Carolin Jüngst and Lisa Rykena work as an artistic duo between the cities of Munich and Hamburg. In their dance productions they roam through strip clubs, 1920s vaudeville theaters, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, or queer comic conventions and let mermaids, she hulks, expressive arias, velvet stages, and marble down jackets collide. Their work is engaged with queerfeminist, intersectional, and Ableism-critical body discourses and the transformation of normative categorizations of bodies. Drawing on classical, mythological, and pop cultural materials, they create characters that defy the stereotypes and clichés of heteronormative attributions. Since 2020, as part of the research project “Spoken Dance” (together with choreographer Ursina Tossi), they have been intensively exploring the artistic and political potential of audio description. They regularly produce their pieces in co-production with Kampnagel, Hamburg, and the HochX, Munich. Their works have been invited to various festivals. The production “She legend” was also presented at the Tanzplattform 2022, Berlin.
Chiara Marcassa (*1997) ist freiberufliche Künstlerin. Sie wuchs im ländlichen Italien auf und studierte (BA und MA) am Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft in Gießen. Marcassa realisiert Performances und Kostüme und schreibt Texte. Sie lebt in Frankfurt am Main.
Antonia, Chiara and Aran met at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies in Gießen and have for the most part worked separately from each other so far. What combines their practices is a heightened focus on the performativity of and differing modes of using and displaying sound, sonic media, voice and narration within performative and theatrical settings – looking for experimental ways to open up the field to a more auditive rather than predominantly visual experience and awareness, with subtle affirmation.
As with many sound practitioners over the last few years, they have also all started to develop a growing interest in the recording and enhancing of moments, soundscapes and chance encounters from the everyday. Their shared practice is focussing on these artefacts. During the festival there will be a homepage and posters spread to share ideas and get in contact. There will be no instagram.
ASJA is a theater maker and deals on and off stage with playful formats that blur fiction and everyday life. She comes from Mannheim and, after studying Arabic studies in Marburg and Cairo, ended up at the Giessen Institute for Applied Theater Studies. Since 2020 she lives in Frankfurt Bahnhofsviertel and works as a trained mediator, as well as a theater maker,
dramaturge and performer.
Tilman Aumüller writes and makes collaborative art. He is interested in how fictions and play, create world and communities and put existing reality into question. He is interested in the grotesque embodiment of thoughts and the narrativization of bodies. Tilman is co-founder of the artist* collective ScriptedReality, the role-play-game club “The Club of What If”, as well as co-creator of the festival IMPLANTIEREN 2022/23. He studied applied theater and visual arts and lives in Frankfurt am Main and sometimes in Prague.
Mareike Buchmann is a freelance dancer and performer. She has produced numerous pieces and
will in the future lead the ensemble IDA FLUX. With SYMSOMA she pursues her vision of
movement research dedicated to the experience of bodies in movement. She lives in Wiesbaden.
Jacob Bussmann lives in Frankfurt/M and works as a musician and performer. He studied piano at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt/M and the Sibelius Academy Helsinki as well as applied theater studies in Gießen. In production structures of the independent scene in Frankfurt/M he collaborates on theatrical, performative and musical projects. For municipal theaters he composed stage music and is active as a musical director.
Caroline Creutzburg ist Theatermacherin und Performerin und arbeitet in Frankfurt und Berlin. In ihren Arbeiten begleitet sie stets die Frage nach dem vermeintlich Banalen, nach impliziten Formen der Adressierung und dem Emanzipatorischen im Zeigen und im Zuschauen. Aktuell entwickelt Caroline zusammen mit René Alejandro Huari Mateus das Stück “Die Vielhundertjährigen”, eine Science-Fiction-Gegenerzählung mit älteren Darsteller*innen auf der Bühne. Caroline ist aktives Mitglied im Verein ID_Frankfurt und trug bereits zum IMPLANTIEREN Festivals 2020 das work-in-progress Projekt “Offener Katalog der Orte” bei, um das herum sie zum Austausch über Vernetzungsvisionen im Raum Frankfurt einlud.
Frédéric De Carlo was born in Paris and lives in Frankfurt. He studied contemporary dance at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris. He is a freelance dance and performance maker and has been working with local artists since 2017. His projects deal with gender issues, representation and body practices. He is also a movement educator and teaches initiation in somatic.
FEELINGS comprises the artistic works, performative research, games and feelings that we, Jil Dreyer and Josef Mehling, have been developing with and for each other since 2017. We are excited about experimenting with different media and approaches – often in connection with the personal and biographical. We want to question classic theater situations and work on a transparent relationship between audience and performers. For us, questions about physicality(ies), identity and situatedness are in the foreground. We are also interested in the possibilities, challenges and questions around collective work. For our own work, we share the tasks of conception, staging, design, and performance.
The intersections of forms of discrimination that shape institutions, in which choreography, dance and performance are developed and shown in Germany, and which are hidden behind pretty inclusion programs without changing anything substantial, have shaped Renés identity and her approach to artistic creation. She follows and appreciates strategies that aim NOT to reproduce violent structures, not even to denounce violence.
Mai Ishijima is a cross-media artist as well as a professional researcher.
Based in Tokyo, they worked on the amendment of Jp transgender law and family formation of trans* people for 7 years. After moving to Mainz, they started working on participative art to explore non-verbal senses and communications while continuing their research. At the same time, they have been active in music performance as a part of the unit Tangram Sam in Tsukuba since 2013.
Their artwork focuses on people’s experiences, especially those not (yet) communicated verbally. They attempt to offer an immersive space to reflect on those experiences by using images, sounds, room, and textures. They give those experiences friendly, attentive, and empathetic perceivability.
Lena Kunz also lives in Wiesbaden and is a performer, dramaturge and lecturer in dance history.
After working for the Hessian State Ballet for three years, she will be a member of the ensemble
IDA FLUX and will continue to pursue creative work with movement and sound.
Hanna Launikovich (born 1996). Independent performance artist of Belarusian origin, currently based in Gießen, where she studies MA Choreography and Performance. Works with documentary theater/interdisciplinary documenting practices since 2018, and currently experiments with video art and creates soundscapes as performative scores. In her artistic practice, she is primarily focused on socially significant and traumatic topics relevant to Belarusian society as well as identity search and isolation.
Olen Mamai – non-binary Ukrainian artists and performer, who works with the self-biography. Studied in National academy of Fine art and Architecture in Kyiv, Ukraine. Currently is studying in Justus Liebig University, Gießen.
Sophia Neises is a freelance performer, access dramaturg, theater educator (MA University of the Arts Berlin) and disability rights activist in the cultural field. She has lived and practiced in Berlin since 2015. Among other things, she has been developing the dance form “Non-visual Dance” with choreographer* Zwoisy Mears-Clarke since 2016. In 2019 she collaborated with Jess Curtis/Gravity in the performance “(In)visible” to explore an accessible aesthetic of dance for blind and visually impaired audiences. Since then, she began exploring the spectrum of audio description as accessibility and audio description as an art form. Thus, she collaborated with Ursina Tossi in 2021 and with Michael Turinsky in 2022 in dance performances at Kampnagel Hamburg, where she realized a poetic audio description embedded in sound in artistic collaboration. She identifies herself as a disabled artist and encourages to value people’s individual styles of perception to the highest degree and to create unconditional access to art already in the process.
PINK & BLUE are us: Mareike Buchmann and Lena Kunz. In our joint projects we develop ideas
and concepts that work on more visibility of contemporary dance and performance. Our
collaboration is based on our friendship and the question of how to create friendly working
Conditions.
Svenja Polonji (she/her) completed her Bachelor’s degree in Applied Theater Studies in Giessen and followed it up with a Master’s degree in Theater and Orchestra Management. She works both artistically and organizationally. Svenja previously supported the collective Hofmann&Lindholm in the performance Nobody`s there at the Mousonturm in Frankfurt. She also developed a hybrid conference for the Landesverband der professionellen darstellenden Künste Hessen e.V. in 2021 entitled (Post)Pandemisch Performen.
Project Shelter, founded in 2014, is a grass-root political movement that promotes solidarity and pushes for a city for all. We are a group of people with and without a history of escape or migration, protecting the rights of homeless migrants and refugees in FFM. Our main goal is to open a self-organized migrant center. The center will be a safe haven where sleeping places, food and information are provided to people that have newly arrived in FFM. We have done numerous political actions to try to achieve this goal. Demonstrations, Petitions, meetings with Politicians and Squattings. We’ve learnt that the city of Frankfurt do not want to have a migrant center but this does not deter us. We will continue to fight for a self-organized center!
Clara Reiner performs, choreographs, builds objects for the stage and lives in Offenbach. She studied choreography and performance at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies in Giessen and sculpture at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten (KASK) in Ghent (Belgium).
Yvonne Schmidt, PhD, is a lecturer at the Institute for the Performing Arts and Film at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and head of the research project “Aesthetics of the Im/Mobile” at the Bern University of the Arts (HKB), funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The project aims to develop sustainable forms of circulation and mobility for theater and dance practice in dialogue with practice and to promote the participation of artists with disabilities.
Jonathan Schmidt-Colinet realizes performances in various working constellations, works in the field of stage design and graphic design/illustration. A special interest lies in processes of spatialization and creative narrative with images and objects.
Jonathan completed the design propaedeutic at the Zurich University of the Arts, studied stage design at the UdK Berlin and applied theater studies at the Justus Liebig University Giessen. Since 2020 he lives in Frankfurt.
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Nora Schneider studierte Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft in Gießen und begann dort, sich mit Festivalarbeit und Programmentwicklung zu beschäftigen. Unter anderem war sie Co-Leiterin des DISKURS 15 Festivals und war an der Neugründung des Hungry Eyes Festivals beteiligt, das sie drei Ausgaben lang begleitete.
Zusammen mit Florence Ruckstuhl wurde sie mit ihrer Eigenproduktion How not to be spectacular zu den Treibstoff Theatertagen Basel 2021 eingeladen. Sie arbeitet als Produktionsleiterin, Dramaturgin und Kostümbildnerin im Rhein-Main-Gebiet.