Joy Alpuerto Ritter | Mihir Grover | Patricia Carolin Mai | Ursina Tossi

ZEITGENÖSSISCHEN TANZ KENNENLERNEN

This practical dance course introduces the basics of contemporary dance and gives you the opportunity to get to know five choreographers and dancers who work at K3, including Patricia Carolin Mai, Joy Alpuerto Ritter, Mihir Grover and Ursina Tossi. Each choreographer will, in a short workshop, teach individual physical and dance-practical working methods and artistic focuses. Please wear comfortable training clothes and bring a water bottle.

in german | open to all interested | No previous knowledge required

Registration ONLY possible via VHS Hamburg.

www.vhs-hamburg.de

Joy Alpuerto Ritter

studied dance at the Palucca School and has worked as a dancer since 2014 e.g. with Christoph Winkler and Constanza Macras, as well as with the Akram Khan Company since 2013. As a hip-hop dancer, she has won multiple prizes at battles across Europe.

Mihir Grover

Mihir Grover has worked with Terence Lewis Contemporary dance Company, with the Kibbutz Contemporary dance Company and the Fresco Dance company. Mihir is also the Assistant Choreographer for Disney India Musical Aladdin. His choreography piece The Source was showcased at Tanzwerkstatt Munich and Fringe North Canada. Mihir currently teaches at CDSH.

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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 at Kampnagel and K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg, which have been performed internationally in countries including Belgium, France, Italy, Israel and Korea. Her artistic work in intergenerational and participatory contexts explores movement as a somatic and empowering practice and examines bodies in extreme states. 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. From 2026 to 2028, she is deepening her work on community, participation and physical diversity with MAI:COMPANY as part of the City-State-Federal project ‘An Artistic Practice of Expansion’.

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

Ursina Tossi

Dance artist, combines current political themes with intense physicality. Boundaries and concepts in relation to gender, animality and technology are bound together. She studied dance and philosophy and completed the MA of Choreography at the ArtEZ in Arnhem. Since 2010 she is part of Treffen Total and teaches contemporary dance and choreography (in the MA Performance Studies and at the CDSH in Hamburg).

^{(Status: 2019)}

https://ursinatossi.hotglue.me