I was born in Ndumandari, Tanzania and started primary school in 1997 up to 2003. I continued with my secondary level in 2004 - 2007. I was involved in traditional dance and theatre during my education. I play the bass guitar and percussion. I am member of the Lumumba theatre group. We are group of 10 people working on different project involving and combination traditional dance, contemporary dance, theatre and music. Our motivation is to develop and share knowledge and skill within the various art forms we use, in addition to touch on issues related to the youth within Tanzania and the rest of Africa.
EDUCATION
1997 2003 Buguriuni primary school, Tanzania
2004 – 2007 Mopack secondary schools, Tanzania
Stage Experience
2010 Solo and duet contemporary dance festival in Kenya (5th November)
‘Must be red or white in or out...?’ choreographer Isack Peter
Assistance by Shabani Rashid.
2010 Visa2dance Contemporary dance festival in Zanzibar (15th October)
‘Lost Rights’ choreographer Vanessa Tamburi
2010 Visa2dance Festival in Dar es Salaam Tanzania (9th October)
‘Lost Rights’ choreographer Vanessa Tamburi.
2010 Visa2dance festival in Dar es Salaam Tanzania (7th October)
‘Must be red or white in or out...?’ choreographer Isack peter
Assistance by Shabani Rashid.
2010 Arusha International Cultural Diversity Festival in Tanzania
(11th September)
‘Must be red or white in or out...?’ choreographer Isack peter
Assistance by Shabani Rashid.
2010 Goethe Institut (23rd August)
‘Must be red or white in or out...?’ presentation on working progression
2009 Visa2Dance contemporary Dance Festival, Tanzania
‘Black in White’ choreographer Vanessa Tamburi
2009 Visa2Dance Contemporary Dance Festival, Tanzania
‘Uny’ago’ choreographer Shabani Rashidi and Lumumba Theater
2008 Visa2Dance Contemporary Dance Festival, Tanzania
‘The Finder’ choreographer Shabani Rashidi and Lumumba Theatre
2008 Bagamoyo Collage of Art International Festival in Tanzania
(23rd September)
Music performance, played bass Guitar, percussion back vocal and
Dance.
2008 Museum village Music compaction festival,
Played bass guitar, back vocal, and xylophone in Lumumba theartre
2008 music crossroad International music festival in Maputo Mozambique
Played bass guitar, back vocal and Dance in Lumumba theatre
2007 Music crossroad Interregional Festival Malawi
Played bass guitar and percussion in Lumumba Theatre
Workshops
2010 Contemporary dance workshop (4th, 6th, 11th October)
Focus on flexibilities and dance classic conducted by Jens Bjerregaard
From Denmark.
2010 Choreographic process (20th September 9th October)
By doing production workshop training in the visa2dance festival
Project and produce a co production (Lost Rights) conducted by Vanessa
Tamburi and choreographed by Vanessa Tamburi from Italy.
2010 Africa contemporary dance (6th – 11th September)
One week Workshop Training at the Arusha International Cultural
Diversity festival in Arusha Tanzania conducted by Isack peter
Abeneko Goethe Institut collaboration with Alliance Française
2010 Traditional and Contemporary Dance (19th – 23rd July)
Haba na Haba Dance training workshop at Russian cultural
In Dar, es salaam Tanzania, focus on Traditional dance transmission
In the contemporary dance form, Improvisation, creation and creativity
Passing through, techniques and Information in contemporary
Dance flat form. Conducted by Isack Peter Abeneko
Supported by Goethe Institut Tanzania.
2010 Music Crossroads Interregional Festival in Tanzania
Musical workshops on vocal expressions, song-writing, Improvisation,
Band management and life skills training related to HIV/Aids prevention,
Health life styles and gender Issues; Musical and social interaction with
Young musicians from Africa and Europe
2010 Tradition and Contemporary Dance in Ecole des sable Dakar Senegal
For three months
(14th April – 9th July)
Focus on traditional movement in dynamic, transmission on different
direction how to keep details, perfections and learn different traditional
dance for future of African dancers, contemporary skills and techniques
From different teachers in and out of Africa.
2010 Contemporary dance in Dance Umbrella Festival Johannesburg
South Africa. ( 2nd - 14th March)
Focus on contemporary dance training by learn different,
movements ,Techniques, improvisation, watching different performance
and having meet face to face with choreographers and talk about their
peace so as to know how are their work, composing movement and
exchanging experience and sharing ideas. Workshop conducted by
Dana Ruttenberg from Germany.
2009 Theatre at Goethe-Institute Tanzania
Focus on acting training – impulses, group, body and simple voice
Training .working on a scene by looking at German narrative theatre
And training on ‘tools’ of stage craft, scene developing by
Improvising conducted by Sophia Stephan and Konradin Kunze from
Germany for too weeks.
2008 Contemporary dance ‘Mionzi Dance Company’ Tanzania
Focus on improvisation and the development of dance piece
Conducted by Ian mwaisunga from Tanzania.
2007 Theatre Arts course at The National Art Council
(12th March -8th June)
Award: DIPLOMA OF ARTS
UNIVERSITY
2006 – 2009 INSTITUTE OF MUSIC AND DANCE UNIVERSITY OF
STAVANGER
B.A IN DANCE PEDAGOGIK
(3.) OTHER COURSES/SEMINAR PARTICIPATED WHILE DIPLOMA ED:
PUPPETS WORKSHOP AT BAGAMOYO COLLEGE OF ART
AUGUST 2001
PARTICIPATE MUSIC WORKSHOP AND FESTIVAL PERFORMANCE WITH BRASS BROTHERS
SEPTEMBER 2001
PANTOMIME WORKSHOP DURING BAGAMOYO COLLEGE FESTIVAL
SEPTEMBER 2001
PARTICIPATE THE 2nd MULTICECETERAL AIDS CONFERENCE IN (AICC) ARUSHA AND PERFORM WITH BAGAMOYO PLAYERS
(PLAY STIGMA) NOVEMBER 2001
PARTICIPATE WORKSHOP IN DANCE NOTATION AT BAGAMOYO COLLEGE OF ARTS, DURING THE FESTIVAL.
DK.MAKOYE FROM UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM
SEPTEMBER 2002
CONDUCT RESEARCH ON ”THEATER AS A METHOD OF TEACHING IN PRIMARY SCHOOL”(BAGAMOYO COLLEGE OF ART)
2002 – 2003
(4.) OTHER EXPERIENCES AFTER DIPLOMA EDUCATION
MUSIC WORKSHOP AND FESTIVAL FOR SADC COUNTRIES IN DAR-ES-SALAAM (MUSIC CROSSROAD) WITH MANYANI NANI.
JANUARY 2003
WORKSHOP FOR TWO WEEKS IN CONTEMPORARY DANCE (DAR ES SALAAM) WITH CAMILLA EKELØF, SWEEDEN
JUNE/JULY
SOLO PERFORMANCES (CONTEMPORARY AND TRADITION) DRAMA AND MUSIC IN BAGAMOYO
NOV.2003 -NOW
MUSIC AND DANCE PERFORMANCE WITH MANYANI –NANI GROUP IN DIFFERENT VENUS IN TANZANIA
NOV.2003
TRAINING AMREF YOUTH GROUP (MWANANYAMALA) AS A RESULT THEY WON AS THE BEST GROUP IN DRAMA PERFORMANCE AMONG TWENTY GROUPS (AIDS PROJECT PROJECTIVE FOR YOUTH)
JULY 2001
WORKING AS A FACILITATOR UNDER UNICEF ON CONDUCTING PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH TO THE PROJECT FOR OUT OF SCHOOL YOUTH PROJECT (OOSYP). IN MAFINGA DISTRICT IN IRINGA, AUGUST 2003 SINDIDARURAL, NOV 2003 KARAGWE DISTRICT
PARTICIPATE WORKSHOP AND PRFORMANCE CONTEMPORARY DANCE THEN PERFORMED IN FOUR REGIONS (MOROGORO, BAGAMOYO, TANGA AND DAR ES SALAAM UNDER TZTC AND EATI
JAN 2004
PARTICIPATE IN TUMAINI FILM AS MESHWE
(UNDER ABANTU VISION)
SEPT 2004
WORKING AS THEATRICAL TEACHER AT MULTIPURPOSE TRAINING CENTRE, UNDER DOGODOGO CENTRE STREET CHILDREN TRUST APRIL 2005
ACT AS A FISHERMAN IN A TALE OF GOLDEN FISH OF ALEXANDER PUSHKIN UNDER PARAPANDA THEATRE
MAY 2005
WORK IN SOUTH AFRICA WITH THE LEARNING THEATRE COMPANY AS ACTOR ( UNDER GEITA GOLD MINE)
JUNE 2006
MOVED IN NORWAY FOR BACHELOR STUDY IN DANCE
AUG 2006 – AUG 2008
EXPERIENCE WHILE AND AFTER DANCE BACHELOR STUDY
DRIVE WORKSHOPS ON AFRICAN DANCE AT ST. OLAV SCHOOL
SEP 2006
PERFORM AT THE STAVANGER INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF LITERATURE AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH ( SVARTHVIT )
SEP 2007
PERFORM WITH GLAMAT FESTIVAL (NORWAY) THROUGH MADELAINES TEATER FROM DENMARK
JULY 2008
PERFORM A DANCE PRODUCTION OF TANZANIA SKY IN TANZANIA AT BAGAOYO FESTIVAL, AND IN SANDNESS KULTUR HUS. UNIVERSITY PRODUCTION.
CHOREOGRAPHY Andreas Bjørneboe
SEP 2008
DRIVE WORKSHOP OF AFRICAN DANCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER (DEP OF DRAMA)
FEB 2009
WORK AS DANCE TEACHER AT STEINER SCHOOL.
Stavanger
MARCH 2009
DRIVE AFRICAN DANCE WORK SHOP AT BYKLE KULTURE SKULE.
MAY 2009
WORK AS A DANCE TEACHER AT (TASuBA), INSTITUTE OF ART IN BAGAMOYO
NOV 2009- OCT 2010
WORK WITH MASSIMO MOLINARI AS ASSISTANT CHOREOGRAPHY AND A DANCER IN THE PERFORMANCE `ROOD´´
OCT 2009
Background
After finish my secondary level, I joined with Tanzania Art group work as dancer for one year, where I continuous develop my talent of dance, that I was involve during in primary school by lean and dance different Traditional dance from different regions in Tanzania, conducted by various teachers of Art subjects at kichechem primary school. Later I came join with Lumumba theatre, by work with the in the theatre project, that called Kinjeckitile ngwale (maji maji war) project work as dancer and actor, then Lumumba theater auditioned me and become a member of Lumumba theatre group in 2007. We are group of 10 people working on different project involving and combination traditional dance, contemporary dance, theatre and music. Our motivation is to develop and share knowledge and skill within the various art forms we use, in addition to touch on issues related to the youth within Tanzania and the rest of Africa.
Stage Experience
2009 Visa2Dance contemporary Dance Festival, Tanzania
9th October
‘Black in White’ choreographer Vanessa Tamburi
2009 Visa2Dance Contemporary Dance Festival, Tanzania
‘Uny’ago’ choreographer Shabani Rashidi and Lumumba Theater
I perform as a dancer,
2008 music crossroad International music festival in Maputo Mozambique
Music performance I was back vocal and Dance in Lumumba theatre
2008 Visa2Dance Contemporary Dance Festival, Tanzania
‘The Finder’ choreographer Shabani Rashidi and Lumumba Theatre
2008 Visa2dance Contemporary Dance festival, Tanzania
‘Mouvoir’ choreographer Stephanie Thiersch from Germany
Workshops
2010 Contemporary dance workshop (4th, 6th, 11th October)
Focus on flexibilities and dance classic conducted by Jens
Bjerregaard From Denmark.
2010 Choreographic process (20th September 9th October)
By doing production workshop training in the visa2dance festival
Project and produce a co production (Lost Rights) conducted by
Vanessa Tamburi and choreographed by Vanessa Tamburi from Italy.
2010 Traditional and Contemporary Dance (19th – 23rd July)
Haba na Haba Dance training workshop at Russian cultural
In Dar, es salaam Tanzania, focus on Traditional dance transmission
In the contemporary dance form, Improvisation, creation and
Creativity Passing through, techniques and Information in
Contemporary Dance flat form. Conducted by Isack Peter Abeneko
2010 Music Crossroads Interregional Festival in Tanzania
Musical workshops on vocal expressions, song-writing,
Improvisation, Band management and life skills training related to
HIV/Aids prevention Health life styles and gender Issues; Musical
And social interaction with Young musicians from Africa and Europe
2008 Contemporary Dance Workshop in the Visa2dance Festival
Focus on Stage Art, Films maker in theory, installation and piece
Developing by use, take different pictures in the books, newspaper
In addition, produce co production conducted by Stephanie Thiersch
2008 Contemporary dance ‘Mionzi Dance Company’ Tanzania
Focus on improvisation and the development of dance piece
Conducted by Ian mwaisunga from Tanzania. Jou is a freelance Japanese contemporary dancer and choreographer, had started her dance when she was 23 years old. Since 2000, settled in Tokyo Japan after having lived around the world. Her beautiful lines of body as a dancer and her movements are always with some spirits of open freedom.
The Special Prize for Foreign Choreographer - The 2008 Seoul International Choreography Festival Naoko studied painting and fine art at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and in 1999 came to Kunstakademie Dusseldorf in Germany with a scholarship. There she got in touch both with the performance and dance scene.
Her work was showed amongst others in conjunction with the Kunstfilm Biennale at the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, „Emprise Art Award“ in Forum NRW, Dusseldorf, in Museum Baden, Solingen. Since the foundation of the artists’ collective “Ludica.” together with the choreographer Morgan Nardi in 2001 she has been creating stage performances and dance installations in which choreography and visual art are closely linked together.
Ludica’s productions in which innovative scenographic space installations by light, shadow, projections and reflections break fresh ground in performance art has been awarded with the first prize „Tendances 2002“ at the festival „Cour de Capucins“,Luxembourg and had its premiere at the festival TEMPS D'IMAGES at Paris. Naoko Tanaka was also invited to the project “COLINA2005 – Collaboration in Art” at tanzhaus nrw in Dusseldorf and to the “Urban Fetishes” project (initianted by Ong Keng Sen) at the Tanzquartier in Vienna. Maura Morales, born in Camaguey/Cuba, finished her apprenticeship in classical and modern ballet training, choreography, acting, and folkloric dance at the National Art College Camaguey/Cuba.
At the moment Maura Morales is working freelance as a dancer, choreographer, actress and guest trainer for contemporary dance.
2010 Choreographer and performer for the modern theatre piece »Sleeping Beauty«, a co-production with »Project Galilé« and Mercat de les Flors in Barcelona.
1st prize Winner of the International competition of Hannover together with Felix Landerer with the duo »Suits«.
2010 Invitations to the international Festival of Cadiz en Danza, to the FeniceFestival NineArts/Siena 2010, to the Festival Empape/A Coruña, to the Memory Wax City Hoppers/Malmö and to the Festival de Artes Escenicas Nocte Graus with the solos »Ella« and »Hypochondriac«.
2009 Invitation to perform at the Museum Guggenheim in Bilbao for the jubilee of the city of Bilbao
Invitation to present her solo pieces at the intenational dance festival »bcstx‘09« Tantarantana / Mercat de les Flors in Barcelona, at the »Festival internacional de teatro y artes escénicas de Sevilla, feSt« and »Dies de Dansa« in Barcelona
2009 Employed as a choreographer with the »Endedans« company in Camaguey/Cuba
Employed with »COCOONDANCE« in Bonn
2008 Presentation of her ?rst feature-length piece »Was wäre, wenn?« both at the Contemporary Dancefestival of Winterthur/Switzerland and at the International Dancetheater VII in Reutlingen /Germany.
2008 Dancer and Choreographer at the Lucky Trimmer Dance Performance series in Berlin, at the Choreographische Forum »Die Tonne« in Reutlingen, such as in the dance movie »Chord« by Simon Rauh
Audience Award for the Best Solodance Performance at the International Contemporary Dance Festival of the Canary Islands with a following extended tour all over the Canary Islands
2008 Employed as a dancer with the DIN A 13 dance company under Gerda König in Cologne as well as with Artscenico under Rolf Dennemann in Dortmund
November 2007 Invitation to present her piece »Miss Sorry« at the International Dance Theater V in Reutlingen. Finalist at the International Internet Dance Award side-by-side in Düsseldorf.
March 2007 Second Prize (Choreography) at the 11. Internationales Solo-Tanz-Theater-Festival in Stuttgart, starts to work as a freelance dancer and choreographer.
2005 – 2007 Employed as a solodancer with the Staatstheater Darmstadt under Mei Hong Lin and guest choreographers Katrín Hall and Jochen Ulrich
2001 – 2004 Employed as a solodancer with the Staatstheater Oldenburg under Martin Stiefermann, cooperation with Tamás Huronics, Marianela Boán and Guy Weizman & Rony Haver.
2000 Engagement with the Theater Basel under Joachim Schlömer, invitation by the Teatro del Espacio Interior to work as a choreographer at the Camaguey Dance Festival in Cuba
1997 – 1999 Engagements with the Odeon-Theater in Vienna under Erwin Piplitz and Carlota Ikeda, works as a freelance dancer in Vienna.
1997 Finalist at the choreographic competition Abraxas Theater in Augsburg
1996 As a member of the Teatro de la Danza de Cuba, invitation to the Wiener Festwochen ensuing tours allover Austria.
1995 – 1996 Engagement with the Teatro de la Danza de Cuba under Guillermo Horta
1991 – 1993 Various engagements as a ballet dancer with the national theatres Ballet Nacional de Havana and Ballet de Santiago de Cuba, engagement with the Ballet el Sodre in Montevideo/Uruguay, and with the experimental theatre ensemble Teatro del Espacio Interior in Camaguey..
www.mauramorales.de Swee Boon Kuik (SG)
Choreographer, Pellucid from Now
Artistic director and choreographer of T.H.E Dance Company (The Human Expression Dance Company) in Singapore and former principal dancer of Compania Nacional de Danza (CND) in Spain, Swee Boon Kuik has collaborated with Nacho Duato as well as several other renown choreographers, including Jiri Kylian, Mats Ek, Ohad Naharin, and Wim Vandekeybus.
Before leaving for Europe in 2002, Kuik spent 11 years in the Singapore Dance Theatre, dancing principal roles in many full-length performances, such as Giselle, Coppelia, The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Anna Karenina, The Red Shoes, Cinderella, and Romeo and Juliet. Kuik’s exceptional artistry brought him a nomination in 2003 for the Benois De La Danse Award, an annual international ballet competition. In 2007, he was awarded one of the most prestigious arts awards in Singapore - the Young Artist Awards from the National Arts Council.
In 2006, Kuik presented Somewhere… we hear at Forwards Moves at the Singapore Arts Festival 2006. It was well-received, and he was subsequently commissioned by the National Arts Council to choreograph a new work, Silence (excerpt), for the 8th Asian Arts Festival in Beijing, China. Silence was further developed into a full-length work in 2007 as a commission for the Esplanade Theatre at the Esplanade Da:ns Festival 2007. It was well received by audiences and critics, and was rated one of the top five dance performances in Singapore in 2007.
In September 2008, Kuik founded T.H.E Dance Company. The company’s inaugural full-length work was Old Sounds, commissioned by the Singapore National Heritage Board. Kuik created a more recent work, Water Bloom, commissioned for the opening of the National University Singapore Arts Festival 2009. Tim Feldmann (DK)
Choreographer, InkZ
As one of the first recognized Danish contemporary choreographers, Tim Feldmann has been credited for bringing an international focus to Danish contemporary dance. We haven’t seen his work in Denmark for several years now because he has taken up residence in Miami, Florida and has switched focus to other aspects of the physical body. Therefore his contribution to InkZ is a comeback for him, an exciting reunion for Mancopy, and very relevant for Danish dance in general. The raw and contemporary form exhibited in Feldmann’s Hendrix House, among others of his works, makes him the right match for InkZ’s narrative of the raw art expressed through graffiti.
Tim Feldmann is known for combining dance with other art forms, creating an exciting personal style with a powerful physical and convuluted storytelling. With his original and innovative voice, Feldmann pushes the limits of ”contemporary art” with wacky humour and dramatic constellations.
Tim Feldmann’s earlier works include Twin-Project (1996) and Ikon #1 (1997), together with his reknown solo Ø (1997), Skizo (1999) and On Rose (2000). He has also created works for the British Ricochet Dance Company (1998), Greek Sine Qua Non (1998), New Danish Dance Theatre (2000), Swedish Skånes Dance Theatre (2001), among others. 
Tomomi Yamauchi (JP)
Choreographer, InkZ
Though her passport is Japanese, Tomomi Yamauchi is one of the new, young ”Danish” choreographers absolutely worth paying attention to. Born in 1971 in Nagoya, Japan, Yamauchi was trained at the The Danish National School of Contemporary Dance in 1999. Since then, she has become indispensable to the Danish dance community as person, dancer, choreographer and teacher. She has danced with many Danish companies and choreographers, among them Corona Danseteater, Åben Dans, Rasmussens Garderobeshow, Helle Bach, Signa Sørensen, Lars Dahl Pedersen and Tali Razga.
As a choreographer, Yamauchi has gained distinction for her strong aesthetic expression and a sense for the subtle and surprising. In 2001, she won Dansolution with her choreography Under Heaven and has since choreographed Treasure Hunters, Flying Fish, and most recently Lemon Soda for Dansescenen’s Junior Company.
Yamauchi has a rare sense for the visual aesthetic, and with minimalism and cunning, she creates snapshots on the stage that stick in our minds. This makes her the ideal choice for a project like InkZ. She also fulfills Mancopy’s purpose of providing space and opportunities for young Danish choreographers. Yamauchi’s work with Mancopy contributes significantly to the development of both Mancopy and the Danish dance community. Johan Ohlson (SE)
Dancer, Out of Hauz Experiences vol. 2, Rite
Johan Ohlson (SE) was born and raised in Värnamo, Sweden. During graduate school he played a lot of sports, such as swimming and tennis, but did not start dancing until later on. In 2001 he began studying at the University of Technology in Gothenburg Sweden. At the same time, he took his first dance class. Soon realizing that dancing offered something technology could not, he took a year off from studying to focus entirely on dancing. The following year he was admitted to the Ballet Academy in Gothenburg. Johan graduated in the spring of 2008. During school he performed in Gothenburg and around Sweden, both as a dancer and with a short piece choreographed by himself. After graduating, he worked for three months at the Gothenburg Opera before joining Mancopy in January 2009. Katri Siipola (FI)
Dancer, Out of Hauz Experiences vol. 2, Rite
Katri Siipola (FI) trained at the Finnish National Opera Ballet School. After graduating as a professional dancer in 2001, she worked in Grasse, France for Europa Danse, performing works of choreographers such as Jose Montalvo & Dominique Hervieu, Mats Ek and Nacho Duato. After that she danced in Germany with Aalto Ballett Theater Essen and Ballet Dresden, Semperoper Dresden (2002-2005) dancing in various ballets from f.ex John Neumeier, Uwe Scholtz and Vladimir Derevianko.
In 2005, Katri joined Tivoli Pantomime Ballet in Copenhagen where she danced lead roles in various fairytale ballets such as Thumbelina and The Tinder Box (choreographed by Dinna Bjørn in collaboration with HM Queen Margrethe II), The Little Match Girl (Louise Midjord, Royal Danish Ballet) She also performed traditional Danish pantomimes and danced with the Royal Danish Opera. In 2008, Katri was a guest artist with Dansk Danseteater performing in Tim Rushton and Michael Kvium´s Passion. Katri joined Mancopy in January 2009.
Jens Bjerregaard (DK)
Artistic Director of Koreografisk Center Archauz® and Mancopy© Dansekompagni, Choreographer, and Dancer
Jens Bjerregaard has consistently followed his own direction, in spite of trends and fashions. He is extremely conscious of form. His language is playful, yet sophisticated, and he constantly challenges himself and his dancers – both in his choice of music and artistic approach. He was trained in dance and choreography at the Laban Centre of Music and Dance, London (1989-1992), and is among the few choreographers in Denmark who consistently practices dance as an abstract, non-theatrical expression. Bjerregaard is best described as an architect of movement, with a natural instinct for structure, often inspired by contemporary art and design. His style is often spellbinding and displays a certain ‘Scandinavian feel’, founded on a consciousness of form and good design.
In 1998 Bjerregaard and a group of professional dancers established the experimental ensemble ‘Urban Elves’ – the ensemble won several international awards for choreography and was continually sponsored by the Danish Arts Agency, due to the quality of their productions. In 2005, he founded Mancopy Dansekomagni, and in 2007, he founded Koreografisk Center Archauz, which has since been under his artistic direction. Since founding Mancopy and Archauz, Bjerregaard has furthered both the artistic ability of Mancopy, by creating a more versatile company, as well as the visionary direction of Archauz, by developing programmes for young dancers and choreographers, creating residencies for artists, and by cultivating diversity in dance in Denmark.
A Jens Bjerregaard motto:
Dominique Porte
Choreographer, Out of Hauz Experiences
Born in France, Dominique Porte studied dance at the Conservatoire in Avignon and at the Centre national de danse contemporaine in Angers. She has studied under, among others, Dominique Petit, Dominique Bagouet, Norio Yoshida and Aaron Osborne. In 1989, drawn by the excitement prevailing in the Quebec dance community, she moved to Montreal, dancing with such choreographers as Marie Chouinard, William Douglas and José Navas.
Her continued interest for the solo form led her to her first experience with choreography in 1993. Her first creation, Codine, which she herself performed, was presented at Tangente in Montreal as well as in Venezuela. The promising young choreographer continued to explore the solo with Volte-Face (1994), Ne marchez pas sur le concret (1995), À Double sens (1996) and Déviation (1997). Déviation was selected for the 1997-1998 Dance Roads tour, a network of European presenters who promote young choreographers and their work. Dominique Porte’s works traveled to Europe and to New York, and she created successively Sautes d’humeur (1998) and 7 Gouttes et des poussières (1998). “Porte is not only adding works to her repertory, she is also multiplying her successes.” Le Devoir, Montreal
In August 1999, she created a structure for her work with the company Système D/Dominique Porte. As a performer, she is noted for her incredible energy and quick-spiritedness, her precision and her virtuosity; these qualities lend her choreography an undeniably sharp style that marries abstraction and emotion, formal logic and reversal, passages with clearly drawn edges and movements that curve and undulate.
A new creation by Dominique Porte is an event not to be missed — as well as the opportunity to see her perform. These opportunities are, fortunately, plentiful; as Dominique lends herself to a variety of choreographic experiences. In 1997, the Orford Arts Centre invited her to create her first group work, a quintet set to music by Gyorgy Ligeti. Performed with the musicians present on stage, De 1 à 6 was a universal success. “...The level of integration achieved by the French-born choreographer Dominique Porte was astonishing, as was the vitality of five young dancers from home and abroad.” The Gazette, Montreal. In July 2000, the Orford Arts Centre asked her to create another piece, this time set to Chopin’s studies and preludes.
Since 1999, she has been guest choreographer on a number of projects. Responding to a series of commissions, she created successively: Petite histoire sans (1999), Voyage (2000) for LADMMI (les Ateliers de danse moderne de Montréal); Solitudes for the company Montréal-Danse (2000); and a solo for dancer Liza Kovacs (Seule et Liza) for a project at Danse-Cité.
In addition to her projects with her own company, her choreographic signature could be seen at the Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault for the project Danse et Lumière, at Danse-Cité with a duo for Anne LeBeau and a solo for herself (Projet Michel F. Côté, May 2003), as well as the Studio at l’Agora de la danse when the Korean group Laboratory Dance Project (LDP) presented her quartet Solitudes in January 2003.In November 2002, in the context of the Pépinières européennes, the Theater Academy of Helsinki invited her to create and present Up & Down, a work for twelve of the graduating students co-produced by the Aleksanterin Teatteri. Back at Danse-Cité, she created the solo From Zero for dancer Susan Elliott as part of the evening Social Studies (January 2005).
In the winter of 2005, she received a travel grant from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec for a six-week trip to India for research and inspiration.
During the 2006-2007 season, Dominique Porte has been invited to teach a workshop at Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts in Bangalore, India. She also taught at the Département de danse de l'UQÀM and at l'École de danse de Québec and gave training classes to professionals dancers members of the Regroupement québécois de la danse. Finally, a 2-weeks intensive workshop in the context of Transformation Danse, in Montreal, allowed to Dominique Porte to pursue her teaching activities with about 20 professional dancers from coast to coast.
Rachel Erdos (IL)
Choreographer Out of Hauz Experiences vol. 3
Rachel Erdos (IL) took first prize at AICC 2008 (Aarhus International Choreography Competition) with the piece Alma. Alma premiered in Tel Aviv in 2007 and has since been performed in many places in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, as well as at The Place in London and in Slovakiet. The AICC jury said about Erdos: Rachel Erdos shows a rare clarity of concept from description to finish.
Erdos was trained as a dancer at Roehampton Institute, London 1997-2000 and as a dancer and choreographer at the Laban Centre London 2000-2001. In 2002, she was in invited to participate in the dance and technology seminar "Live-I" hosted by the New York based Troika Ranch Company, an intense seminar with articipants from all over the world.
Erdos choreographs commisioned works for youth companies and high schools. She is rehearsel director and stage manager for choreographer Sally Anne Friedland, for the Israeli Fresco Dance Group, and for choreographer Yoram Karmi. Erdos teaches choreography, composition and repertoire in Israeli high schools. Lars Dahl Pedersen
Choreographer (Iconic/Ironic)
Lars Dahl Pedersen is in his choreographies attached to find listening and noisy moments in a detailed and unique universe. Henrik Lyding from the Danish newspaper Jyllandsposten wrote: But what interests most of all, is LDP’s unique way of making his dancers move, with mildness, a sensitive and graceful fragility. LDP finished his education in 1999 as a dancer and choreographer from the Danish National School of Contemporary Dance. After that he studied in New York and London. Since 1999 LDP has choreographed performances which have been playing at places like: Dansescenen (Copenhagen), Arken - Museum of Modern Art (Copenhagen), GRAN teater for dans (Århus), Dansstationen in Malmö (Sweden) and Den Anden Opera (Copenhagen). In 2005 he created his first full evening work:Plane Rough Surface -quiet poetry can also be noisy. His upcoming piece Deranged Elegance will premiere in November 2008 at Dansescenen in Copenhagen and can also be seen at Archauz in December 2008.
Kim Helweg (DK)Composer Nothing Florid, RAUM
Kim Helweg began composing at the age of 13 and made his professional debut in 1974 with the composition “A Little Wind Quintet” at a concert for alternative music. The first published work by Kim Helweg, HVIDHEDEN OG STILHEDEN (The Whiteness and the Silence) from 1975, shows clearly which composers have influenced his formative years – namely John Cage and Penderecki. The composition is a blank page – has no duration, no instrumentation and no indication that tells us whether it is supposed to be regarded as a piece of music, a poem or anything else. Other pages came soon after, using “graphic notation” to be conceived freely as pictures of music or music of pictures. A “Tabular Rasa” as it might be and at the same time a very early musical turning point.
The blank Page was followed by “real heavy sound”. A chance encounter with American fusion-music drastically altered his course and led to an extended period of jazz/rock compositions culminating in two jazz/rock symphonies and the rock-operas Ulysses (1982) and Black Mass (1983).Compositions that connected the idioms of jazz and rock with the classical composition technique. In 2003 Kim Helweg wrote the Partita I-VI. The 6 Partitas are actually one long piece (90 min.). The piece was cut into 5 smaller pieces and one long for practical reasons. The year 2003 decided the title, the deadlines decided the length, and the commissioner decided the instrumentation. The 6 “fragments” became 3 pieces for piano solo, one string quartet, one piece for 2 pianos and percussion and a concerto for viola, double bass and electronics. The last one was written for the Dance performance “Shaved, Plucked and Moisturized” by Jens Bjerregaard. Among the later works are“Nothing Florid” 2005, written for a Dance performance by Jens Bjerregaard and his new company: Mancopy – Odense danse Kompagni.
Kim Glud (DK)
Production Manager & Lighting Designer Comfort Guidelines, too late2, Stringens, InThrige Festival, RAUM, Iconic/Ironic and Out of Hauz Experiences
Kim Glud (b. 1976) is the established designer of Koreografisk Center Archauz. He makes everything between set designs to the graphic expression of the performances. KG grew up in Otterup, North Funen and started his career in 1993 as lighting assistant in Odense Theater. After that he became lighting and video designer the same place. He is self taught and has worked as a freelance lighting and video designer for Odense International Music Theater (1995-2006) and The Funen Opera (1997-2005). In 2005 he became production manager in Mancopy Dansekompagni and later he were permanently attached as lighting and set designer for the company. In 2006 he set up the freelance company Renderbox. In Renderbox Kim Glud has made lighting and video for theatres in Haderslev, Vejle, Vendsyssel, Kerteminde, the H. C. Andersen gallashow (2005) and the DGI national competition in 2006, that included habour construction with floted barges and two 40 meters high silos.
Kim Gluds designs have been nominated to the Reumert Price of best production in Odense International Music Theatre with the performances "Lulu - Sometimes in Dreams" (1998), "Here you stand" (2001) and for "The Citizen" (2002).
Ludwig Heimbach (DE)Set Designer, RAUM The architectural practice ludwig heimbach architektur was established 2004 in Cologne.
The design intent of the studio is to develop progressive solutions which detect a maximum of potentials for the user.
Ludwig Heimbach studied architecture at Technical University Berlin and at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Masterclass Wolf D. Prix) and graduated under Prof. Zamp Kelp and Prof. Matthias Sauerbruch. Collaborator at various studios in Berlin, Barcelona and Cologne.
Selected projects:
YES nää – apartment and retail building 04/05
raumSHIFT – apartment interior, Cologne, 05/07
re.loaded – apartment and retail building 07-
kill me softly – Tomb, Cologne, 07-
I like Corbusier better – Redesign on Mies´ Barcelona-chair, 05
Wolke-Heim – Rooftop remodelling, Cologne 07-
Exhibitions:
Formgedächtnis, plan 05, Köln, designmai, Berlin, 06
Hamburger Architektursommer, 06
Fremdgänger - DAZ Berlin, 00
www.ludwig-heimbach.com
Kay Fingerle & Erhard Woeste (DE)Set Designers, RAUM The architectural practice Fingerle&Woeste was established 2000 in Berlin. Kay Fingerle and Eghard Woeste studied architecture at Technical University Berlin and the Academy of Fine Arts Copenhagen. Selected projects: interiour and furniture designs in Shanghai, Milan and Moscow fashion fair stands bread&butter Berlin 05/06 NotionMotion stageset Copenhagen for Jens Bjerregaard 05 single familiy houses in Germany and Sweden Exhibitions: Designmai, Berlin, 06 Hamburger Architektursommer, 06 formgedächtnis, plan 05, Cologne 05 urban images, Copenhagen 01 Fremdgänger - DAZ Berlin, 00 00Staatsoper Berlin, 99 writings and research for Arch+, architecture and theory magazine, Berlin Kay Fingerle also works as a photographer. Her photography was exhibited in various exhibitions as there are: Mies in Berlin MoMA New York, Whitechapel Gallery London, Altes Museum Berlin Metamorph 9th Biennale Venice mies´ early projects Goethe Institute New York, DAZ Berlin www.fingerle-woeste.de Taneli Törma (FI)
Dancer, Out of Hauz Experiences vol. 2, Rite
Taneli Törma (FI) studied at the Finnish National Ballet School, Vocational qualification in dance 2002-05, and Compagnia Zappala Danza/ Modem studio atelier 2007-08. In Finland he worked with the Finnish National Ballet/Opera, Svenska Teatern, Dance Theatern Raatikko, as well as with several productions in Finland and abroad. He has choreographied works for various dance competitions and performances. Taneli joined Mancopy in January 2009. Eve Garnier (FR)
Dancer 2005-
Eve Garnier was educated at Conservatoire Marius Petipa, Conservatoire National Superieur de Paris and Classical ballet school Colas-Vaucher, Paris. In Denmark Eve Garnier has danced in a wealth of performances by different choreographers among them Tim Feldmann, Helen Saunders Anette Wiesner og Helle Bach and she has danced in opera productions at The Royal Theatre and in many other places.
From 1998 Eve Garnier became a permanent member of ‘Urban Elves’ – Jens Bjerregaard’s first company, where she participated in most of their productions. Eve Garnier is a permanent member of Mancopy© Dansekompagni.
Kristina Veit (DE)
Dancer Comfort Guidelines, too late2, Stringens, RAUM and Out of Hauz Experiences
Kristina Veit is educated from the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt. Since 2001 she has worked for several different choreographers and companies in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain and Denmark. Apart from creating her own choreographies she directed two shot programs for young choreographers and took place in an artist in residence programm at the festival Montevideo Sitiada in 2005.
Kang Ma (CN)
Dancer 2008
Kang Ma is educated in Beijing Dance Academy in 2004. During his education, he has been in recidency with the french company IXKIZIT. Kang Ma has in 2004-2007 worked as dancer in Goungdong Contemporary Dance Company in China. The company has toured in USA, Canada and several European countries. Kang Ma's own choreographies is shown in China and in Paris. Kang Ma is a permanent member of Mancopy© Dansekompagni.
Wencke Kriemer
Dancer - RAUM, Iconic/Ironic
Wencke Kriemer was educated in the Institute of theatre and music in Leipzig/Germany, where she got a formation as a contemporary dancer and dance-teacher.
She worked free-lancing with several companies and choreographers in Switzerland, Luxemburg and Germany; such as Alias Company in Geneva, Company Unit.Control in Luxemburg and Company Toula Limnaios in Berlin.
In 2000 she joined the company of the city-theatre in Hildesheim/Germany, where she worked until 2007 under the artistic direction of Portuguese choreographer Carlos Matos. She danced in all of his productions and as well got the possibility to work with choreographers like Jean Renshaw; Henrik Kaalund; Carlos Cortizo; Martina LaBonte and Benvindo Fonseca.
In this period she also started regularly to create her own pieces for this company and teaching the company in contemporary dance-technique.
Werner Nigg (CH)
Dancer RAUM and Out of Hauz Experiences
Werner Nigg is educated from Rotterdam and Zürich. He has also a farmer education from Switserland. Since 2003 he has worked with several companies in the Netherlands and France and has participated in a lot of workshops and masterclasses in different genres.
Since 2002 Werner Nigg has choreographied own pieces both in The Netherlands, Germany and Italy.
Lodie Kardouss
Dancer - RAUM and Out of Hauz Experiences
Lodie Kardouss began her training in France in a junior ballet and completed her professional dance training at P.A.R.T.S, Performing Arts Research and Training Studios, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's contemporary dance school in Brussels (B). Since then she has performed with Charleroi-Danses (B), Michèle Anne De Mey 's Dance Company, Jean Abreu Dance Company (UK), and The Forsythe Company, performing in Human Writes, an installation/performance in Brussels, joining Mancopy in 2007.
In addition to performing, Kardouss gives workshops in contemporary dance and tap dance. She also continues to work with Bal Moderne, and created the dance Love, Amour, Amor with Gabor Varga. In collaboration with dancers and choreographers, she created UNIKvzw, a Belgian organization that proposes a wide range of classes and workshops for amateur, semi-professional, and professional dancers and choreographers.
MATHIAS REUMERT (b. 1980) is a Danish percussionist, producer, and composer. He has given recitals in U.S.A., Mexico, France, Korea, and throughout Scandinavia, and received the First Prize at the International Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition 2007 in Amsterdam, Holland, the first percussion soloist to do so since 1979.
Mathias ReumertPercussion (RAUM)
Reumert embraces a broad spectrum of musical genres: classical, the avant-garde, improvisation, musical theater, and electronica. He has worked with leading Danish jazz- and computer musicians, as well as distinguished composers such as Steve Reich, Roger Reynolds, Philippe Hurel, Chinary Ung, Chaya Czernowin, Per Nørgård, and Bent Sørensen.
Equally active as a recitalist and ensemble player, Reumert frequently performs also as soloist with orchestras. He has performed alongside percussionists Evelyn Glennie and Steven Schick in Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella concerts at Walt Disney Concert Hall, and is a member of the award winning Danish percussion/electronics ensemble PACE Percussion Trio (www.paceonline.dk).
www.mathiasreumert.com
Cristina Caprioli (SE)Choreographer (too late2)Cristina Caprioli was born and raised in Northern Italy. At an early age she studied dance and developed an interest for modern dance. She has worked as a dancer and dance teacher in New York, Sweden, Germany and Austria. She came to Stockholm in 1983, and has resided here ever since. In the beginning of the 90’ies, she began to develop as a choreographer. The past five years, Cristina Caprioli has been the artistic director and choreographer at ccap, which is a constellation of artists that have worked intensively for Cristina Caprioli for several years. Dancers possessing high artistic integrity, physical clarity and strength. The ccap produces several performances, but also creates installation art, video art, workshops, seminars and educational art projects. Through her work Cristina Caprioli has created an indisputable position as one of Sweden’s most significant choreographers and her performances have yielded international recognition. Characteristically for her style is an intellectual and sensitive undertone which motivates her and from which her interest in movement and the dancing body springs. With great clarity Cristina Caprioli shows us the dancing body as an endless source of realization. She celebrates dance as the art form, where a philosophical tension arises between body and mind. Her work exists in the gap between movement and thought. Details, complexity and clarity are the bearing elements in the aesthetics of Cristina Caprioli’s as well as the tightness and austerity of her compositional structures.
Sayaka Kaiwa
Danser (Stringens/Comfort Guidelines spring 2007 and spring 2008)
Sayaka Kaiwa was born in Miyagi, Japan and grew up in Saitama, Bangkok, Amherst, New York and Brussels. She loved dancing since she was little, and started to study modern dance, choreography and other related areas of study at Hampshire College (MA, USA). After receiving BA in 2003, she moved to New York City to further pursue her dance education. In June 2006, she finished her study at P.A.R.T.S. (Brussels) 2nd cycle. She has received several scholarships from Japanese government, Asia Europe Foundation, DanceWEB, etc. and has worked with and performed works by many choreogprahers such as Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker, William Forsythe, and Trisha Brown/ Lance Gries. She also has choreographed few dances. Most recently, she toured her solo "traces of sigh" in Europe with P.A.R.T.S.
Anders Christiansen
Choreografer (Stringens)
Anders Christiansen has been called "the grand master oof minimalism" and "Mr. Strange Guy no. 1" in danish dance.
Anders
Christiansen is a unique figur in the danish dance and performance scene. He has with enormous consequence followed his own way and has created more than 25 dance pieces and in between a long list of pioneer solo pieces and several large scale ensemble pieces. His performances has been presented in most of the world.
Read more about Anders Christiansen here.
Maxim Iioudine (RU)
Composer (Stringens)
Born 1968 in Moscow Maxim Iioudine studied from 1973 violin, piano and drums at music college of Moscow State Conservatory. After his graduation 1989 as artist and music teacher he tours through Russia as viola soloist. 1990 he becomes member of the Oper orchestra in Frankfurt Main (Germany).
There he has his first contacts with a contemporary ballet, and since 1994 he was working for the company of Frankfurt Ballet. 1995 he participates in a monumental piece created by Frankfurt Ballett „Eidos:Telos“, that was brought almost to all important theater stages in a world. His improvisational interpretation of music score for the
documentary film about William Forsythe wins first prize in Stockholm Film festival for the best video music of the year. Since 1999 he frequently composes music for contemporary dance and works with dance companies Rui Horta.stageworks, Ballet Gulbenkian, Bratislava dance theater, Cobosmika.company and musicians Carlos Gomez (Barcelona), Arto Lindsay (NY), Dougie Bowne (Lounge Lizards, Laurie Anderson) and others.
In 2002 he creates together with dancer and choreographer Allison Brown interactive performance for dance and music in Korzo theater Den Haag with music improvisation based on similar improvisation technology as it‘s used in a dance work of William Forsythe.
Olga Cobos (ES) & Peter Mika (SK)
Choreograhers (Stringens)
The Choreographer team Olga Cobos and Peter Mika established during 2000 their own company COBOSMIKA. Their aggresive, explosive choreographic language mixes the dance with improvisation, elements of martial arts and physical theatre.
Olga Cobos and Peter Mika are both originally dancers with great careers in leading european companies such as Rui Hortas
S.O.A.P. Dance theatre, Frankfurt and with Russell Maliphant in London.
Read all about Olga and Peter here.
Patrick MuellerDancer (Stringens/Comfort Guidelines - spring 2007)
Patrick Mueller studied dance, theatre, and visual arts at Pomona College (Claremont, CA, USA). He spent two summers at the American Dance Festival, and continued his training during his 3 years in New York. In 2005, he spent a year in the Masters program in Choreography and Performance at Ohio State University.
While in New York, Patrick danced for Troika Ranch Dance Theatre and performed in projects with Mark Jarecke, Paige Martin, and others. From 2004 to 2005 he worked as rehearsal assistant to Neil Greenberg. While in New York, he also taught regularly at Williams and Amherst Colleges’ Excel Programs, the Packer School, and Dance Space Center studio.
In 2006 Patrick received a grant to conduct research in Germany, and subsequently took up residence in Düsseldorf. He is currently performing with choreographer Ben J. Riepe, and has also worked as rehearsal assistant for Sabine Seume Ensemble. In the spring he will perform with artistic collective Ludica, under the direction of Morgan Nardi and Naoka Tanaka.
Patrick’s training and professional work emphasize contemporary release and post-release techniques with a firm ballet foundation. He has extensive experience with improvisation and contact improv, both as choreographic tools and in performance. He has participated in work ranging from pure movement to dance theatre, movement theatre, and performance art, including site-specific and design-based work. His education and professional activities also include painting, sculpture, installation, and costume design.
Iker Arrue-Mauleon (ES)
Dancer (Stringens, Iconic/Ironic, Out of Hauz Experiences vol. 1, RAUM (e08))
Iker Arrue-Mauleon was educated as a dancer in Madrid and London. He has
drawn attention to himself in the Losdedae Dance Company, under the leading
of Chevi Muradays, as well as through his work in Carmen Roches Ballet,
where he worked with Pascal Touzeau from the Frankfurt Ballet. Apart from
assisting choreographers in several productions he also took part in several
programs with the aim of getting young people interested in and giving them
a better understanding of contemporary dance. For the last 2 years he has
been working as a freelancer mainly with Cobosmika- Company in Spain and
Mancopy in Denmark.
Michael Breiner (DK)Lighting Design (Comfort Guidelines, Noting Florid & Mimic)Michael Breiner started as a lighting technician at Dr. Dantes in 1997 and has created lighting for a series of performances, through several years, mostly at Copenhagen theatres such as Kaleidoskop, Kanonhallen, Dansescenen, Den Anden Opera, Corona Danseteater, Mungo Park and others. In recent years Michel Breiner has mainly focused on the dance scene and has worked as lighting designer on Jens Bjerregaard’s previous productions, for example Motion Notion, Shaved Plucked and Moisturized and Beautiful Breakdown. Michael Breiner also teaches at Statens Teaterskole.
Bark (DK)Designers (Costumes Comfort Guidelines)Two girls Ann Christine Rørvang and Camilla Holm graduated as designers from Odense Danseskole in 2001. Along with konstruktør Sofie Holm they design clothes for heroes and heroines, and are not inspired by trends but rather by heroic epics, history and society (Danish architecture, butter! and functionalism). They have three stores in Denmark, in Odense, Copenhagen City and Nørrebro. Moreover their collections are sold in Helena Christensen’s store in New York. Read more here.
Gabriella Grundemar (SE)Dancer (Comfort Guidelines)Gabriella Gundemar is educated at Skolen for Moderne Dans & Statens Teaterskole and works as a free-lance dancer, choreographer and teacher. Since 2001 she has participated in- and created choreography for many performances, for example at Dansescenen in Denmark, but she has also frequently been used as a dancer in Sweden: Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmoe.
Thomas Nørskov Andreasen (DK)Dancer (Comfort Guidelines og too late2)Thomas Nørskov Andreasen is educated at Skolen for Moderne Dans in Copenhagen and finished his studies in 2003. Since then he has taught and danced in several productions, the latest being Rå Flade by Lars Dahl Pedersen, but he has also danced in Jens Bjerregaard’s previous company ‘Urban Elves’ in the performances Beautiful Breakdown and Motion Notion. Moreover Thomas Nørskov Andreasen has danced for Flying Pigs Productions and Åben Dans.
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