SARAH ERNST

Born 1995 Leipzig/Germany

Sarah Ernst started her studies in philology and linguistics in 2013, during which she specialized in Latin American literature and identity during a stay abroad in Gran Canaria. Sarah was already intensively involved with dance during her university education in order to begin her training at the CDSH - Contemporary Dance School Hamburg in 2016. As a studied linguist, Sarah is interested in the verbalization of physical states and motoric-dance processes, as well as the connection of physical and verbal expressivity.

GINA LASKOWSKI

Gina Laskowski, born 1986 in Hamburg, Germany.

Gina studied social work in Hamburg and finished with a master degree. Influenced by these work her admiration goes to all the everyday acrobats and people dancing in the dark. Gina decided to go to the classic circus, when she was 23 years old. She became one of the few professional working aerial artists with working disabilitie. Gina joined the „in Cirque“ programm in berlin to learn more about creative movement and teaching joy of movement.

2015 Gina started working as a trainer in the inclusive dance and circus projects „interstice“ and „mirrowworlds“.

Beeing able and allowed to dance means feeling alive for Gina. Gina is the oldest performer of the Brain cast and at the same time the yongest in the field of prefessionel dance and theatre.

„Brain is like a present and a new chapter for me.“

GIOIA DE PICCOLI

Gioia De Piccoli, born in Italy (Venice) in 1997. Started her dance studies at the age of 11 mostly concentrating on Ballet and contemporary. In 2015 she graduated as professional dancer at LaChance Ballet (Rome) where she also graduated as a theacher the next year. She continued her studies at CDSH-Contemporary Dance School Hamburg to graduate in 2019. She worked as a dancer for the band Still in Search in 2016, in 2018 with Sticky Trace Company in the performance “Leaving” directed by Uta Engel, danced in pieces choreographed from Jason Mabana and Erika Silgoner. At the moment member of HDC-Hamburg Dance Company directed by Javier Baez Velez and dancer in several projects. Since 2020 she is part of the company 2525.

ROSE MARIE LINDSTRøM

Rose Marie Lindstrøm, a critical thinker, performer, provoker, collaborator, professional dancer, skilled artist with acting & singing experience.

25 years old, originally from Copenhagen, Denmark, based in Hamburg, Germany. 2020 graduated from the Contemporary Dance School of Hamburg.

Rose Marie has a strong background in flamenco dance which she started with as four years old, and later with 18 years she moved to Madrid to study at the well known Amor de Dios, Academy of Flamenco Dance.

In 2018 she became a former member of “Dancingbeasts” company in which she established with choreographer Lucas Kruse Kristiansen. “Dancingbeasts” has so far been performed in various spaces and festivals in Hamburg, Berlin & Copenhagen.

In 2020 she collaborated and became a dancer in the production of Revenants by Ursina Tossi & Company 2525 with Sebastiano Toma and choreographer Cristiana Casiado.

Rose Marie presents her work through different medias and collaborations with people from different artistic fields. As her own work which is moving from very performative interacting elements she likes to create spaces where oneself get provoked, questioned or criticized in a certain way. She is interested in the extreme physicality & mentality, likes using vocals and theatrical elements and see how the humanbody reforms through high technology and artificial intelligence.



FELICIA ALS KLEIN

Born 1997 Copenhagen/Danmark

FELICIA ALS KLEIN, a 23-year-old contemporary dancer, who just finished her 3-year diploma education at CDSH - Contemporary Dance School Hamburg in July 2020. Her physical training started with gymnastics at the age of 8, and when she turned 13 she transferred to acrobatics, joining a circus group. At 16 years old, she started with classical ballet and contemporary dance. She joined a 1-year pre-education in Copenhagen after her academic education ended, where she, the following year, was accepted into CDSH. In her first year in Hamburg, she became one of the founding members of the dance company, dancingbeasts, under artistic direction by Lucas Kruse Kristiansen.
Felicia is greatly fascinated by the incredible and unlimited capability of the body, both physically, emotionally, but also mentally. She will the following year be adding studies of nutrition, physiology and anatomy to get a broader knowledge about the body and how well we can take care of it to reach our limits in a respectable manner to our own flesh and bones.

BLÁTHIN ECKHARDT                                 

photo © Pawel Zielinski

Born 1996

Bláthin discovered dance shortly after she took to her feet. Throughout her upbringing in Bavaria, she danced Ballet, Modern, competed in Figure Skating and learned to play classical piano. What started as a desire to teach Ballet, became a reignition of her love and curiosity for artistic movement, sparked through contemporary dance. Bláthin earned a FETAC Level V in Dance from Inchicore College of Further Education and her Dance Diploma of Instruction awarded through ISTD in Dublin in 2017. In her last year of college, she was auditioning for Universities - ultimately deciding against continuing her studies in an institute. Instead, she came to Berlin, where she could learn freely on her own terms, unshackled from the review of points and awards so often associated with a dated class system and focus on her skills as a guitarist.

So far, Bláthin has worked in several projects in the Berlin free scene. She guested as a guitarist for singer and LGBTQ+ Icon Peaches at the International Music Awards 2019 and worked with Phase7 performing.arts under Sven Sören Bayer. In 2020, she has started composing and performing music for dance on the electric guitar and has worked with Die Etage performing arts, the State Ballet School of Berlin and Frankfurt University of the Arts. In 2021, she commenced working with Sebastiano Toma and Cristiana Casadio as part of Company2525.

CRISTIANA CASADIO - Choreography

Cristiana Casadio, born in Italy, was a professional rhythmic gymnast (Italian champion 1993). As a dancer she received scholarships at “Merce Cunninghum Studio”, Peridance Center, in New York and joined as a trainee the Aterballetto Company.
She worked in Enzo Celli’s “Botega”Dance Company (IT),J.K.Tyl Theater Pilsen (CZ) and for Balletto dell’Esperia (IT) directed by Paolo Mohovich, dancing principal roles.

Since 2010 she joins, as freelancer, different productions and projects, as a dancer and as choreographer (eg. Berliner Ensemble).
Her works are presented in international theaters and festivals such as Palcoscenico Danza Torino IT, Parktheater Eindhoven Holland, Festival Pies Para Que ́los Quiero, Zaragoza, Ringling International Festival of Arts,USA,...

SEBASTIANO TOMA - Directing/set design

Born - Genk/Belgium

Sebastiano Toma is a producer and director in the field of physical theater. As a freelance theater maker and set designer, he has, among other things, Staged and produced "Tiger Lillies Circus", "Balagan", "The Time Between", "The Tiger Lillies Freakshow", Little Big World "," HEART ", Normal Life" and most recently "BRAIN “. In the 1980s he had his permanent home on Kampnagel with the “Fliegende Bauten Company”. Since 2012 he has been the artistic director of the European Youth Circus Festival in Wiesbaden. As co-author of the Manifesto of the Contemporary Circus in Germany, he is committed to anchoring the New Circus as an integral part of the supported culture.

Link: Manifesto of the Contemporary Circus

LARA KUOM - Dramaturgy

Lara Kuom was born in Cologne, Germany in 1995. In 2015 she started studying the programme Metropolitan Culture in Hamburg with a focus on artistic research and critical urban studies. In the scope of the programme she spend 8 months at the Facultad de las Bellas Artes in Bilbao and deepened her artistic focus in the areas painting and film. Back in Germany she joined the organization and curatorial team for an architecture festival, the Hamburger Architektur Sommer 2019 and also participated in coordinating the events of the Bauhaus jubilee for Hamburg. Currently she is studying on the Master’s programme Applied Cultural Sciences.