Olivia Hyunsin Kim/ddanddarakim – Sophiensæle | Freies Theater in Berlin

Olivia Hyunsin Kim/ddanddarakim work collectively on choreographic works with a queer-feminist and postcolonial focus. Through fiction, they renegotiate power relations and offer empowering alternatives to the present. Their works have been shown at Sophiensæle, Art Sonje Center, Staatsoper Hannover, Museo Universitario del Chopo, among others. The permanent team consists of Kristin Gerwien, Olivia Hyunsin Kim and Jones Seitz.

Kristin Gerwien creates costumes/objects for performances. As a singer, she explores songwriting and karaoke. She curates exciting music with Juckpulver as co-director at TNT Marburg.

Olivia Hyunsin Kim works as a choreographer, director and curator. She was a scholarship holder of danceWEB, the Tarabya Cultural Academy, Vila Sul Bahia and won 1st place in the Amadeu Antonio Art Prize in 2019. Her first opera Turning Turandot premiered in November 2023.

Daniel Jeremiah Persson is a Swedish-Korean dancer and choreographer. He has as a performer worked site-specifically and in dancetheatre contexts for choreographers such as MYKA, Khamlane Halsackda, Maria Naidu, Bobbi Lo Produktion, Adey, Body Cartography, Joan Jonas, Gracefool Collective to mention a few, touring nationally and internationally. His is artistic interests lies in topics related to queer-, intercultural- and adoptee identity and social politics which is reflected in his choreographic and performative work. Daniel is 2024 the recipient of Sparbanksstiftelsens Culture Award  in the Dance category.

Jones Seitz develops the lighting and video design for her own installations and performance projects and is a founding member of the FLINTA* network Gefährliche Arbeit e.V.

ehrliche arbeit – freelance office for culture has been a production office for the independent performing arts since 2006. As a platform and infrastructure for independent projects, ehrliche arbeit combines concept and project development with project management and production management, dramaturgy, press and public relations work, curation, editing, text work and translations. ehrliche arbeit works in Berlin but also internationally with individual artists, temporary project groups, permanent ensembles, collectives, institutions, festivals and program series. ehrliche arbeit is a collective – without hierarchies, without salary levels. 

Maria Rößler is a freelance dramaturge. As such, she works internationally with independent theater and performance makers as well as for festivals and other artistic programs.