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Asya Ashman is a dance artist and performer whose work explores attention hierarchies, deconstructed entertainment, and the eerie. She holds a BA in Dance, Context, Choreography from HZT Berlin and a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Hertfordshire. Asya is the co-founder of Play!Berlin e.V., a project dedicated to working with children with refugee experience. Her practice spans performances, games, and workshops that emphasize collaboration and experimentation across disciplines and ages. As a performer, she has worked with artists such as Meg Stuart, Julian Weber, Isabelle Schad, Olga Tsvetkova, and Tatyana Chizhikova. Her works have been presented at Garage Museum, ZIL, and SDVIG (RU), ada Studio and Uferstudios (GER), Confort Mental (FR), Cross Project (IT), and others.
Therese Bendjus is a performance maker originally from Dresden. After having traded her medical studies for an education in dance, Therese graduated from the BA Dance, Context, Choreography at HZT Berlin and was a fellow of Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. In her own works she challenges the measurable/diagnosable in order to access spaces of uncertainty and vagueness – building multi-sensorial spaces that encourage people to be vulnerable, intimate and brave with one another and themselves. As a performer, Therese worked amongst others with artists such as Biret Haarla Pieski, Jule Flierl, Kirill Savchenkov, Lilly Pöhlmann and Rolando Villazon.