Naïma Mazic | Patricia Carolin Mai | Reut Shemesh

REHEARSAL STAGE ONE

For everyone, who likes looking behind the scenes, we bring what is behind to the front, throw out the seats and open our gaze on all directions. Let’s pretend that the stage is a studio, that we are a collective together and that life outside these four walls doesn't concern us for this one night – unless that which we are shown reminds us of it.

In a new end-of-the-year edition, current residency choreographers Patricia C. Mai, Naïma Mazic and Reut Shemesh will provide some insights into their on-going projects after their first months at K3 by showing what they are working on: what moves large groups of people, what are the ways in which jazz and contemporary dance communicate and how do physical rituals define gender roles. All this as an outlook on their world premieres in March 2019 as part of TanzHochDrei.

You can apply with a short description of your proposal (max. 1 page) until November 5th via e-mail to tanzplan@kampnagel.de.

Naïma Mazic

is founder of the company n ï m. She was part of danceWEB15 & the Hip-Hop Continuum of Jacob’s Pillow, studied at P.A.R.T.S., the Reykjavik Academy of Arts, and the Vienna Conservatory. Her focus is the exploration of the relationship between dance and music through rhythm within the field of Jazz.
In the K3-Residency 18/19 Naïma Mazic continues to explore the relationship between Dance and Jazz Music. She investigates how rhythm manifests itself in dance and how different rhythmicalities change the quality of movement. Through the work with polyrhythms Naïma wants to slow down and speed up time within time, and let dance and music communicate within that friction. Her recent questions are: How can tools and specificities of Jazz Music flourish within dance? How can the pulse between dancers and musicians be shared? What makes movement groove and swing?

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www.more2rhythm.com

Patricia Carolin Mai

Patricia Carolin Mai is a dancer, choreographer and artistic director of MAI:COMPANY. She studied dance at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp and performance studies at the University of Hamburg. Since 2015, she has been producing dance pieces at Kampnagel and K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg, which have been performed internationally in countries including Belgium, France, Italy, Israel and Korea. Her artistic work in intergenerational and participatory contexts explores movement as a somatic and empowering practice and examines bodies in extreme states. Since 2019, she has been conducting research on soft skills in dance education as part of the EU project ‘Empowering Dance’ and works as a lecturer and mentor both in Germany and abroad. In 2025, she founded MAI:COMPANY – Hamburg’s first cross-generational dance company. From 2026 to 2028, she is deepening her work on community, participation and physical diversity with MAI:COMPANY as part of the City-State-Federal project ‘An Artistic Practice of Expansion’.

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http://www.patricia-carolin-mai.de/

Reut Shemesh

studied choreography at ArtEZ (NL) and completed a Masters at the Academy of Media Arts (Cologne). Alongside her creative work, she is teaching choreography in several Universities. Shemesh's artistic spectrum ranges from contemporary choreography through experimental film to poetry. Her works were presented in many venues and festivals.
In her residency in 2018/2019 Reut dedicated a research to the exposure of the female Hasidic identity, by looking at embodied repetitive rituals, their social manifestation, their effect on gender roles in regard to her personal biography. Throughout the process of incorporating such rituals in contemporary practice, Reut was using different working strategies such as re-enactment photography, and interviews. The project's aim was the creation of a contemporary group piece, with both, contemporary dancers and female‪orthodox Jews from the local community.

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http://www.reutshemesh.com/