Sound Artist / Musician

http://www.brendandougherty.com

Brendan composed the music for chipping, Testlauf, The very moment and ÜBER DIE WUT. He is a Berlin based sound artist and musician. Originally from Philadelphia he moved to Berlin in 2002. His solo LP, Sensate was released in 2016 on Entr’acte records and he currently plays drums in Transmit, a side project of Tony Buck (The Necks).
Dougherty is equally known for his work in theatre and performance art, having collaborated with Jeremy Wade, Liz Santoro Adam Linder, Ian Kaler, and many others. Together with Meg Stuart he created Violet which has toured internationally since 2011 and was called “a sublime sound maelstrom… a convulsive beauty” (Les Inrockuptibles).
An ongoing collaboration with his sister, Hannah Dougherty, has resulted in several installation/performances, including; OURSONGISLONG (2003), The Gardenhouse Project (2005), Himmelfahrtskommando (2010), Platonic Solids (2013), Passion (2016) and Vernacular Architecture (2017).

pianist / composer

www.laurakonjetzky.com

The pianist and composer Laura Konjetzky was born in Munich in 1977.
She studied piano at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg/Austria with Christoph Lieske and at the Berlin University of the Arts/Germany. She continued her studies with Walter Fähndrich at the University of Music Basel/Switzerland with a concentration on Free Improvisation.
Laura recorded numerous solo pieces for the Bavarian State Broadcast Company (Bayerischer Rundfunk) amongst others Prokofiev, Schulhoff, Ustvolskaya and gave many solo and chamber music performances of classical and new music, and in improvisation.
She performed with Ensemble Resonanz, Ensemble Zeitsprung and the Munich Chamber Orchestra, as well as the Salzburg Festival, A*DEvantgarde Festival, Klassik im Club Festival, Tanzwerkstatt Europe, European Weeks Festival in Passau, Jazz And More Festival Sibiu, Rumania and the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts.
Since 2009 Laura Konjetzky is a musical advisor for the Bavarian State Broadcast Company (Bayerischer Rundfunk). Her compositional work focuses on the piano. She explores new sounds at and with the grand piano, and she searches for new elements that expand piano music as, for example, with structured spoken language or percussion instruments. Among her most important works are the trio “shadows in a dream” for piano, violoncello and percussion (2010) and the 60-minute piece “Fading Varnish”, a composition with projections of photographs for piano solo, playback and additional instruments (2013).
Laura Konjetzky received several prizes and awards for her artistic work, such as the Leonhard and Ida Wolf Memorial Award for Music, granted by the City of Munich (2002), the Bavarian Prize for the Advancement of the Arts (2006) and the Music Fellowship of the regional capital Munich (2010). In 2010/11, she was a fellow at the Internationale Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia in Bamberg/Germany.
In 2011/2012 she received a fellowship from the Bavarian State Ministry of Sciences, Research and the Arts for a six-month study visit at Cité Internationale des Arts Paris.
Laura Konjetzky was selected as a composer for the Djerassi Resident Artists Program 2013 in California, USA and awarded the Helen L. Bing Fellowship.
In 2014 & 2015 Laura Konjetzky was juror at the 51st & 52th federal competition “Jugend musiziert”.

dancer, teacher, movement researcher

Susanne Schneider is part of the nomadic academy research academy and part of playground-team. She is a dancer, teacher, movement researcher. Her education includes cultural studies and educational science at the LMU Munich. She holds a BA in contemporary dance/transmission from the HfMT Cologne. Her main teachers were Gustavo Lesgart who introduced her to floor work, Vera Sander who made her question established knowledge, Nina Hänel who showed her how to apply somatic practices. She is influenced by Release Technique, Feldenkrais, Ideokinesis, Klein Technique, Breakdance, conscious made decisions and anatomical limitations. Susanne values both: wild-and-crazy-physicality and anatomically-informed-movement. Since 2013 she collaborated as a freelance dancer with the company Cocoondance. She worked in the field of circus with the acrobat duo Overhead Project. With Özlem Alkis she explored the impossibility of bodily disappearing. Until August 2019 she co-organized and co-initiated the Freaky Training and the IGProfitraining in Cologne to create structures for the freelance scene to share knowledge, to exchange on a physical level and to provide a regular movement practice. In April 2018 she joined the MA CoDE program at HfMDK Frankfurt.