Associated Artists
DANCE ARTISTS OF TANZKOOP
The TANZKOOP team brings together dance artists who curate, coordinate and contribute their expertise to the various TANZKOOP offerings, taking both an artistic and a cultural-political perspective on the scene. Together they draw on many years of experience and long-standing network connections to international platforms, festivals and companies. They are made up of a management team, in which the partners of the GbR bear the core of responsibility, as well as associated artists from the scene.
Liliana Barros
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Portuguese choreographer Liliana Barros has created several commissioned choreographies for dance companies such as the Nationaltheater Mannheim, Saarländisches Staatsballett, Staatstheater Braunschweig, Gauthier Dance, MiR Dance Company, Dance Company Osnabrück and Netherlands Dance Theater 2.
Her work has received numerous awards and travels internationally. Her independent productions have been regularly supported by the State and Foundation of Lower Saxony as well as the City of Braunschweig and various other national funding institutions. Bora Bora Dance and Visual Theater in Aarhus, Denmark and LOT Theater in Braunschweig are her permanent partners and co-producers. Their broad artistic expression leads to regular collaborations and connection with other art forms.
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Bárbara Santos
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Born in Lisbon in 1995, Bárbara Santos studied art theory and aesthetics at the HBK Braunschweig. She then completed an internship as curatorial assistant at the Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg. Her dance roots are in commercial dance such as hip-hop and K-pop. On the side, she is the CEO of "K-Pop Covers Portugal", an initiative that includes event planning, graphic design, etc. From 2022 to June 2023 she worked at TANZKOOP as social media manager and assistant, inventing projects such as, Dance Tuesday.
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Fabian Cohn
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Fabian Cohn, born in Basel, completed the 3-year training in Mime/Physical Theatre at ETAGE, Schule für die darstellenden Künste, Berlin. Since then he has been realizing his own projects in the fields of dance and movement theater and film. He also participated in various dance, theater and film productions. In his latest works Fabian Cohn dealt with the poetics of movement, the beauty and fragility of aliveness as well as with the theme of connectedness.
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u.p. was founded by Josh Haines & Alina Jaggi in Braunschweig in 2023.
u.p. is a dance company that strives to uncover what lies beneath the surface. Through the combination of different emotional, physical and psychological approaches, u.p. searches for nine possibilities of expression and a multi-layered state of being. u.p.'s works are characterized by being accessible yet emotionally articulate, visually captivating and venturing into the absurd. In addition, u.p. shares her holistic dance approach and training method Spinal Mobility with all people who enjoy movement.
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Josh worked as a freelance dancer and between 2014 - 2023 as a dancer with Gregor Zöllig at Theater Bielefeld and Staatstheater Braunschweig.
Alina worked in various areas as a freelance dancer. From 2014 - 2018 Alina worked as a dancer at the GHT-Görlitz/Zittau. After completing her training as an event manager, she worked for the LOT-Theater and co-organized the dance program.
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Supported by Bureau Ritter/TANZPAKT RECONNECT, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR initiative. Dance support programme
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Supported by Bureau Ritter/TANZPAKT RECONNECT, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR initiative. Dance support programme
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Supported by Bureau Ritter/TANZPAKT RECONNECT, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR initiative. Dance support programme