New project leader of Offensive Tanz
Nora Amin and Elisa Ricci take over from June 2022
We are very pleased that we were able to win Nora Amin and Elisa Ricci as new project leaders of Offensive Tanz. From June 2022, the two will take on the role of co-management, a new model that supports diversity and collaborative structures. Canan Erek, who previously held this position, devotes herself to other tasks, but remains connected to Offensive Tanz as artistic director of the project partner PURPLE Tanzfestival.
Already in April and May, the duo paves the way for their upcoming tasks by starting to strengthen the focus on equity within the offensive dance.
In the second funding period of Offensive Tanz (2022/23), equity in the sense of equality, equal opportunities and power-critical diversity is the focus of all activities – not as a one-off project or isolated practice, but as an active attitude that calls on us to ensure more justice in our actions. Working on equal access to culture, especially dance, requires that we integrate this view into every aspect of our actions as an organization.
Handing over the project management to the duo Elisa Ricci and Nora Amin takes this attitude into account and promotes the long-term development of structures critical of discrimination.
Short biographies
Nora Amin is a choreographer, author, performer and expert in cultural management and cultural policy. Since 2016 she has been active in the dance scene in Berlin. Author of the feminist essays ‘Femaleness in the awakening’ and ‘Dance of the persecuted’ (MSB Matthes & Seitz), member of the steering group for a future Berlin dance mediation centre, former mentor and expert at the Flausen+Bundesnetzwerk and at PAP/LAFT, main curator of the symposium ‘Creating Access Diversity’ at the Dachverband Tanz 2021. Currently a board member of the German Center of the International Theatre Institute. In her artistic work and in her writing/research she focuses on marginalized forms and perspectives in dance and performance as well as on the critical discourse on racism, patriarchy and coloniality.
Elisa Ricci has been working with dance for 15 years as a curator, dramaturge and dance scientist. It understands curating and cultural work as a critical, radically collective practice. She co-designed and co-curated presentation and exchange formats as well as learning spaces, including Performing Translation (Genoa 2010); Rehearsing Collectivity - Choreography Beyond Dance (Berlin 2011). As a dramaturge, she has accompanied the collective LIGNA, in the project The Great Refusal (2014-16). She is co-editor of the book Rehearsing Collectivity - Choreography Beyond Dance (2012). She researches and writes about curating in dance: Festival That Listen! (2018); Can We Curate Dance Without Making a Festival? (2019). From 2017 - 2022 she is a doctoral fellow of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung for her dissertation in dance studies (Freie Universität Berlin) on dance curation and decolonialism. Since 2019, she has been advising institutional transformation and change processes with a focus on justice, work cultures, collective leadership, among other things, she has accompanied and advised the steering group for a future dance mediation center in Berlin (2020-21).
