Charlie Fouchier
Born in Paris, Charlie Fouchier is a dancer, dance teacher and choreographer. After completing a bachelors degree in philosophy at the Sorbonne University in Paris, he studied Dance at the Centre National de la Danse Contemporaine (Angers, France). He has worked across Europe as a stage dancer and assistant to choreographers such as Tino Sehgal, Aina Alegre, Laurent Chétouane, Isabel Lewis, Moritz Majce and Johann Kresnik.
Since 2016, he has been developing his own work as a performance designer and choreographer. His artistic works combine approaches from dance, visual arts and performance art and are conceived as choreographic modeling of performative events.
As a director of Tanzplattform Leipzig, he has been involved in curating interdisciplinary events, residencies and workshops as well as maintaining the platform since 2018.
Jule Grebe
Jule Grebe (she/he) is a freelance dancer and dance teacher.
In the workshop format mmx (movement method mix), which she founded together with Lokke Wurm (performer, clown from Leipzig) in 2022, she creates new concepts together with people from different movement disciplines to reinvent recurring patterns in contemporary dance.
She also leads several improvisation and technique classes, deliberately focusing on diversity in movement and biography.
Since 2022, she has been part of Tanzplattform Leipzig, organizing professional training, workshops and residencies.
Clara Sjölin is a dance artist from Sweden working in various local contexts in Leipzig in the field of choreography and pedagogy. Clara completed her BA in Contemporary Dance at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance (2013-16) and her MA in Contemporary Dance Education at Stockholm University of the Arts (2019-23).
Vasiliki Bara ist Choreografin, Tänzerin, Tanzpädagogin und künstlerische Produzentin. Im Jahr 2019 schloss sie einen Master in Tanzwissenschaft an der Freien Universität Berlin ab. Vasiliki präsentierte ihre choreografischen Werke „A Piece of God“ (2019) und „From the other Side“ (2021) sowie die mixed-abled Produktionen „The Dream“ (2022) und „The Person I am“ (2023) im LOFFT - DAS THEATER. Im Jahr 2023 choreografierte sie „Lust“ für die Leipziger Tanztheater-Kompanie, das in der Schaubühne Lindenfels und im Werk2 aufgeführt wurde. Ihre Solo-Performance „inside human“ wurde 2024 in der Schaubühne Lindenfels uraufgeführt. Für ihre künstlerische Arbeit wurde sie vom Fonds Darstellende Künste, dem Dachverband Tanz Deutschland, der Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, dem Kulturamt Leipzig, 4fT e. V. und SMouTh unterstützt. Als Tänzerin hat Vasiliki an Projekten mit Alexis Blake, Ildikó Tóth, Irina Pauls, Jone San Martín, Mandy Unger, Marlen Schumann und René Reinhardt gearbeitet.
Niko Jacobi
Niko Jacobi (he/him, she/her,-) works as a freelance performer, dancer and dramaturge. After studying linguistics in Leipzig and Paris, Noah worked at Studio Ya/ Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin (public relations, press and dramaturgy). The focus of her Master's degree (Applied Cultural Studies and Cultural Semiotics) was the development of a concept for art and cultural mediation.
Niko also studied dance (Seneca Intensiv Berlin, TIP Freiburg) and has been training in queer bodywork since 2013. Collaborations with Saman Hamdi (Hip Hop & Social Justice, Potsdam, 2017/18), POLYMORA Inc, Mono Welk, Jule Grebe and Charlie Fouchier (Katapult Leipzig: Reworlding gender, 2023), among others. His own practice and artistic engagement with spaces and structures of the (contemporary) dance world focuses on the simultaneous experience of relaxation, pleasure and resistance.
Niko has been involved in the Leipzig dance scene since 2020 and has been a board member of Tanzplattform Leipzig since 2023. He is primarily responsible for communication, public relations and networking.
Kristoffer Kempker is a dancer, dance teacher, and psychologist, and he lives in Leipzig. He received dance training in Berlin and Freiburg, and at the Danish National School of Performing Arts, Copenhagen. At 4fT – Tanzplattform Leipzig he is responsible for organising interdisciplinary events (dance dialogues) and improvisation practices.
Alma Toaspern studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt/Main and at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels (under the direction of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker). Co-founder of Profitraining Leipzig, which she teaches regularly. Since the 2019/2020 season, she has been an ensemble member of Corpus, the experimental company of the Royal Danish Ballet in Copenhagen. From 2018 to 2023 she was a board member of 4fT - Tanzplattform Leipzig.
Ildikó Tóth, born in Leipzig in 1980, trained at Codarts University in Rotterdam. After studying in New York City, where she worked with choreographers Susan Marshall and Bill Young, among others. Member of the Forsythe Company in Frankfurt from 2012 - 2015. Since 2015, Ildikó has worked as a freelance dancer, choreographer and teacher, including in productions by Thierry de Mey with Charleroi Danses in Brussels, Heiner Goebbels, Fabrice Mazliah, Sebastian Matthias and Irina Pauls. 2018 - 2023 she was on the board of 4fT - Tanzplattform Leipzig.
Mandy Unger wirkt als Choreographin, Tänzerin, Netzwerkerin und DJ. 2019 gründete sie die M.over Company in Leipzig. Ihre Bühnenproduktionen sind ein Konglomerat aus Pop und Contemporary Art sowie soziologischen Feldstudien. Als Tänzerin erprobt sie die Foundation aus Floorwork, dem zeitgenössischen Tanz und urbanen Tanzstilen (Hip Hop, Experimental und House). Seit 2024 ist sie im Artist Development Program des LOFFT — DAS THEATER. Sie hat Choreographien u.a. für das Schauspiel Leipzig, das LOFFT — DAS THEATER und den Werkstattmacher e. V., PHÖNIX Theaterfestival (Erfurt), das Leipziger Tanztheater & Tanzlabor Leipzig (Dramaturgie), das stellwerk Theater Weimar, das Theater Natur Festival in Benneckenstein (Harz) und das Theater Bernburg entwickelt. Von 2020-2024 leitete sie den Projektbereich Tanz im Jugendkulturzentrum HEIZHAUS und war Projektkoordinatorin für das integrative Projekt KOMET, welches Tanzangebote in ländlichen Regionen Sachsens fördert.
Paul Viebeg born 1971 in Luckenwalde, lives in Berlin, artistic production manager in the performing arts since 1999. In the Forsythe Company from 2005-2015 and at the Volksbühne Berlin under Chris Dercon and Marietta Pieckenbrock, responsible for Anne Theresa de Keersmaeker, Giselle Vienne, Mette Ingvartsen, Jerome Bel and Boris Charmatz.
“My aim is to get people outside the cultural scene interested in contemporary dance as well. We can make this happen through our network. I have already done various types of social work, with addicts, young offenders, and young adults in training programmes.“
Katja Barufke, social education worker
“As a former Managing Director of the Leipzig Dance Theatre and a developer of the Leipziger Bewegungskunstpreis, I know the dance scene in Central Germany and the problems it faces very well. I am now bringing this experience to bear, to promote a vision of Leipzig as a centre for productions.”
Ronald Schubert, businessman