Lo Höckner | Luísa Saraiva | Maria Zimpel | Moritz Frischkorn | Raymond Liew Jin Pin

MEET & GREET HAMBURG CHOREOGRAPHERS

This practical dance course introduces participants to fundamental aspects of contemporary dance and gives them the chance to get to know some choreographers from Hamburg. Moritz Frischkorn, Gloria Höckner as well as the current K3 choreographers in residence Maria Zimpel, Luísa Saraiva and Raymond Liew Jin Pin who will be showing new pieces in Hamburg later this season, will each convey their respective ways of working and artistic focus in a short workshop in one of the course dates.

Open to all | No prior experience required

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

Lo Höckner

(they/them) is a choreographer, somatic practitioner, and activist. Originally from Vienna, Lo has lived and worked in Hamburg and now Berlin. After experiencing burnout while working as a full-time freelance choreographer, Lo began training in Somatic Experiencing® and Pantarei, and turned increasingly toward activism, trauma resolution work, and embodied change. They are searching for ways to counter isolation and political paralysis by building support systems and relations that are empowering and transformative.

Out of this, they initiated the Embodied Social Justice Learning Circle — a bi-weekly gathering in Berlin to practice and learn together. Their work focuses on the connection between the body and social/systemic change, and on countering the experience of disempowerment.

They work in 1:1 sessions, facilitate workshops, practice as a cross-media artist, are engaged in environmental activism and are passionately training in the martial art form Muay Thai. Lo studied Performance Studies and Theatre, Film and Media Science in Hamburg, Vienna and Lyon.

^{(Status: 2026)}

www.gloriahoeckner.net

Luísa Saraiva

has an M.A. in psychology from the University of Porto and a B. A. dance from Folkwang University of Arts. Her work Hochwasser was selected for Danse Élargie Seoul Edition in 2016. In 2017 she was a scholar of the 1-year program for Artistic Individual Development from the MKW of NRW. As a part of her research she collaborated with Lea Letzel in the creation A Concert, with which they won the NRW Kultursekretariat prize Ground Support in 2018.

Her research for the residency focuses primarily on the relationship between movement and language as simultaneous meaning-making processes. There is an interest in reading and interpreting movement through the use of sung, spoken and written language and on the development of a speaking, thinking body. She will take as a departure point Henry Purcell’s work Hail! Bright Cecilia and use it as a physical score to explore a sonic approach to bodily presence.

^{(Status: 2019)}

Maria Zimpel

Maria Zimpel choreographer, dance artist. In her work she is exploring the limits of physically. She is creating her own dance language and modular choreographic structures based on semi-repetitive movement patterns and embodied attention in movement. She is an author of many solo and collaborative projects, shown all around the world. 

During the K3 residency 19/20, Maria combined the research in quantum physics and dance, exploring the idea of dance as an elementary force creating and transforming places. In her choreography Space Gives Place, the notion of place as a dance-based event was explored via dance, music, light and space design.

^{(Status: 2019)}

Moritz Frischkorn

works as choreographer and researcher within contemporary performing arts. Since 2016 he circumscribes and analyzes social choreographies of things within the graduate school Performing Citizenship. He extends this research within his project The Great Report which will premiere at Kampnagel, Hamburg in January 2020. He collaborates regularly with a.o. Martin Nachbar, Manon Santkin, Jonas Woltemate and geheimagentur.

^{(Status: 2019)}

Raymond Liew Jin Pin

graduated at the Folkwang University (Essen) with BA/MA in dance and choreography, as well as a Diploma at ASWARA in Malaysia where he learned the multiple traditional dance forms such as Malay,Chinese and Indian dance. As a dancer he worked among others with mit Nature Theatre of Oklahoma, Theater Bremen, Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, Samir Akika, and Ben J. Riepe. His choreographies were shown at International Contemporary Dance Festival of Panama and d’Motion International Dance Festival in Malaysia.

By reflecting his dance background, Raymond researches what a fusion of dances can be. He questions the encounter of different dance techniques within his body and works, disintegrates these techniques and interweaves them to seek a common base. The aim is to figure out a method to fuse these influences with an equally analytical and intuitive approach.

^{(Status: 2019)}

http://www.raymondliewjinpin.com/