Team
TANZSCOUT Berlin
Maren Witte
Doctorate in dance and literature. Lives and works as a dance scholar in Berlin, specializing in introducing contemporary dance art to a new audience and offering new approaches, views and perspectives. Internationally active in the fields of adult and cultural education. Collaborations with the Goethe Institute Berlin as well as San Francisco and Hanoi. Works in collaboration with international festivals such as "Tanz im August", "Foreign Affairs" and "Tanztage". www.tanzdramaturgie.de
Amelie Mallmann
She works as a dance educator and dance therapist. She originally studied dramaturgy and worked, for example, at the Theater an der Parkaue and the Deutsches Theater Berlin, and led the outreach program at the Kunstfest Weimar. From 2018 to 2024, she worked as a dance educator with TANZKOMPLIZEN. From 2021 to 2025, she completed training as a dance therapist according to the BTD standard; since then, she has also worked in psychiatric hospitals and leads her own outpatient groups. She has been part of TANZSCOUT since 2009. https://www.ameliemallmann.de
Angela Deutsch
Angela Deutsch did a PhD in Art hHstory at Humboldt University of Berlin and an M.A. in Psychology at University of Vienna. In 2014, after years of art historian and interdisciplinary research, of curating and organising
exhibitions in Vienna, Budapest and Berlin, she decided to follow her
ongoing passion for the dancefield. Thus, she chose mediation of
contemporary dance art as her new professional focus, developing at
present among other ideas the format TanzScout Senior.
Julia Heinrichs (in team until 2024)
Julia Heinrichs is a german theatre director and a dance dramaturge. She studied at Avant Scéne to become a makeup artist and studied physical theater at the international Theater school of Jacques Lecoq in Paris. Later, she was trained as an advertising merchant & was trained during her studies to become a certified psychologist and forensic scientist to coach & trainer. As an assistant director and evening director at the Schauspielhaus Zurich, she has worked for e.g. with Peter Brook, Peter Zadek a.o. together. For more than ten years she has worked as a theatre director at various city and state theaters. Various festivals featured productions by her. In addition to her directing and psychology work, she has been working as a dance dramaturge and physical theater coach for several years. She directed and accompanied the platform "5MIN.20MAX" for young choreographers at the Tanzhaus Zürich several times as a dramaturge / coach. She teaches Performance at the F + F School of Art and Design. In 2017 she was elected to the board of the Theaterhaus Gessnerallee as a representative for the dance scene.
Maria Ferrara (in team until 2024)
María Ferrara is a performing artist, choreographer and learning facilitator. She studied Russian Studies at the University of Essex, acting at Estudio Juan Carlos Corazza in Madrid and dance in Spain. She trained further as a Gestalt facilitator specialized in group processes and as a yoga teacher. She worked with the consultancy Humor Positivo in facilitating the course "The Educational Value of
Humour" and designed and facilitated "Emotional Education“ for the Lifelong Training Centres for teachers in Spain. Based in Berlin since 2014, she continues to create her own pieces, teach performing skills and yoga and develop approaches for self-learning.