(born 1979 in Frankfurt, Germany)
Lina Lindheimer graduated in Contemporary Dance from the Staatlichen Hoogeschool voor de Kunsten Arnheim and currently studies Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft (Applied Theatre Studies) at the University of Giessen. She has worked with the choreographers Christina Ciupke, Martin Nachbar and Thomas Lehmen and presented her first choreography ‘Berliner Tänzer’ at the HAU, Berlin in 2004. In 2005 she created the lecture performance ‘Spurensuche’ and received a commission for a new work from the Harlekijn Danstheater in the Netherlands. In 2006/7 she presented ‘Doppelspiel’ (Mohren/Herbordt) at the Mousonturm Frankfurt and at the FFT Düsseldorf.

For her Residency in Hamburg she presented the project Standing on the Shoulders of the Giants, which deals with the questions of authorship and copyright in dance and choreography. Is there a right to a certain kind of movement? When does a choreography sequence turn into a copyright issue, when is it a general means of communication? Can movements come under a label? Do they ever reach a brand status? She will produce a choreography from alien material that she will make her own. One will still be able to detect original elements, but the result will be much more than the sum of individual elements.

(born 1981 in Hamburg, Germany)

After her education in classical dance at the ballet school of the Ballet Hamburg Jenny Beyer attended the Bachelor of Arts course with majoring in stage dance at the Rotterdamse Dansacademie, from which she graduated in 2003. She has worked with Jaakko Toivonen in the Netherlands since 2002 and has danced in productions by Company Koorts. She showed her first choreography at the competition ‘Best Dance Solo’, Euroszene Leipzig 2003. This was followed by collaborations with the sound artist Elpueblodechina and the solo Heroine. She developed the duet Konkubinat and the trio Home Tapes at the ‘Dansateliers Rotterdam’ in 2005 and 2006 respectively. In 2006 she received a stipend from ‘DanceWeb’ in Vienna.

In 2007 she was choreographer in residence at K3- Zentrum für Choreographie | Tanzplan Hamburg where she created the solo TanzTanz and the duet Tableau Doublé (premiere: Dec 2007). Jenny Beyer is a member of Sweet and Tender Collaborations: www.sweetandtender.org

Tableau Doublé
Considering the basic condition of the performer who is formed by the movement in the very moment that s/he forms the movement Jenny Beyer starts developing her work at the threshold between choreography and dance. In Tableau Doublé she feeds this interest with a wide range of images (from photos and paintings to film sequences) that are processed by two performers to be turned into a living collage of poses, gestures, movements. During this process of transformation the dancers and their alterable bodies remain detached from the situational moments their choreography evokes. Images turned into naked form confront a spectator with his own imagination.  

choreography- Jenny Beyer
dance- Sayaka Kaiwa, Jenny Beyer
music- Jetzmann
costume- Anna Wübbe
advice- Nik Haffner, Marcus Dross, Ben Pointeker