CHOREOGRAPHERS IN RESIDENCY 2025/26

• Gry Tingskog, based between Berlin and Stockholm, makes performances in a collaborative manner, performs, teaches, organizes, writes, makes light design and dramaturgy. Their works combine dance, darkness, textile sculpture, technology and programming to create multi-sensory, immersive experiences. At the centre of their work is the question of how choreographic parameters can be stored in objects and conveyed through touch rather than language. They hold a MA in Choreography and Performance (ATW Gießen) and a BA in Dance Performance (DOCH Stockholm).
  At K3, Gry combines technology and spirituality to explore forms of divination in the digital age. They will develop a Fake Astrology and an Oracle Machine as performative tools to communicate with the unknown. Fake Astrology is the study of satellites in an artificial night sky, and the Oracle Machine speculates on (im)possible futures generated by technology. Together with an Artificial Intelligence, they will create a performance for interactive e-textile sculptures and dancers.

• Inka Romani is a choreographer from Valencia whose work weaves movement and artistic research together through an interdisciplinary approach. Her practice explores the intersection of tradition, folklore, and contemporary dance, examining notions of identity, community, and the tensions between past and present through embodied performances. Inka graduated in Communication from the International University of La Rioja and furthered her training at the Centre National de Developpement Choregraphique de Toulouse.
  During her residency at K3, Inka continues her research on embodied memory, documentary practices, historical trauma and cultural identity in post-dictatorial societies. Her research draws on the Spanish Dictatorship (1939-1975) regime and the violence enforced on women and queer bodies. Her work aligns with contemporary initiatives to reclaim erased cultural histories and shed light on marginalized narratives through choreographic practice.

• Rhys Dennis is a choreographer, dancer and teacher from London. His movement language is rooted in hip-hop and contemporary dance. He works across disciplines collaborating internationally with artists in music, dance, theatre, film, photography and museums. Rhys co-founded the dance company Fubunation with a mission to create visibility for people of colour in contemporary dance. He studied at Northern School of Contemporary Dance, later graduating with a BA(Hons) from London Contemporary Dance School (The Place).
  During his residency at K3, Rhys will continue to develop the Feasts of Discord project - a choreographic exploration of family crises in Caribbean families. He will work on the intersection of physical storytelling and character development, focusing on how everyday experiences of working-class individuals can be transformed into compelling, movement-driven narratives

K3 x  NAVE (AUGUST-OCTOBER)

• Andrea Gómez Aguirre is a contemporary dance artist, stage director, and architect whose work intersects body, memory, and space. She will develop Relocate / Bury than Transfer / Bury, a performative lecture about Chuquicamata, a copper mining town in the Atacama Desert, focusing specifically on the relocation of its community and the burial of a large part of the camp under the mine's waste dumps.

• Anand Dhanakoti is a dancer and choreographer. He was trained in Indian martial arts and yoga at Kalari Gurukulam, studied Flying Low with David Zambrano and graduated from Contemporary Dance School Hamburg. As dancer and co-choreogrpaher he collaborated among others with Matej Kejzar, Abhilash Ningappa, Adam Linder and Ursina Tossi. His pieces Thuli, Kntsugi, Immer and Tamil Friend meet -Japanese Friend were shown internatonally.

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 PRO HELVETIA SWITZERLAND (AUGUST)

• Ivana Balabanova is a transdisciplinary artist, performer, educator, and artistic researcher based in Zürich. working across movement, voice, performance, and artistic research, she investigates how bodies carry memory, negotiate belonging, and resist systems of oppression through feminist and queer perspectives.

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 COOPERATION WITH DANCE NUCLEUS SINGAPORE (AUGUST-SEPTEMBER)

• Anise/ Hee Suhui is a Singaporean artist and composer working across performance, sound, movement, installation, and painting. Her practice centres listening as a way of dissecting the body, its agencies and entanglements. Using endogenous bodily sounds, amplified materials, extended vocal techniques and experimental scoring, she creates performances that make palpable the porous boundaries between self and other, inside and out.

• Sahra Abbassi, also known as Zaniah, is a freelance and multidisciplinary performance artist from Hamburg, Germany. She graduated from the Contemporary Dance School Hamburg in 2023 and has been an active part of the international ballroom community since 2017 - today as a member of the House of Revlon and mother of the Kiki House of Marciano. In Hamburg she is mainly involved in the QT*BIPOC art, club and ballroom culture, for example with the MeowMondayz project.

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COOPERATION WITH NEW ITALIAN DANCE PLATFORM

• Stefania Tansini is one of the most appreciated dancers and choreographers of italian contemporary dance in recent years. Winner of several prizes including the Ubu 2022 Award as Best Performer Under35, she develops her choreographic research from a material and sensory investigation of the body as a place of transfiguration and tension, between form and decay, control and abandonment, in constant dialogue between fullness and emptiness.

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COOPERATION WITH TROIS-C-L

• While deeply rooted in the collective power of dance through her work with Art in Motion and KnowEdge ASBL in Luxembourg, Alicia Cano is now diving into a solo exploration of the character of the Scarecrow.

COOPERATION WITH ONASSIS STEGI

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COOPERATION WITH ERA CENTER KAMPALA (AUGUST)

• Based in Kampala, Uganda, the dance artist and choreographer Joseph Tebandeke expands the boundaries of performance by integrating contemporary art forms like drawing and sculpture. His work actively engages communities to challenge dominant perceptions around "disability" and rewrite the narrative of physical capability. By blending local and global movement traditions, Joseph uses his body to develop a unique "dictionary of ability". Driven by a mission to decolonize dance, he strives to make movement an accessible language that celebrates diversity, builds self-esteem for persons with disabilities, and questions how society defines what it means to be able.

Funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation). Funded by the Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media).

This year's guests are Sakshi Jain and Rodolpho Sagbo, who both studied at the Contemporary Dance School Hamburg. Sakshi explores the concept of home in different languages and cultures and searches for the rhythms that can be found in the spaces in between. Rodolpho combines African rituals with digital sound to create a transitional space between memory, technology, and contemporary identity

Funded by J.J. Ganzer Stiftung.