For the project"I love everyone I know! & Frau mit Kuchen/Die Angst vor dem Sterben, ohne geboren zu haben", Astrid Endruweit founded a temporary group with the dancers and musicians Greg Zuccolo, Andreas Müller, Alexander Nickmann and Valentin Bezençon, united in their fascination for the linguistic and musical expressions of young children as well as their unique movement vocabulary.
Astrid Endruweit, born in 1972 in Berlin (GDR), started with Japanese Butoh after she quit her studies in education. She today dances, acts and directs in various group constellations. For over 20 years she was a performer in the dance theater company Remote Control Productions/Michael Laub, creating numerous texts, songs, costumes, videos and choreographies. Her working method is highly eclectic, fed by many coincidences and encounters, such as with Thomas Möller from the Hamburg theater Meine Damen und Herren three years ago, who inspired her to produce art in a random, intuitive and impulsive way.
My name is Andreas Müller, I am 54 years old, and I like to make nonsense. My dearest friend is called Sophie, and since I grew up I have two children with whom I like to play. I listen to music a lot and sometimes I write songs. My favorite hobby is the Performance Duo Beide Messies Maybe that's because I used to be in the volunteer in a fire department and a bowling club.
I enjoy going to funeral service and telling stories.
Alexander Nickmann, born in Dresden, studied dance at the Rotterdams Dance Academy and music and sound at the UdK Berlin. He worked as a dancer with Emio Greco / P.C.Scholten, Compagnie Vicente Saez and Freelancer in Berlin, among others. As a musician, composer and sound artist he has worked for Halle am Berghain-Singuhr Berlin, ARS Electronica Linz, Hau 2, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, with Frank Willems, Tanzkompagnie Rubato, CTM 2010, Tomi Paasonen, Penelope Wehrli/ Gerriet Sharma and Kunststiftung Halle "100 Jahre Bauhaus", among others. Alex Nickmann is a member of the music ensemble Aukai.
The young Swiss tenor Valentin Bezençon began singing in the boys' choir in his hometown of Lausanne. After numerous concerts, he decides to study voice. In the fall of 2014, he was accepted at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music (Berlin) and took lessons with KS Prof. Thomas Quasthoff and with Prof. Renate Faltin.
Since then, he has worked at the Neuköllner Oper Berlin, Verbier Festival, Montperreux Festival and as a soloist in the role of Don José in the opera Carmen by the music theater company HAUEN UND STECHEN, among others. Valentin Bezencon is a founding member of the male vocal ensemble Walhalla zum Seidlwirt.
Greg Zuccolo is Canadian. He is trained as a classical ballet dancer at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School and has worked as a dancer, choreographer, actor, director and writer in New York and Europe with Stanley Love, Sarah Michelson, Sybil Kempson, Tere O'Connor and Mikhail Baryshnikov, among others. His nearly 30-year collaboration with Michael Laub and Remote Control Productions continues until today. His own works include a theatrical and several solo pieces that have been described as charming, enigmatic and subversive blends of dramaturgy, stand-up comedy and choreography.