[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 composer, DJ, and interdisciplinary researcher whose artistic practice emerges from the frictions between electroacoustic composition, contemporary dance, and abstract techno.
Building on a background in academic research that explored the nature of aesthetic experience and the interaction between aesthetic value 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: music in pursuit of absorbing listeners and dancers alike in an immediate experience of sound where perception reaches beyond the edge of understanding.
Recent projects include acousmatic compositions for new dance works commissioned by COLOURS International Dance Festival and Gauthier Dance//Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart; DJ performances for 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 spent listening to his father Andreas Fröhling’s organ recitals. 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, and on intoxicatingly unsettling shades of aesthetic pleasure.
Jodie
Salter
ideally avoid ‘is a X’ (is a social researcher and dramaturg?) (In her research, she has explored innovative methodologies as well as inter- and trans-disciplinary approaches.) (supports the collective through….)
(Since finishing her doctorate in religious studies and sociology, which addressed the role of religion in international climate activism, she has worked as a freelance research consultant, an environmental social scientist and, most recently, supports the work of an EU digital humanities research infrastructure?) (Jodie supports the development of choreography and compositions through conceptual guidance, feedback, and translation between sound and dance.?) She supports the development of choreography and compositions through conceptual guidance as well as feedback on, and translation between sound and dance….part of the creative process….?
Jodie combines her diverse research skills with her longstanding engagement with aesthetically challenging art to conceptualise the delivery of experimental interdisciplinary arts events, and As a member of the aurora experiments collective, Jodie combines her diverse research skills with her longstanding engagement with aesthetically challenging