About us
The soundance festival berlin presents joint works and projects by dance and music makers from Berlin's independent scene and invites international guest artists.
As a catalyst for dialogue between the disciplines, the festival presents a broad spectrum of artistic styles across generations - analogue and electronic.
ImprovisationXChange (2013-2016) paved the way for the annual soundance festival berlin (founded in 2017) with its focus on interdisciplinary works by dance and music creators.
The festival is organised by b.arts.u - berlin arts united gemeinnützige UG; co-produced with DOCK ART. The DOCK11 in Berlin has been the venue for many years.
Team
Jenny Haack
Foundress, Artistic production management, curation
In addition to founding ImprovisationXChange (2013-2016), the soundance festival berlin (since 2017) and berlin arts united gemeinnützige UG (2013), my artistic work influences my work in a variety of contexts, in an advisory capacity, in coaching and beyond. About me > https://www.jennyhaack.de/
Aïsha Mia Lethen Bird
Social media, public relations, photography
Aïsha Mia Lethen Bird studied Theatre Studies and English Philology at the Freie Universität Berlin. After internships at the Maxim Gorki Theatre and journalistic experiences at the Performing Arts Festival, she has been working in public relations at ada Studio since 2019, where she combines the artistic process of photography with PR. She also works for various projects in the Free Scene in Berlin.
Unai Alvarez
production assistence
Unai Alvarez is a performer, creator and teacher from Basque Country (Spain). After his formation in the University of dance in Bilbao, he moved to Berlin to further explore the contemporary dance scene. Since then, he has had the opportunity to work with artists such as Isabel Costa, Silvia Ospina and Candela Capitan and show his own works in festivals, galeries and performance spaces. Nowadays, Unai is working as a freelancer doing his own projects, collaboration and interdisciplinary works, teaching and starting a new path as a production assistant.
Michela Filzi
Collaboration in public relations, website, documentation
Michela Filzi (IT/NL) is a multimedia artist living in Berlin. In 2016 she received a BA from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, and in 2021 an MA in Solo Dance Authorship at the HZT, Berlin. Her artistic research revolves around questions of human and non-human agency and their relevance to ecological thinking in the context of the performing arts. Her works are site-specific and consist of choreographies tailored to the spaces in which they are located. Her performances hold the middle ground between sports, rituals, endurance tests and dance. She is a dance writer and is part of STREAM, a platform for texts motivated by Live art.
Webseite: michelafilzi.com
Helene Suhr
Production assistance, press and public relations work
soundance festival berlin 2019-2021
Berliner, creator of culture and theatre, formerly working on stage and now preferring to work behind the scenes, practically creative cultural scientist with business administration knowledge, hands-on do-it-yourselfer and order-maker, fashion and communication graphic designer seeking complex solutions, entrepreneur and idealist, passionate hostess, interested networker, vegetarian cook and sourdough bread baker.
Yoann Trellu
Technical support streaming, festival trailer, editing
I am a French video artist who lived and worked in Berlin from 2003 - 2021 and has been back in France since 2021.
I create video tools and content for stage productions.
My main tool is Max/Msp/Jitter, a visual programming language for music and multimedia.
I consider the computer as a collaborator, able to suggest and create artistic elements. Using controlled randomness and probability is an important aspect of my practice, giving rules, limitations and (unlimited) variations on which to build further.
Meinrad Kneer
Co-Curation Open Call and improvisation
Double bassist, composer, improviser, bandleader and label owner Meinrad Kneer moves musically on the borders of jazz, improvised, contemporary and ethnic music. His stylistic versatility has allowed him to collaborate with musicians from a wide variety of styles. This stylistic openness and curiosity, which is peculiar to him, regularly results in interdisciplinary encounters and projects, with dance, painting, theater, literature, film etc. Since 2006 he runs the label 'Evil Rabbit Records' for improvised music.
https://meinradkneer.eu/
www.evilrabbitrecords.eu
Gunther Heise
Website
Gunther Heise can do everything with websites and online marketing. In addition, the graduate economist has a theoretical and practical eye for economics and business administration. He is also a musician, has been DJing for almost 25 years and will soon be back on stage with a project of his own.
Kerstin Böttcher
Public Relations
Kerstin Böttcher studied education, sociology and psychology in Marburg and Berlin. She gained diverse work experience before, during and after her studies. Since 2003, press and public relations work for the Theaterdiscounter Berlin. After the birth of her first daughter in 2004 and in addition to her continuous work for Theaterdiscounter, she regularly worked for independent groups and projects. From 2011 to 2019, she also took over the PR and public relations department at Ballhaus Ost. Birth of her second daughter in 2011. Continuous collaborations with Penelope Wehrli, Amina Gusner, Riki von Falken, Ulrike Düregger, Shakespeare Company Berlin, die Andere Welt Bühne, Acker Stadt Palast, among others.
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