Philipp Sander

Vocational training / Further training:
Sports teacher (degree at the University of Sports in Cologne), specialising in gymnastics, rhythm/dance, movement theatre, elementary dance

Further training:
dance teacher (GTF)

Subjects:
Sports, sport injury, physiology, hygienics, nutrition science, movement and improvisation, Leichtathletik, Schwimmen

Susanne Ganz

Vocational training / Further training:
Sports and dance educator, degree in sports and biology at the University of Bonn, secondary school teacher (biology and sports), dance training at the Brotfabrik Bonn (Traumpalast e.V.) in modern dance (Graham Technique and Limon Technique), African dance and choreography, certificate in remedial school sports, disabled sports, reflexology, skiing instructor (DSV), various further training courses in school administration and management
Qualitätsmanagement nach DIN EN ISO 9000 ff

Jobs/experience:
Head teacher at the Weber-School in the areas of gymnastics, psychomotor therapy, dance education and fitness and wellness coaching
Working freelance in the areas of modern dance , jazz dance and African dance throughout Germany
Classes in various fitness clubs in the areas of dance, creative children's Dance, back training, BOP ("belly, thighs and bum")
Staff training and choreographic advice
Press officer for the Association of Vocational Gymnastics School in Germany (BBGS)
Membership in the Association of Dance Research (Gesellschaft für Tanzforschung - GTF)
Own productions Misa creola and Chakra
Dancer for various other productions (Brotfabrik Bonn)

Subjects:
African dance, jazz dance, modern dance, improvisation, methodology / didactics, teaching practice

Marion Falke

Ausbildung:
Heilpraktikerin für Shiatsu, Akupunktur und Ayurveda (www.enlima.de)
Medizinisch-Technische Radiologie Assistentin (MTRA)

Weiterbildung:
Seit 2001: Regelmäßige Weiterbildung in Ayurvedischer Medizin u. a. bei Yoga Vidya, z.B. Ayurveda Gesundheitsberaterin, Ayurveda Praxis
Intensivwoche Therapie und Anwendung, Ayurvedische Massage, Tibetisch-Ayurvedische Massage, Übergewicht und Herz-Kreislauferkrankungen mit Ayurveda behandeln, Ayurveda Marma Masseurin
Chinesische Gesichtsdiagnostik, Energiemedizin (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akupunktur), Intensiv Kurs Energiemedizin auf Big Island Hawaii und Begegnung mit Delphinen
Medizinische Fußpflege, Praktische Grundlagen der Betriebswirtschaft (IHK Düsseldorf)

Fächer:
Shiatsu

Ulrike Geier-Schott

Vocational training / Further training:
Rhythm at the consarvatoire in Cologne, certified gymnastics teacher (Anna-Herrmann Schule, Kerpen), International Feldenkrais-Practitioner, "Gilde licenced Feldenkrais-Teacher", degree in social pedagogy

Jobs/experience:
Various educational facilities such as day-care centres, Clinic for Addiction in Bergisch-Gladbach, assistant director/producer for national and international film productions, freelance Feldenkrais teacher and lecturer in adult education

Subjects:
Feldenkrais

Gabi Giesen

Vocational training / Further training:
Degree in education; client centred counselling on the basis of the guidelines of the "Association for Scientific Counselling" (Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Gesprächspsychotherapie); theme centred interaction TCI

Jobs/experience:
Youth social work, mother-and-child counselling, teaching english to primary school children, adult education and projects in constructive conflict solving, teacher at the Weber School College of Gymnastics and School of Psychomotor Therapy

Subjects:
Education, psychology and communication

Michael Hall (USA)

Vocational training / Further training:
Dance training at the Waterford High School Dance Club (USA) and the Sylvia Reynolds School of Dance (USA),
regular participation in the American Dance Festival Connecticut,
student at the Folkwang-Hochschule in Essen.
Certification as a teacher at the Dance Masters of America

Jobs/experience:
Solo dancing at the Tanz-Forum in Cologne for 12 years, various guest parts (also as a singer), teacher of modern dance and jazz dance at the Ballet Academie Köln, Institute of Stage Dance.
Since 1991 teaching modern, jazz, clasical, elementary dance in New England, USA

Subjects:
Classical dance, modern dance, jazz dance, co-teaching "black dance roots" with Margaret Macaulay-Thiel

Christopher Hustert

Vocational training / Further training:
Certified gymnastics teacher (Berufskolleg Dortmund),
Diploma in dance at the Folkwangschule Essen
Pantomime training at a drama school in Berlin

Jobs/experience:
Teacher at the College of Gymnastics in Dortmund, teaching international drama classes (Italy, Macedonia, USA), cooperation with Unicef and the National Ballet of Skopje, various teaching projects in cooperation with schools, drama schools and the NRW Institute of School and Further Training (Landesinstutute für Schule und Weiterbildung NRW)

Awards:

Choreographic activities:
Various productions of his own in Germany and abroad, eg: Rendezvous der Sehnsucht; Woyzeck; Die Deklination des zarten Kusses

Subjects:
Contact improvisation/choreography, expressive dance, contemporary dance

André Kraft

Training:
Certified gymnastics teacher (Weber-School)
Clinical movement therapy
Healing arts - somatic expressive movement arts - dance therapy
Clinical honours diploma in oriental bodywork at the Bodyharmonics Centre, Cheltenham (UK)
Thai traditional massage in Wat Po - Traditional Medical School in Bangkok/Thailand

Jobs/experience:
Working freelance as a teacher in the area of health prevention (among others for the "Zentrum für Gymnastik und Tanz", "Kaiserswerther Seminare", "Haus zur Gesundheit", "Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe", "Deutsche Telekom", as well as medical practices and other institutions)
Movement therapy for psychologically and mentally handicapped people
Freelance body and movement therapist with his own practice in south Düsseldorf (www.oriental-bodywork.de)

Subjects:
Traditional Thai massage

Ilona Krauter-Fricke

Vocational training / Further training:
Certified gymnastics teacher (ausgebildet an der Weber-Schule), rhythm teacher (Acedemie Remscheid), dance therapist (Universities of Cologne and Prague), further training in dance (modern, jazz, classical), music therapy, choreography, drama, dance theatre, craniosacral osteopathy, shiatsu, energetic massage, autogenic training, progressive muscle relaxation, eutony, Lomi Lomi Massage
Qualitätsmanagement nach DIN EN ISO 9000 ff

Jobs/experience:
Wuppertal Health Authority: pre-school education and language therapy, movement therapy with autistic children, teacher at the special needs school for children with learning disorders in Wuppertal, teacher at the College of Gymnastics in Düsseldorf, figure (roller-)skating trainer and ballet trainer

Subjects:
Dance medicine, rhythm, relaxation techniques, methodology/didactics, teaching practice, teaching methods

Michaela Langer

Vocational training / Further training:
Gymnastics teacher (ausgebildet an der Weber-Schule), teacher of dance and dance improvisation, shiatsu practitioner, Dorn/Breuss massage

Jobs/experience:
Teacher at the Weber-School, working as a freelance choreographer with various companies for many years, freelance teacher

Subjects:
Dance and movement improvisation, jazz dance, Medienarbeit

Margaret Macaulay-Thiel (Nigeria)

Vocational training / Further training:
Dance training, non-medical practitioner, Dorn/Breuss massage, membership in the Association of Non-Medical Practitioners (Verband Freie Heilpraktiker e. V.)

Jobs/experience:
Long years of teaching experience in jazz dance, street dance, hip hop, African dance, dance workouts; works as a non-medical practitioner in her own practice in Bonn

Subjects:
Hip hop, co-teaching "black dance roots" with Michael Hall, African Dance, "Tanzmedizin", jazz dance

Sônia Mota (Brasilia)

Vocational training / Further training:
Dance training classical dance and modern dance in São Paulo (Brasilia), Dancer

Jobs/experience:
Solo dancing at the Dance Company Sociedade Ballet de São Paulo 1965-1970; 1970-1974 at the Balé da Cidade de São Paulo.
Since 1976 working as a dance lecturer in modern dance.
Teaching her own method "Art of Presence" in class
Since 2001 working on the book "Dance - Arte da Ausencia"

Engagements as dancer and choreographer, among other things Ballet Gulbenkion Lissabon, Vienna, Triest, Madrid, Basel, Arnheim, Konstanz

Subjects:
modern dance, classical dance, body work "Art of Presence"

Marcelo Omine

Ausbildung / Weiterbildung:
Tanzausbildung in Sao Paulo in Modern Dance und Klassischem Tanz
Workshop für Methodik und Repertoire am Limón Institute, New York
Seit 2008 Masterstudiengang für zeitgenössische Tanzpädagogik an der HfMDK, Frankfurt am Main

Berufliche Tätigkeiten:
Arbeit als Tänzer an verschiedenen Theatern in Sao Paulo, Freiburg, Berlin und Bonn
Seit 2004 als freiberuflicher Tänzer und Lehrer in Köln tätig
Mitarbeit als Assistent und Pädagoge in verschiedenen Tanzprojekten in Schulen

Fächer:
Zeitgenössischer Tanz, Improvisation, Ballett

Philipp Sander

Vocational training / Further training:
Sports teacher (degree at the University of Sports in Cologne), specialising in gymnastics, rhythm/dance, movement theatre, elementary dance, dance teacher (GTF)

Jobs/experience:
Lecturer in elementary dance at the University of Sports in Cologne
Light design and light technique

Choreography:
Dance theatre ensemble "Transparenz" in Grevenbroich
Dance theatre ensemble "tanzart" in Cologne

Subjects:
Improvisation and elementary dance

Monica Santos (Brazil)

Vocational training / Further training:
Dance training in Brazil (teachers eg Feodorova and I. Guieser; Coservatório Musical Santa Cecilia); dancer with the Companhia de Dança Eleonora Oliosi

Jobs/experience:
Since 1992 freelance dancer and dance educator in Germany, leader and choreographer of the Gira-Girô Theater, performances in Belarus, France, Russia, Poland and Brasil, engagements at the Bonn Opera House

Subjects:
Modern dance, classical dance, lyrical jazz

Veronique Schemm

Ausbildung / Weiterbildung:
Tanzpädagogin (ausgebildet an der Weber-Schule)

Fortbildungen:
Tanzmedizin - TaMeD e.V. Deutschland, Studienabschnitt zur klassischen Tänzerin, Studium zur Tanzpädagogin RAD & ISTD (School of Theater Arts)

Fächer:
Praktische Tanzmedizin

Harald Schulte

Vocational training / Further training:
Degree in psychology and art history (Ruhruniversität Bochum), recognized psychological psychotherapist, dance educator (training at the Weber School, Düsseldorf)

Jobs/experience:
Founder of the Theater Molloy, together with Holger Bergmann (today head of Ringlockschuppen) und Dirk Vittinghoff (today Theater E621, Switzerland)
Lecturer at the Mus-E-Projekt of the Yehudi-Menuhin-Foundation

Choreographer:
His own productions: L'object invisible; Kirschgarten; Toritachi;
Bodyfarm Part I: Braindead; Sotokara;
Bodyfarm Part II: Big Silence; Reigen

Subjects:
Body work, improvisation

Nicole Siomos

Vocational training / Further training:
Staatlich geprüfte Gymnastiklehrerin (Berufskolleg Bergisch-Gladbach),
Tanzpädagogin (Iwanson Dance Center in München),
Studium Tanztherapie an der Deutschen Sporthochschule Köln
Pilates Lounge Instructor

Jobs/experience:
Teacher at the College of Gymnastics in Düsseldorf, freelance dance educator in the areas of jazz, modern, dance for the elderly and early dance education

Subjects:
Dance for the elderly, creative dance for children, jazz dance, Pilates

Riki von Falken

Vocational training / Further training:
Graduate social pedagogy,
Pedagogics studies at the Phillipps Universität in Marburg,
Scholarship at Merce Cunningham and Jennifer Muller, Trisha Brown and Stephen Petronio,
Further training: Feldenkrais, Eutonie, Alexandertechnik

Jobs/experience:
Since 1969 instructor for Ballet, Jazz, Modern Dance,
training direction and choreographic assistance at Reinhild Hoffmann

Choreographic activities:
Dancer at Werkstatt Tanzfabrik Berlin and other feature-length guest performances, amongst others at Gerhard Bohner, Dieter Heitkamp (Tanzart).
Some feature-length solo plays, e.g. White Linen, Wach, One more than one etc.
www.rikivonfalken.com

Subjects:
Contemporary Dance, Modern Dance

"Geometrische Gefühle" - Riki von Falken im Gespräch über ihre Arbeit
Interview in tanzraum berlin, Ausgabe 5-6/2010

Gudrun Wegener

Vocational training / Further training:
Degree in German and philosophy
Vocational training and further training in dance, jazz dance, african dance, brazilian samba, dance theatre, modern dance, body work and performance training; further training in drama, elocution classes

Jobs/experience:
Dance educator since 1982 (jazz dance, afro dance, samba, dance theatre, creative children dance), workshops and projects all over Germany.
Dramaturgy assistant opera Bonn, actress at Euro Theater, Bonn (and elsewhere), director for TAFF (Jean Genet: Die Zofen) and others, solo performances and solo plays (inselerdendasein, I touched ground), direction of own dance companies.

Choreographic works:
Choreographer for Schauspiel Bonn; Choreographer for ASSANA (Dobâ) and COMPANY GUDRUN WEGENER (Passing through), comprehensive work with dancers, actors, singers, musicians and artists (Du bist aus lauter Gischt; Zwischenhalt in Corazón, Secret Constellations).

Subjects:
African dance, choreography, dance theatre