Fernanda Ortiz | Sarah Lasaki | Teresa Lucia Rosenkrantz

K3 DANCE PROJECT WITH YOUNG PEOPLE: RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW

What is the present? What if only the present matters? The moment of the performance, the moment of movement, the instant. Since September 2025, the young people in the dance project have been exploring the question of what exactly it means to be in the now. Inspired by visits to the Kunsthalle Hamburg, whose building bears the inscription “Here is the present,” the participants have explored the fleeting nature of the moment through techniques of dance and the visual arts. How does the moment become special? Can it be planned, or does it shine only through chance? RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW explores presence in the present, navigating between presence and absence, between fleeting movements and solid bodies.

^{By and with: Ella, Evelyn, Filippa, Frieda, Frekka, Guadalupe, Karolina, Leni, Lilia, Mara, Marla, Matilda, Menja, Nike, Rajana, Sofi, Tomma, & Ylvie
Concept, Artistic Direction, Choreography & Dance Education: Fernanda Ortiz, Sarah Lasaki
Dramaturgy & Performance Education: Teresa Rosenkrantz
Costumes & Props: Dance project with young people, Fernanda Ortiz, Sarah Lasaki, Teresa Rosenkrantz, Fernanda Ortiz}

Fernanda Ortiz

is a choreographer, dancer and dance educator. She works at the intersection of dance and art. As a person of colour with an indigenous background, she creates multimedia and participatory choreographies from an intersectional and power-critical perspective. Her focus is on dance as a source of transformation. Her choreographies tour nationally and internationally. Beyond her own work, she initiates, designs and supports dance projects in collaboration with artists, creative technologists, art, cultural and educational institutions, as well as activists. Since 2019, she has been leading dance projects with young people for K3. She is also part of the European project Dance Well for K3. She studied dance at the Folkwang University of the Arts (MA), art history (Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires) and fine art (Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes) in Argentina.

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Sarah Lasaki

, who received her classical training at the Ballettzentrum Hamburg, has been a professional dancer since 2000. From 2007 to 2015, she toured the world with “STOMP”. Since 2013, she has been combining dance with body percussion and works with young people in this field. She leads further training courses throughout Germany, gives international workshops and works as a dancer and co-choreographer in productions across Europe. In 2026, she will be a guest lecturer at the IBMF Québec (Canada) for the first time. In July 2025, her duo dance performance PULSE premiered at the Lichthof in Hamburg.

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Teresa Lucia Rosenkrantz

is a freelance director and theatre educator. Her work lies at the intersection of performance, community art and collective practice, exploring forms of accessibility, solidarity and shared artistic decision-making processes. Most recently, she realised the Hungarian-German documentary theatre production DRIVE, as well as metaMorph 1 – Dämonen und Monster with the feminist bright future collective, which she co-founded.

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