Artists in SHD/
Raymond Liew Jin Pin
is a Malaysian choreographer and dancer working in Germany. He graduated from Folkwang University with a BA in Dance and an MA in Choreography. In Malaysia, he also received a diploma in dance from the reknown ASWARA art academy.
For the 2019 / 2020 season, Raymond was awarded the artist residency at the K3 Centre for Choreography in Hamburg.
Jascha Viehstädt
*1985 in Hamburg. After his education as a contemporary and classical dancer in Hamburg, he received his Master’s degree in choreography at the Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin (HZT Berlin) in 2014. Since 2009, Jascha has been working as a choreographer and performer with the Berlin Costa Compagnie, where he develops interdisciplinary extended forms of choreographic work. Jascha has been working with the Malaysian choreographer Raymond Liew Jin Pin in the artistic Duo Liew \ Viehstädt since 2017, producing regularly in Malaysia, NRW and Hamburg.
His work is characterised by an open approach via intense, physical states and the obsessive search for a clear, formal structure. In a close intertwining of choreographic and performative practice, he approaches the ephemeral nature of dance through concept, intuition and body; researching the integration of coding into his dance practice.
www.jaschaviehstaedt.com
www.costacompagnie.org
Maria Zimpel
Maria Zimpel is a choreographer and dance artist. She draws on somatic practices and autobiographical abstraction. Her own work has been shown in various countries including Austria, Poland, France, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Bulgaria and Russia. She has worked with artists such as Rosalind Crisp, Isabelle Schad, Kat Valastur, Gill Clarke. She studied dance, context, choreography at the HZT (Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin) and the University of the Arts and cultural studies at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and the Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg.
Ursina Tossi
I transform political discourse into intense physicality. My sources of inspiration are pop culture, feature films, images, stories, theories and above all the people I work with. I reflect fictional and historical concepts of gender, species, technology with the body. With the three-year funding of the City of Hamburg (2019-21), in collaboration with Margarita Tsomou and in co-production with Kampnagel, we are working on a series of pieces under the title EXCESSIVE SHOWING that deal with monstrosity and its radical transformational potential from an intersectional and queer-feminist perspective.
https://ursinatossi.hotglue.me
Lisa Rykena
*1989, studied classical and contemporary dance at the University of Music and Performing Arts Frankfurt am Main. She has been living and working as a freelance dancer and choreographer in Hamburg since 2013. She has performed and danced in works by William Forsythe, Marina Abramovic, Zufit Simon and Ursina Tossi. Since 2018, she has been involved as a dancer in the Christoph Winkler Company in Berlin. Zusammen mit Carolin Jüngst gründete sie 2016 das Hamburger Choreographinnen-Duo Rykena/Jüngst, welches regelmäßig Tanzproduktionen in Hamburg, München und ab 2021 auch in Wien zeigt.
https://rykenajuengst.tumblr.com
Carolin Jüngst
(sie/they) arbeitet als Choreograf*in und Performer*in zwischen München und Hamburg. Zusammen mit Lisa Rykena produziert das Duo Rykena/Jüngst regelmäßig in Koproduktion mit Kampnagel Hamburg und dem HochX München (u.a. SHE LEGEND 2019/2020 und ROSE LA ROSE 2021). Ihre Arbeiten wurden zu verschiedenen Festivals eingeladen, u.a. zum Outnow-Festival Bremen, Hauptsache Frei Festival Hamburg und zum imagetanz Festival am brut Wien. Das Stück SHE LEGEND wurde zudem zur Tanzplattform 2022 am HAU/Hebbel am Ufer Berlin eingeladen. In ihrer künstlerischen Praxis beschäftigt sich das Duo aus einer queerfeministischen und intersektionalen Sicht mit der Transformation normativer Kategorisierungen von Körpern und sucht dabei nach paradoxen, hybriden und grotesk-humorvollen Figuren, Formen und Ausdrücken des Körpers. Carolin trainierte über 10 Jahre Voltigieren, studierte Theater- und Tanzwissenschaft und Philosophie, absolvierte ein Dance Trainee Programm am Leipziger Tanztheater und schloss 2017 den MA Performance Studies in Hamburg ab. 2019–2020 war Carolin Stipendiat*in der Claussen-Simon-Stiftung. Seit 2020 macht Carolin regelmäßig Audiodeskriptionen in Theater und Tanz und beschäftigt sich intensiv mit dem künstlerischen und politischen Potenzial der Audiodeskription (u.a. auch durch das Forschungsprojekt SPOKEN DANCE; zusammen mit Lisa Rykena, Ursina Tossi und Nicole Meyer). Im Fokus steht dabei, wie Sprache auf Körper trifft, wie Hör- und Sehdramaturgien nebeneinander stehen können, was in der Konfrontation durch Be-schreibung, Zu-schreibung und Um-schreibung passiert und wie die Sprache eine sensible Haltung des Sehens und Wahrnehmen manifestieren kann, die das Sehen als Handlung mitreflektiert.
https://rykenajuengst.tumblr.com
Tin Yeung Huen
I am a freelance choreographer and dancer and rent a fixed number of hours in the studio for training and my own projects. I develop a meditative dance practice there, work with charkas, chi-gong as well as concept development of my project “A glimpse of the pain from what we’ve called home”, “Safe haven” funded by DIS-TANZ-SOLO.