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After receiving her BA in Anthropology (Smith College, USA), she returned to dance in 2013.
She studied and worked in New York, Spain and Germany, and graduated from bewegungs-art - centre for Dance, Improvisation and Performance (2017 Freiburg). She is co-founder of Quizzical Körper – a dance theater collective focused on improvisation, performing in Germany and abroad.
Her choreographic work (new website – www.rebecca-mary.com) is characterized by her interest in the expressive potential of the body in relation to space and sound, as well as how to create a sensory resonance with the audience.

In her classes, she imparts a deep, anatomical understanding combined with precise movement patterns. She blends the boundaries between technique and improvisation/exploration to open a space where dancers experience different movement principles to learn to move with grace, ease, and expressivity.

Zina Vaessen is a freelance choreographer, dancer and lecturer for contemporary dance and improvisation, living and working between Basel and Freiburg. In 2013 she completed her training as a professional dancer at the TIP in Freiburg. From 2013-2018 she was a permanent member of the company OFFSPACE in Kassel. Since 2018 she has been developing her own choreographic works in different ensembles. Her artistic practice is strongly influenced by practices from visual art and experimental film but also by contemporary philosophy, astonishment, the enjoyment of the unknown and not-knowing. A member of bewegungs-art since 2016, she was actively involved in building structures from which the current Tanznetz emerged. With projects such as the Triangle Meeting, she is committed to increasing networking among dance professionals in the tri-border region. She feels at home in wordless and empty spaces, with other bodies and with ants - and crickets.

zinavaessen.net/

Irene Carreño Monsalve grew up with dance in a family of artists in Colombia. After her training at bewegungs-art freiburg, she now works as a freelance performer and choreographer. Her dance pieces inhabit surreal moving images and have been performed in Germany and internationally - often together with the dance collective Quizzical Körper. Her most recent production "transformater" premiered at the end of March 2023. Her artistic development is deeply influenced by her regular practice and performance of Instant Composition. In recent years, she has specialized in accompanying and choreographically supporting students and professional dancers in the creation of their pieces. Her teaching work focuses on the anatomy of the human body as well as the refinement of sensory perception and its stimulation. In addition, her classes are influenced by floor technique, body mind centering and dance improvisation. She co-curates the format tanzwuchs in Freiburg and the onCe Festival. Since September 2021 she is the co-director of the VOCATIONAL TRAINING and CONTINUING EDUCATION bewegungs-art freiburg.

www.irenemovement.com

Oliver Lange is a dance & theater creator, teacher of dance, educator of movement analysis according to Cary Rick and theater pedagogue (BuT®). He originally studied psychology, however after attending a dance improvisation course he has since dedicated himself to the performing arts. He studied New Dance, Performance and Improvisation in Konstanz and Freiburg. For a long time he was a member of the instant composition ensemble "Arte Schoki" and is co-founder of k²-koreografenkollektiv freiburg. After bringing several dance pieces to the stage, he expanded his repertoire to include acting and creating theater pieces. All that he has learned about the art of the stage, he passes on as a teacher.

He is a part of the direction team of the vocational training and continued education at bewegungs-art and co-director of the training course Theaterpädagogik of the TPZ Baden-Württemberg in Freiburg. He is on the board of directors for bewegungs-art freiburg e.V. and SpielRaum Freiburg e.V..

Lou Poirier has a hybrid background of physical theater, dance and storytelling. She has been mixing these genres and combining multidisciplinary partnerships for over 15 years. Her projects have been performed in all French Canadian provinces.
She has been coaching actors in movement and stage presence for seven years and teaches interpretation, movement and acting for the Camera (Université de Moncton/ Department of Theatre Studies). She also works in the world of television with several roles in television series and as an acting coach for children having their first experience on a TV set.
In 2018, she became a mother and offers classes under the Mamadances approach (Mamadances.com) and parent-child dance. Being a mother led her to become more involved in community and school projects around dance, theater, and slam poetry. Between 2012 and 20121, she received several grants for research and creation as well as artist residencies (Banff Center for the Arts, FTA, St John's Cultural Center, ...).
She studied, among others, at T.I.P. in Freiburg (2009-2011) and has been living there again since 2021 ...... and the journey continues!

www.loupoirier.com

Karolin Stächele trained at TIP - the Freiburg Center for Dance, Improvisation and Performance. Since 2012 she has been working as a freelance choreographer, dancer, performer and dance teacher. As a choreographer and artistic director, Karolin has been creating full-length productions under the label DAGADA dance (www.dagada.dance) since 2014. She has shown her work nationally and internationally in Freiburg, Offenburg, Berlin, Leipzig, Cologne, Basel/Switzerland, Brest/France, Haarlem/Netherlands and Prague/Czech Republic, among others. In 2018, she received the Innovation Award for Socioculture and the BKM Prize for Cultural Education for a project she artistically directed with refugees. Karolin Stächele was co-founder of tanznetzIfreiburg (2018-2022). Since September 2021, she is co-director of TIP - Training and Further Education for Dance, Improvisation and Performance by bewegungs-art freiburg e.V.. Image-trailer: https://vimeo.com/709528306   

http://dagada.dance/

Significant contributor to new dance developments as well as establishment of improvisation as a stage form.
Co-founder of bewegungs-art Freiburg (1979), from 2006 – July 2021 co-director of TIP – Full-time education in dance, improvisation and performance.

Since 1981 she danced and created solo and ensemble pieces, 1987 – 91 member of Anzu Furukawa`s Company Dance Butter Tokyo; she has been performing with dancers and musicians in international ensembles since the mid-nineties; she constantly works in duets with Harald Kimmig and in quintet with trio Kimmig-Studer-Zimmerlin & Michael Schumacher / Michael Shapira.

In 2021 she was working on „what if“ – part of a solo research «silence & noise» supported by DIS-TANZ-SOLO – premiere sounDance-festival Berlin June 21.
In her teaching she draws from decades of research in dance, improvisation and performance. Her interest is exclusively in artistic processes. The focus of her work is equally on the body, breath, intensity and devotion as well as the breaking of movement and thought patterns. Dance technique, dance expression, creativity and design unite.

Dagny Borsdorf works as a freelance dancer, performer and choreographer in Germany and abroad, she is co-founder of Tanznetz Freiburg and since 2016 on the board of bewegungs-art freiburg e.V..
She feels particularly connected to the poetry of the moment and strongly believes in synergies that arise from the interaction of people.

As a choreographer she has presented UPCYCLING (2021), KIN (2018) and LOOPING (2016) and accompanies dance and theater productions as a choreographer & choreographic assistant. As a performer, she currently dances as an instant composer in the improvisation group FINDINGS led by Lilo Stahl and performed in the format once before onCe and in the onCe-Festival Freiburg (May 2023). Most recently she danced with Cie LaPerformance (2019) and in FORM.ALIE & SEEING WHITE FIGURES ON A WHITE CARPET (2019/ Zina Vaessen) and previously as a guest at Theater Freiburg (2016) and Theater Marienbad (2012-2016). She was an ensemble member of the company UrbanReflects (2010-2015) and toured with the action theater PAN.OTPIKUM (2009-2016) and COMPANY BLUE (2007). She received her training at the Zentrum für Center for New Dance bewegungs-art freiburg e.V. (2005-2007), among others.

www.dagnyborsdorf.com