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The mentors
Heike Roms
Hamburg studied Literature, Theatre, Musicology and Philosophy
in Hamburg. She has been involved in organising performance projects
since 1986, including a number of years as assistant director
and press officer of the Internationales Sommertheater Festival
Hamburg. Now a doctoral candidate at the University of Wales,
she is currently undertaking research into performances of cultural
identity at the Department of Theatre, Film and Television of
the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. She was recently appointed
Administrator for 'Performance Studies international', the new
association for scholars and artists in the field of performance.
She is a contributing editor of Performance Research, the performance
studies journal published by Routledge, and writes for the Welsh
cultural magazine, Planet. She has published articles on performances
of cultural identity, theatre and memory, and performance and
ecology.
Mårten Spångberg
Essayist and Dramaturg, Stockholm
Studied Music, Aesthetics, and Theatre and Dance Studies. Works
as a critic and essayist in the fields of dance, theatre and performance.
Curator of events such as, amongst others, Panacea Dance Show,
Body Currency, Love all. Since 1993, he has been dramaturg and
provider of ideas for theatre and dance performances and has worked
regularly with Den Danske Konungen, one of Scandinavia's most
prominent performance companies. Since 1997 he has concentrated
on the field of dance and has worked as dramaturg with, among
others, Ingun Bjørnsgaarden, Angela Guerriero and Dennis
O'Connor/Renée Copraij. He has given lectures on the theory
of dance and performance at universities, museums, seminars as
well as at festivals.
Katharina von Wilcke
,producer, Hamburg
Gained her degree in German and Romance Studies at the University
of Hamburg in 1991 with an M.A.-thesis on "Ästhetik
und kulturelle Identität am Beispiel der katalanischen Theatergruppe
La Fura dels Baus" (Aesthitics and cultural identity. An
examplary examination of the Catalan theatre company La Fura dels
Baus). Between 1986 and 1994, she worked in various parts of the
department of organisation of the Internationales Sommertheater
Festival Hamburg. In 1995, together with Christine Schindler she
opened the Production Office DepArtment at the Kampnagel Factory
Hamburg. Since then she has been production manager for numerous
artists from the fields of dance and theatre, e.g. João
Guerreiro, Nadja Tiller, Penelope Wehrli, Nicolas Stemann, and
during the 1996 festival "Theater der Welt" in Dresden,
with Station House Opera/ Julian Maynard Smith, Le Bal Moderne/
Michel Reilhac, Christian Boltanski, Jean Kalman and Herbert Fritsch.
Alexandra Jovicevic, Belgrad
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