Elisa Frasson

Elisa Frasson is an Italian dance researcher and writer currently based in Berlin, with extensive experience in the curatorial field of contemporary dance and screendance, especially in urban and nontheatrical contexts. Highly interested in creative and collaborative processes, in recent years she has been focused on field research by collaborating with dance companies in Italy and Germany, initiating discussions, conducting interviews, and analysing data. Elisa works interdisciplinarily through academia, freelancing and activism, both individually and collaboratively, across roles and communities. Her current research areas are dance criticism and fieldwork as creators of relationships, and the educational potential of screendance considered as an expanded genre. Elisa completed a PhD in dance Studies in 2022 (University of Roehampton, London) with a thesis on the influences of somatic practices into European choreography in the timeframe 1980s-2010s, a transnational study based on field research and archival enquiry. During her doctoral studies she has been working as a freelance dance curator, field researcher, dance writer, and movement educator both for independent and institutional organisations. Her recent projects have been supported by Dachverband Tanz Deutschland and Fonds Darstellende Künste. She is now working with laborgras (DE) on an archive project and as visiting lecturer (Iuav University in Venice and Dams Roma Tre, Roma, IT). She writes for Dance Context Webzine (CZ) and Stream.

Parvathi Ramanthan

Parvathi Ramanathan is a performer, researcher and writer who has early morning affairs with poetry. Parvathi is pursuing a PhD in Theatre and Performance at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her research practice engages corporeal and anthropological processes, leading to written work that can be found in various international publications. Sha has written about Berlin dance scene on Tanzschreiber.de, was a columnist for TanzraumBerlin magazine and is the co-editor of ‘Indent – the body and the performative’. Parvathi is trained in classical dance forms Bharatanatyam and Odissi. She is a certified Dance Movement Therapy Facilitator and a recipient of the Arts Research Grant by the India Foundation forthe Arts. From 2012 to 2020, she also worked as an arts administrator in various artist-led and arts-funding institutions in India, and is driven to create affect-inspired collaborative community actions.

Susanna Ylikoski

Susanna Ylikoski (FI) has been part of Stream—Live Art Writing since 2020. In 2024, her live art writing is located in the sense of confusion: in the union of with. Her prose has been published in Care Where zine and Are You Here? Book.

Lisa Leopold

Lisa Leopold is an independent curator, dramaturg, and writer in contemporary dance and performance art, based in Berlin. Her work bridges movement, body perception, and theoretical discourse, applying a somatic approach across her curatorial, dramaturgical, and writing practices. With a strong foundation in collaborative processes, Elisabeth values the manner in which projects are realized as much as their content. Social justice, diversity-oriented change, and sustainability are at the core of her practice. She has co-curated several innovative formats, such as the discursive and movement-practical Feminist School, the Research LAB Down To Earth, and the workshop program at Tanzfabrik Berlin. As a dramaturg, she collaborates with resident artists at LAKE Studios and choreographers including Johanna Ackva, Teresa Hoffmann, Ursina Tossi, and Véronique Langlott.She holds degrees in Theater, Film, and Media Studies, and Performance Studies, and will begin a Master’s in Sustainability, Entrepreneurship & Technology in 2024.

Adam Man

Adam Man is an artist working with live performance, video and text. For the past ten years he has been working mainly outdoors, on a new relationship between body and landscape. www.adamman.com

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Felicitas Zeeden

Felicitas Zeeden is a dramaturge, curator, and theater scholar. She wrote her phD thesis “Aesthetics of the Social" as a scholarship holder at the international graduate college InterArt (FU Berlin). Her research focuses on immersive aesthetics & theater as social practice. As part of the directors’ team at Tanzfabrik Berlin, she curates the stage program and initiates projects on ecofeminism, aesthetics & sustainability. She is the mother of two teenagers.

Anuya Rane

Anuya Rane is a dance, performer, actor and an occasional writer navigating between text and poetry. In critical writings the focus lies on examining the art work from the idea to its embodiment while questioning the layered undercurrents. She holds a M.F.A in Dance and Performing arts Studies, specialising in Bharata Natyam from Mumbai University. Throughout her years in Europe she has been researching and collaborating with interdisciplinary artists in the pursuit of decoding the structures in dancing bodies emerging from varied cultural, historical and aesthetic backgrounds.

Daria Iuriichuk

Daria Iuriichuk is a dance artist, writer and educator based in Berlin. She works in the fields of visual and performance studies, with a particular focus on political dimensions of performativity, infrastructural critics and body politics within the various economic regimes. In 2023 she received Research Funding from the Fonds Darstellende Künste for the artistic research of the genealogy of the body tracking systems. In 2024, as a fellow artist at Tanzfabrik, Daria develops a project on the political roles of the Erotics. Her works have been presented in the , Meyerhold Theatre Center (Moscow), MyWildFlag festival (Stockholm), neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK, Berlin), Hellerau Europäisches Zentrum der Künste (Dresden), H0 Institut für Metamorphose festival (Zürich). deaddogdance.tilda.ws

Michela Filzi

michela flzi (she/her) is an independent artist based in Berlin. She received a BA from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam in 2016 and an MA in Solo Dance Authorship from the Hzt, Berlin in 2021. Her ongoing artistic research revolves around questions of human and non-human agency and ecological thinking in the context of the performing arts. She is a permaculture apprentice at the Moulin Scalagrand, a self-sustaining farm in the South of France, and brings her relationship with the land to her artistic work. Her performances are site-specific and are at the intersection of ritual, storytelling, herbalism and dance. She is an independent dance writer and part of STREAM, a platform for live art motivated writing and part of Tanzfabrik, Berlin. Since 2021 she is part of the collective WILD ACCESS and regularly collaborates with Berlin-based dancers and choreographers such as Alice Chauchat, Niels Weijer and Beatrix Joyce.

Lea Pischke

Lea Pischke is a graduate in visual arts from the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Marseille and holds a Master's degree in music technology from the School of Performing Arts at Bath Spa University, England. After taking part in the DanceIntensive programme at Tanzfabrik Berlin, she completed her choreographic training at SEAD in Salzburg, Austria, and at P.A.R.T.S., Brussels. Lea's choreographic work includes Justice Porte Un Bandeau (AT), How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot (AT), Spectral Schematics (BE/FR/DE) with residencies at CN D Pantin, RAMDAM - un centre d'art, Lyon, and performances in France, Belgium, Germany and Bulgaria. In 2017, a cultural exchange grant from the city of Berlin enabled her to spend several months in Morocco, where she worked on the solo "Darija Divan", which was co-produced by Constanza Macras / DORKYPARK and presented at VERLIN theatre as part of the Berlin Performing Arts Festival in 2019 with subsequent dates at Barnes Crossing in Cologne. In 2021 and 2022, she worked with Kenyan choreographer Jared Onyango on the creation "JUA KALI", supported by the Capital Culture Fund and the Goethe-Institut International Co-production Fund, with the German premiere at tak Theater Berlin in December 2021 and the Kenyan premiere at Goethe-Institut Nairobi in January 2023, supported by the National Performance Network. During the season 2022-2023, Lea was associate artist with Le Croiseur, Scène Découvertes danse | désoblique in Lyon and premiered her piece "Terror Vacui" in the frame of Festival IMPulsion #11, in collaboration with sound artist Evgenii Lebedev.

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Beatrix Joyce

Beatrix Joyce is a choreographer, writer and nomadic researcher based in Berlin. She works across the domains of dance, writing and sound. She is inspired by sites, ecologies and fictions and the human and non-human actors that inhabit these landscapes. With her company WILD ACCESS (founded in 2021) she creates site-specific and immersive performances together with her collaborators. She is a keen supporter of the work of other artists and writes texts for and about performances in the form of responses, impressions and essays. Website: www.wildaccess.site