Pitching Session

Adam Russell-Jones is a dance artist from the United Kingdom who lives in Berlin. With a background in classical ballet and a career with some of Europe's most renowned dance companies, his work focuses on the themes of labour, class and exhaustion from a choreographic perspective. 

Constantin Trommlitz is a choreographer and filmmaker with a background in breaking. With his ‘Dynamic Connection’ method, he has developed a choreographic approach that facilitates both community and authenticity. Dancers from different backgrounds can connect with each other both in movement and in their intentions – while remaining true to their own style. 

Fia/Sophia Neises is a performer, choreographer, access dramaturge and disability rights activist. Her artistic research is based on the aesthetics of access. She is currently interested in the tension between abstraction and missing out. Her latest work, BIOFUCK, is a loving political statement on queer and disabled memory culture. 

Lotte Mueller explores the connection between contemporary dance, circus arts and live music. Her pieces open up spaces in which current social issues, interdependencies and interpersonal communication can be experienced. Her subtle tragicomedy creates an accessible bridge to the audience. 

Emi Miyoshi explores the depth inherent in the Japanese word SHIBUI, which is created through time and experience. She combines dance, music, visual arts and social practice to create poetic spaces in which experiences such as identity, connectedness and transience emerge from inner layers and become physically tangible. 

Colette Sadler's multidisciplinary choreographic work focuses on the transformative power of the human body – imagined through its relationship with the non-human. With the help of fiction, the bodies in her works transcend boundaries: between life and death, the real and the virtual, the past and the future, the organic and the artificial. 

Improvisation practices and strategies form the core method of ‘Cranky Bodies a/company’. The ensemble was founded in 2020 by Peter Pleyer and Michiel Keuper, together with an international group of dancers. Its aim is to further develop interdisciplinary choreographic ensemble works through non-hierarchical, collective working methods. 

Taiwanese choreographer Fang Yun Lo has been working under the label Polymer DMT since 2011. Her artistic focus has expanded from intimate dance pieces to (semi-)documentary dance theater and dance for young audiences. Her themes include social and political issues, particularly in the area of people from different cultures living together. 

With her roots in ‘self-taught’ dance cultures, Yeliz Pazar creates platforms and movement formats that give visibility to underrepresented dance styles, people and bodies. In her pioneering and community work in the dance style Waacking, she organised the first international festival and created the first Waacking dance theatre piece in Germany. 

ZINADA ist ein Performance-Kollektiv unter der Leitung von Jin Lee und Jihun Choi mit Sitz in München und Seoul. Ihre Werke beschäftigen sich mit Themen wie Umsiedlung, Adoleszenz, Dissonanz und vererbter Trauer, die sie in poetischer und körperlicher Form entfalten. Die Werke sind für ein Publikum jeden Alters zugänglich.