Fernanda Ortiz | Sahra Bazyar-Planke | Teresa Hoffmann | Venetsiana Kalampaliki

DANCING CLUB: DANCE WELL

Dance Well is a dance club for dance enthusiasts with and without Parkinson's disease, their families, carers and friends. If you are interested in regular dance training and developing your own choreography, this is the place for you. During the weekly training sessions and rehearsals, short choreographic sketches will be created and performed in various stage formats under the rotating direction of Hamburg choreographers Fernanda Ortiz, Venetsiana Kalampaliki, Sahra Bazyar-Planke and Teresa Hoffmann.
The teaching choreographers are trained to create individual offers for different bodies and needs.

No previous experience required | compulsory participation desired

Information and registration: tanzplan2@kampnagel.de or 040 270 949 45

For Accessibility Information click here

Fernanda Ortiz

is a freelance dancer and choreographer. Her artistic practice between the performing and visual arts focuses on the human being, his perception, his movements and his body in relation to socio-social phenomena. Since 2019 she has been running the K3 youth club. She is part of the project Dance Well and wants to bring dance to people and places where it is not so common.

Sahra Bazyar-Planke

is an occupational therapist, dance teacher and dance artist from Hamburg. Over the last few years she has specialized in teaching contemporary dance to people with restricted mobility. Since 2022 she has been running Hamburg's first professional mixed-abled dance company in cooperation with Soi Anifantis-Scherb. She is also part of the project Dance Well. In her artistic practice, Sahra’s main focus is giving dancers the courage to be creative and to express themselves individually. Sahra's aim in the dance well course is to create a space for her dancers that is value-free and does not put any pressure on them, so that they can become one with their body and are able to experience its expressive possibilities.

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)}

Venetsiana Kalampaliki

is a dancer and choreographer based in Athens. She is a graduate of the School of Economics and Political Sciences of the University of Athens and the Greek National School of Dance and continues her research with a Master in Fine Arts at the Athens School of Fine Arts. Her collaborations extend in the fields of contemporary dance, digital and visual arts, performance and disability arts alongside the development of her personal artistic practice. Her latest project Re-call was presented at the 7th New Choreographers Festival of the Onassis Stegi, the Holland Dance Festival and is currently on tour.

During her K3 residency, Venetsiana aims to develop methodologies that consider accessibility from the beginning of an artistic process and make use of the specific aesthetic qualities. Observing links between accessibility, the city and the cultural scene in terms of participation, she will focus on the urban area in order to become familiar with the variety of needs and desires of mixed audience members.

^{(Status: 2021)}