contemporary dance Hamburg
Kollektiva. was founded in 2018 and is comprised of international freelance dance and performance artists based in Hamburg. Consisting completely of women, the collective uses the diverse artistic backgrounds of its members, within a heterarchical system, to reach new possibilities of movement through research. With a contemporary dance basis, classical ballet roots, urban and afrodance influences, martial arts interests, and Feldenkrais expertise, the women of Kollektiva. find similarity through their feminine experiences. The differences in movement knowledge of the collective make the quality of their work richer, allowing for the open exchange of ideas on the stage, in the studio, and in interaction with the free scene in Hamburg.

Since it's establishment, the collective has appeared at K3 - Tanzplan Hamburg - Probebühne Eins, Eigenarten Festival, Gewerkstatt e.V.'s Schöne Bühne, Explosive Festival Bremen, Accent Festival Berlin, Kulturgut Dönkendorf, and the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg. Kollektiva. also has hosted a weekly open class for local professional dancers.

UPCOMING EVENTS

An evening of art
30. January | Galerie Stobbe · Paidere · Mondot | 20:00

PROJECTS

PROJECTS

FOLLOW ME FREELY
In solos, duets and the collective as a whole, the dancers expand movements around the intimacy of touch and use sounds as language; the roles of dancers and supporters are sometimes clearly distributed, sometimes blurred.
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MEASURABLE SUCCESS
In this short piece, bodies inhabited by women and the experience of restrictions by societal rules - in current times and in old - is taken up in an abstract(ly feminine) way.
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NATUR - EINE LIEBESERKLÄRUNG
An evening of song, live music, dance, story telling and improvisation based on the story „The Man Who Planted Trees“ by Jean Giono.
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NUNART RESIDENCY
United not through our cultural backgrounds or artistic histories, we found a chance for unfettered communication through our feminine identities as a collective.
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SCHÖNE BÜHNE
‍Contrabass, piano, and dance creates one hour of mysterious, wild and unpredictable improvisation before your eyes.
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TREFFPUNKT SPEECH(LESS)
The experimental, ongoing research from Annika KompArt over the relationship between spoken language and movement language.
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CONTROL IS A STATE OF CHAOS
How is it possible to feel secure and at the same time remain open to growth? What prevails in the individual existence? Chaos or control? Control or chaos?
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ACCENT PLATFORM

Ufer Studios Berlin | 03.10.2020 | 19:00

Measurable Success

A feministic exploration of the social distancing measures and the relationship of bodies, connected by something more than physical contact.
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REEPERBAHN FESTIVAL 2020

Hamburg | 18.09.2020 16:00; 19.09.2020 19:15 | Arts Village / Festival Playground

PREMIER Measurable Success

Proximity and the feeling of comfort - or discomfort - that accompanies the closeness of bodies, heightened by the social distancing rules brought by the pandemic. Feminine bodies, near or far, bound by experiences that transcend recognition. How does lockdown, the wearing of mouth and nose protection, and the minimum distance of 150 centimetres affect our bodies and our psyche on a collective and individual level? In this short piece, bodies inhabited by women and the experience of restrictions by societal rules - in current times and in old - is taken up in an abstract(ly feminine) way.
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NATUR - EINE LIEBESERKLÄRUNG

Kultur Gut Dönkendorf | 15.08.2020 | 18:00 | Eintritt 20€

An evening of song, live music, dance, story telling and improvisation based on the story „The Man Who Planted Trees“ by Jean Giono.
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TREFFPUNKT SPEECH(LESS)

K3 Tanzplan Hamburg | 30.01.2020 | 19:30 | P1

The experimental, ongoing research from Annika KompArt over the relationship between spoken language and movement language. Part of Probebühne Eins from K3 Tanzplan Hamburg.
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SCHÖNE BÜHNE

Hamburg | 15.12.2019 | 19:00 | Gewerkstatt e.V. | admission on donation basis

Contrabass, piano, and dance creates one hour of mysterious, wild and unpredictable improvisation before your eyes.

with:
KOLLEKTIVA. (dance)
MARCUS GNADT (contrabass)
TOMASZ KOWALCZYK (piano)
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EIGENARTEN FESTIVAL

Hamburg | 01.11.2019 | 20:00 | Mut Theater

PREMIER Control is a state of chaos

A culmination of research done during Kollektiva.'s residency in Barcelona, creating a night of diverse dance styles, input, and experiences. Femininity is power that brings chaos and is subjected to control. Nine ladies, nine stories, one evening to give a taste of a world ruled by women.
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REEPERBAHN FESTIVAL 2019

Hamburg | 18.09.2019 16:00; 19.09.2019 15:00 | Village Arts / Festival Playground

excerpts from Control is a state of chaos

Is the female identity defined by materialistic symbols or is it something that comes from within? Power, control, the image that is presented to the outside; they are all driving forces behind behavioral patterns and, therefore, gender norms.

In this exploratory installation, womanhood and gender’s significance in everyday life is explored through seven women’s personal stories.
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NUNART RESIDENCY

Barcelona, Spain | 19.08.19 – 30.08.19

Research Control is a state of chaos

Things in disorder naturally move towards order. This implicit tendency is followed on the most basic levels within our bodies, then shutters outward to our behaviors and interactions in everyday life. United not through our cultural backgrounds or artistic histories, we found a chance for unfettered communication through our feminine identities as a collective. Being women, we are subject to a different type of control and freedom based on the relationship between our personal narratives and societal expectations. In this duality we can explore all aspects of femininity and whether there is a place for gender in the modern world.

EXPLOSIVE FESTIVAL

Bremen, Germany | 24.05.2019 | 20:00 | Schlachthof Theater

work-in-progress Control is a state of chaos

Habits, rituals and routines are inescapable parts of human nature. In these natural rhythms, people find comfort and security, but on the contrary also melancholy or rigidity. In chaos, one is compelled to give room to the freedom and the inventive spirit. How is it possible to feel secure and at the same time remain open to growth? What prevails in the individual existence? Chaos or control? Control or chaos?
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PROBEBÜHNE EINS

K3 Tanzplan Hamburg | 6.12.2018 | 19:30 | P1

work-in-progress Control is a state of chaos

Alongside four other dance-makers in Hamburg, a presentation of their work-in-progress research Control is a state of chaos with live music from Jan Paul Werge.
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ARTISTS

Ann-Leonie Niss is a freelance dancer based in Germany. She began her professional dance training at the Erika Klütz School for Performing Arts and Dance Pedagogy in Hamburg, and continued her studies in performance at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. She studied additionally at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance in New York City.

In 2014 she was offered a scholarship‚ Jahresprojekt Montepulciano‘, from the College for Music and Art Montepulciano in Italy. She worked with interdisciplinary arts, mainly with the sculptor Sabrina Straub, and to work as a choreographer herself. She was able to showcase her dance productions TORSE (2015), ratatosk (2017) and Stuck in Square (2017) in England, Germany, Italy, and Spain.

Alongside her education as well as after her graduation, Ann-Leonie has been working with an eclectic mix of choreographers like Suse Tietjen (2012 until present day), the company ´Feuße genannt Strakenbrock´ (2013), Szu-Wei Wu (2014), Jill Crovisier (2016), as well as Johnny Lloyd and José Vidal (2019).

In 2016 Ann-Leonie was hired as a principal dancer in the interdisciplinary artist group The Current Dance Collective in Hamburg. She has since been part of the productions Trans//Form (2016), Meere 2 (2016), der Strom (2017) and Körper//Ich (2018).

Ann-Leonie is a co-founder and member of Kollektiva.
Originally from Barcelona, Clàudia Ferrando came to Hamburg to enrich her dancing background by doing a professional dance training at the Contemporary Dance School Hamburg (2015 – 2017).

She is now established in Hamburg, working as a freelance dancer through project-based performances and self-made work. She is a certified Feldenkrais practitioner, and has her own praxis, giving classes, workshops and private lessons. She continues to study and grow her knowledge of the Feldenkrais Method on scholarship.

Claudia is a co-founder and member of Kollektiva.
Doria Worden is originally from the United States. She trained as an apprentice from 2015 - 2017 with the Richmond Ballet in Virginia where she had the opportunity to dance in many of the company’s productions, including George Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments.

In 2017, she joined the Madison Ballet in Wisconsin as a company member before moving to Hamburg to pursue contemporary dance as a freelancer.

In early 2019, she joined the Gangaray Dance Programme in Budapest, where she was part of the premier Írisz by Timea Maday Kinga. In August 2019, her research project Relatively Independent Subtotalities was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland.

Doria is currently engaged at Kampnagel International Kulturfabrik in Hamburg under a traineeship for Event Technology. She is also the Communications Director of TANZAHOi International Festival. In her freelance work, she assists productions for various choreographic works and is a resident artist at Galerie Stobbe • Paidere • Mondot.

Doria is a co-founder and member of Kollektiva.
Isabella Boldt (born on 14.07.1991 in Berlin) is a professional dancer and dance teacher.

She received her training for dance pedagogy at the Lola Rogge School in Hamburg. She then studied contemporary dance performance at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, where she successfully completed her B.A of Arts. After finishing her studies, she continued her education intensively with the movement languages ​​of the companies: Compagnia Zappalà Danza, Emanuel Gat Dance and the Hofesh Shechter Company.

Working as a freelance dancer resulted in the collaboration with national and international choreographers, such as Johnny Lloyd (Netherlands), Helga Deasy (Ireland / New York), Frédéric Flamand (France), Shiao Ing Oei and the company Tanzortnord (Lübeck), Fang Yu Chen and the Folkwang Dance Studio (Essen).

Since 2015 she has again been living in Hamburg and participating in various projects of regional artists and collectives. She is currently studying in the master’s program „Performance Studies“ at the University of Hamburg.

Isabella is a co-founder and member of Kollektiva.
Jasmine Fan, born in Taipei, is a Hamburg based dancer, choreographer, filmmaker and media artist.

After having finished her double major in dance and film at the National Taiwan University of Arts in 2011, she moved to Hamburg to participate at the masters program in film at the Hochschule für bildende Künste (HfbK), from which she graduated in 2017.

Since her arrival she has been working with different artists and media with dance-film being a central topic. Parallel to that, she has been developing her own skills and is experimenting with the incorporation of traditional Chinese folk dance and Xu-Kung into the contemporary dance system. Jasmine’s project OHNE ZWEI 無二 was performed in four cities in Germany, Austria, and Italy, with it’s premier in Hamburg in 2019. She is also the artistic director, found, and coordinator of TANZAHOi International Festival. Her project MUDRA was funded by the Hamburg Cultural Foundation and Hamburg Authority for Culture and Media and will premier at LICHTHOF Theater in February 2021.

Jasmine is a member and co-founder of Kollektiva.
Julia Hehlke is a trained contemporary dancer who received her education from the Contemporary Dance School Hamburg and has been working as a dance teacher and freelance artist in Hamburg since 2014.

She trains regularly in various styles: contemporary, modern, ballet, GAGA, contact improvisation, acrobatics, jazz, house, Afro, and Urban, as well as in Pilates, Bikram and Ashtanga Yoga.

Julia has danced and choreographed for various projects and dance film productions. As a dance teacher and lecturer, she works in dance schools, with students of all experience levels, as well as helping to organise and teach international workshops with KONA Network. At present, she is very involved in refugee work and teaches children, adolescents and women dance and yoga.

Julia is a member and co-founder of Kollektiva.
Larissa Potapov, born in Berlin, is a freelance dancer and video artist, based in Hamburg. She studied dance at the Palucca University of Dance Dresden and graduated with a B.A. in 2012. From 2012-2018 she was a member of the dance company Volkstheater Rostock. She has worked with choreographers such as José Vidal, Elias Lazaridis, Katja Taranu, Johannes Härtl, Khai Ngoc Vu, Yamile Navarro, and Teresa Lucia Forstreuter.

Larissa Potapov has performed locally at, among others, Kampnagel International Kulturzentrum, the Hamburg State Opera, and Hellerau - European Center for the Arts as well as internationally in Portugal, Chile, and South Korea.

www.larissapotapov.com

Larissa a co-founder and member of Kollektiva.
Lina Lev, born in Vienna, is a freelance dancer and teacher based in Hamburg.

She studied International Development and Theatre-, Film- and Media Studies at the University of Vienna and Dance at Erika Klütz Academy in Hamburg. Currently she is participating in a Teacher Training for Contact Improvisation and Body Mind Centering at the Holistic Dance Institute under the mentorship of Sabine Parzer. Her focus in arts is the connection of transdisciplinary medias like photography, film, literature, painting, music, philosophy and dance.

In previous years she danced for Cie. Willi Dorner, Patricia C. Mai, Victoria McConnell, Max Makowski, Anna K. Nemeth, Luan Gelich Collective, Anna-Kristine Linke and Felix Maria Zeppenfeld in Vienna, Hamburg, Berlin, and Hannover.

Lina is a co-founder and member of Kollektiva.
Verena Piwonka is a freelance dancer based in Hamburg and Kassel.

After graduating (2010) from her education in contemporary dance performance with Sozo visions in motion in Kassel, she has appeared in musical theater productions at Deutsches Theater Göttingen (2011/2012) and at tic-the Musicaltheater (2012/2013).

In contemporary dance, she has worked with Mirjam Rauch at Dock 4 in Kassel on The Inside Sky / Inside I’m Dancing (2011-2014) and in collaboration with Dorothée Bretz in Feld (2015) as well as „Dancing Vespers“ (2016) in Fulda. Since 2015 she has regularly worked with the singer Romana Reiff in „Abendrot“ in events (gala and dinner shows) with changing ensembles all over Germany. In 2016, she completed her 500 hour certification of yoga education (EYA) at Satya Yoga in Kassel.

Verena is a member and co-founder of Kollektiva.
Wiebke Schwittay is a freelance dancer and dance teacher in Hamburg. She studied dance at the Erika Klütz Schule and the Folkwang University in Essen with additional training in physiotherapy.

Her dance roots are urban, contemporary and improvisation. She danced for Jose Vidal in „Vito de Primavera“, performed in „This CIty is alive“, worked for Julie Pecquet Productions and won several competitions with Holy Grail.

Wiebke is a co-founder and member of Kollektiva.

ARTISTS

ARTISTS

ANN-LEONIE NISS

CLAUDIA FERRANDO

DORIA WORDEN

ISABELLA BOLDT

JASMINE FAN

JULIA HEHLKE

LARISSA POTAPOV

LINA LEV

NANA ANINE JØRGENSEN

VERENA PIWONKA

WIEBKE SCHWITTAY

FILMS

FILMS

FILMS

FILMS

KOLLEKTIVA.OPENCLASS

We wish to build a supportive platform for dancers in Hamburg to meet, chat, network, train, and exchange in a positive and safe environment.

We are offering contemporary training for well-experienced and professional dancers. The training will be given by dancers from our collective as well as invited teachers from the Hamburg movement scene.

Our classes propose a great variety of contemporary dance approaches including technique, improvisation, choreography, and fusions with other movement styles (martial arts, urban, Feldenkrais…).

Every artist will teach at least two to three weeks in a row. You can find a short description of the different classes on social media.

If you are interested in supporting the OpenClass and/or want to share your teaching skills and movement development, please let us know: kollektiva-hamburg@gmail.com

Kollektiva.OpenClass is, in the midst of COVID19, taking a break. Until the pandemic measures are loosened and it is again safe to move and sweat with others in the same room, the open class will not be held. Thank you for your understanding and stay safe!

CONTACT US!

We are always excited to hear from others. Follow us on social media! Drop us an email with anything... collaborations, events, coffee dates... we are not picky

xoxo, Kollektiva.

kollektiva.hamburg@gmail.com