Choreography

Luiza Braz Batista

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Darwin Díaz

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Mareike Franz

Mareike Franz, born in 1983, first attended dance classes at the Tanzakademie Brakel in Hannover between 1989 and 2000. She then studied performance dance at the Palucca Schule in Dresden from 2000 to 2005, had a student contract with the Kiel Ballet in 2005/06, and took her master-class exam in Dresden in 2006. She completed her postgraduate course at Folkwang University in Essen from 2007 to 2009.
Since 2006, she has worked as a solo dancer for Susanne Linke, and has been a guest dancer in “Sacre du Printemps” at the Tanztheater Wuppertal since 2008. She also collaborates with the likes of Mario Schröder, Lars Scheibner, Arila Siegert, Rodolpho Leoni and Urs Dietrich. She was a dancer at the Folkwang Dance Studio from September 2009 to August 2011.

Lihito Kamiya

Lihito Kamiy was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1980 and initially studied documentary film under Hirokazu Koreeda. In 2004, he went to Paris to study at the L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, and completed a physical theatre course at Folkwang University in Essen from 2006 to 2010. He has been completing his Masters in choreography at the Folkwang University of the Arts since October 2010.
Since 2003, he has been part of theatre and dance projects as a stage entertainer, and has also created his own productions.

Rodolpho Leoni

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Fang-Yu Shen

Fang-Yu Shen was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1982. She studied contemporary dance at the “Chinese Culture University” in her hometown from 2000 to 2004, and has choreographed her own productions since 1998.
She studied dance at Folkwang University in Essen from 2005 to 2009, and from September 2009 to August 2011 was the first student to successfully complete the new Masters course in choreography at Folkwang University.

Tomoko Yamashita

Tomoko Yamashita was born in Kyoto, Japan in 1986, attending her first dance classes from 1995 to 2002 at the “Mariko Dance Theatre” and “Kyoto Dance Academy”. She attended the Gymnasium Essen Werden (studying dance) in 2002 and 2003, and studied at Folkwang University in Essen from 2004 to 2007, completing her postgraduate course at the Folkwang Dance Studio in 2007 and 2008.
From September 2008 to August 2011, she was a dancer at the Folkwang Dance Studio, and has been a guest dancer in “Sacre du Printemps” at the Tanztheater Wuppertal since 2010.