range from set choreography, structured improvisation, and pure improvisation. Born in Venezuela, Zambrano spent 15 years in New York and now lives in between Amsterdam and Brussels.

http://www.davidzambrano.org/

https://tictacartcentre.com/

Caterina Mascia began her contemporary dance training with the youth ensemble J.E.T. under the direction of Ulla Geiges. At the age of 16, she took part in the exchange programme "EU-China Arts Summer School" in Beijing as a representative of Germany. In the following years she was a member of the Junior Company Index of the two choreographers Amelie Jalowy and Guido Markowitz. She was a guest dancer at the Theater Dortmund and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, among others. In addition to her dance career, Caterina Mascia studied humanities at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf and completed a Master's degree in Romance Studies: Cultural Contacts and Communication. Since October 2014, she has been a project manager at the Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Tanz NRW.

Damian Gmür, geboren und aufgewachsen in der Schweiz, absolvierte an der Schweizerischen Ballettberufsschule (heutige Tanzakademie Zürich) eine Bühnentanzausbildung. Als Tänzer arbeitet er in internationalen Engagements, u.a. bei der Iceland Dance Company, der Tanzkompanie Staatstheater Oldenburg/MS Schrittmacher Berlin, am Staatstheater Darmstadt, am Theater Bern und Theater St. Gallen und in weiteren freischaffenden Projekten. 2007 startete er seine freiberufliche Tätigkeit als Tänzer, Choreograph und Dozent. Hierbei sammelte er weitere künstlerische Erfahrungen u.a. in Engagements bei Gregor Zöllig, Johannes Wieland, Roberto Olivan, Guy&Ronnie, Nils Christe, Örjan Anderson, Philippe Blanchard, Richard Wherlock, Tamas Juronics, Gonzalo Galguera, Martin Stiefermann und Mei Hong Lin. In Zusammenarbeit mit Rita Aozane Bilibio entstand eine Vielzahl eigener Stücke u.a. für das TanzArt Festival/Theater Giessen, das Reykjavik Dance Festival, das Urban Street Art Festival Pottporus, Tanztheater Festival Erfurt und das Festival tanzinwinterthur sowie für das Tanzhaus nrw, wo er als Choreograph oder Co-Choreograph Jugendproduktionen leitete. Im Mai 2019 kreierte er seine zweite Soloarbeit für das Ballett Theater Pforzheim: „Wolken die uns nicht tragen“ (zum Video »).

Theater Pforzheim