After training as a dance pedagogue at the Erika-Klütz School in Hamburg, Alexander Varekhine trained as a stage dancer at the Contemporary Dance School Hamburg and in numerous workshops throughout Europe. He works as a freelance dancer, choreographer and dance teacher and is a member of The Current Dance Collective. Alexander also teaches contemporary dance to young people and has been invited to the Tanztreffen der Jugend several times with his group. He is a lecturer at the Erika Klütz School for Theatre Dance and Dance Pedagogy.

The Brazilian-Hamburg choreographer and performer Regina Rossi studied theatre, choreography and performance studies in Porto Alegre (BR), Amsterdam and Hamburg. Since 2011, Rossi has been producing her own works at Kampnagel and K3, which have been shown throughout Germany and internationally. Rossi’s work is characterised by Rossi’s work different spaces for encounters with the audience, such as walk-on stages, installation spaces, urban space or virtual space.

Jascha Viehstädt completed his MA in choreography at the HZT Berlin after studying classical and contemporary dance in Hamburg. He is a founding member of Costa Companie (Berlin / Hamburg) and works regularly with the Düsseldorf choreographer Chikako Kaido (DE / JAP). In his work he creates concentrated and attacking situations that open up both physical and mental spaces; he produces between Hamburg, Berlin, NRW and Malaysia.

Raymond Liew Jin Pin graduated at the Folkwang University (Essen) with BA/MA in dance and choreography, as well as a Diploma at ASWARA in Malaysia where he learned the multiple traditional dance forms such as Malay,Chinese and Indian dance. As a dancer he worked among others with mit Nature Theatre of Oklahoma, Theater Bremen, Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, Samir Akika, and Ben J. Riepe. His choreographies were shown at International Contemporary Dance Festival of Panama and d’Motion International Dance Festival in Malaysia.

By reflecting his dance background, Raymond researches what a fusion of dances can be. He questions the encounter of different dance techniques within his body and works, disintegrates these techniques and interweaves them to seek a common base. The aim is to figure out a method to fuse these influences with an equally analytical and intuitive approach.

is a performer, dancer and choreographer. She studied theatre/dance studies and philosophy, completed a dance trainee program as well as the MA Performance Studies program in Hamburg in 2017. Her artistic-choreographic interest focuses on e.g. questioning and transforming (images of) the body, as well as the interplay of body and voice.

LISA RYKENA

is a dancer, performer and choreographer. She studied classical and contemporary dance at the Frankfurt University for Music and Performing Art. As a dancer, she has worked e.g. with Christoph Winkler and William Forsythe.

She began working as a freelance dancer in the Netherlands in 2002, where she also produced her first own choreographic pieces. In 2007, she was resident choreographer at K3. Her pieces have toured internationally and been presented e.g. at the Spring Dance Festival/Utrecht, Impulstanz/Vienna, Sophiensaele Berlin  and at the Dampfzentrale Bern. She is a co-founder of the artist initiative Sweet&Tender Collaborations and in summer 2010 initiated together with K3 the Sweet &Tender project Treffen Total. At Kampnagel, she has produced e.g. III (2010), WALZ’R (2011) and the duet HAUT (2012).

Nora Elberfeld is a choreographer, dancer and dance mediator. In the 2015/16 season, she was resident choreographer at K3⎮Tanzplan Hamburg. She has created choreographic works alongside theatre, in churches and clubs. In recent years, she has been intensively involved in the development of productions for young audiences, both as a performer (including as a solo performer for Junges Schauspiel Lübeck) and as a choreographer. In 2021/22, she developed ‘GIF Me More’, a mobile classroom piece that deals with the (digital) reality of young people’s lives. In 2023, she created the explore dance pop-up production ‘1004 Zentimeter Mut’, which is touring throughout Germany.