KÖRPER & SEELE, ODER: DRAUßEN BEI DEN INNEREIEN

Käthe Kopf | Artistic Direction, Text & Performance | Lyrics „Kopfhaut“ & „All“ | Käthe Kopf takes us by words. Her performances and „Gehdichte“ make text and body intertwine. She is interested in investigating and inventing movement-spaces between choreography, literature and medicine. She studied Human Medicine at the Medical University of Vienna and “Dance, Context, Choreography” at the Inter-University Centre for Dance at the Berlin University of the Arts. Her works have been shown among others at Tanzquartier Wien, Metaphern-Symposium HU Berlin, 3D Poesie Berlin. As a doctor she works in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry, psychosomatics and psychotherapy. Also she works as a mother. kaethekopf.com

Lena Kiss | Scenography, Costume Design & Flyer Design | is a Visual Artist based in Berlin with a focus on Installation, Drawing and Sculpture. She studied Fine Arts at State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart and FHNW Academy of Art and Design Basel as well as Art History at TU Dresden and spent six months as scholarship holder at Cité Internationale des Arts Paris. lenakiss.de

Alexandra Henning | Dramaturgy | is a theater and dance scholar, dramaturge and journalist for contemporary dance and performance. As a dramaturge she works with Käthe Kopf as well as for Lea Moro, Peter Pleyer, Angela Alves, Hendrik Quast and the Tanztage Berlin festival. She is a member of the conceptional group for a Berlin dance ∆rchive. As a journalist she writes for the portals Tanzschreiber, the magazine Tanz, the Berliner Zeitung and others.

Simon Geuchen | Composition & Lyrics | is a musician, composer and sound artist living in Berlin. He studied guitar and in addition plays piano, bass and drums. Since 2017 he composes and produces music in the fields of theatre, film and radio plays. He works for Thermoboy FK, the Anhaltisches Theater Dessau, the Residenzschloss Altenburg and the Other Music Academy Weimar.

Hanna Kritten Tangsoo | Light Design | is an Estonian choreographer and lighting designer based in Berlin. She studied Dance in Tartu University Viljandi Culture Academy in Estonia 2011-2014 and BA Dance, Context, Choreography in HZT Berlin 2014-2017. During her studies in HZT she started to work as a theatre technician for the university and got in contact with lighting design. Since 2017 she has been working as a freelance artist both in dance and lighting. She is a member of a young dance collective called Suddenly.

Aïsha Mia Lethen Bird | Camera & Editing, Photography & Public Relations | studied Theatre Studies and English Philology at the Freie Universität Berlin. After internships at the Maxim Gorki Theater and journalistic experiences at the Performing Arts Festival, she has been working in public relations at ada Studio since 2019, where she combines the artistic process of photography with PR. She also works for various projects in the Free Scene in Berlin. 

Caroline Scholz Ott | Speech Work | certified speech teacher/speaker since 1992. Further training at the Institute for Music, Theatre and Film in St. Petersburg with Prof. Jurji A. Vasiljev , in the field of stage language. Since 1993 fshe works as a freelancer at various state institutions in Berlin - UdK, Deutsches Theater, Maxim Gorki Theater - and elsewhere. Moreover she accompanies plays in independent groups and networks: Familie Flöz, Theater­landschafft e.V., Krumm.CH SprechenScholz - Speech Coaching, Speech Education, Communication Training

Mirjam Sögner | Body Work | works as a choreographer and coach between Berlin and Vienna.She studied contemporary dance, artistic research and choreography at MUK Vienna and ArtEZ Arnhem in the Netherlands. Trainings in sustainable development, Design Thinking and organizational development followed. Her pieces tour internationally and have been presented at venues such as Frascati Amsterdam, Dancehouse Melbourne, Circuit-Est Montreal, Goethe Institute Ramallah, Austrian Cultural Center Istanbul, Brut Vienna, Dansens Hus Oslo, Rote Fabrik Zurich, Sophiensäle Berlin and elsewhere. She teaches regularly at the BA Dance program ArtEZ Arnhem as well as at the FU Berlin. mirjamsoegner.com

Diethild Meier | Production Management | lives in Berlin and works as a freelance dance artist in various collaborative constellations and creative positions. She works as a dancer and co-creator with Lina Gómez, Mirjam Gurtner, and others, and develops her own artistic research. She works as production manager for several Berlin based artists and has been working as a dramaturg for Nir Vidan since 2019. Together with Julek Kreutzer and Alex Hennig she is curating the A.PART-Festival at ada Studio Berlin. She studied dance, choreography and context at the Inter-University-Center for Dance Berlin (BA 2015) and has a professional background as photographer and film maker (MA University for Applied Sciences Dortmund 2008).

Thanks to Marius Ehrlinspiel, Sina Falk, Max Russ, Markus Dassau, Nathalie David, Daniel Schenk, Paul Ader, Flora Frisardi, Silke Briel, Nikola Pieper, Arthur Berger, Silent Disco Berlin, Claudia Ehrlinspiel, Alfred Greimel, Gabi Beier, Britta Wirthmüller, Sara Lanner, the Uferstudios Team, Gegensatz Translation Collective and Selma Adele Greimel.