FRANCISCO & JAVIER SANCHEZ MARTINEZ

are Spanish dancers and choreographers. They studied dance together at the Ballet Academy in Zurich and at the Munich Academy of Music, as well as choreography at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. Stations in their careers include the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, the state theatres in Karlsruhe and Nuremberg, the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Cape Town Ballet. They have worked with such choreographers as Uwe Scholz, Hans van Manen and Heinz Spörli. Francisco is increasingly turning to choreography and dance communication. He was choreographic assistant for the three-part TV series “Krupp – Eine deutsche Familie” (2009) and was the principal ballet director and head choreographer at the Lüneburg Theatre (2011–2015), then freelance choreographer. In cooperation with TanzHausBerlinMitte, he founded IN TIME!, a dance group for amateur dancers aged 45 and over, and teaches children and young people at various institutions. For and with them he creates multi-faceted productions. Dance opens windows.

www.francisco-sanchez.de

STEPHANIE STEINKOPF

(*1978, Frankfurt/Oder) studied from 2001–2008 and received her Master’s degree in comparative music studies, modern history and Latin American studies at the Free University Berlin. 2009–2012 she studied photography at the Ostkreuz School of Photography, Berlin, 2013–2015 masterclass with Ute Mahler and Robert Lyons. Member of OSTKREUZ since 2014. She has won numerous awards: 2012 first place at the Vattenfall Photo Prize, and 2013 the young talent prize at GUTE AUSSICHTEN — JUNGE DEUTSCHE FOTOGRAFIE, 2013 the European Photo Exhibition Award (epea), and 2015 the Lotto-Brandenburg Photography Art Prize. 2014/2015/2017 artist’s residence at the Goethe Institute in Helsinki and the Helsinki International Artist Program. Her works have been shown throughout Europe in group exhibitions, including in the C/O Berlin, in the Gulbenkian Foundation, Paris, and in the House of Photography, Hamburg. In 2019 she was awarded the working scholarship of the Hans und Charlotte Krull Stiftung.