Jenny Beyer | Naïma Mazic | Patricia Carolin Mai | Reut Shemesh | Teresa Hoffmann

GETTING TO KNOW HAMBURG CHOREOGRAPHERS

This practical dance course introduces participants to the basics of contemporary dance and gives them a chance to get to know Hamburg choreographers Jenny Beyer and Teresa Hoffmann, as well as current K3 resident choreographers Patricia Carolin Mai, Reut Shemesh and Naïma Mazic, who will be showing new pieces in Hamburg during the up-coming season. Every choreographer will lead one course unit each and teach their methods and artistic focuses, both physically and practically in a short dance workshop.

Open for everyone who is interested | No previous knowledge needed

Registration ONLY via "VHS Hamburg": Tel.: 040/427 3 - 12020
Fax: 040/427 3 - 12038 | E-Mail: Nord@vhs-hamburg.de

Jenny Beyer

She began working as a freelance dancer in the Netherlands in 2002, where she also produced her first own choreographic pieces. In 2007, she was resident choreographer at K3. Her pieces have toured internationally and been presented e.g. at the Spring Dance Festival/Utrecht, Impulstanz/Vienna, Sophiensaele Berlin  and at the Dampfzentrale Bern. She is a co-founder of the artist initiative Sweet&Tender Collaborations and in summer 2010 initiated together with K3 the Sweet &Tender project Treffen Total. At Kampnagel, she has produced e.g. III (2010), WALZ'R (2011) and the duet HAUT (2012).

^{(Status: 2018)}

www.jennybeyer.de

Naïma Mazic

is founder of the company n ï m. She was part of danceWEB15 & the Hip-Hop Continuum of Jacob’s Pillow, studied at P.A.R.T.S., the Reykjavik Academy of Arts, and the Vienna Conservatory. Her focus is the exploration of the relationship between dance and music through rhythm within the field of Jazz.
In the K3-Residency 18/19 Naïma Mazic continues to explore the relationship between Dance and Jazz Music. She investigates how rhythm manifests itself in dance and how different rhythmicalities change the quality of movement. Through the work with polyrhythms Naïma wants to slow down and speed up time within time, and let dance and music communicate within that friction. Her recent questions are: How can tools and specificities of Jazz Music flourish within dance? How can the pulse between dancers and musicians be shared? What makes movement groove and swing?

^{(Status: 2018)}

www.more2rhythm.com

Patricia Carolin Mai

Patricia Carolin Mai is a dancer, choreographer and artistic director of MAI:COMPANY. She studied dance at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp and performance studies at the University of Hamburg. Since 2015, she has been producing dance pieces with production bases at Kampnagel and K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg. Her artistic work explores movement as a somatic and empowering practice, and the body in various states and extremes, often within intergenerational and participatory contexts. Her productions have been staged internationally, including in Belgium, France, Italy, Israel and Korea. Since 2019, she has been conducting research on soft skills in dance education as part of the EU project ‘Empowering Dance’ and works as a lecturer and mentor both in Germany and abroad. In 2025, she founded MAI:COMPANY – Hamburg’s first cross-generational dance company comprising people from the city. From 2026 to 2028, as part of the Tanzpakt Stadt-Land-Bund initiative, she is further developing her work on community, participation and physical diversity.

^{(Status: 2026)}

http://www.patricia-carolin-mai.de/

Reut Shemesh

studied choreography at ArtEZ (NL) and completed a Masters at the Academy of Media Arts (Cologne). Alongside her creative work, she is teaching choreography in several Universities. Shemesh's artistic spectrum ranges from contemporary choreography through experimental film to poetry. Her works were presented in many venues and festivals.
In her residency in 2018/2019 Reut dedicated a research to the exposure of the female Hasidic identity, by looking at embodied repetitive rituals, their social manifestation, their effect on gender roles in regard to her personal biography. Throughout the process of incorporating such rituals in contemporary practice, Reut was using different working strategies such as re-enactment photography, and interviews. The project's aim was the creation of a contemporary group piece, with both, contemporary dancers and female‪orthodox Jews from the local community.

^{(Status: 2018)}

http://www.reutshemesh.com/

Teresa Hoffmann

first studied psychology in Würzburg and New York, then performance studies in Hamburg. She works as a dancer, choreographer and dance mediator. Since 2016, she has mainly focussed on producing dance pieces for and sometimes with young people. For her, the relationship and difference between the worlds of adults and children is paradigmatic of her interest in being confronted with ways of thinking, moving and feeling that she has forgotten or forgotten as an adult. The encounter of strangers of different ages and abilities is a mirror for the fine threads that connect them and for the creative power that lies hidden in these unusual connections.

^{(Status: 2023)}