• A production by Angela Guerreiro Prod. and DanceKiosk-Hamburg. In cooperation with Goethe-Institut Nairobi and Goethe-Institut Addis Ababa, Hamburger Sprechwerk, K3 - Zentrum für Choreographie | Tanzplan Hamburg, and Kampnagel Hamburg.

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Angela Guerreiro

was born in Lisbon in 1965 and lives in Hamburg since 1994. She was trained in classical dance with Norma Croner under the system of the Royal Academy of Dance (1975-86) and studied at the Superior Dance School, Lisbon, (1986-89) and at the Center of New Dance Development, Arnhem (1989-91). From 1991-94 danced for the company from Joao Fiadeiro and performed around the world. From 1995-2003 she created eight full-length pieces at Kampnagel, which have been invited to international dance- and theatre festivals. Aside from her own productions, Angela Guerreiro has worked for several dance, theater, and music productions, like Jochen Roller, Show Case Beat le Mot and Hajusum, and taught at several dance and theater schools e.g. for Actors School Frese,, University Hamburg - Performance Studies.

Her last two solos ‘exposure’ (2003), and ‘Memory Play’ (2005), both had their premiere at the Hamburger Botschaft, Hamburg. In September 2005 she participated in the project “Move The Mount”, an interdisciplinary laboratory for choreographers from Germany and Poland, which allowed the creation of The Veronika Blumstein Group, an international artists collective. She teaches in several dance and theater institutions in Hamburg.

In 2005 her interest shifts from the exclusivity of being a choreographer and starts her 1^st work as a curator with the festival DanceKiosk-Hamburg and the project Kiosk.Company. In 2007 DanceKiosk-Hamburg produces the first big project for the Kiosk.Company, ‘Die Kandidaten’ and the project DanceKiosk. Goes Island, a project by arts and credits supported by IBA Kunst & Kultur Sommer 2007 in cooperation with DanceKiosk-Hamburg. Angela Guerreiro was board of directors of the umbrella association for Independent Theater in Hamburg, Dachverband Freier Theaterschaffender Hamburg e.V., from 2006 – 08.

The performance ‘VoteZombieAndyBeuys’, created by Showcase Beat le Mot and Angela Guerreiro had its premiere in April 2008, at Kampnagel Hamburg. In 2008 she initiated the project ‘Tracing Dance from Addis Abeba to Nairobi and Hamburg’ in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Nairobi and the Goethe-Institut Addis Abeba. The 4^th Edition of DanceKiosk-Hamburg in July 2009, included the pilot project ‘dance beyond borders’, initiated by Sharing Arts e.V. and DanceKiosk-Hamburg in collaboration with five European countries, funded by the European Cultural Commission. At the moment she prepares the 5th edition of DanceKiosk-Hamburg 2010, which includes the premiere of the project ‘Tracing Dance Reloaded’.

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Nuria Mohammed, dancer

Born in Addis Ababa in 1985. Since 1998 she is a dancer, choreographer and teacher for the Adugna Community Dance Theatre Co. Employed by the Ethiopian Gemini Trust, an indigenous Ethiopian NGO, to teach in a variety of projects. Work with children and youth, adults and the elderly, the disabled, and the police, using all forms of dance, drama and forum theatre for education and empowerment. With Adugna, choreograph and perform professionally in Ethiopia and abroad. Primary teaching responsibilities include community youth classes, Gemini Youth Club classes, dance and drama instruction for local kebele HIV/AIDS clubs, as well as special project work, including the Adugna Potentials project, which involves the entire company in teaching and performing with eleven young disabled Ethiopians. He graduated with distinction from the five-year training program with accreditation from Middlesex University (London, England). Training included study in: choreography; contemporary dance; traditional Ethiopian dance; ballet; African dance; physical therapy; massage; yoga; teaching methodologies; set and costume design; drumming; lighting; management; English; and computers.

Johnny Lloyd

He studied Jazz and Classical Music at Fullerton College in Orange County, and poetry at the University of California, Irvine. Lloyd started dancing, after seeing street dancers doing the Lindy Hop at a Jazz concert. In 1996, he started teaching dance in San Diego, where he developed the Lindy Hop dance scene as San Diego's first Lindy Hop teacher. While continuing to produce music and poetry, he intensely studied early Jazz Dance and the early forms of Hip Hop (Boogaloo, Popping) to become a sought-after teacher in Lindy Hop and Vintage Swing Jazz. Lloyd now teaches and performs full time internationally, having taught regularly across Europe and the States for ten years. In San Diego and Los Angeles Lloyd choreographed for television and film, and now actively choreographs and coaches for theaters, dance troupes, and performers in Europe. As a teacher he is known for his sensibility towards his students and his intuitionally conducted, improvised class structures.

As a dancer and choreographer he is recognized for his combination of styles, using vintage jazz and old school Hip Hop, and also poetry and music of his own. As a person he is known for his devotion to practice and his ambition to perfect the combination of the motion arts he uses. He is the first person to thoroughly combine the movement arts of popping and contact juggling, having been inspired by the isolations and waves, which independently exist in the two art forms.

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Adam-Lucas Chienjo

Born in Kenya, in 1976, lives in Nairobi and works as an independent dancer. He is a member of different African dance companies and teaches African dance and hiphop. He participated in workshops and performances with Opiyo Okach, Gaara dance projects/ African Arts Ensemble, and Ondiege Matthew among others. Aside from his engagement in the local dance scene, he participated in several African and international dance projects/ workshops: East African dance encounters, East African- Russia dancetraffic (“Giant leap of Massai” by Vladimir Golubev, Russia), contact improvisation workshop and performance with Melanie Demers (Canada), and the Ghangung Folklore Festival (South Korea). Adam Lucas Chienjo’s special experience rests in productions with disabled dancers.

He took part in a workshop with CandoCo from the UK, teaches and does choreography with deaf dancers in Nairobi, and worked with DINA 13 / Gerda König from Essen. With her latest piece “Counter Circles”, he came to perform at the Crossing Dance Festival, at the Tanzhaus Düsseldorf, in 2006. In 2006, he was awarded a scholarship by DanceKiosk-Hamburg.

Claude Jansen

She lives since 1996 in Hamburg and works primarly as dramatic adviser for the performances of Matthias von Hartz, Jochen Roller, Angela Guerreiro amongst others, and organizes musical event series for the performers of the company Showcase Beat Le Mot within the Sommerakademie Bochum. She is as well resident DJ at the Hamburger Golden Pudel Club. At times she works as free lancer autor. She reviews music and theater events for the newspaper taz Hamburg and writes for the following books: Die flashen die Styles – a literary text about lay down tracks – in Tote Jungs Hamburg 1999; Erzähl mir vom Leben – a reportage about women in different countries: Gambia, Israel, Yemen, India, USA, Russia, Bolivia, Japan and Germany – Berne 2003. She has operated since 2000 in the executive team of the transnational artist troupe Hajusom and developed amongst others the production 7 Leben which was distinguished with the Berliner Festspiele Award.

She curates the international performance festival Play Mas and initializes and conceives a lot of performance productions which are continuously shown at the Hamburger Kampnagel-Fabrik and other reputable venues and festivals. She gives lectures about the subject migration and transnational artistic work. At present she develops with the troupe Hajusom a performance musical which is conceived as an interdisciplinary art production and with the well-known Finnish musician and composer Jimi Tenor will be developed and shown.

www.hajusom.de

Sven Kacirek

Born in Hamburg in 1975, started drumming at the age of ten. In 1993 he started to study with Jost Nickel at "Yamaha Music Station" in Hamburg. Three years later Sven joined the 10-week certificate program of the Drummers Collective in New York City, where he took classes with Kim Plainfield, Michael Lauren and Zach Danziger. In Arnhem (NL), he attended the Hoogeschool voor de Kunsten as a student of Rene Creemers and Joop van Erven and as participant of the "Kontaktstudiengang Popularmusik" by Udo Dahmen continued his studies in Hamburg. For the drum-magazine "sticks," Sven started to write monthly columns, analysing the programmed beats of Autechre, Radiohead, Squarepusher, The books, Björk and many more. For Angela Guerreiro and her piece "Exposure," he collaborated with bass-player Beat Halberschmidt (Lychee Lassi) and for the radio play “Henry Silver collaborated with Paul Plamper and his brother Nils.

In 2004, Sven published his second book called "Secret Drum Grooves" (Alfred Publishing/KDM) and taught several Workshops for Masterwork presenting the ideas of his new book. Within this book Sven tries to apply different brush-grooves, which are usually cut and pasted at the computer back to the acoustic drum-set and attempts to integrate different loop- and Fxmachines to the conventionel Set-Up. He also worked with Beat Halberschmidt and Angela Guereirro for the container-project "From HH to Shanghai". In 2005 Sven composed and performed for choreographer Silke Z. from Cologne ("Look") and also for Angela Guerreiro ("Memory Play"), using different loop-machines, marimba and drums. At the end of 2005 he was invited to join the "interdisciplinary laboratory for choreographers" in Poland which was organized by the "Büro Kopernikus". In 2005/2006 Sven recorded his first solo-album "The Palmin Sessions," which will be published by pingipung/Kompakt, A-Musik.

www.svenkacirek.de