Azad Ümit Yesilmen | Fernanda Ortiz | Sahra Bazyar-Planke | Teresa Hoffmann | Venetsiana Kalampaliki

DANCE CLUB: DANCE WELL

Dance Well is a dance programme for people living with Parkinson's, their families, carers and friends to experience their own body in its individual mobility. If you are interested in regular dance training and developing your own choreographies, the dance club is the right place for you. Short choreographies are created in weekly training sessions and rehearsals, which are performed in various stage formats.

No previous experience required | Currently all places in the Dance Well Klub are taken, for waiting list places please contact tanzplan@kampnagel.de

Azad Ümit Yesilmen

is a dancer and part of the national and international urban dance scene. Various dance styles such as popping, house, voguing, breaking, new style hustle and hip hop form the basis of his work.

Azad is part of the Dance Well project. Print his course he focuses on time. By slowing down, he learns that new spaces are opening up in order to get out of the rhythm of everyday life and experience oneself and their surroundings more vividly.

Fernanda Ortiz

is a choreographer, dancer and dance educator. She works at the intersection of dance and art. As a person of colour with an indigenous background, she creates multimedia and participatory choreographies from an intersectional and power-critical perspective. Her focus is on dance as a source of transformation. Her choreographies tour nationally and internationally. Beyond her own work, she initiates, designs and supports dance projects in collaboration with artists, creative technologists, art, cultural and educational institutions, as well as activists. Since 2019, she has been leading dance projects with young people for K3. She is also part of the European project Dance Well for K3. She studied dance at the Folkwang University of the Arts (MA), art history (Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires) and fine art (Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes) in Argentina.

^{(Status: 2026)}

Sahra Bazyar-Planke

is an occupational therapist, dance teacher and dance artist from Hamburg. Over the last few years she has specialized in teaching contemporary dance to people with restricted mobility. Since 2022 she has been running Hamburg's first professional mixed-abled dance company in cooperation with Soi Anifantis-Scherb. She is also part of the project Dance Well. In her artistic practice, Sahra’s main focus is giving dancers the courage to be creative and to express themselves individually. Sahra's aim in the dance well course is to create a space for her dancers that is value-free and does not put any pressure on them, so that they can become one with their body and are able to experience its expressive possibilities.

Teresa Hoffmann

first studied psychology in Würzburg and New York, then performance studies in Hamburg. She works as a dancer, choreographer and dance mediator. Since 2016, she has mainly focussed on producing dance pieces for and sometimes with young people. For her, the relationship and difference between the worlds of adults and children is paradigmatic of her interest in being confronted with ways of thinking, moving and feeling that she has forgotten or forgotten as an adult. The encounter of strangers of different ages and abilities is a mirror for the fine threads that connect them and for the creative power that lies hidden in these unusual connections.

^{(Status: 2023)}

Venetsiana Kalampaliki

works in the performing arts field as a dancer and choreographer based between Hamburg and Athens. She is a graduate of the Greek National School of Dance, the University of Athens, and the Athens School of Fine Arts. Her interdisciplinary work combines text, voice, and movement, focusing on the body in sociopolitical contexts of accessibility and inclusion. Her works have been presented at festivals such as Holland Dance Festival and Onassis Stegi. She collaborates with Rimini Protokoll, Jenny Beyer, Antje Velsinger, Anna Konjetzky, Lenio Kaklea and Iris Karayan amongst others.

In 2021–22, she was a resident choreographer at K3 – centre for choreography and attended international residency programmes in Chile and South Korea. She coordinates K3’s Professional Training programme and is involved in the European project Dance Well.

^{(Status: 2025)}