I am a queer, transgender Filipino choreographer. I was raised in the Philippines and am currently based in Berlin. My work focuses on the recognition of intersectional identities, reconnecting with my ancestry, and decentralizing Western ideologies in dance making. I co-founded The Love Makers Company, a project-based dance company, with Anya Cloud. I am also a co-founder with Nara Virgens of the Emerging Change Tanzfestival, a dance festival featuring and curating QTBIPoC artists and their collaborators. www.makisigakin.com

Kristina Kusmina Dreit (she/her), born in Kazakhstan and working between Berlin and Vienna, is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans performance, installation, text, and film. In her work, she is interested in the intersections of body, class, and materiality, as well as shifting perceptions between the uncanny and the familiar. In 2024, she published the book Working Class Daughters. talking about class together with her sister Karolina Dreit, and she is currently a fellow at LIVE WORKS at Centrale Fies in Italy.

Adam Man (he/they) works with performance, video, and text. His works bring audiences, performers, and landscapes into relations of unusual proximity. Rather than observing from a distance, visitors become part of a Live Environment: a shared field of perception and attention. Through choreography, spoken words, and video, he creates spaces of closeness and intensity in which a collective sensitivity for inhabiting the Earth can emerge. His work has been presented at venues including Tanzfabrik and Sophiensaele (Berlin), brut (Vienna), Metropolis Festival (Copenhagen), and Kunstraum Lakeside (Klagenfurt).

Sergiu Matis (he/him) is a Romanian choreographer living and working in Berlin since 2008. His choreographic language moves with urgency and precision, with a distinctive blend of physical intensity, conceptual clarity, and meticulous research that explores how dance can resonate with contemporary realities. His performances have been presented throughout Europe, including at ImPulsTanz (Vienna), Centre National de la Danse (Paris), PACT Zollverein (Essen) and Trafó (Budapest).

Tatiana Mejía (she/her) is a dancer and choreographer from the Dominican Republic living in Berlin. Her artistic practice interlaces Afro-diasporic and contemporary dance with music through a decolonial lens. She approaches movement and sound as living archives of memory, resistance, and transformation, where body, voice, and media intertwine. By navigating embodied actions and confronting stereotypes and colonial narratives, her practice opens spaces for healing and reimagination. Her creations include “Kiskeya”, “Gagá”  and “Sway”.

Thiago Rosa (he/him) works as an actor, performer and dramaturg. He completed a bachelor's degree in fine arts and another in dance, context and choreography at the Inter-University Centre for Dance (HZT). His practice spans various performance environments, in which he explores presence, composition and the relationship between body, space and audience. Thiago's works include ‘Thiago Rosa’ (2021), a solo for Ballhaus Naunynstraße, and ‘Urban Foragers’ (2024), which he developed together with Johanna Ryynänen as part of the R.E.D. residency at Tanzfabrik. He was also a performer with Grupo Oito in ‘Carne’ (2024) by Ricardo de Paula.

Jen Rosenblit (1983. USA, no pronouns) makes performances surrounding architectures, bodies, text, and ideas concerned with problems that arise inside of agendas for togetherness. Rosenblit’s works lean toward the uncanny, locating ways of being together amidst (un) familiar and impossible contradictions. Desire and sexuality linger as reoccurring points of. Rosenblit is a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow, a recipient of a 2014 New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award, and was a 2023 La Becque(Vevey, CH) artist in residence. 

Maria F. Scaroni (she/her) is a dance artist. She creates and interprets choreographic works rooted in improvisational practices and altered states of consciousness. Maria hosts workshops deviating post-modern dance legacies towards technologies for mutual empowerment, crossbreeding somatic practices and anti-oppression frameworks in support of a culture of connection. Maria performs in Meg Stuart’s with whom she collaborates since 2009. After collective Lecken, an erogenous queer rave, she has been hosting Social Pleasure Center, a community space for somatic post-activism. She currently collaborates with icon drag queen Olympia Bukkakis.

Elvan Tekin (she/her) is a choreographer, dancer, and curator. She was born in Izmir and is now based in Berlin. In November 2026, her upcoming work “THIS IS NOT THE END”  will premiere in Sophiensaele, Berlin. She holds a master’s degree in Choreography from HZT, Berlin. Elvan is organising and curating the developing curatorial project emergent spaces, which centres queer and trans* feminist perspectives in the diaspora.

Jasna L. Vinovrški (she/her) is a performer, choreographer and lecturer who grew up in Zagreb, Croatia  and has been based in Berlin since 2008. She has been co-running the company Public in Private and Studio PIP for over 18 years. Alongside her artistic practice, she co-curated and organized performance platforms such as 3AM, Montag Modus, and Flutgraben Performances, and has been actively involved in dance politics since 2020.

Kasia Wolińska (she/her) is a choreographer, dancer, and writer, born in Gdańsk and based in Berlin. Her own choreographic works include "Phoenix.Sun" (2026), “KISS” (2022), “Salvage” (2021). Since 2023, she’s been conducting a multidisciplinary research project “Papieżyca.” Kasia runs a blog www.danceisaweapon.com. Her texts were published in e.g., e-flux, Palletten, Dialog, and in books Danceolitics or Choreography Autonomies. A board member of ZTB e.V. (2019-23). Currently a part of systering collective. 

July Weber (alle Pronomen) is a choreographer, performer, curator, and sculptor. Working at the intersection of choreography and visual art, July explores interactions between body, material, and movement, informed by new materialist approaches and the deconstruction of power relations between human and non-human agents. Collision functions as a central principle—both as a moment of intense encounter and as an overlap of bodies, practices, and disciplines. July presents work internationally, has received awards including the Berlin Art Prize, was invited to Tanzplattform, and founded NEW FEARS, an award-winning gallery for transdisciplinarity.

Christina Ciupke (she/her) is a Berlin-based choreographer and performer. In her work she explores the fragile balance between the individual body and the world surrounding it. She interweaves traces of the past with present sensations and future imaginations. Drawing on the kinesthetic memory of her choreographic work she engages with central elements such as time, the body, the other, and (in)visibility. Close collaborations with other artists play a specific role in her practice. She holds a Master’s degree in Choreography from the Amsterdam University of the Arts.