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MEMBER SINCE 2020
“My understanding of choreographic work is less a composed dance form, and more as an architectural arrangement of the human body in space and time. I want to create a space where different levels of perception can be experienced. I question the environment and the role of the audience.”
In her choreographies and photo-video works, Stephanie Felber is dealing with the interface between visual and performing arts.
CONTACT
info@stephanie-felber.de
www.stephanie-felber.de
MEMBER SINCE 201
“to create... to dive inside the imagination and swim in its conflicts ... to face its resolutions and express them in honesty and inspiration... to play with truth and fantasy, reality and absurdity .... to weave dynamic stories impacting an audience through their humanity and poetry ... to seek a raw and visceral movement language that serves discerning and often darkly comical expressions of life and humanity... to create ... to be”
Caroline Finn blends fantasy, reality and human conflict to create poetic and often humorously dark choreography. As a freelance choreographer, she creates works for companies and operas around the world. She is also part of the artistic management duo at BRÜCKEREI in Zurich, and has received the Matthew Bourne New Adventures Choreographer Award, among other accolades.
CONTACT
finn@tanztendenz.de
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MEMBER SINCE 2013
“My choreographies explore the possibilities and impossibilities of our relationships with others and the unfamiliar. By this, I mean our relationships with groups and communities, as well as with surrounding spaces, artificial objects, and nature. Ultimately, it is also about our relationship with ourselves.”
Sabine Glenz’s interdisciplinary works explore choreographic methods as models for communal living. They address self-determined actions, collective movement structures, and their deviations. The works serve as performative reflections on current social changes.
CONTACT
glenz@tanztendenz.de
MEMBER SINCE 1998
Originally from Argentina, Ruth Golic trained in modern and classical dance and choreography in Buenos Aires. She now works as a dancer, choreographer, and teacher of dance improvisation, composition, and Qigong. Since 2008, she has led the continuing education programme for dance and movement education at the Freies Musikzentrum (Free Music Centre) in Munich, alongside Urte Gudian.
CONTACT
golic@tanztendenz.de
www.ruth-golic.de
MEMBER SINCE 1998
Sabine Haß studied dance, contact improvisation, acrobatics, aikido, singing and acting in Munich and New York and has been developing her own choreographies since the 1980s. She has worked as a dancer and choreographer for ensembles such as Coogan Dancers, founded the label SLOT A LOT and realised numerous guest performances and co-productions. Since the 1990s, she has been teaching dance and Feldenkrais and leading projects at schools in Munich.
CONTACT
sabine.hass.zimmermann@gmail.com
MEMBER SINCE 2009
“...Stephan Herwig is not someone whose art screams or vies for accessibility with pop appeal. But it is precisely this calmness – with which he has been producing pieces consistently since 2006 while developing his own aesthetics – that sets a relieving and necessary sign in a world in which there is currently too much screaming going on from all sides...” Excerpt from the jury judgement on the awarding of the Förderpreises für Tanz 2018 of the city of Munich to Stephan Herwig.
Stephan Herwig is a choreographer whose work has received support from the City of Munich on several occasions. His pieces have been performed at festivals, theatres and residencies around the world. He has worked as a dancer with renowned national and international choreographers and has been involved in acclaimed opera and theatre productions. He also teaches contemporary dance and runs workshops at various schools in Munich.
CONTACT
herwig@tanztendenz.de
www.stephanherwig.net
MEMBER SINCE 2006
Anna Holter, raised in Stockholm and trained at the Iwanson School in Munich, now works internationally as a dancer and choreographer. She founded her own company, Anna Holter + Company, and creates dance pieces for guest performances, as well as choreographies for theatre and opera productions. Alongside her artistic work, she is a certified yoga teacher and divides her time between Stockholm and Munich.
CONTACT
holter@tanztendenz.de
MEMBER SINCE 2015
“The themes that inspire and move me are closeness and distance, intimacy, and observation. I create simple, structured situations that pause and open up the possibility of different perspectives. I am drawn to dance as an art form, and to exploring the body, coupled with an attitude of not knowing, of doubting, but of searching.” – Judith Hummel
Judith Hummel works as a freelance artist in the field of performance and choreography at the interface of movement and visual art. She deals with themes of intimacy, closeness and distance, looking at and being looked at. The aim is to create simple, yet structured situations that extend over a certain duration and open up diverse possibilities of perception.
CONTACT
hummel@tanztendenz.de
www.judith-hummel.de
FOUNDING MEMBER
Jessica Iwanson is a Swedish choreographer and artistic director, trained in New York and Paris. Through her choreographic and educational work, she has shaped the contemporary dance scene in Munich for decades. She has created over 100 works, founded her own company, and supported young dancers and choreographers through the Iwanson-Sixt Foundation. She has received numerous awards in recognition of her work, including the ‘München leuchtet’ medal of honour, the City of Munich Dance Prize, and the Swedish Dance Prize.
CONTACT
www.iwanson.de
iwanson@tanztendenz.de
MEMBER SINCE 1998 & BOARD
Karen Janker's work is characterised by an interdisciplinary approach. In her productions, dance, music, drama and creative elements are given equal weight. Scenes from everyday life are examined and performed with great intensity on stage. Themes include life in a tenement building, a day at the swimming pool or football pitch, and encounters with others and oneself.
CONTACT
janker@tanztendenz.de
www.karenjanker.de
MEMBER SINCE 1991
“There have been various attempts in this country to adapt Japanese Butoh dance. However, Munich-based Stefan Maria Marb has now succeeded for the first time. ‘HONG 32‘... was a poetic dance meditation inspired by Eastern and Western spirit. ... Marb and his dancers have mastered this Japanese ‘dance of darkness‘, this language of birth, existence and death that is so unfamiliar to us.” Malve Gradinger, 1993
Stefan Maria Marb is a qualified psychologist and trained dancer in modern dance and Japanese butoh. He works as a dancer and choreographer nationally and internationally, has been a member of renowned ensembles and has received awards for his choreographic work.
CONTACT
marb@tanztendenz.de
www.butoh-marb.de
FOUNDING MEMBER
“Bewildered and fascinated by wild creativity... The various stylistic elements come together under the spell of the sound wizards to form an incredibly exciting whole.” – Süddeutsche Zeitung
Angelika Meindl's works combine science fiction themes such as time and space shifts or human-machine fusions, allowing fiction and reality to flow into one another. She works with the latest technologies, including 360-degree projections, VR and real-time motion tracking, to merge real and virtual performers and immerse the audience in a three-dimensional, immersive space.
CONTACT
meindl@tanztendenz.de
www.meindltanz.com
MEMBER SINCE 2017
Ceren Oran was born in Istanbul and trained at SEAD in Salzburg. She now works internationally as a dancer, choreographer and sound painter. She develops her own dance and dance theatre projects for adults and children, touring Europe with them. She also teaches sound painting at conservatoires and in workshops, as well as in special projects such as those for children on the Turkish–Syrian border.
CONTACT
www.cerenoran.com
MEMBER SINCE 2016 & BOARD
In his works Moritz Ostruschnjak dwells upon the transformations in physical and social experiences in times of digitization and virtualization. His pieces are spaces made up of hyperlinks which utilize the media-machinery of the 21st century as a motif as well as an archive, thus mirroring and reflecting social processes. Following the principle of pick & mix and cut & paste, highly heterogeneous elements and connections form the narrative of a reality in which the boundaries between politics, entertainment and populism become increasingly indistinct.
CONTACT
www.moritzostruschnjak.com
MEMBER SINCE 1999
Helmut Ott uses costume objects to explore new ways of approaching the viewer, confronting them with fictional characters in a search for what is real and fake, beautiful and ugly.
CONTACT
ott@tanztendenz.de
www.helmutott.de
MEMBER SINCE 1999
Yvonne Pouget is a freelance artist, choreographer, and dancer with Italian roots and training in Japanese Butoh with Ko Murobushi and Carlotta Ikeda. Her dance theatre pieces combine various art forms and explore non-verbal forms of bodily expression. Thematically, she deals with trauma, dissociation and body image disorders.
CONTACT
pouget@tanztendenz.de
www.yvonnepouget.com
FOUNDING MEMBER & BOARD
“god guard me from the thoughts men think in the mind alone” –
William Butler Yeats
“my universe is less stable” –
William S. Burroughs
Micha Purucker's work focuses on the body, perception, non-verbal communication, and pre- and extra-linguistic forms of expression. Combining movement, sound and light, he creates interactive spaces that people can walk into and which also reflect physical interiors. A freelance choreographer, dancer and movement trainer for decades, he has mainly worked in Munich and is constantly developing new formats and constellations. His approach is characterised by a respect for the physical nature of human beings, and by a promotion of development, articulation and diversity.
CONTACT
purucker@tanztendenz.de
www.micha-purucker.de
MEMBER SINCE 1998
“Before the mind can choose a step, love has reached the seventh heaven. Wherever the dancer treads, a spring of life arises from the dust.” – Rumi
Johanna Richter's interdisciplinary dance theatre transcends words, bringing together dancers and actors of all ages and cultures to form a diverse ensemble. Her choreographic style translates human stories into movement, focusing on the expression of individual personalities. Place, harmony with other art forms and narrative structure characterise her full-length pieces. These pieces invite audiences to experience the plurality of society, offering areas of identification within the universal experiential space of theatre.
CONTACT
richter@tanztendenz.de
www.johanna-richter.com
MEMBER SINCE 2006
“The originality of Claudia Senoner's work lies in her ability to break down and develop choreographic patterns by working with different formats and questioning viewing habits. She does this by playing with the idea that perception is incomplete. In doing so, body language and movement vocabulary are constantly redefined.” This excerpt is from the jury's statement when Claudia Senoner was awarded the City of Munich's Dance Promotion Prize in 2008.
Claudia Senoner is a choreographer, performer and dance teacher. In her artistic work she combines her deep knowledge of classical and contemporary dance with the experimental urge to explore dance and movement. She developed her own movement language together with composers, filmmakers and video artists. Since the mid-nineties she has created over 30 full-length pieces. She has received various prizes, including the Kulturförderpreis Tanz of the City of Munich.
CONTACT
senoner@tanztendenz.de
www.claudiasenoner.de
MEMBER SINCE 2016
“The emphasis and goal of my work is to question the self-evident, create confusion – first in me, then in the audience – in order to confront ourselves with our own perception and things we take for granted. I portray this, with the help of the body, as part of a bigger picture.” – Zufit Simon
Zufit Simon, an Israeli-born performer and choreographer, studied contemporary dance at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts and has received numerous international awards. Her works have been shown worldwide, including at the Tanzplattform Deutschland and festivals in Europe and Africa. In 2025, she received the Dance Award of the City of Munich.
CONTACT
simon@tanztendenz.de
www.zufitsimon.com
MEMBER SINCE 1991
“I don't want to impose a message on the viewer or pose riddles with obscure symbols. Rather, I want to create images that touch the viewer emotionally and leave them free to make their own associations.”
Susanne Stortz trained as a dancer in Munich and New York and has spent many years developing her own choreographies, focusing on 'pure dance'. She also teaches contemporary dance and the Feldenkrais method, and has worked as a dance and movement teacher at the Technical University of Munich.
CONTACT
stortz@tanztendenz.de
MEMBER SINCE 2015
Dali Touiti develops his movements from within the body, the body as a centre of energy, the body as a storehouse of emotions, experiences and instincts, the body as the primary means of communication. The individuality of each dancer is extremely important to him; dancers are not neutral and interchangeable, but convey their ideas and concepts with their own unique character. And in movement, a space is created.
CONTACT
touiti@tanztendenz.de
FOUNDING MEMBER
Birgitta Trommler, born in Munich, lived in both Munich and New York, where she studied dance under teachers such as Merce Cunningham. After returning to Munich, she founded the Tanzprojekt München (TPM), directed her own dance theatre company and co-founded Tanztendenz München e.V. She later took on management roles at Tanztheater Münster and Staatstheater Darmstadt and also worked as a choreographer for film and the independent dance scene in Munich.
CONTACT
trommler@tanztendenz.de
Katja Wachter is a movement researcher who experiments with a wide variety of movement patterns and qualities, always starting from an emotional and human perspective. She combines her dynamic, soft movement language with sharp accents, surprising breaks and a humorous, ironic undertone. Katja is interested in people and the many nuances of human relationships, which she brings to the stage in a detailed and multifaceted way.
CONTACT
wachter@tanztendenz.de