Artists
Artists currently associated with SHD.
Raymond Liew Jin Pin
is a Malaysian choreographer and dancer working in Germany. He graduated from Folkwang University with a BA in Dance and an MA in Choreography. In Malaysia, he also received a diploma in dance from the reknown ASWARA art academy.
For the 2019 / 2020 season, Raymond was awarded the artist residency at the K3 Centre for Choreography in Hamburg.
Jascha Viehstädt
*1985 in Hamburg. After his education as a contemporary and classical dancer in Hamburg, he received his Master’s degree in choreography at the Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin (HZT Berlin) in 2014. Since 2009, Jascha has been working as a choreographer and performer with the Berlin Costa Compagnie, where he develops interdisciplinary extended forms of choreographic work. Jascha has been working with the Malaysian choreographer Raymond Liew Jin Pin in the artistic Duo Liew \ Viehstädt since 2017, producing regularly in Malaysia, NRW and Hamburg.
His work is characterised by an open approach via intense, physical states and the obsessive search for a clear, formal structure. In a close intertwining of choreographic and performative practice, he approaches the ephemeral nature of dance through concept, intuition and body; researching the integration of coding into his dance practice.
Maria Zimpel
Maria Zimpel is a choreographer and dance artist. She draws on somatic practices and autobiographical abstraction. Her own work has been shown in various countries including Austria, Poland, France, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Bulgaria and Russia. She has worked with artists such as Rosalind Crisp, Isabelle Schad, Kat Valastur, Gill Clarke. She studied dance, context, choreography at the HZT (Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin) and the University of the Arts and cultural studies at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and the Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg.
Marco Merenda
Marco Merenda [he/they] is a German-Italian performance artist focusing on directing, dramaturgy, performance, and physical theatre. His performance projects aim to spark reflection in audiences through a queer in-yer-face aesthetic. In 2017, Marco completed a bachelor’s degree in Linguistics and Literature at the Università degli Studi di Pavia, and in November 2021 a master’s degree in Performance Studies at the University of Hamburg.
He works as a freelance performer in Hamburg and collaborates with artists such as Kotka Gudmon, Christopher Ramm, Mab Cardoso, Nágila Analy Freitas Reis, and Carolina Burandt. His most recent production, FRUTTA FRESCA, which premiered on February 24, 2023 at Hamburger Sprechwerk, was supported by the Ministry of Culture and Media Hamburg and the Hamburg-Mitte District Office.
Linda Lou Dierich-Matzke
Linda Lou completed her Bachelor's degree in Art History at Goethe University in Frankfurt and her Master's degree in Performance Studies at University of Hamburg in 2021. Her final choreographic work focussed on rolling as a principle of movement of the (extended) body. Linda Lou's performative aesthetic uses a choreographic approach for spacing scenes with a performative approach for using body and voice on stage. She would describe her works as performative movement and sound installations. Her works have been shown among others at #Stagejam2 Schaubude Berlin, Hauptsache Frei Festival, Aussicht Festival, Hamburg Theatre Night and Thessaloniki Queer Art Festival.
Fernanda Ortiz
Fernanda Ortiz ist freischaffende Choreographin und Tänzerin. Ihre choreographischen Arbeiten wurden in sehr unterschiedlichen Orten und Kontexten präsentiert, weil es ihr ein Anliegen ist, Tanz zu Menschen und Räumen zu bringen, wo er nicht so üblich ist. Um sich der Komplexität der globalen Wirklichkeit anzunähern, kreiert sie medial heterogene Arbeiten aus einer intersektionalen Perspektive. Im Fokus stehen der Mensch, seine Wahrnehmung, seine Bewegungen und sein Körper in Beziehung zu sozial-gesellschaftlichen Phänomenen wie bei THINK, UNFORGETTABLE & DANCE FOREVER, ihrer Trilogie über die Spuren der Bewegung (2016/2019).
Huen Tin Yeung (Cliff)
I am a freelance choreographer and dancer and rent a fixed number of hours in the studio for training and my own projects. I develop a meditative dance practice there, work with charkas, chi-gong as well as concept development of my project “A glimpse of the pain from what we’ve called home”, “Safe haven” funded by DIS-TANZ-SOLO.