A KRUMP-CONTEMPORARY PRODUCTION

NEGOTIATING
POWER
MÜNSTER // BARCELONA

A KRUMP-CONTEMPORARY PRODUCTION

NEGOTIATING
POWER MÜNSTER // BARCELONA

BY NONA SIEPMANN

Dance x Community

REFLECTION OF POWER RELATIONS

By fusing Contemporary dance, Krump and Visual Vernacular a vivid performance emerges that negotiates and reflects on power relations.

Accompanied by laboratories Negotiating Power becomes a collective search for transformation.

PERFORMANCES

28.11.

Münster
Pumpenhaus
20:00 h
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29.11.

Münster
Pumpenhaus
20:00 h
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12.12.

Köln
Tanzfaktur
20:00 h
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13.12.

Köln
Tanzfaktur
20:00 h
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31.01.

Beckum
Stadttheater Filou
20:00 h
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Dance performance

NEGOTIATING POWER

Negotiating Power is a physical rebellion – raw, powerful, and vibrant. Fusing contemporary dance, Krump and Visual Vernacular the piece creates a vivid performance about the negotiation and reflection of power relations. The gripping and authentic dance piece deals with different forms of discrimination embedded in our everyday interactions and often unconsciously repeated.

The performance confronts social inequalities without accusation. It invites us all to question our own perceptions and attributions while envisioning a sense of solidarity.
Inspired by Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, the real experiences of discrimination encountered by our core artistic team due to skin colour, sexuality and gender, flow into the creative process and form the basis of the dance theatre performance.

The production is accompanied by laboratories that actively involve teenagers and young adults in the creation of the piece. In this way, Negotiating Power becomes a collective search for transformation.

Credits

Artistic Director: Nona Siepmann  

Dance and Co-Choreography: Maëlle Omnes aka Killa One Shot, Joan Bello Montero aka Keops, Raphaëlle Sablic 

Barrierefreiheit und Poesie: Indika Sandaruwan 

Music: Genaro Cibils 

Light: Timo von der Horst 

Costume: Michelle Mebune

Dramaturgy: Kwame Osei 

Production Management: Charlie Petersen

Graphic Design: Mareike Siepmann 

Accessibility for DGS Users

The dance theatre piece is also designed for deaf audiences.  Indika Sandaruwan is a visual vernacular artist and poet. He provides artistic support for the piece and performs as the fourth actor on stage during the accessible evenings.
 In addition, german sign language interpreters will be on site before and after the performance to facilitate communication.

In 2026 we will continue the project. It keeps being a struggle to collect sufficient money to finaciate the sign language interpreters. Support us with a donation to help cover the costs of sign language interpreters.

WORKSHOPS

21.10.
22.10.

Rheine
ArtandTech.space
14:30-18:30
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25.10. 26.10.

Beckum
DanceRoom e.V.
Sat 14:00-18:00
Sun 11:00-15:00
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01.11.

Köln
Tanzfaktur
10:00-15:00
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22.11.

Münster
Hoppengarten
11:00-15:00
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05.12.

Münster
Paul-Gerhardt-Haus
17:00-21:00
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13.12.

Köln
Tanzfaktur
17:00-19:00
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01.02.

Beckum
Stadttheater Filou
14:00-18:00
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werkstatt@filou-beckum.de

LABORATORY // WORKSHOPS

PLAYING POWER

How does power and powerlessness affect our everyday lives? What do we do when we experience or witness injustice? How can we use our bodies and movement to change our behavioural patterns?

With Negotiating Power, Nona Siepmann creates a performance that includes not only a stimulating dance performance but also participative workshops (laboratories). The aim is to create a space in which the initiated reflections can be translated into practical strategies for everyday life.

By combining contemporary dance, krump and methods from Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, we pursue a physical translation of individual experiences (of discrimination), act them out through dance, observe them from different perspectives and transform them through different intentions. In changing roles, as victims as well as perpetrators of discrimination, participants explore their own scope for action and power.

Weclome to participate is anyone aged 14 and older who is interested in dance and the topics addressed. No previous experience is necessary – just a desire to move, exchange ideas and playfully explore perspectives.
For people under the age of 18, a completed declaration of consent from a legal guardian is required for participation.

The laboratories are led by Nona Siepmann (choreographer), Raphaëlle Sablic (contemporary), Joan Bello Montero aka Keops (krump) and Maëlle Omnes aka Killa One Shot (contemporary + krump).

Team

Artistic Director | Nona Siepmann

has been working as a freelance contemporary dancer, choreographer and dance teacher since graduating as a dance teacher from the ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem (NL). She is particularly interested in exchanges with artists from other disciplines, exploring collaborative methodologies and engaging artistically with socio-political issues. Among others Siepmann dances for Bodytalk, Theater Titanick and Ursina Tossi. As a choreographer, she has received funding for various projects from the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia, Neustart Kultur GVL and the Fonds DaKu (2022, 2023 in cooperation with Kampnagel Hamburg).

Dancer | Maëlle Omnes

is a contemporary dancer with urban influences. She has danced with the Swiss company LE MARCHEPIED and FRE3BODIES in Barcelona, and her technique combines various dance influences from London and Berlin. In France, she works with choreographer David Drouard, who is known for his collaboration with hip-hop and krump dancers. In 2021, Maëlle began integrating the urban dance style Krump into her movement language with members of the Titans Crew and aims to make Krump visible in contemporary stage dance in her work. In 2024, she was accepted into the OneShot family and now goes by the name Killa OneShot.

Dancer | Raphaëlle Sablic

is a contemporary dancer from France. She initially trained at the Ballet du Nord in Lille, France, before attending La Manufacture in Aurillac. After completing her studies at Varium in Barcelona, she joined the FRE3BODIES company for two years. Raphaëlle currently works as a freelance artist with Cie Nadine Gerspacher, Cie Bittersweet, Cie Luskan, Cie D’Elles and DU-ENTRO, among others.

Dancer | Joan Bello Montero

known as Keops, was born in the Dominican Republic and now lives in Barcelona, Spain. He began his dancing career with breakdancing and has a background in a wide range of urban dance styles. He has been part of the Krump culture since 2016 and is now a driving force in the Krump scene in Barcelona. Joan is part of the renowned Spanish Titans Crew and Nike’s Unity Team. In 2023, Montero collaborated with the company ‘Les oiseaux perches’ to create the piece ‘Perception’.

Accessibility + Poetry | Indika Sandaruwan

is a multidisciplinary Deaf artist originally from Sri Lanka and based in Germany for over seven years. Deeply connected to Sri Lankan culture and traditional dance from an early age, his artistic journey spans music, poetry, theatre, and visual arts.  Passionate about inclusive creativity, Indika believes that art is for everyone – a universal language to dance, sing, and create.  Through his work, he seeks to connect with others, share emotions, and celebrate cultural diversity.

Dramaturgy | Kwame Osei

is a passionate dancer and visionary from Ghana who has performed and led workshops in over 54 countries around the world. This has not only expanded his knowledge and skills as a dancer and choreographer, but also given him expertise in an astonishing range of different dance styles. He has been particularly influenced by Krump, for whose spread and recognition in Europe he is largely responsible. As one of the pioneers of this urban dance style, he has had a lasting influence on the European Krump scene and made the art form accessible to a wider audience. In 2008, Kwame founded the ‘European Buck Session’ (EBS) event, which is now considered the world championship in Krump dance style. Today, Kwame Osei works as a choreographer, event organiser and artistic director of Urban Arts in Oberhausen.

Light Design | Timo von der Horst

is a freelance lighting designer, event technician and artist. His focus is on developing lighting concepts for contemporary dance and theatre performances. After completing his training as an event technician at the Theater im Pumpenhaus Münster, he worked at this theatre as a technical project manager. Today, he works both nationally and internationally, primarily in Germany, Europe and Asia. Among the artists for whom he has developed lighting concepts are Yoshiko Waki / Bodytalk, Lisbeth Gruwez / Voetvolk, Till Wyler von Ballmoos / Ballmoos Productions.

Costume Design | Michelle Mebune

As a designer with roots in Cameroon and born in Geneva, Switzerland, Michelle Mebune specializes in printmaking inspired by her Cameroonian heritage. Drawing from family albums and cultural stories, she celebrates African culture through her work. Her unique blend of traditional African motifs with modern design techniques creates prints that highlight the beauty and depth of African heritage, aiming to foster global appreciation for this rich cultural legacy.

Sound Design | Genaro Cibils

is a composer from Spain who specialises in creating music for performances and dance productions. He focuses on producing soundscapes that intensify the audience’s theatrical experience. He works extensively with ambient sounds and their digital post-processing, alienation and embedding, thus giving each piece its own unique context. Cibils himself has a background in dance and brings his own understanding of the art form to his musical work. His creations are described as captivating, haunting sound compositions.

Production Management | Charlie Petersen

originally comes from the performing arts and studied at Codarts Rotterdam and the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten. She danced with the ensemble of the Staatstheater Mainz and toured Europe with the renowned production “The Sea Within” by Voetvolk/Lisbeth Gruwez between 2028 and 2021. While working, she completed a certificate programme in cultural management at KMM Hamburg and further training in “Cultural Production in the Independent Performing Arts” at Kulturgetriebe Cologne. Since 2019, she has been producing innovative pieces as a freelance production manager for her own performance series “unbound bodies” and for other artists.

Videodokumentation | Soula Films - Valerie-Marlin Schmid & Hildegard Oehler

Soula Films is a female-led production studio founded by Valerie-Malin Schmid and Hildegard Oehler. They develop documentaries and digital narratives at the intersection of culture, dance, and community. In their work, they let bodies speak: movement becomes narration, and the camera becomes a partner in space. With a collaborative approach and an international network, they accompany processes, create sensitive portraits, and translate multifaceted perspectives into precise visual language. They document NEGOTIATING POWER: artistic practice, audience dialogue, and the energy of Krump in interplay with Contemporary.

Kooproduktion

Gefördert von

Gefördert vom Fonds Darstellende Künste aus Mitteln des Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien.

Gefördert vom Minesterium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen

Nachtragsförderung des Kreis Steinfurt

Workshopreihe gefördert durch

Eine Veranstaltung der Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Tanz NRW in Kooperation mit Nona Siepmann gefördert vom Ministerium für Kinder, Jugend, Familie, Gleichstellung, Flucht und Integration NRW.

Kooperation

Barrieremaßnahmen
gefördert durch

Eine Veranstaltung der Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Tanz NRW in Kooperation mit Nona Siepmann gefördert vom Ministerium für Kinder, Jugend, Familie, Gleichstellung, Flucht und Integration NRW Zusatzförderung Barrieremittel Regionales Kulturprogramm.

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