Berlin Diagonale − Show Camp

Andrei Cucu and Yannis Mitsos have found each other by chance. They both speak about places, they speak about nature, they speak about moods. One of them uses his body, the other his sounds. They both come from somewhere else, from places very different than here, yet they call this their home for now. 

animi motus is a contemporary dance company based in Berlin, whose work responds to cultural and educational policy issues. A fusion of several art forms, but grounded in performance, animi motus seeks out collaboration with international artists. The works are staged in Berlin and internationally and have a socio-cultural content. The companys moving language is based on a physical and abstract way within the Contemporary Dance and includes influences of urban, classical and other dance genres with strong theatrical pictures.

The Italian artist Annalisa Derossi studied both piano and dance, and is settled in Germany since 1991. For over 30 years her passion and talent for interdisciplinary projects has brought her in all possible combinations and functions (dancer, performer, pianist, actress, musical director, composer, choreographer etc.) to engagements in Germany, Italy, France, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium. Represented are both major theaters, as well as hidden niches of the independent scene and site specific projects. In her own pieces she likes to explore the connection between movement and music.

Berit Einemo Frøysland is a Norwegian dancer and choreographer based in Berlin. She graduated at Balettakademien in Stockholm in 2016 and has since worked with Siciliano Contemporary Ballet, Satoshi Kudo, Marina Abramovic and Jeff Pedersen Productions. As a choreographer she has made dance pieces and dance films. Her pieces utilize literary, filmic and philosophic works into choreographic adaptations. She has performed in Norway, Germany, Sweden, Thailand and Japan. Last year, she was invited to perform a solo at Den Nationale Scene in Bergen.

Blauhauch is an international, all-female theatre company based in Berlin and London. We create our own original stage plays and offer self-empowering, artistic workshops. Everything between dream and reality is what inspires our work. With humor we let our intuition explore the meaning of our individual and collective truth as women. Our artistic approach celebrates the irrational.

Camila Rhodi is a performance and video artist. The artist has shown her work in the Parallel Program of Manifesta in Russia, at the WRO Media Art Biennale in Poland, at viennacontemporary and many other venues in Europe, Israel, Tunisia, Brazil and Australia. Her first solo exhibition was in the Finish gallery Musterzimmer in Berlin in 2013. Her live performances, videos and multimedia installations deal with topics such as love, loneliness, gender, violence and sexuality.

Born in Ireland. In the early stages of his life he had little exposure to the arts until the age of 15 where he began juggling and dancing. In 2006 as he finished school Darragh packed his bags for Berlin to attend a full time programm at the Jonglier Katakomben School of Juggling. In 2008 Darragh attended the Academy for Circus and Performance Art. Darragh completed his education with a Bachelor Degree in 2012. Since then he have performed at numberous festivals around the world, taken residencies in over 12 countries.

DIE SPALTER are a free Berlin-based theatre collective. Their work can be described as a powerful reckoning with Western society and its execution of power dynamics in the private sphere, as well as in institutions and throughout history. They look for butterflies on battlefields, examine the destroyed subject and and redefine it from an existential point of view. Their acting is committed to strike, physically challenging and hung up on utopias. They understand their work as a contribution to breaking free from routines and habits while pinpointing at power dynamics.

In Kyung Lee (Inky) is a South Korean artist living in Berlin. In performance making, she weaves threads of elements - music, dance, poetry, light, costume, prop – into an intentional fabric. Her works have been presented in venues in USA, Germany and South Korea. She was artist in residence at Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture (KR), Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts (USA) and Lake Studios Berlin (DE). Inky earned her BFA in Dance at Smith College, One Year Diploma at Trinity Laban Dance and MFA in Dance at Arizona State University.

Irina Demina is a choreographer and dancer, founder of LOST&FOUND Ltd (bodies/spaces/stories/words). Born in Poland, based in Berlin. She made her dance education in Moscow and Hamburg. Graduated from Moscow State Lomonosov University (Philology) and received MA degree in Choreography at HZT Berlin. As a dancer or interpreter she worked among others with choreographers like Xavier le Roy, Angela Guerreiro, Soodong Jung, Halla Olafsdottir. 2013 her solo “Dark Quark” received the 3rd prize in the competition “The best German dance solo” at Euro-Scene Festival Leipzig.

Isadorino Gore was founded in 2012 by Sasha Portyannikova and Dasha Plokhova, alumnae of Vaganova Ballet Academy. Sasha and Dasha regard dance as a cultural phenomenon, create dance performances, teach, experiment and research different movements and art forms. Participants of international scholarship programs with residences in USA (Fulbright Program), Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany. Cooperations with Amnesty International, Goethe Institute, Pro Helvetia Foundation, V-A-C Foundation, ZKM, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow Museum of Modern Art and other.

The Kollektiv 52°07 is a platform that supports and explores artistic visions. Our name "52°07" is derived from a mix of the geographical coordinates of Bern and Berlin. 52 - Berlin, the place we met and 07 – Bern, the place our first premier ”Bird” took place and the seat of our collektive. We are five dancers and one musician. We collaborate with artists from different disciplines. As a collective we all have a voice. Therefore in the artistic research we work without any hierarchy.

Based in Berlin since 2008. While finishing his Philosophy studies at the Barcelona University he began his performative activity between physical theatre, dance, Butoh and activism. Once in Berlin, he focuses exclusively on performing arts. In 2012 he directed the TATWERK Berlin for almost three years, turning the theatre atelier into a centre for education, production and exhibition of performing arts, with relevance in the artistic landscape of Berlin. In 2015 he returns to theory and finishes the MA in Performance Studies at the University of Hamburg two years later.

MENADE is an artist collective, that tests and finds ways to break the boarders between opera and theatre. They re-contextualize classical materials, they experiment, renew and challenge. Their focus is the role of the woman and questions of identity. The group started to work together in 2015 during their studies and they developed a special way of working together: directing, set and costume design leave their own territory and they unite at equal levels in the production.

Ming sees movement not only as a physical activity, but also as a social one. To move is to relate. His approach to dance is one where there are no dancers, only people in a constant process of relating as they reach out, converge, meet and separate. Very often, he explores themes of vulnerability, intimacy, peripherality and failures. His works are interactive in design. He creates performances where audience are invited to collaborate. By interrogating and shifting the politics of the body in his works, he hopes to bring about an embodied and empathic way of relating between people.

Noemi Veberič Levovnik is active in the fields of performing arts, music, visual art and moving image. She graduated from Film and Fine Arts at the University of Paris 8 and from Contemporary Art at the Ecole supérieure d’art de Quimper. Her artistic practice is at the constant intersection of different artistic disciplines, techniques and media such as drawing, painting, installation, music, photography, performance, dance and video. She explores the notions of identity, gender, feminine, the aesthetic of dream and representations of psychological phenomena.

Ren Saibara is a Japanese director, actress and performer. She studied German studies in Tokyo and historical urban studies in Berlin. She founded the artist collective actnetwork in Japan and has shown her works in several international theater festivals in Japan. In her works she compares the Japanese perspective with the European, often calling the comprehensive global mechanism in current social problems into question. At the same time, she confronts the insurmountable strangeness between German and Japanese culture.

S R & C o m p a n y is a freelance, independent and self-financed contemporary dance community since 2008. We develop project-related contemporary choreographies and dance performances for Berlin dance scene's events as well as for in-house productions. We offer a diverse repertory of contemporary choreographies, dance performances, show and classical dance pieces. S R & C o m p a n y is an encounter of dancers, choreographers and musicians to merge individual work. Our subject is the engagement with ourselves, the human being, its downs and ups.

Performance artist and opera singer. Sang as a solist with orchestras world wide and as a member of the Opera Studio of the New Israeli Opera. Since moving to Berlin in 2012 he works with various opera ensembles and experimental theatre makers. s.a. Philinne Rinnert & Johannes Müller. Founder of the House of Mazeltov, a drag performance group researching the performative aspects of the voice, gender, tradition and identitiy. In 2017 he presented his solo performance “Salvation (Glitter doesn’t care I’m a boy)” in Berlin.

Shiran Eliaserov is an award winning choreographer, performer and a video artist. In 2011 she graduated from SEAD Salzburg Experimental Dance Academy and obtains a Masterdegree in Choreography from HZT (Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin). Beyond her own work Eliaserov creates platforms for emerging artist to exhibit, network and establish international relations. She is the initiator of Construction-Site (TLV) and co-directed the international collective MakeSpeak . In 2016 Eliaserov had launched along with the director Johan Planefeldt the Holytropic Film Production.

In their performative installations and media - performances Humatic and Veruschka Bohn explore the human body, movement and time axis manipulations. The artists are using beyond live performance also digital video, sound and specially developed software tools.

Zander Porter is an artist, performer, and curator from Los Angeles. Zander's moving image and liveness work develops from interest in social and collective vs. “individuated” identity- or persona-based investigation. Both social and (dis)embodiment researches focus on virtual and physical spaces of sexual and nonsexual roleplay, including online reality TV competition games, MMOGs, and (anonymous) (cam)sex, among others.