Kitte Wagner
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Kitte Wagner
Kitte Wagner has a Master of communication and dramaturgy and is co-founder of Bruthalia Teatret (1994-98). For more than 10 years she worked as dramaturg at Betty Nansen Teatret in Copenhagen, collaborating with director Peter Langdal on a series of modern adaptations of classical plays. She has developed new working methods and performance genres in collaboration with stand-up comedians. Since 2007 she is managing director of Nørrebro Teater.
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Sean Patten og Berit Stumpf
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GOB Squad
Berit Stumpf (born 1969) and Sean Patten (born 1971) are co-founding members of the international performers’ collective Gob Squad, formed in 1994. Gob Squad makes performances, videos, installations and happenings, mixing theatre, performance, film and real life. The group tours worldwide with their works.
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Helgard Haug
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Helgard Haug
Helgard Haug (born 1969) is director and concept developer in the performance group Rimini Protokoll that creates performances for the stage, the urban space and for radio with the participation of ‘experts’ instead of actors. Besides Helgard Haug, Rimini Protokoll consists of Stefan Kaegi and Daniel Wetzel. e group has been the founder of a new international reality trend, winning a series of international awards.
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Signa Sørensen
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Signa Sørensen
Signa Sørensen (born 1975) works internationally with large site-specific fictional works and universes of experiences. Non-actors participate in installations where the audience moves freely and interactively create their own experience. Signa Sørensen has founded the artistic partnership SIGNA with the Austrian performer and media artist Arthur Koestler.
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Wanda Golonka
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Wanda Golonka
Wanda Golonka (born 1958) is a French choreographer and director living and working in Germany. Trained in classical ballet and modern dance, she founded and directed the company Neuer Tanz from 1985-95. She was director at Schauspiel Frankfurt from 2001-09. In Wanda Golonka's Gesamtkunstwerke the space is as important as the actors and dancers, as she crosses the borders between dance, performance, music and text.
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Wayn Traub
Wayn Traub (born 1972) is a director, filmmaker, choreographer and performer. In the late nineties he published his Manifesto for an Animal and Ritual Theatre, and his creative work is characterized by the desire to explore a modern ritual theatre. He uses text, music, narrative, set and film to produce a polyphonic whole. In 2012, Traub stopped making theatre performances and turned his focus to multimedia works.
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Jan Fabre
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Jan Fabre
Jan Fabre (born 1958) began his career in 1980 as director and stage designer. He made a clean break with the conventions of contemporary theatre by introducing the concept of real-time performance. The body in all its forms has been the subject of his investigations since the early 1980s. The name of Jan Fabre’s company, Troubleyn, means ‘remaining faithful’.
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Kirsten Delholm
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Kirsten Dehlholm
Kirsten Dehlholm (born 1945) founded her performance theatre company Hotel Pro Forma in 1985. Originally a visual artist, she takes her starting point in a space or a theme through which she investigates the world. She o en chooses as performers people who have certain characteristics or skills, and she regularly includes objects and actions that are not normally associated with performing arts. Her performances have toured extensively all over the world.