Miriam Cheema

Miriam Cheema is a freelance dancer, choreographer and organizer. She studied sports science and Romance languages and literature at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. She practiced various urban dance styles from an early age and performed in an urban dance company for eight years. Since 2017, she has focused on contemporary dance and in 2020 received a scholarship at “Tanzwerk 101” in Zurich, where she expanded her knowledge of the intersection of contemporary and urban dance with international choreographers. Miriam Cheema feels rooted in house dance and combines her urban dance background with contemporary dance, UK jazz and capoeira/floorwork. She sees a lot of potential in mixing different dance genres and researched this area in the “Urban Stage Lab” (2023) with Theater Pforzheim.

In 2023 she choreographed the dance piece “GROUNDS” at Karlstorbahnhof in Heidelberg and the piece “FRAGMENTS OF ONE” at Südufer in Freiburg. As a dancer, she has performed in pieces by Christina Liakopoyloy/Nostos Tanztheater “Me, the House” (2024, Theater Felina) and “WAVES” (2024, Karlstorbahnhof), by Carmine Romano/Laboratorio Danza “Der Wille der Freiheit” (2023, ROXY Ulm) and by Thalia Kellmeyer/Community Opera “NeurOper” (2023, IMBIT Freiburg). As a dance mediator, she has taught at the Professional Training Freiburg (2024), the Kunstparkour (2024), the Sisterhood Camp in Mannheim (2024) and with a teaching assignment at the University of Sports Sciences in Freiburg (2024/2025).

Since 2020, she has been pushing the house scene in Freiburg with regular classes, workshops and a monthly “HOUSE DANCE SESSION” in the club with DJs and live musicians. Supported by the Freiburg Cultural Office, she organized the German-French dance festival “DAYS OF HOUSE” (2023). She is also a member of the curation and conception team of the Tanznetz format CLUB UNIQUE (2024, Tanzplattform Deutschland) and has been an elected advisory board member of Tanznetz Freiburg since 2024.

Alesya Dobysh

Alesya Dobysh is a Dutch-based professional dancer, choreographer, and curator. She began her career in the street and club dance scene, where she cultivated a love for House dance culture that has formed the basis of her artistic pursuits. She has been an active participant in the “battle” dance scene, having taken main prizes at international events such as Summer Dance Forever (Amsterdam), Juste Debout (Paris), Random Circles (Frankfurt), Street Star (Stockholm) and many others.

In her art, she is committed to experimenting with fusing subcultural backgrounds and unconventional forms of expression with performance art, theatre, visual art, and sound art. One of her signature approaches involves deconstructing footwork-oriented techniques into an abstract language, which she uses to choreograph her works. Alesya’s choreographic works have won awards at the Performing Arts Urban Dance Contest “HOP” in Barcelona, Experimental Dance Festival “Open Your Mind” in Saint Petersburg, and "SzoloDuo" festival in Köln and Budapest.
Apart from her choreographic practice, Alesya is also an educator and an organizer. She brings her experience in various fields together to create an authentic practice that is grounded in her personal vision. Her work challenges established genre frames in her personal practice, as well as in educational and curatorial contexts.

Belinda Winkelmann

Belinda Winkelmann is a freelance choreographer, dancer, performer and educator. Her artistic work is characterized by her need for a deep engagement with essential questions of life. In her movement language, she creates forms for what cannot be illustrated with words - pure, poetic, contemplative. She creates an aesthetic that is radically reduced to the essence of the artistic statement and at the same time opens up space for the viewer's imagination.

Trained in dance, improvisation & performance at bewegungs-art Freiburg DE and in social science (M.A. Freiburg CH), Belinda Winkelmann combines her skills in choreography, dance, performance, improvisation, somatic practice, communication and mediation with creativity.

Nature, people and movement are the basis of her life and her artistic work. She draws life force from nature. Its beauty, roughness, honesty and transformative power are the source of creative work for Belinda Winkelmann. People in their uniqueness inspire a change of perspective, confront fundamental questions about humanity and community, and teach respect and appreciation for every existence. Growing up on a farm, movement was always inseparably linked to life. Whether in the forest or in the dance studio, for Belinda Winkelmann movement is pure vitality and an expression of creative and transformative power. Her artistic work begins where the passion for movement and dance meets the depth of being.

Edan Gorlicki

Hi, my name is Edan. I am the choreographer and artistic director of INTER-ACTIONS in Heidelberg, Germany. At INTER-ACTIONS – More than a Dance Company, we develop practices in cultural sustainability with a focus on new working models for the independent dance community. Additionally, I work as a freelance choreographer, mentor, mediator, feedback facilitator, movement researcher and dance-activist. I am a member of TanzSzene BW and FLUX e.V.

The philosophy of my artistic practice is based on searching the self within its surroundings. Layered, complex and thought provoking, my work aims to explore social, psychological and emotional realms. My most recent work includes stage productions inspired by numerous subjects such as conflict, trauma, identity, privilege, democracy, capitalism, communication, soft skills, power and control.

In my previous life as a dancer I worked with the dance companies Batsheva Ensemble Dance Company, Inbal Pinto Dance Company, NND/Galilidance and Club Guy & Roni. I performed the works of many choreographers including: Ohad Naharin, Inbal Pinto, Sharon Eyal, Itzik Galili, Paul Selwyn Norton, Emmanuel Gat, Guy Weizman & Roni Haver and more.

My choreographic works THE PLAYERS and LUCKY BASTARDS were awarded the Baden-Württemberg Dance and Theater prize for 2017 & 2019. At the festival 6TageFrei in Stuttgart, THE PLAYERS received both the critics’ prize and the public prize for best production in 2017 and LUCKY BASTARDS received the guest performance award in 2019. My work OUT_CRY, was nominated for a Silesian Golden Mask award for most unique production in 2016. Besides creating for my own company INTER-ACTIONS, I choreographed works on numerous companies including: Ballett Pforzheim, Mainfranken Theater Würzburg, 420PEOPLE Prague, NND/Galilidance, Tanzhaus Zürich, Noord Nederlandse Dans, Club Guy & Roni, OpenFLR, Random Collision and a production (in cooperation with the dancer Florencia Lamarca) supported by Sasha Waltz & Guests .

Since 2024, I facilitate movement workshops on conflict and negotiation for anyone struggling with daily conflicts, open to all people, with and without experience with dance, ages 16 – 100. The workshops are especially effective for dance companies, schools, groups, collectives, work teams and colleagues, families, partners and individuals. My public PUSH & PULL workshops were developed at INTER-ACTIONS in Heidelberg and invited to Theater Rampe and TanzKarlsruhe Festival.

Kevin Albancando Tuntaquimba

Kevin Albancando Tuntaquimba is a freelance dancer, choreographer and dance mediator who lives in Freiburg im Breisgau. Since the age of 15 he has been self-taught in the urban dance styles of popping and breaking and is still rooted in the urban dance scene. In 2011, he came into contact with dance theatre for the first time, as a performer in the production "Human (f)Actor" through the dance and action theatre Pan.Optikum. Since then, he has worked there regularly as a dancer and choreographer. From 2015 to 2017, he worked as a choreographer for dance theatre productions with amateurs and professionals in the EU-funded cooperation project "Power of Diversity - The crossing lines project". Currently his main interest is the interface between urban and contemporary dance in the context of dance language and performance. He is presently pursuing his own independent, long-distance research project, "An urban contemporary under the microscope"; here he explores his own language of movement from the urban world and combines it with the methods of contemporary movement. The aim of the research is to develop his own movement concept, which he would like to pass on in the form of professional training and workshops. He is currently using the concept in professional training in Freiburg.

Jonas Frey

Jonas is a dancer, choreographer, dance teacher, father, activist and artistic entrepreneur. He grew up in the Heidelberg hip hop scene of the 1990s. He started dancing there at the age of 14 and discovered breaking for himself.

After several years with various theatre projects, shows and battles, he studied from 2009 to 2013 at the ArtEZ School of Dance in the Netherlands, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Dance Education. He further professionalised his choreographic practice with a Master's Degree in Choreography COMMA at the Codarts University of the Arts and Fontys Hogeschool voor de Kunste in the, Netherlands, which he completed with distinction.

As a dancer, Jonas has worked with numerous choreographers. He was particularly influenced by his collaboration with Joseph Simon, Christina Liakopoyloy, Eric Trottier, John Wooter, as well as his work on the “TSIB - The Space in Between” project in Zurich, Switzerland.

In professional dance training, he taught at ArtEZ School of Dance, Fonty's Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, the ROC Rijnijssel in Arnhem and Dance Professional Mannheim.

As a choreographer, Jonas regularly devises his own pieces, such as Infinite Games, Shared Canvas, The Vibes and deciphered. As an artist, he has worked at EinTanzHaus Mannheim, DansateliersRotterdam, the Nationaltheatre Mannheim, the Choreografisches Centrum Heidelberg and Tanztendenz Munich, among others.

In addition to his choreographic work with professional artists, he and his partner Julie Pécard lead the Junior Dance Company at EinTanzHaus. Since 2018, the company has provided an environment where young people with a passion for dance develop choreography under professional supervision.