HundertPro 2020

Patricia Carolin Mai was born in North Rhine-Westphalia and has lived in Hamburg since 2013. As a dancer and choreographer, she produces stage pieces using production facilities at Kampnagel Hamburg and at LOFFT – Das Theater in Leipzig. She completed her training at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp and the SNDO in Amsterdam. She also studied the master's degree in Performance Studies at the University of Hamburg. Her choreographic work focuses on examining the body as a central repository of memories. After participating in HundertPro Festival Vol. 1, she is now returning to the Ringlokschuppen Ruhr.

A Patricia Carolin Mai production in co-production with K3 – Zentrum für Choreographie | Tanzplan Hamburg. Sponsored by: Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg, Hamburgische Kulturstiftung, Dfdk Dachverband Hamburg und Rudolf Augstein Stiftung. Support: Seoul Dance Center Korea, Goethe Institut Korea, Hochschulsport Hamburg und Claussen-Simon-Stiftung. Made possible by: Wiederaufnahme- und Gastspielförderung des Dachverbands freie darstellende Künste Hamburg, im Auftrag der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg, Behörde für Kultur und Medien.

Tan Caglar was born in Hildesheim in 1980. He was born with spina bifida, a congenital disease of the spinal cord. His passion for basketball developed in childhood. At 21 he played in the major league, at 25 he transitioned into a wheelchair, and at 28 he got a professional wheelchair basketball contract. Since 2012, Caglar has also worked as a coach in the field of inclusion and integration, and, in 2016, he was the first model in a wheelchair to ride the catwalk at Berlin Fashion Week.

After studying Applied Media Economics at the Mittweida University of Applied Studies, Negah Amiri did an internship at Antenne Frankfurt radio station. At Antenne Bad Kreuznach, she presented the morning show "Antenne am Morgen" ("Antenne in the morning") and the midday broadcast "Antenne bei der Arbeit" ("Antenne at work"). As a comedienne, she is currently on tour with Nightwash, and will be back at the Ringlokschuppen Ruhr on 11th December 2020.

Lina Gómez (Director/Choreography) was born in Colombia and is a choreographer, dancer and teacher. Gómez studied dance and theatre in São Paulo, Brazil. Julek Kreutzer is a dancer and choreographer and lives in Berlin. She is a founding member of the association "Tänzer ohne Grenzen e.V." ("Dancers without borders"). Michelangelo Contini (music), born in Milan, has lived and worked in Berlin since 2002. In parallel to his work as a painter, he began to participate in various music and performance projects.

Lina Gómez, Julek Kreutzer, Michelangelo Contini, Bruno Pocheron, Sandra Ernst und Thomas Schaupp.

A coproduction by Lina Gómez Koproduktion with ada Studio & Bühne für zeitgenössischen Tanz and Sophiensaele Berlin

Demjan Duran was born in Prijepolje (Serbia) in 1991 and grew up in Frankfurt am Main. He discovered his interest in directing while he was still training as an actor, and, in 2016, he began studying directing for plays and musical theatre at the August Everding Theatre Academy. Performer Leonard Dick, born in 1992, grew up with a Chilean–Russian background near Hanover. He studied acting at the August Everding Theatre Academy in 2016 and is currently working as a freelance actor.

Demjan Duran, Julia Hammersiel, Leonard Dick und Giovanni Berg

A Theaterakademie August Everding production

Lucas Lopes Pereira is a Brazilian artist who has lived in Germany for four years. He completed his Bachelor of Dance at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen and created IANDELANDE with his fellow students as part of the "Young Choreographers" event.

A Folkwang Universität der Künste production

Berhane says of himself that he had to grow up in a city that only the very toughest survive: Heidelberg. He has already appeared twice as a guest of Bülent Ceylan in the SAP Arena. Now Berhane is on tour with his first solo programme.

Yotam Peled & The Free Radicals are an interdisciplinary ensemble that integrates dance, circus, theatre and fine arts and is based in Berlin. It was founded in September 2018, after the founding of "Entropia" as part of the "THINK BIG" project at the Hanover State Opera, and acts as a project-based company that engages various freelancers under the artistic direction of Yotam Peled.

Trauma Bar und Kino Berlin, Choreographic Center Heidelberg, TalentLAB#19 / Grand Theatre Luxembourg

Born in 1996, Mahmod has already lived in Dortmund, Hagen and Essen, and occasionally also in trains. She is currently stopping off at Bochum. In addition to studying theatre and media studies, she is currently working as an editor at #LYTTER, a poetry magazine that wants to filter young literature from the social media platform Twitter.

Djavid Sediqi fled Afghanistan with his family due to the war at the age of 10 and came to Germany. His main job is as a job advisor in a government agency. About a year ago, Djavid Sediqi discovered the comedy stage for himself, and it has since become an indispensable part of his life.

Olivia Hyunsin Kim works as a choreographer, performer and curator in Berlin, Frankfurt am Main and Seoul. As the founder of the ddanddarakim network, she works in different configurations with artists from various disciplines and from different backgrounds. They create choreographies that deal predominantly with the topics of postcolonialism and intersectional feminism through multiple narrative styles and hybrid stories. Tatiana Heuman is an Argentinian drummer and producer based in Berlin. DoodulSori is a professional percussion and dance ensemble for traditional Korean performance art that is one of its kind in Europe.

A Olivia Hyunsin Kim/ddanddarakim production, co-producer Het Zuidelijk Toneel. Das Gastspiel wird realisiert durch den Theaterpreis des Bundes.

Constanza Ruiz Campusano studied at the Centre for Contemporary Dance (CCD) in Cologne. In 2013, she received her bachelor's degree in sociology in Chile. Most recently, she has focused on the Bolivian carnival dance and ritual of the Tinku for the festival "tanz nrw 19" and was also our guest at HundertPro Festival Vol.1! María Mercedes Flores Mujica is a Cologne-based Venezuelan with a background in linguistics and contemporary dance. Her work is based on creating channels of communication by rooting the mind and body in relation to space and time.

Inkubator Residency – Tanzfaktur 2019

With her stand-up comedy based on US format, Erika goes where it hurts: racism, hardcore feminism and vaginal yeast infections. Ratcliffe knows no taboo, and it is precisely in this lack of restraint that she finds her very own voice. The cynical Vienna woman living in Berlin with a Japanese mother and Austrian father represents a harmonious balance of humour and sarcasm, comedy and cabaret.

notsopretty, that's Anna Júlia Amaral, Marcel Nascimento and Nina Weber. The group emerged out of the "Scenic Research" master's programme at the Ruhr University in Bochum. The core of the collaboration is the artistic examination of self-presentation and the construction of identity based on (national) origin, gender and sexuality in and through the digitised space.

Sponsored by: Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes NRW, NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste, NRW Kultursekretariat, Stadt Bochum, die Gesellschaft der Freunde der RUB und der Szenischen Forschung.

Seongmin Yuk (director) was born in South Korea in 1992 and is currently studying media art at the Academy of Media Arts (KHM) in Cologne. Since 2014, he has realised a series of works and performances in various cities in South Korea and Germany. María Mercedes Flores Mujica (choreography) was born and raised in Venezuela and currently lives in Cologne. Her background combines modern languages and contemporary dance. She can also be seen as a performer in On:Joy in this issue!

A KUNSTHOCHSCHULE FÜR MEDIEN KÖLN production