Visibility as refusal, and the question of which bodies are allowed to remain This text introduces my solo re:befreiung, presented in the opening program The Art of Protest at the 3 TAGE FREI – Festival der Freien Darstellenden Künste Stuttgart. The program brings together short performances responding to cultural funding cuts, political urgency, and the changing conditions of the independent arts scene in Baden-Württemberg. Within this context, I approach protest not as a

Notes from a dancer learning to work without certainty I spent years learning how to follow direction: to adapt quickly, perform coherence, endure pressure, and trust structures that promised orientation through hierarchy, discipline, and recognition. Now I live in a moment where many of those structures no longer feel trustworthy, yet their logic continues surviving inside the body. This text moves through that contradiction: the difficulty of no longer believing entirely in

Between the desire for autonomy and the actual conditions of work, artistic practice reorganizes itself — not always in the direction of freedom. This text is a personal reflection based on my experience living and working as an independent dance artist in Mannheim, Germany. It reflects on the institutional conditions surrounding autonomous artistic work and how they shape both artistic practice and the ways artists organize themselves in order not to disappear. As an autonom

This is a review of the dance piece "Groove," which premiered in Mannheim on Friday, October 25th, 2024, at 8 p.m. at EinTanzHaus. Image: Lys-Y-Seng. In the picture from left to write: Gabriele Aidulis, Andrea Böge and Mike Planz #Desconstructingurbandance Jonas Frey and his team have played a key role in the expansion of urban dance in Mannheim. Their recent piece involves turning club dance routines into a refined theatrical performance, which has impressed the usual crowd