CEREN ORAN – Artistic Direction, Dance & Choreography
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Ceren Oran (1984, Istanbul) studied contemporary dance and choreography between 2006-2010 at SEAD, Salzburg and works as a freelance dancer, choreographer and soundpainting artist. Since 2015 she is based in Munich and the artistic director of Munich based dance company, Ceren Oran & Moving Borders.
Oran believes that contemporary dance can and should be accessible for everyone as an art form and as a practice. With this in mind, her work focuses on dance for young audiences, public space performances, durational performances and many other performance formats to be able to encounter a diverse audience profile. Her companies productions for young audiences such as; “Spiel im Spiel”, “Schön Anders”, “Elefant aus dem Ei”, “Fliegende Wörter”, or evening productions such as “Shard”, “Relationshifts” , “The Urge”; tours internationally and meet different audience profiles all around the world. ​​
She collaborates as a director with the institutions such as, Atta Festival, Junges Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Elbphilharmonie, Luxembourg Philharmonie, Zonzo Compagnie, Schauburg Munich; among many others. Ceren Oran works very closely with Explore Dance Network, Tanzbuero Munich and she is a founding member of Assitej International's global network: Young Dance Network.
AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS​
2022 Fördertanzpreis München Jury Begründung
2019 Next Generation Residency Participant - Assitej Artistic Gathering Norway - Kristasnad
2018 Next Generation Residency Participant - Assitej Artistic Gathering China - Beijing
2015 Soundpainting as Integration Project Cooperation Award - Bundeministerium für Bildung und Frauen Österreich
2015 Artist of the Month (April) - Bundeszentrum für schulische Kulturarbeit Österreich
2011 Trag Mich!.. Nomination Best Children Performance, Nomination best Music - STELLA 2011
2011 1. Preis mit dem Kurzfilm: Missão:Construção Perfeita - Toshiba Portugal Short film Competition
2010 Trag Mich!.. Special Award - BMUKK Bundesministerium für Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur
2008 Fullscholarship Participant - 17. Int. Bühnenwerkstatt / Dancetheatre festival Graz
Karolína Hejnová - Creative Producer & Co-leader of Moving Borders
After graduating from the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, she has been working as a freelance producer and dancer since 2010. For more than 9 years she was closely associated with Studio ALTA / ALT@RT in Prague, Czech Republic, where she managed the program, international activities and the educational program. Since 2015, she has been running her own production company danceWATCH. The productions represented by danceWATCH have been presented at important European festivals e.g: Maison de la Danse in Lyon, Aerowaves Spring Forward, Brighton Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, as well as in Japan (Tokyo, Kanazawa, Aichi) and New York City (APAP Festival). She was awarded "Manager of the Year" at the Czech Dance Platform 2016. Since 2018 she has been living in Munich for family reasons and is more oriented towards the German dance scene. She has been working with Ceren Oran since 2019, first as a dancer for the "Who Is Frau Troffea?" project then as a tour manager and consultant for international activities.Since 2021 they founded together Ceren Oran & Moving Borders Dance Company, and have been working closely together with the desire to establish a long-term artistic cooperation and exchange.
Roni Sagi – Dance, Puppetry & Choreographic Collaboration
Roni Sagi was born in Jerusalem/Israel in 1988 and studied at the Hasadna Be Haifa. He continued his studies at the SEAD (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance) in Austria, where he attended performance and dance classes and perfected his creative talent in building puppets and puppetry in general. In the past years, Sagi worked for Sven-Eric Bechtolf, Ann Yee, Doris Uhlich, Hubert Lepka, Simone Forti and Jerome Bel. He collaborated with Ceren Oran and performed since 2016 in Sag Mal …,Elefant aus dem Ei, Who is Frau Troffea?, Fliegende Wörter, Schön Anders and Stories in Blue in Munich.
Jin Lee - Dance & Choreographic Collaboration
​Jin Lee (South Korea, 1993) is a dancer and a choreographer based in Munich and Berlin. She received a diploma in dance from SEAD Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (AT, 2019), and received a Bachelor of Dance from Dongduck Women's University (KR, 2016). She graduates from university with the highest grades. As a dancer, she worked with amongst others, Ceren Oran, Milla Koistinen, Jasmine Ellis , Georges Maikel, Eulalia Ayguade Farro,Pilgyun Jeong, Ingri Fiksdal, Rotem Weissman and Julyen Hamilton. As a choreographer, she received Debütförderung from München Kulturreferat in 2022. Together with Jihun Choi, she worked on the piece . HUABUN will be presented in Hochx theater in April 2023.
Jovana Zelenović - Dance & Choreographic Collaboration
​Jovana Zelenović was born in December 1996 in Belgrade, Serbia. At a young age she started her training in different sports alongside studying music and piano. In 2015, Jovana started her education at SEAD (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance) as a scholarship holder, where she had an opportunity to learn and work with many artist such as Julyen Hamilton, Meytal Blanaru, Milla Koistinen, Lali Ayguade, Eleonore Valere Lachky, Jos Baker Guy Nader along the others. After graduating she became a member of Zagreb Dance Company (2019-2022). Meanwhile being a company member she was nourishing her own artistic language. From January 2022 she started her journey as a freelance artist. She was part of projects Who is Frau Troffea, Schon Anders and Stories in Blue & the the solo on post traumatic process SHARD.
Jihun Choi - Dance & Choreographic Collaboration
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Jihun Choi (south Korea, 1990) is active as a dancer, choreographer and contemporary dance teacher. He received a Bachelor of Dance (2015) and Master of fine Art (2018) from Sejong University (KR) where he currently studying for a Doctoral Degree of Modern Dance (2018 - present). As a dancer, he worked with, amongst others, Hyungnam Kim (Running 2020) Pilgyun Jeong(Story 2020) Janghyun Ryu(I Don’t Want Die 2018) Hyunkyung Lee (Weight 2018) Wonmin Shin(Breath 2017) - in South Korea. Currently, he is working with Ceren Oran(The Urge 2021) (Fliegende Wörer 2022) As a choreographer, he created “3 Idiots”(2018) and “Move Gallery”(2018), which performed in South Korea and co-created “Movement”(2019) with Gyujin Kim. He is currently created “HAUBUN” with Jin Lee in Germany.
Rotem Wiessmann - Dance & Choreographic Collaboration
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Rotem Weissman is an Israeli choreographer and dancer, based in Germany. received a diploma in choreography from the International Choreographic Exchange postgraduate program at SEAD Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, and was invited to the Artist In Residence one-year program at SEAD. Rotem’s work includes, amongst others, “BAUHAUS” (Premiere 2018), which won a prize at Machol Shalem Dance House - Jerusalem International Choreography Competition performed at PerformanceTag Festival and in Fringe Festival – Stoff; “AGADA” (Premiere 2022), performed at Acker Stadt Palast, Dock 11 and Habait Theatre; “Yellow Poetry” , which performed at Jerusalem International Dance Week (2019, IL), Studio Bank and AltoFest The Urge”, Rotem is involved as co-choreographer and dancer with the choreographer Ceren Oran, which performed in various locations across Europe.
Máté Asbóth - Dance & Choreographic Collaboration
​​Rotem Weissman is an Israeli choreographer and dancer, based in Germany. received a diploma in choreography from the International Choreographic Exchange postgraduate program at SEAD Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, and was invited to the Artist In Residence one-year program at SEAD. Rotem’s work includes, amongst others, “BAUHAUS” (Premiere 2018), which won a prize at Machol Shalem Dance House - Jerusalem International Choreography Competition performed at PerformanceTag Festival and in Fringe Festival – Stoff; “AGADA” (Premiere 2022), performed at Acker Stadt Palast, Dock 11 and Habait Theatre; “Yellow Poetry” , which performed at Jerusalem International Dance Week (2019, IL), Studio Bank and AltoFest The Urge”, Rotem is involved as co-choreographer and dancer with the choreographer Ceren Oran, which performed in various locations across Europe.
Benny Omerzell – Composition & Performance
​​Benny Omerzell lives and works as a freelance musician, composer and animation filmmaker in Vienna, Austria. He plays the piano and keyboards in the internationally acclaimed bands 5K HD, Kompost3 and Lylit and writes music for theatre, dance, documentaries and many more. He's been working with Ceren Oran since 2019 and composed the music for "Schön Anders", "Stories In Blue" (in collaboration with Milly Groz), "Tei&Len", "Nachtgeflüster", "Und Noch Mal", and most recently "SHARD".
Hüseyin Evirgen - Composition
​​Hüseyin Evirgen, he studied composition there and completed his studies at the Mozarteum University. He lives and works in Berlin and Vienna, where he works creatively at the interface between theatre, dance, video and performance and performs at home and abroad: Aspects Festival (Salzburg), International Mediterranean Contemporary Music Festival (Istanbul) or 4D Sound ( Amsterdam). In addition to Austrian composition funding, in 2007 he received the “Electronics Land Prize” from the state of Salzburg, and in 2008 he took part in the Red Bull Music Academy in Barcelona. As an electronic musician he was represented in the Austria pavilion at the Expo Shanghai in 2010. He is part of the producer duo CASSEGRAIN and "MAGNA PIA" as a solo artist. In Munich he performed the music of Heimat...los!, The Urge, Rush Hour and Who is Frau Troffea? composed.
Tuncay Acar – Composition, Performance and Concept Development
The Munich based cultural activist, networker, organizer, blogger, dj, promoter and musician lives as a german citizen with turkish roots between Munich and Istanbul. In Istanbul he started his studies in Classical Archeology at Istanbul University, which he finished at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. From the beginning of the 90‘ties he is active as a musician and organizer in Munich and is developing the cultural diversity in his hometown. In order to to achive this, he is leadingboard member of a couple of cultural associations: Real München e.V. and Glockenbachwerkstatt e.V.. He also was co-initiator of the cultural intervention plattform and club Import Export. His blog www.triptown.de is online since 2011. From playing season 2020/21 he is involved in the content of the performance space Habibi Kiosk which is a part of the municipal theatre Münchner Kammerspiele. Tuncay Acar is a member of Moving Boarders ensemble since 2016 and is currently touring with the childrens dance theatre plays „Sag mal…“ and „Elefant aus dem Ei“.
Gudrun Plaichinger - Composition & Performance
Gudrun studied concert violin and baroque violin in Linz, Salzburg and Vienna. Studied music and instrumental music pedagogy, piano and singing. She works internationally in various areas of music as an acting and performing musician. She composes music for numerous children's and evening plays in the theaters. She is organizer of the festival of improvisation - !improvize! !install!. The typical focal points of her tonal language are improvisation, the extra-natural, breaking down boundaries and diversity through wild combinations.She is a member of the Ceren Oran & Moving Borders company, the Kollinski collective, the Toihaus Theater and an electric violinist and singer in the group deneb and in the trio PRO.
Jean Baptiste Charlot – Dramaturgie, Research & Concept Development
Jean Baptiste Charlot is a musician and dancer. He studied philosophy (Masters 2004) and graduated in music theory, composition, flute, jazz and chamber music. As a trained sound painter, he practices multidisciplinary composition and site specific performance with numerous different ensembles. He is also part of Soundpainting founder Walter Thompson's real-time composition think tank community. Charlot founded the ZAB Company Zone à Bricole, with which he developed Site Specific Performance in Nancy between 2010 and 2014. His interest in movement led him to study butoh dance with Camille Mutel and Masaki Iwana, as well as working with the physical theater method at Viewpoint. His other dance practices led him to bodyweather (Frank van de Ven) or to contact improvisation (Adrian Russi, Didier Silhol). Oran and Charlot developed together and worked on The Urge, Who is Frau Troffea, Tracks, Relationshifts and many research and soundpainting projects around the world.
Sigrid Wurzinger - Stage and Costume Design
Sigrid Wurzinger (AU) is a free-lance costume- and set designer. In addition to numerous productions for Toihaus Theater Salzburg, where she also staged her children piece “C...wie Chamäleon”, there are a lot of collaborations with the international dance company “Ceren Oran & Moving Borders”. Her work has taken her to Munich and to Junges SchauSpielHaus Hamburg, among many other places. Sigrid Wurzinger and Ceren Oran worked on: Sag Mal... , Fliegende Wörter, Schön Anders, Stories in Blue, Relationshifts, Tei & Len, Spiel im Spiel, Nachtgeflüster, Und nochmal und Obotaqua.
Dennis Dita Kopp - Light Design
​​Dennis Dita Kopp studied Theater, Media & Literature at University Hildesheim. Since 2012, they’ve been working as a freelancing light designer performer and dramaturg, in collaborations with Kammerspiele Munich as well as freelancing directors, choreographers and collectives such as cobragianni.cobra, Thermoboy FK, christians//schwenk, Henrike Iglesias, Markus&Markus, René Reith Ceren Oran, Marie Simons, Joana Tischkau, Julian Warner & Oliver Zahn. Their own artistic practice is concerned with issues of Critical Masculinities in search of queer feminist and intersectional perspectives.
Ramona Lehnert - Light Design
Ramona originally studied cultural management at the University of Applied Sciences Kufstein, Austria and the Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico, and then worked for several years as a lighting technician at the Residenztheater. Her further career took her to the technical management of the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen and the independent dance and theater scene. She works as a lighting designer and technical director for Anna Konjetzky & Co, Ceren Oran & Moving Borders and the TAMS Theater/Grenzgänger Festival, among others.
Michael "Beli" Hennig - Künstlerische Produktionsleitung
​Beli is a trained event manager. He did his training at the Muffathalle in Munich with a focus on concert events. There he also supervised several interdisciplinary festivals and projects such as "Noise, Signal, Silence", "Panta Rhei" and "Sensefactory". A good ten years ago he took his first steps in the Munich dance scene by supporting the Think Big! Festival of the Tanz und Schule association in the area of ​​ticketing. In the following years he also took on more activities as an artistic production supervisor at the festival. This is how he first came into contact with Ceren Oran and her work. Since autumn 2022 he has been working as an independent production manager in the field of contemporary dance and has been supporting Karolina Hejnova in artistic production management since then.