[2025]
Jonathan Reimann
Rooted in a multidisciplinary background spanning drums, piano, and choir, Jonathan developed an early impulse to express his intuitive musicality through the language of movement. Throughout his comprehensive training at prestigious institutions including the John Neumeier School of the Hamburg Ballet, the Palucca Hochschule für Tanz Dresden, and Arts Umbrella Vancouver, Jonathan has been awarded various prizes and scholarships. Notable among his accolades are scholarships granted by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and the Konrad- Adenauer-Stiftung.
In the 2020/21 season, Jonathan became a soloist with the internationally renowned Gauthier Dance//Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart, before transitioning in 2023 to further pursue choreography and teaching as an independent artist. His choreographic work employs a physically uncompromising dance-language that seeks to probe and blur the boundaries between choreography and improvisation. Recent creations have been commissioned by the Staatsoper Stuttgart, COLOURS International Dance Festival, International Dance Festival SoloDuo nrw + friends, and Gauthier Dance//Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart.
In addition to his creative projects, Jonathan shares his distinctive understanding of dance and movement in roles that include those of rehearsal director at the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater Görlitz-Zittau under Massimo Gerardi (2024/25), jury member for the scholarship selection process of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, and guest teacher at the dance department of Gymnasium Essen-Werden, where the contours of his own journey as a professional dancer first began to take shape.
Nicholas Reimann
Nicholas (occasional alias bādmarien) is a German–British composer, electronic musician, and interdisciplinary researcher based in Berlin whose practice emerges from the frictions between electroacoustic composition, improvisation, and abstract techno.
Building on a background in academic research that explored the nature of aesthetic experience and the interaction between aesthetic and ethical value, and drawing on a wide range of artistic influences—from JS Bach’s contrapuntal density and the icy sonic abstraction of Maggi Payne to the uncanny surrealism of David Lynch and Peter Tscherkassky’s avant-garde experiments in cinematic dissolution—Nicholas crafts sonic structures that shift paradoxically between fragile intimacy, subtle swing, and disorienting immensity. what may emerge is a state of being absorbed in an immediate experience of sound where perception reaches beyond the edge of understanding.
Recent projects include the co-conception and presentation of the concert programme «tosende stille» at Nicolai-Kirche in Gelsenkirchen, integrating a new acousmatic composition with organ, live electronics, and voice in a dramaturgically structured programme engaging the sonic and affective dimensions of good friday; acousmatic compositions for new dance works—«(re)percussions» and «chroma fold»—commissioned by Gauthier Dance//Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart and COLOURS International Dance Festival; dj appearances within dancefloor settings at Laut Klub, Hotel Shanghai, and Braunschweiger Kulturnacht; residencies at Quartier am Hafen and CAMP; as well as various dj mixes for podcasts and radio.
Nicholas grew up in the post-industrial Ruhr surrounded by contemporary classical musicians and music, not least through countless hours of listening to the organ recitals by Andreas Fröhling, nicholas’ father. before turning wholesale to music creation and performance under the mentorship of acousmatic composer Julien Tarride in 2024, Nicholas completed an interdisciplinary research doctorate in analytic philosophy of art and cognitive psychology that was fully funded by uk research and innovation—a formative experience that continues to inform Nicholas’ perspectives on aesthetic listening, on musical expression at the limits of perceptual comprehension, and on intoxicatingly unsettling shades of aesthetic pleasure.
Jodie
Salter
Jodie draws on a background in interdisciplinary research and a longstanding engagement with art to support the conception, creative development, and production of artistic work and events. Following a doctorate in religious studies and sociology, which examined the role of religion in international climate activism, her trajectory has included freelance research consulting, environmental social science, and work within a digital humanities research infrastructure.
Throughout, a focus on innovative methodologies and inter- and transdisciplinary approaches has remained central. Within the collaborative, Jodie engages closely with the development of choreography and composition through conceptual guidance, critical feedback, and translation between sound and movement. Combining analytical precision and aesthetic sensitivity, her work centres on facilitating interdisciplinary creative processes, attending to the tensions between different artistic languages, and shaping experimental events.