Open Studios is the final event of the ID_Tanzhaus residency, which allows you to get to know the artists and their work.

ELASTICS ARE LIKE MEMBRANES
Hannah Dewor & Amelia Uzategui Bonilla

Hannah Dewor and Amelia Uzategui Bonilla collaborate with a team of disabled and non-disabled performers in an artistic research process. Together, they explore how interpersonal negotiations around conflict, consent, barriers, and accessibility can be made tangible, audible, and visible through elastic bands and creative audio description. Both the bands — as impulse generators and movement initiators — and various approaches to audio description will be tested for their potential as an aesthetic of access. What artistic concepts emerge when consent-based, collaborative processes become the foundation of creation?

ROCK BOTTOM
Vilma Ehnberg & Pauline Michel

„Rock Bottom“ is playing with the potential energy of weight and our overflooded minds. We are asking how we can transform states of physical heaviness and our mental load into movement while believing that heaviness can turn into a motor of motion and a source of strength. We are deep diving into our heavy thoughts, rocking and swaying to the beat of our heads.

BIOGRAFIEN

As a dancer, choreographer, and dance educator, Hannah Dewor has been active primarily in Frankfurt and the Rhine-Main region for over ten years. A key focus of her dance practice is working with both disabled and non-disabled people. From 2014 to 2022, she was the artistic co-director of the mixed-abled Ensemble Barefeet. She has shared her mixed-abled dance workshop format with resistance bands (Pull & Release) at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden and Darmstadt, as well as at „Frankfurter Tanzsommer“ (co-teaching with Karoline Hinkfoth). Through her participation in the dance audio description training program at Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm, she expanded her artistic scope, integrating her perceptual approach as a visually impaired dancer. In 2023, she completed training as an Intimacy Coordinator for film and television at culture change hub Berlin, further complementing this with advanced modules in Intimacy Choreography for theater, dance, and live performance (Theatrical Intimacy Education USA). In 2024, Hannah collaborated for the first time with T.I.A. Dance Productions / Amelia Uzategui Bonilla for the production “Interrupting the Thrill of Exactitude“.

Born in Lima, Peru, Amelia Uzategui Bonilla has worked professionally in dance and performance since 2007, performing across the USA, South America, and Europe. As a dancer, they have collaborated with renowned artists such as Marina Abramović, Anna Halprin, and Tino Sehgal, and currently perform with Elsa Artmann, Zwoisy Mears-Clarke and T.I.A. dance productions in Germany, and NAKA Dance Theater in the USA.
As a dance artist, Amelia's work explores Peru's Afro-indigenous history and artistic practices, coloniality, migration, diaspora, somatics, and artistic activism, with a focus on Queer, Disabled, and BiPoC perspectives. In 2024, they co-founded T.I.A. dance productions, a collective researching Aesthetics of Access and intersectionality in stage productions and educational programs. Amelia's work has been co-produced by Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm and the Implantieren Festival, and they have recently attended residencies at HELLERAU, PACT Zollverein with Mears-Clarke and the MANCC Choreographic Center in Florida with NAKA Dance Theater.

Pauline Michel and Vilma Ehnberg graduated from The Danish National School Of Performing Arts (Copenhagen) in spring 2024. They are working as dancers and performers between Frankfurt, Copenhagen and Stockholm. Their collaborative work is inspired by gravity, groove and humor. They investigate movements such as rocking and swaying, using somatic methods and playfulness as a mode of working together.

ID_Tanzhaus is an initiative by ID_Frankfurt – Independent Dance and Performance e.V. With kind support by Kulturamt der Stadt Frankfurt am Main and the Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung, Kunst und Kultur.
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