CHOREOGRAPHERS IN RESIDENCY 2024/25

• Robert Ssempijja (Kampala) is a Ugandan contemporary artist, dancer, and researcher who works in traditional and non-traditional spaces in an era of post-colonialism and decolonization. Working between Africa and Europe, he studied at École des Sables (Dakar, Senegal), danced for Christoph Winkler in Berlin, had residencies at PACT Zollverein, showed his own work at Sophiensaele Berlin or received the Pina Bausch Fellowship. Through his work, he is searching for a regenerative art practice that moves away from exploitative relationships. Departing from the colonial origins that shaped the architecture of his home town Kampala, at K3 Ssempijja will research its contemporary repercussions. The project aims to examine the enduring legacy of the city’s colonial past, the resilience of its inhabitants, and the role of structural design in shaping identity. In doing so he challenges the notion of growth and prosperity for a country, a city, and its people when their foundations were neither constructed nor intended for their benefit.
• Maria Mercedes Flores Mujica (Cologne) is a Venezuelan dancer and choreographer living in Cologne. Before moving to Cologne to study dance at the University of Music and Dance, she studied modern languages and translation at the Universidad de Los Andes in Venezuela. Since 2018 she has been creating her own work in collaboration with various and in 2024 she received the NRW KulturSekretariat Tanzrecherche. Her choreographies are based on the complexity of rhythm and its perception, and on knowledges of folk and contemporary dance, celebration, and rituals. For her research at K3 she will be engage in an exploration of Joropo, a couple dance where gender roles are binary, and inspired by the syncretism of Venezuelan spiritism. This dance gives voice and volume to unheard cosmologies, voices silenced due to patriarchal-colonialist developments. Creating a celebratory, ritualistic and interactive environment, Maria seeks, together with the audience, to celebrate, reconnect and heal the relationship with the female voice muffled over time.
• Constantin Trommlitz (Amsterdam) is a German dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker based in Amsterdam. With a background in Break Dance and after competing for many years in the battle scene, he performed as a dancer for different Dutch companies. In 2021, he started to create his own work, always ranging between dance and film. Currently, Constantin is seeking the development of his choreographic language and the research of (chronic) pain through movement. Constantin’s work is supported by Korzo, The Hague amonst other places. At K3, Constantin will continue his movement and choreography research Antibodies which addresses the topic of chronic pain. After a medical diagnosis about his chronic pain, he started to use dance and digtal art to to process and express pain. He will explore his relationship with pain as a dancer with a background in breaking, and include perspectives of dancers with other styles. Interested in how movement can be a tool to share pain, Constantin wants to change the narrative of pain being a limitation into a motor.

K3 x  NAVE (AUGUST-NOVEMBER)

• Dian C. Guevara is an independent performing artist,teacher, creator and choreographer. They mainly work on projects that explore collaborative, collective, and interdisciplinary processes for creation, engaging in contemporary dance, social dance, theatre, and music. They is part of the collective Co-INSPIRANTES and the projects FISURA and REMOCIÓN. They is a member of SUDAKAS SUDADAS (a scenic and pedagogical research of the mobilities and aesthetics of the South of South America). During their time at K3, Dian is working on their newest project MOVER EL SUR / PRÁCTICA DE CULOS, which is deals with dances that are done with the ASS of the BODY in the ASS of the world: They generates practices from the territorial south (southern South America) and the corporal south (the back, rear, pelvis/hip/ass), combining pelvic social dances and contemporary dances, as a decolonial performative act.
  
  
• Yolanda Morales (Hamburg), born in Chiapas Mexico, is a choreographer, dancer and performer. She trained in dance in Mexico and completed a Master's degree in Performance Studies in Hamburg. Her projects in Hamburg have been developed with K3, Lichthof Theater and MARKK - Museum am Rothenbaum, among others. In her choreographic works she deals with imaginative bodies in utopian and dystopian spaces that are interwoven with current political and social realities. Her productions have been invited to HundertPro Festival at Ringlokschuppen Ruhr, OUTNOW! Bremen, EPICENTRO in Oaxaca (Mexico), IAPAR Festival in India and Hauptsache Frei in Hamburg.

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K3 x  CCOV MONTRÉAL (AUGUST-SEPTEMBER)

• Nate Yaffe is an experimental dance, theatre and video artist, based in Tiohtà:ke (Montreal) who researches bodily permission, and queer strategies for courage. His tactile dances dismantle movement shame through un-correcting the self-censored body. He sees dance as practical; a tool to open a portal for neuro/corporal divergence, so that we may touch meta-physical and spiritual dimensions. He is co-artistic director of the collective Le Radeau and his work has recently been presented at Musée FRAC Bretagne, Performance Mix Festival (NYC), Festival FURIES, and OFFTA. During his residency at K3, he investigates Doikayt (Yiddish for 'hereness'), performative archaeology, and the dramaturgy of Jewish ceremony; creating through kabbalist meditations on the void / the infinite, and nigunim, a tradition of prayer through improvised wordless singing.
• Sina Saberi is an Iranian performer, choreographer and cultural manager. He studied Literature in Tehran and then began working in the Performing Arts. He is the Artistic Director of Kahkeshan Dance, an initiative that promotes the Iranian dance scene. His previous works have been shown at Fajr International Festival in Tehran, Rencontres Chorégraphiques in Paris, Hellerau in Dresden and BIPOD in Beirut, among others. He has also been in residence at or was supported by Maqamat Dance in Beirut, DanceWeb in Vienna, Dancing on The Edge in Amsterdam, Tanzfabrik Berlin and BIT Teatergarasjen in Bergen.

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ARTWORKS GREECE (AUGUST)

• Konstantina Barkouli-Gavri is dancer and performer. She holds a degree from the Greek National School of Dance and a BA in Communication and Film Studies (ACG) as a recipient of the Harvey C. Krentzman scholarship. In her practice she combines film, movement research, new technologies and comedy to research multimedia performative and perceptive approaches. During her residency at K3, she researches how cinematography can become a choreographic language when film sequences are converted into stage action and 3D movement.

 COOPERATION WITH LITHUAINIAN DANCE INFORMATION CENTRE

• Egle Nešukaityte is a Lithuanian interdisciplinary and performative arts creator. After graduating with a bachelor's degree in Lithuanian philology, she started attending contemporary dance classes quite by coincidence – after 10 years, this coincidence developed into a slow and undefined creative path, where movement, visuality and space intertwine. For the time at K3, Egle will continue to develop her solo performance, touching on the themes of collective loneliness, invisible lives, aging and death as non-existence in the present moment.

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COOPERATION MIT NEW ITALIAN DANCE PLATFORM

• Luna Cenere is a choreographer, dancer and performer. Her research focuses on the themes of the naked body, body landscape, collective memory and genesis of gesture. Selected as an AEROWAVES TWENTY18 artist ,winner of the "Best Choreography Award" of the Solocoreografico Festival and Award in 2017 ;Positano Léonide Massine Special Award to Dancers of the Year (2019) and Danza&Danza 2020 Award as "emerging choreographer" in 2020. Luna Cenere is a winner of the Venice Biennale's call for new choreography (2022). At K3 Luna investigates the role of dance practices and their potentiality to reconnect the inhabitation of self within the predominant culture of image, the hyper real and virtual.

• After attending the Rotterdam Dance Academy, Daniele Ninarello immediately began working with several international choreographers, including Bruno Listopad, Virgilio Sieni and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui with the company EASTMAN. Since 2007, he has presented his creations in numerous national and international festivals.
  During his time at K3 Daniele will be working on his new creation RISE (working title), in which he will reflect on the relationship between the individual and the collective, on the need to regain a sense of belonging to the “we”. At the core vibrates the question: what crisis comes from the disconnection with the collective?

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