In the organizer's words:

Residency presentation as part of Fo(u)r Exchange with Wiebke Dobers & Team

During the residency at EinTanzHaus Mannheim, Wiebke Dobers & Team are looking for a permanent maybe. The FLINTA* team uses techniques such as zapping, mixing and slowing down to explore the escape and ambiguity of gender. It cites gender practices such as gestures, body language and body treatment. Queer-feminist theories form the basis of the artistic practice and are to be tested and put up for discussion through the moving body.

About Wiebke Dobers

Wiebke Dobers is a freelance dancer, performer and choreographer based in Munich. She has performed for Stephanie Felber, Nicola Kötterl, Franz Erhard Walther, Katja Wachter and Simona Andrioletti, among others, and has shown her (collaborative) choreographic works in various regions of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Mexico.

Credits

Choreography: Wiebke Dobers, in collaboration with the performers Performance: Eléonore Barbara Bovet, Saige Danyluk, Ida Schönamsgruber

With the kind support of Jasmine Ellis Projects and netzwerkTanz Vorarlberg. The Fo(u)r exchange project is funded by the Bavarian State Association for Contemporary Dance (BLZT, Munich) and the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kultur im Großraum (ARGE) based in Nuremberg.

A project within the framework of Fo(u)r exchange

The Tanzzentrale der Region Nürnberg (Nuremberg/Fürth), Tanztendenz (Munich), EinTanzHaus and Schwindelfrei Festival für Tanz, Theater, Performance+ (Mannheim) and Tanznetz Freiburg have joined forces in a joint project to increase the visibility of independent dance scenes. The aim of these institutions and artists' associations is to bring together artists in the field of contemporary dance and to promote artistic exchange. The Bavarian State Association for Contemporary Dance (BLZT, Munich) and the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kultur im Großraum (ARGE), based in Nuremberg, are generously supporting the project, thereby helping the participants to increase the radiance of the independent dance scenes in southern Germany.

One component of the project is the residencies entitled "4exchange", in which an artist or company from one of the four partner cities is given the opportunity to develop their artistic work in one of the other three cities over a maximum 14-day residency.