Parvathy Baul

Singer, storyteller, painter, director and teacher of the Baul tradition. Founder of Ekathara Kalari in 1997 and Sanatan Sidhashram in 2017. Parvathy Baul is an eminent performer of the Baul spiritual music tradition of India. She has lived and trained in the traditional Baul way. Her Gurus are Sri Santan Das Baul and Sri Shashanko Goshai. She has been in the performance art practice since her childhood over the span of thirty-five years. She has traveled, worked, taught and performed across continents since the year 2000.

Chiara Marchese

is an Italian pluridisciplinary artist graduated from CNAC, author and performer whose artistic project The Weight of the Soul - Everything is temporary is Laureate of the European label Circusnext 2021 and a founder of WoW Company created in May 2023 in Reims, France. WoW Company is an association aiming to promote the circus arts, puppetry and plastic arts through meetings and performances; to promote social, cultural development and research in France and abroad. Chiara focuses her research at the crossing of different disciplines: circus, puppetry, visual arts, physical theater and performance. She's currently working on her third solo creation, Wonderwoman.

Meg Ella Brookes

is a multidisciplinary musician based in London UK, working as an arranger, composer & session musician (cello, vocals, keys) for artists including ABBA, Elbow, Sir Tom Jones, Nitin Sawnhey, Basement Jaxx, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Wolf Alice, Basement Jaxx, Patrick Watson and many more. She is also a songwriter under her artist project MEG ELLA, the founding Creative Director of Citizens of the World, the UKs leading Refugee Choir & project & musical manager of London Contemporary Voices, a world-leading session choir.

Linda Jiayun Gao-Lenders & Janis Jirotka

Linda Jiayun Gao-Lenders, born in 1995, is a post-migrant Chinese performer and sound artist. She studies at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies in Gießen.

Janis Jirotka, born in 1988, lives in Hamburg and is active in the independent theatre/performance scene and does political education work.

Linda Jiayun Gao-Lenders and Janis Jirotka know each other from their collaboration on the project "Jesse James or What Communism Was" (2021-22), which won the LICHTHOF Theatre's young talent award Start Off (2020). Her work and interest combines artistic research with auto-/ethnographic, autofictional methods of co-authorship, memory politics and feminist storytelling.

Parvathy Baul

Singer, storyteller, painter, director and teacher of the Baul tradition. Founder of Ekathara Kalari in 1997 and Sanatan Sidhashram in 2017. Parvathy Baul is an eminent performer of the Baul spiritual music tradition of India. She has lived and trained in the traditional Baul way. Her Gurus are Sri Santan Das Baul and Sri Shashanko Goshai. She has been in the performance art practice since her childhood over the span of thirty-five years. She has traveled, worked, taught and performed across continents since the year 2000.

Sandra Pasini

is the artistic director and co-founder of Teatret OM, director, actress and musician . She also is a comprehensive theatre auteur, who for more than 40 years has performed, directed, produced and developed concepts and ideas , covering site-specific performance, clown and physical theatre, theatre concerts, parades and more. Since 1993, she is a member of the pedagogical project Bridge of the Winds, directed by Iben Nagel Rasmussen.

Viviana Bovino

is an actress, dancer and educator. She is the founder of Laboratorio Internacional Residui Teatro. In her work she crosses the bridge between dance, theater and singing through the constant search for principles that allow the action in movement of the holistic body. She has presented shows and workshops for people with and without functional diversity in European, African, American and Asian countries. She directs performative actions and is the author of articles and texts as well as the director of "Tradition Transgression", an international meeting of women creators. She also belongs to the Magdalena project network. In the field of art and functional diversity, she carries out training projects in collaboration with Escuela Pública de Animación y Educación en el Tiempo Libre Infantil y Juvenil de la Comunidad de Madrid,  Fundación Psico Ballet Mayte León and Plena Inclusión, among others.

Bárbara Luci Carvalho

is an actress, a performer and a lecturer in theater and dance. She is part of Antagon since 2010, has a degree in theater education from the Federal University of Bahia in Brazil and is doing her M.A. in Choreography and performance at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies in Gießen. She develops educational and artistic projects with Afro-Brazilian and contemporary dance, performance, stilts and physical theater, mostly in public spaces in cooperation with Protagon e.V - friends and sponsors of free theater action. She works on the basis of body theater, feminist theater of the oppressed after Barbara Santos and Augusto Boal, and the production and use of theater masks, body awareness and physical education. She was a lecturer at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences and Heidelberg University. For ten years she has also been the coordinator of the socio-cultural Brazilian-German exchange project "Escuna Criativa" and is a curator of the artistic program team at Sommerwerft - Internationales Theater Festival am Fluss. She directs the International Womxns' Theater Festival in Frankfurt/Main since 2017.

• Concept, text and performance: Naïma Baraka
• Director: Karolina Spaić

Naïma Baraka

is a performer, kickboxer, butoh dancer and urban storyteller. She has been involved in theatre from an early age, with years of training in physical theatre. Her love for mixed martial arts brought her to take part of mastering the skill of kickboxing over more than a decade. She is an experienced kickboxing teacher and teaches a diverse range of people. In her solo Rebel she brings the world of theatre and kickboxing together. Naïma has been performing in various shows at ZID Theater since 2017. She has her own organisation, BARAKA EMPOWERMENT, where she works multidisciplinary. Here, dance, movement, theatre, kickboxing and education come together.

Karolina Spaic

is a theatre director and director of ZID Theater – City Art and Performance Centre in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. After having studied classical ballet and literature in Belgrade (Serbia), she graduated from the International Theatre Department at the HKU Utrecht in the Netherlands. In 2001, she founded ZID Theater and has made dozens of productions that have been performed in the Netherlands and abroad. Through her specialisation at the International School of Theatre Anthropology (ISTA), headed by Eugenio Barba, she developed a passion for combining Western and non-Western art forms.

Nora Amin

is an author, theatre director, researcher, performer, and choreographer based in Berlin. Her work is situated between literature, theatre/dance and feminism and is borne by socio-political activism that rebels against traditions of patriarchy, authority, coloniality, sexism and racism. She has written several novels and essays. In 2000, she founded the theatre group LaMusica in Cairo and in 2011 the nation-wide Egyptian Project for Theater of the Oppressed, followed by an Arab network in Lebanon, Morocco and Sudan. Before moving to Berlin in 2015, she had directed and produced 40 theatre, dance and music productions. She was a fellow at the International Research Center for Interweaving Performance Cultures at FU Berlin, where she also held the S. Fischer Visiting Professorship in Literature (2004/05) and the Valeska Gert Visiting Professorship for dance sciences (2018). She has conducted of Baladi Dance from a feminist perspective at Berlin Mondiale, Tanzfabrik and Sasha Waltz & Guests, among others.

Caroline Brandao de Carvalho

Caroline Brandao de Carvalho, born in Minas Gerais, Brazil, has lived in Frankfurt am Main since 2016. She works in an association that supports migrant women. She has worked artistically in film and performancein Brazil and Germany, among other places. Since 2019, she has been DJing as carolitaLApomba in clubs and at various events. She will be DJing at the IWTF for the fourth time.

Sandra Pasini

is the artistic director and co-founder of Teatret OM, director, actress and musician . She also is a comprehensive theatre auteur, who for more than 40 years has performed, directed, produced and developed concepts and ideas , covering site-specific performance, clown and physical theatre, theatre concerts, parades and more. Since 1993, she is a member of the pedagogical project Bridge of the Winds, directed by Iben Nagel Rasmussen.

Margò Paciotti

In 2000, she graduated as Actress and Assistant director for theatre at the SIT (International School of Theatre) in Rome. She continued with the study of Ancient Comedy and Poetic Humor with Eric de Bont. In 2004, she specialized in Commedia dell'Arte with Antonio Fava and followed the training with workshops on Theatre - Dance (composition) with Daniel Lepkov in Orvieto and Living Theatre in Poznan, Poland. Since 2002, she teaches in the “Accademia Internazionale di Teatro” DIPLOMA LAUREA MIUR physical theatre and Commedia dell’Arte Masks. In 2005, she created ONDADURTO TEATRO, a theatre company based in Rome, together with Lorenzo Pasquali. In 2019,  she directed and created costumes and scenery for the Opera “PIETRO IL GRANDE – Kzar di tutte le Russie”. Since 2021, she creates and directs DRAG ME UP – Queer Art Festival.

Eva Weingärtner

was born in Worms in 1978. She studied at the HFG Offenbach from 2000-2006. Since 2007, she has been working as a freelance visual artist with national and international exhibitions. She discovered her focus on performance art during her studies and has maintained it until today. Among other things, she has received a scholarship from Künstlerhilfe Frankfurt, the Bonner Kunstfonds Foundation and the ZONTA Prize for Modern Art. For her, performance is, among other things, an approach, a moment of special concentration, a way of stretching time. Since 2018, Eva Weingärtner has been running the art project ATELIER ORBIT24 together with DeDe Handon.

Jill Greenhalgh

has been a professional theatre maker since 1978. Her career as a performer, director and producer has primarily focused on experimental physical practice. The specific interest in the performance work being developed by women resulted in the foundation of The Magdalena Project in 1986. As director and producer her most recent performance projects include: The Acts—Vigia, a performance project created as a response to the murders of hundreds of young women in and around the US-Mexican border town of Juarez and Daughter, a project made with local communities of performers and non-performers focusing on personal stories of mother and daughter relationships. Jill was full-time Lecturer in Performance Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (2002–2016), specialising in devised physical performance, women's theatre and actor training. She and her dog live on the west coast of rural Wales.

Meg Ella Brookes

is a multidisciplinary musician based in London UK, working as an arranger, composer & session musician (cello, vocals, keys) for artists including ABBA, Elbow, Sir Tom Jones, Nitin Sawnhey, Basement Jaxx, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Wolf Alice, Basement Jaxx, Patrick Watson and many more. She is also a songwriter under her artist project MEG ELLA, the founding Creative Director of Citizens of the World, the UKs leading Refugee Choir & project & musical manager of London Contemporary Voices, a world-leading session choir.

Edith van den Elzen

is a video artist who finds inspiration and material in nature, ranging from close-ups of the little details to wide landscapes. She often collaborates in collectives and works together with musicians, performers and other visual artists, using improvisation as an important role. In her work, she uses spatial objects or she creates this three-dimensional effect with projections. She also documents creative theatre processes or workshops with a quiet and observing eye, using music and soundscapes that are taken in that moment and finding the story with images rather than with textual explanation. Edith graduated at the art academy in film and video art in the Netherlands, where she also experimented throughout this path with painting, photography and conceptual art. Recently, she is connecting performance more with the creative process.

Julia Panzer

is a versatile cellist who is always on the lookout for new expressive and tonal possibilities for her instrument. During her studies in Leipzig, she deepened her passion for cross-genre music-making by founding the neo-classical "mondëna quartet", with which she collaborates with exciting artists such as Sven Helbig, Felix Meyer, Felix Rösch, etc. In December 2022, the first quartet album "Circles" was released, which was nominated four times for the Opus Klassik. Classical orchestral music also plays a major role in Julia's life: she has already played in the MDR Symphony Orchestra, the hr Symphony Orchestra, the Staatstheater Darmstadt and is a committed member of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie. With her loop station and her solo project "Repetition", she creates transcendent meditative moments and strolls discreetly between ambient, minimal music, folk and classical music.

Viviana Bovino

is an actress, dancer and educator. She is the founder of Laboratorio Internacional Residui Teatro. In her work she crosses the bridge between dance, theater and singing through the constant search for principles that allow the action in movement of the holistic body. She has presented shows and workshops for people with and without functional diversity in European, African, American and Asian countries. She directs performative actions and is the author of articles and texts as well as the director of "Tradition Transgression", an international meeting of women creators. She also belongs to the Magdalena project network. In the field of art and functional diversity, she carries out training projects in collaboration with Escuela Pública de Animación y Educación en el Tiempo Libre Infantil y Juvenil de la Comunidad de Madrid,  Fundación Psico Ballet Mayte León and Plena Inclusión, among others.

Sophia Schambeck

For recorder player Sophia Schambeck, it is essential to establish a connection with her listeners through music. Always on the lookout for new ways to get in touch with her listeners, she experiments with concert formats, electronics and improvisation. Concerts at home and abroad have taken her to the Heidelberger Frühling Festival, the Beethovenfest Bonn, the Festival d'Ambronay (FR) and the Thüringer Bachwochen, among others. Equally adept at contemporary and early music, Sophia is a first prize winner of international competitions. Since 2018, she has been a scholarship holder of the association "Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now München e.V." and plays concerts for people who would otherwise have no access to music.

Elisabeth Müller

Elisabeth Müller is fascinated by discovering the unknown with the accordion. Since the age of 14, she has been premiering new works and has become a specialist in contemporary music, whose border areas she also explores through improvisation and performance art. But the allure of the unexpected has also led her into epochs rarely touched by the accordion, such as the Renaissance and the early Baroque.

In 2023 she received an excellence scholarship from her university, the MUK Vienna, and since 2023 she has also been a scholarship holder of "Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Wien".

Antigone Akgün, Hannah Schassner & Léa Zehaf

Akgün/Schassner/Zehaf is the union of the three Frankfurt theater makers Antigone Akgün, Hannah Schassner and Léa Zehaf. Together with their team of freelance artists from Frankfurt they create fiktionalisiertes Faktentheater. It is mainly a work on books, writing, bodies, reading, love, trauma and feminism as a practice of solidarity.

Ann Dargies, Anna Orkolainen & Mahfam Nozhat Shoar

Ann Dargies

was born in Germany in 1952 and has been a freelance theatre maker for 40 years. Since 1989 she has been founder and artistic & operational director of Theater Transit GbR. She is also founder and co-director of the Schule für Clown- und Ensembletheater in Vienna & Darmstadt. Besides that, she is on the board of Freie Theaterszene e.V. Darmstadt. She works with colleagues in Germany, Austria, Iran, Estonia, Poland and with various associations of the Hessian and national independent scene. Her main focus is on the stage, political theatre, local performances, action and interaction in public spaces, clown theatre as well as choreographic theatre according to Tadeusz Kantor - always theatre that touches.

Anna Orkolainen

was born in 1981 in Soviet Estonia and is a dance and theatre teacher, dancer, performer, choreographer and Butoh dancer. She has a Master's degree in Dance Education from the Theatre Academy in Helsinki and is passionate about choreography, dance and performance in various independent dance and theatre projects. For the last ten years she has been part of the outdoor theatre community AntagonTheaterAction. She also draws on a wealth of experience from workshops, trainings and many years of collaboration and pupilhood with such experienced and formative teachers as Nina Dipla (Pina Bausch ensemble), Slava Polunin (clowning), Atsushi Takenuchi (Jinen Butoh) and Shusaku Takeuchi (Shusaku Bodytorium, Netherlands Dance Theatre).

Mahfam Nozhat Shoar

was born in Iran in 1990, lives in Mainz and is currently studying theatre at the Johannes Gutenberg University. She works in the independent theatre scene in Darmstadt and Frankfurt am Main. While studying graphics in Iran from 2009 to 2012, she began her career as an actress, performer and director. She received her training at various Iranian stages from 2008 to 2013. Since 2015, she has worked at various Frankfurt theatre stages such as Landungsbrücken, Tanzlabor 21 - Mousonturm and Antagon TheaterAKTion, as well as in Darmstadt at Theater Transit, Theater Mollerhaus and the Ann Dargies Clown School. One production took her to the Ballhaus Ost in Berlin. She works permanently at Theater Transit. She has always maintained contact with theatre in Iran. She works on Iranian-German productions that were shown at the Tehran festival "The 20th of IRAN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY THEATER FESTIVAL", among others.

Conni Maly

was born in Regensburg in 1971. There she came into contact with the Domspatzen, Bavarian folk music, Karl Orff and early musical education. She began playing the electric guitar at the age of 16. Her apprenticeship  was in the girl rock band The Slags, because of which she moved to Frankfurt am Main in 1992. In 1996, she landed in the underground party scene and experimented with Atari, samplers and the MC 303. In 1997, she founded the band Lava Enterprise with the MC303 and the rest of the Slags. With Lava 303 she found her own repetitive, psychedelic guitar style, based mainly on free improvisation. She also makes improvised music with Mani Neumeier, the drummer of GuruGuru, and has been playing music in kindergartens since 2007. As a mother of two children, it allows  her to have family-friendly working hours and to remain commercially independent with her own music projects.

Betânia Ramos Schröder

is an Afro-Brazilian activist, sociologist, and daughter of Osùn. Three years ago, she began her journey through the Afro-Brazilian tradition of Candomblé. Betânia worked in various countries for One World for more than ten years. She was the author of the column "Vozes da Diáspora" (Diaspora Voices) for the Brazilian magazine Carta Capital and is a columnist for the YouTube channel Pensar Africanamente. She also organized the book "O legado de Marielle Franco e as mulheres Afro-brasileiras em Frankfurt und Mainz". Additionally, she is involved in various projects that aim to increase the visibility of Afro-diasporic literature from the perspective of the Global South, especially from Africa and the diaspora. Her decolonial attitude occasionally manifests itself in her work as an author and columnist and comes from the  movement, dance and new consciousness experiences.

Daniela Christ

works as an actress and dancer in the field of dance theatre/physical theatre. She also works as a dance and theatre teacher, has led various socio-cultural dance and theatre projects and was a long-time ensemble member of antagon. As a co-founder and board member of the art and culture association Wetteraussicht e.V., she is committed to culture for all, the networking of cultural initiatives and dance offers for women* in rural areas. Daniela has been exploring the art and roles of Tango Argentino and Contango for 13 years. Not only as an actress, but also together with her two children, she is currently learning more about the world of theatre for children and young people.

Anne Mégier, Ella Necker, Emma James, Gabi Seeleitner, Hannah Zauner, Julia Riederer & Manuela Deac

ANNE MEGIER (FR/A)

is a dance performer, dance teacher, shiatsu practitioner, geomancer and landscape planner as well as translator. The combination of these approaches forms the basis of her exploration of movement as a dialogue with ourselves and  our environment. Performance, dramaturgy, choreography assistance with Doris Uhlich, Bouchra Ouizguen, Theatercombinat/Claudia Bosse, Nada Productions/Amanda Pinja, Elina Lautamäki, Oleg Soulimenko, Art in Process/Bello Benischauer, Mathilde Monnier, among others.

ELLA NECKER (A)

is an actress and clown. Sie studied theatre, film and media studies, journalism and communication sciences. Acting training in Vienna, further training in clowning and physical theatre (Philippe Gaulier, Lila Monti, LeCoq) and participation in numerous research projects in the performance field. Founding member of Theater Frischluft. As a clown, works in a social-therapeutic context with elderly people. Speaker and editor at Radio Klassik. www.ellanecker.at

EMMA JAMES (UK)

is a dancer and choreographer. She graduated from the London Contemporary Dance School in 2001 and danced for international contemporary artists for many years. She has worked with choreographers in the fields of Butoh, improvisation and bio-feedback. In her numerous travels she explored the interplay between film and site-specific dance. In 2011, Emma moved to Austria and founded Blipcollective, a community for contemporary dance and transformative art. www.blipcollective.com

GABI SEELEITNER (A)

is a performer, choreographer and dance/motopaedagogue who lives and works in Vienna. She studied physics, piano and dance at the University of Vienna, the Vienna Conservatory and in New York with Merce Cunningham. Her work focuses on questioning public order and helping to shape it through performance art.

HANNAH ZAUNER (A)

is a dancer & Pilates instructor. 2022-2023 Assistant director at Theater Drachengasse and Schall und Rauch-Agency at Dschungel Wien. Since April 2023 Trainer at "Tanzen Ohne Grenzen", Vienna. 2021 Training in "PERA - School of Performing Arts" (Northern Cyprus) as well as in "La Faktoria - Choreographic Centre" (Pamplona). She also completed the Tanz Seneca 2018 educational programme in Berlin. She studied cultural and social anthropology at the University of Vienna from 2016-2021. She conceives and produces dance pieces and works as a freelance performer with musicians and filmmakers.

JULIA RIEDERER (EN)

is an interdisciplinary artist. She is co-founder of the production studio and centre for transdisciplinary art LOT at the Anker-Brotfabrik in Vienna, and also co-founder of ONE MESS GALLERY VIENNA and the performance band DIE FITTEN TITTEN. Her focus is on relational art that transcends people and space. She studied art with extended painterly space, action in public space as well as art and cultural education and fashions and styles at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. www.juliariederer.com

MANUELA BIANCA DEAC (RO)

is a contemporary dancer. She comes from Romania and studied journalism there. During her studies she worked with local artists on various theatre and film projects. In addition to contemporary dance and performance training, she has attended workshops in Noh theatre and Butoh dance. She has participated in numerous projects with Doris Uhlich, Elio Gervasi and Mia Haugland Habib, KLAUS, among others.

Clara Isenmann

is an actress, theatre maker, puppeteer and interdisciplinary artist. She currently plays at Theater Anu, poetic theatre in public space. She has performed in various projects (Volksbühne, English Theatre, Ship of Fools) and realises her own theatre productions (PAF Berlin, Karneval der Kulturen, Theaterspektakel Zürich), in which she also works as an author, puppet maker and musician. With her works, she invites us into magical, poetic worlds, creates playful beings, goes into public space with theatre and questions patterns of action. In doing so, she addresses questions around themes such as femininity, desire and transformation. She founded the theatre ensemble "Büro zur Überwindung der Realität" and the immersive performance and workshop format "Dinner of Decadence". Clara Isenmann studied Physical Theatre (MA, LISPA Berlin) and Audiovisual Media (BA).

Yinfu Gao

is a German-based performing artist, dancer and dramaturg from China. Furthermore, she is a master student of Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft in Gießen. Her research and artistic practice is about the women's body & identity & feminism in the Chinese context. She also publishes academic articles/ theater criticism, specifically around feminist performance, and offers dance workshops including Chinese fan dance, body healing, dancing with Chinese ink-painting and K-Pop dance cover.

Kollektiv Mütterkünste

• Choreography and dance: Laura Albrecht
• Film: Hanna Green
• Soprano: Lydia Eller
• Physical Theatre: Miriam Lemdjadi
• Choreography and Dance: Rica Lata Matthes
• Historiography: Angela Siebold

Laura Albrecht

works as a freelance performing (movement) artist and teacher in the field of dance and theatre. She is currently founding a professional physical theatre ensemble in Karlsruhe. In addition to other performative, film, dance and theatre projects and her motherhood, she particularly enjoys dealing with feminist topics both artistically and privately.

www.lauraalbrecht.com

Hanna Green's

passion is the beauty of sounds and images. She is particularly at home in the fields of photography, sound design and videography. However, she also enjoys excursions into related areas of film production such as story development and screenwriting. She currently works as an artistic assistant in video and visualisation at the Heidelberg Theatre.

www.hanna-green.de

Lydia Eller

The Austrian soprano began her training at the Anton Bruckner Private University Linz with Cornelia Prestel and, after completing her Bachelor's degree in opera and vocal pedagogy, graduated with a Master's degree in opera with Stephan Kohlenberg at the HfM Karlsruhe. This was followed by two years as a member of the opera studio of the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe. Lydia Eller is active as a concert and lied singer and as singing teacher and children's choir director. She is the mother of two children.

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Miriam Lemdjadi

works as an independent performer, director and theatre pedagogue. She moves interdisciplinarily between physical theatre, performative theatre and object theatre. Since 2018, she has been living and working in the Rhine-Neckar region, among others with the Companie M/ Dance and Object Theatre for Young Audiences, with the womxn author and director Meriam Bousselmi and the Friends of Arab Art and Culture, the Saadia&Siglinde Companie and the Mütterkünste collective.

www.miriamlemdjadi.de

Rica Lata Matthes (choreography and dance, Freiburg) has been a freelance dancer, teacher and choreographer with a focus on new dance since 2009. She has been awarded the Innovation Prize of the Fonds Soziokultur, the Federal Awards for Cultural Education and "Rauskommen", among others. Matthes composes cross-generational and cross-disciplinary, inclusive, international performance projects. Intuition, authenticity and naturalness characterise her work as a womxn teacher as well as dance as an art form. The metamorphosis of the amateur, everyday life, rules of the game, language and conditioning are inspiration and motor for her. She is the mother of two children.

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Angela Siebold

Dr. phil., born 1981, is a contemporary historian and research assistant at the History Department of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. She is also involved in public history and historical education work. Her thematic focuses in research and teaching are the relations between Western and Eastern Europe, the history of European migration in the 20th century and the history of European integration. She is the mother of three children.

Daniela Christ

works as an actress and dancer in the field of dance theatre/physical theatre. She also works as a dance and theatre teacher, has led various socio-cultural dance and theatre projects and was a long-time ensemble member of antagon. As a co-founder and board member of the art and culture association Wetteraussicht e.V., she is committed to culture for all, the networking of cultural initiatives and dance offers for women* in rural areas. Daniela has been exploring the art and roles of Tango Argentino and Contango for 13 years. Not only as an actress, but also together with her two children, she is currently learning more about the world of theatre for children and young people.

Gabriela Schwab Veloso graduated as an actress from the Universidade de São Paulo and has a master's degree in dance studies from the FU Berlin. She learned aerial artistry on her own and combines it with theatre and dance in her work.

She is currently touring Germany with the solo performance Angel Gabriel, a piece about love in its many facets. Earlier this year she was artistic director and performer for Über den Schatten springen, an artistic short about autism and society. In 2021/2022 she participated as an artist with Maranasati Company in Over my dead Body, an exploration of the perception of death in different cultures.

In the years before she conceived and realised the project Zeitfenster oder die Farbe meiner Wand war ein bisschen verändert, an aerial theatre solo about women in the Corona pandemic, with performances in Darmstadt, Frankfurt/Main and Berlin and participated in the Welcome Project Group in Intime Fremde (2018-2019), a reflection on the refugee situation and being a stranger, performed in Germany and Italy. She is also involved in numerous projects in the independent scene.

Zimt und Zunder

 Janice Reinhardt, Mareike auf der Springe, Lucy Singer, Insa Suske & Kristin Börger 

Terezinha Malaquias

is a body and performance artist. For many years she worked as an art model in Brazil and in Europe, where she has lived since 2008. The Afro-Brazilian, who takes her art with her everywhere, is also a writer and poet. Trained as a sculptor in Germany, she has a long path of engagement with art and literature behind her. Her research is about ancestry and reverence for the memory of her ancestors. She talks about issues that are painful for black and non-black people without losing sensitivity and lightness.  The style of her performances and video performances is contemplative and meditative, with an invitation to reflect, to look within. Her work is silence that makes us reflect while watching her live performance or video.

Margò Paciotti

In 2000, she graduated as Actress and Assistant director for theatre at the SIT (International School of Theatre) in Rome. She continued with the study of Ancient Comedy and Poetic Humor with Eric de Bont. In 2004, she specialized in Commedia dell'Arte with Antonio Fava and followed the training with workshops on Theatre - Dance (composition) with Daniel Lepkov in Orvieto and Living Theatre in Poznan, Poland. Since 2002, she teaches in the “Accademia Internazionale di Teatro” DIPLOMA LAUREA MIUR physical theatre and Commedia dell’Arte Masks. In 2005, she created ONDADURTO TEATRO, a theatre company based in Rome, together with Lorenzo Pasquali. In 2019,  she directed and created costumes and scenery for the Opera “PIETRO IL GRANDE – Kzar di tutte le Russie”. Since 2021, she creates and directs DRAG ME UP – Queer Art Festival.

Leonie Lube

She loves music, liberal arts and dance, studies nature & architecture on deep levels and wants to create spaces for healing and joy. With the wisdom from her Kriya & Kundalini Yoga teachings and the knowledge of Tamalpa dance therapy, she combines musical joy with bodywork. Combining world music with elements from Ecstatic Dance, she focuses on women-influenced music & art. Her concern is to invite cultural exchange and humanity. It is also close to her heart to create loving togetherness through free creative spaces for all people, where all have the opportunity to express the inner self.