Nicole Fiedler - Head of Funding and Projects

Nicole Fieder has been working at the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland (German Dance Association) since 2016 and is responsible for the DTD's funding and programmes and co-manages the Kreativ-Transfer funding programme. From 2020 to 2024, she co-managed the Neustart Kultur programme DIS-TANZEN. Nicole coordinates the Association of German Dance Archives and, as team representative, is available to answer any confidential questions on behalf of the team. With a bachelor's degree in Italian and musicology (Humboldt University of Berlin) and an MA in dance studies, she also works as a ballroom dance teacher, passing on her joy of dancing.

Michael Freundt - Managing Director

Michael Freundt studied theatre science, philosophy and dance science at the theatre academy "Hans Otto" and the university of Leipzig. He worked as a freelance journalist and critic, among others for zitty, Wochenpost, Theater der Zeit and Berliner Zeitung. He belonged to the directors' team of numerous independent theatre projects and worked for euro-scene Leipzig from 1997 till 2002. After his collaboration on productions in the genres of theatre, dance and ancient music Michael Freundt became deputy managing director of Internationales Theater Institut (ITI) - Zentrum Deutschland at the beginning of 2003. Since 2004, Michael Freundt has been involved in the meetings of Ständige Konferenz Tanz, he coordinated its development into a registered association, and in March 2006 was named managing director of SK Tanz, now called Dachverband Tanz Deutschland.

Jana Grünewald - Project manager for KREATIV-TRANSFER

Jana Grünewald has been working at the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland (German Dance Association) since 2013, where she co-manages the Kreativ-Transfer funding programme and oversees the informal producer network InfoPlus and the Europe-wide network PAMPA (Producers, Agents, Managers in the Performing Arts). From 2015 to May 2023, she was part of the editorial team at touring artists, the information and advice service for artists and cultural professionals working internationally.
She worked for the Sisyphos nightclub in artist management and accounting from 2013 to 2016. Jana has a Bachelor of Dance (Codarts) and a BA in Social Sciences (Humboldt University of Berlin) and is the mother of a 1.5-year-old child.

Sophia Herzog - Projects Collaborator for Kreativ-Transfer

Sophia Herzog is a performer, dance educator and production manager. Born in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1993, she started her dance career in 2012 with dance pedagogy studies at ArtEZ University of the Arts (Netherlands). She deepened her studies with further studies in stage dance at the Fontys University of the Arts (NL) and has since worked as a dance teacher in various educational institutions. Since 2017 Sophia is a founding member of the circus and dance group KNOT Kollektiv, where she explores the different ways of cultural mediation. Since September 2020, she has been working at the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland and actively supports the Kreativ-Transfer project.

Alexa Junge - Public Relations

Alexa Junge studied Ethnology and Religion at Freie Universität Berlin and at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, with the focus on Hinduism, Medical Anthropology and Dance. Since 2007, she has worked in the area of culture management, among others as assistant to the artistic and organizational direction of Zukunft@BPhil, the education department of the Berlin Philharmonic, and at Tanzplan Potsdam: artists in residence teaching and research program at fabrik Potsdam. Since 2007, she has worked freelance in the area of dance at the International Theaterinstitut ITI Germany. Since 2013, she has been responsible for public relations at Dachverband Tanz Deutschland and from 2014 to 2024 for office management at the Gesellschaft für Tanzforschung.

Kerstin Karge Lorenz – Project Coordinator for the Creative Cross Collaborations Berlin program

Kerstin Karge Lorenz brings experience from architecture (weißensee kunsthochschule berlin), gallery operations, and cultural management. At the bildungswerk des bbk berlin, she established herself over the course of eleven years in event organization. Since 2009, she has been active as a coordinator for project spaces, particularly in the independent scene in the field of art in context; in 2010, she co-founded the Network of Independent Berlin Project Spaces and Initiatives, coordinated it for a long time, and was actively involved in Berlin’s cultural policy. She has also handled public relations and press work as well as exhibition coordination for several Berlin art festivals and individual artistic projects. Since March 2023, she has been working for the neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, and since May 2023, she has been working with great pleasure at the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland, where she is responsible for the visual arts division. She was part of the Kreativ Transfer team until the end of 2025 and has since joined the Creative Cross Collaborations Berlin team.

Christina Menne - Office Management

Christina Menne completed her training as a dancer and dance teacher at Rotterdamse Dansacademie, the school for dance and theater in the Netherlands, and at the dance school in Leipzig. Since then she has worked as dancer, director, choreographer and dance teacher in various theatres and institutions both at home and abroad, among others at Musiktheater im Revier in Gelsenkirchen, Städtische Bühnen Münster, Stadttheater Konstanz, Luxor Theater Rotterdam and Musical Theater Füssen. Before the birth of her second daughter she was the director of the dance department at Heinrich-Schütz-Konservatorium in Dresden, advisor for Verband Deutscher Musikschulen Landesverband Sachsen e.V. in the area of dance, as well as mentor for the subject of dance education in modern dance, childrens' dance and jazz dance at Palucca-Schule Dresden - Hochschule für Tanz. In collaboration with mime centrum in Berlin, she started the childrens' dance project “Kindertanzprojekt Bethanien” at Kunstquartier Bethanien. Since 2012, she has been office manager of Dachverband Tanz Deutschland.

Raquel Moreira

Nicola von Stillfried - Project management cultural-political dialog TANZPAKT / qualification formats / production office

After studying languages and literature in Berlin and spending time in Barcelona and Caracas, Nicola von Stillfried took over production at the Theater am Halleschen Ufer (HAU 2), where she started to build up an international artist management team. At the Milan-based production company Change Performing Arts, she produced and distributed interdisciplinary co-productions for theaters and festivals worldwide. She worked as an assistant for GLITZ. Contemporary Art Project and as a PR and media manager. Since December 2020, Nicola von Stillfried has been working in the production office and cultural-political dialog of TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund to network, qualify and strengthen the dance scene.

Giulia Vitali – Praktikantin

Nach ihrem Masterabschluss in Kunst, Museologie und Kuratorischen Studien mit den Schwerpunkten Visuelle Kulturwissenschaften und Zeitgenössische Kunst an der Universität Bologna ist Giulia nach Berlin gezogen, wo sie derzeit ein Praktikum beim Dachverband Tanz Deutschland absolviert. In Italien arbeitete sie für verschiedene Festivals und Kulturorganisationen, die an der Schnittstelle von bildender Kunst, Performance, Theater, Videokunst und Tanz tätig sind, und kooperierte mit unabhängigen Künstlerkollektiven, um ihre kuratorischen Projekte voranzutreiben.