Sarah Bergh studied Education, Psychology and Theater Studies. The focus of her work is on political education, with the topics of migration and diversity education, human rights, discrimination / racism, decolonization and self-assertion / empowerment.
Zandile Darko is a performer and theatre maker. She studied physical theatre at the London International School of Performing Arts (today arthaus.berlin) and holds an MFA in acting from Rose Bruford College in London (scholarship holder of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation) as well as a BA in cultural sciences from the Leuphana University Lüneburg.
Sarah Lasaki, a native of Hamburg with roots in Nigeria, Switzerland and France has been a professional dancer for 20 years and has been working intensively with children and young people in the field of dance and music for 10 years.
Wura-Natasha Ogunji is a visual artist and performer. Her works include drawings, videos and public performances. Her work is deeply inspired by the daily interactions and frequencies that occur in the city of Lagos, Nigeria, from the epic to the intimate. She currently resides in Lagos where she is founder/curator of the experimental art space The Treehouse.
Jumoke Olusanmi was born in 1980 and grew up in Lagos, Nigeria. After spending several years in Spain, she now lives in Hamburg in Germany. Jumoke is a high school teacher for Fine Arts, Spanish and English. As a freelance writer, she also works for public broadcasting stations (Deutschlandfunk and NDR) and hosts a music-show at the webradio ByteFM.
Simone Scardovelli, born in Hamburg, studied illustration and photography and
has worked for over 20 years as a photographer for publishers, magazines and Hamburg stages.
She has focused on collaborating with art and cultural institutions and with producing artists from
the performing arts and music.
As a photographer, she continuously accompanies numerous artists, especially since she understands
photography as a documentary and portraiture medium that requires a close dialogue with the people
who allow themselves to be portrayed.
Since 2018, Johanna Wild has been accompanying the repositioning of the Museum am Rothenbaum as personal assistant to the director. Previously, she studied art history at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, where she critically examined the Eurocentrism of the art historical canon.
Claude Jansen is founding member and performer of She She Pop (1993-2001) and part of the artistic team Hajusom - a performing project with young refugees and migrants (2000-2010). She also worked as DJ and writes for magazines and books.
In 2019 she launched COME iN TENT, a transnational Atelier and network in cooperation with Bisrat Negassi.
Aino Moongo also named as Ndiwakalunga or Spinola was born in Oshakati, a large town within Ovamboland which is situated in northern Namibia and southern Angola. She gained her Bachelor of Communication in Windhoek in 2015 and is currently busy with her “Culture and Societies in Africa” Master’s degree program at the University of Bayreuth. Aino is also a founding member of the Stolen Moments, Namibian Music History -Untold project.
Vocalist, guitarist and singer-songwriter Shishani is an immensely creative musician who has roots in Namibia and Belgium, but grew up mainly in The Netherlands. Shishani is always searching for ways of bringing these worlds together: whether playing with quartet Namibian Tales (for which she traveled to Namibia multiple times to learn from the San people in the Kalahari desert); unique group Miss Catharsis (centralising women & nonbinary people of colour); in the duo Shakuar (combining live electronics with traditional instruments) or the group Sisterhood (consisting of 11 female & nonbinary artists highlighting a shared heritage between Indonesia, Moluccans and Namibia through the Dutch colonial past).
Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja is a cultural worker, educator and writer with practice-research interests in
performance, archives and public culture. He is currently completing his PhD in Performance Studies at the
University of Cape Town, with a thesis on Oudano, an African concept of performance. This study looks at Oudano
archives, queer praxis, sonic and movement formation.
After starting his professional career as a dancer in 1994 with the Nederlands Dans Theater, Fabrice Mazliah joined Ballet Frankfurt in 1997. At that point Frankfurt became his base for establishing a vast network of collaborators and institutional contacts on a local, national and international level.
