Gefördert vom Fonds Darstellende Künste aus Mitteln

der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien.

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Obsessed with the infinite possibilities of manipulating objects, Stefan Sing has been researching this universe for more than 30 years. Stefan's style of dealing with objects has influenced the performance world immensely.

Theory

In addition to his own active work as an object manipulator, Stefan has always developed a theoretical foundation for his work. Equipped with a degree (1996-2002) in philosophy and modern German literature, the reflection on the nature of objects and their body movement is an equal partner to the action itself.

Mediation / teaching

From the beginning, he was also enthusiastic about imparting knowledge, and has accompanied many students and prospective performers in their development. Since 2000, Stefan has been touring the world's performing schools, including ESAC (Brussels), Lido (Toulouse), ENC (Montreal), Fratellini (Paris), etc ...   

Liam taught himself to juggle in 2002 and immediately knew that he had discovered an important part of his life. After completing his studies in artificial intelligence and linguistics, he left Scotland to explore the European circus scene, where his vision of juggling expanded and began to dissolve boundaries between dance, mime, magic and object manipulation. He grew passionate about sharing his work as a means to develop his own movement style in conversation with audiences, and in 2010 he became a full-time performer. His interest in the relationship between language, dance and juggling remains the driving force in his professional life.

Mental magic.
They meet for the first time in autumn 1999. They soon discover that they share the same passion for mystery, poetry, and most importantly, mind reading, telepathy and all kinds of mystical phenomena. Vivian Sommer, born in 1974, grew up as the daughter of German-Danish parents in Iran and Brazil. After graduating from high school in Germany, she studied art / illustration in Hamburg for a diploma. Roman von Thurau, born 1986 in Flensburg, studied psychology in Hamburg, but soon switched to magic. Together they have been devoting themselves to psychomagic since 2001. Their art is always characterized by the combination of telepathic experiments and surrealistic hand made visuals to illustrate the world of thoughts.

photo © Ben Hopper

Actress and contortionist, trained since age 3 in dance, gymnastics, martial arts, music, and circus. Has a few Guinness World Records for contortion. Stage and screen highlights: Britains Got Talent 2012 semifinalist, Eurovision Turkey 2011 dancer, Cirque du Soleil, Cirque Eloize, The Box Soho, Staatsoper Hamburg, and more. Trained at the National Circus School of Canada for contortion. Equipped with Rokoko mocap. Has a Bachelors in Media from University of Westminster London, a Masters of Creative Technology and Advanced Marketing Management from Miami Ad School Europe and Steinbeis Hochschule Berlin. Loves to combine art and tech.
Is half-British and Filipina and loves warm weather but lives in Germany.

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.

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.

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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 Company 2525.

Laura Ann Hinkelmann is a graduated contemporary dancer since 2020.
Born in Philadelphia (USA- Pennsylvania), grew up in germany and started dancing ballet when she was 4 years old. In 2012 she discovered the jazz/modern dance world and joined a competition team. In which Laura got to train, choreograph, teach and dance dou's/solo's in a competitive field.
Her love for musicals made her join the Young Talent Program of the Stage School Hamburg, where she got physically and theoretically trained in dancing, singing and acting. Laura joined the 3 year dance education of the Contemporary Dance School Hamburg in 2017.
Befor, while and after those 3 years, she participated in many small projects, short education, dance camps, classes and workshops. Her way of moving is inspired and a mix of dancehall, contemporary, openstyle, hiphop, afro and commercial dance. Laura is a dancer of the group Chefboss since 2020 and danced in the musicvideo of Swiss+Die Anderen.
With her various interests in also singing, photography, music, drawing, writing and more...turns Laura into a very curious, creative, energetic, thoughtful, open minded and diverse artist.

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 is a producer and director in the field of physical and visual 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 is 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

Nana Anine is a Danish dancer and performer. 

In 2015 she moved to Haarlem in The Netherlands, where she danced in the youth company of Dance in Art as a mentee. 

Afterwards she started her studies at The Contemporary Dance School of Hamburg to widen her practise in the contemporary dance field. 

After graduating in 2018, she got a contract with the Hamburgian Thalia Theater dancing in the ensemble, choreography under Eyal Dadon, regie under Antú Romero Nunes. Alongside she co-founded the international dance collective of Hamburg Kollektiva. Kollektiva. have shown their works at various inland stages and at the nunArt Guinardo in Barcelona. They also provide weekly dance classes for professional dancers. 

In 2019 Nana Anine received a scholarship to continue her studies at the dance platform in Torino, Nuova Officina Della Danza. 

In the end of 2019 she did a 3 months long art residency at The LungA School in Iceland where she researched and premiered her work, Tomorrow I Was Raining. Furthermore she taught the students at the art academie in movement and dance techniques. Her latest work Planet no 2, a research on Femininity, was made with support from the canadian Addo Platform and through Women’s Health & Human Right Studies online from Stanford University. 

Nana Anine is inspired by working in cross-disciplinary collaboration with other artists which already shows from her first solo-work JUICE in 2016 and later in projects in the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Spain, Denmark, The States and Iceland. Nana is in ongoing collaboration with american installation artist Monroe Isenberg and their most recent work will culminate from their planned residency in the Amazon jungle of Panama in 2022. 

At the moment Nana is working as a dancer for Israel Akpan Sunday’s production “IJAKADI OKAN”. 

Nana will start her Master studies of Performing Arts at The Danish National School of Performing Arts in 2021. 

Everything we perceive optically is light or has something to do with it. She has been working in the light since 25. It started with the "FLIEGENDE BAUTEN" where she was employed for 17 years until the end of the theater. She started working as a freelance technician or lighting designer during her time with the “FLIEGENDE BAUTEN”. After the end of the “FLIEGENDE BAUTEN” then finally independent. For festivals (Wilwarin, Fusion, off the Radar, Spiegelzelt Weimar, Meerkabarett) companies - Tangram Christiana Cassadio Stefan Sing, Sebastiano Toma various productions,  clubs, (Mojo Club Hamburg Logo Hamburg) and whatever results. the delightful thing about light is the combination of creativity, technical skills, Technology, imagination, working with people and physical movement. Nice job.

Emma Hellweg studied in Canada for a year, where she got involved in the Impro theater club. In 2020 she finished high school and is currently gaining experience to start her studies in „digital media culture“. She is interested in the development of theater pieces and documenting the process along the way.