TANZSELFIES #UNFILTERED
T.I.A. dance productions

Backstage, unfiltered, unvarnished. Two performers open the door to life as a dancer: from the first casting call through gruelling rehearsals to opening night. Salsa, house, ballet and contemporary dance collide with memories, insider knowledge and everything that rarely gets said out loud in the dance world – about being different, about bodies, gender, disability. With tactile costumes, social media aesthetics, participatory dance sequences and integrated, creative audio description, Tanzselfies #unfiltered invites everyone to experience the stage in a new way – especially young blind and visually impaired people. With a open touch tour before every performance.

T.I.A. dance productions is a collective founded in 2023 at the intersection of socially engaged art practice and dance, led by queer, BiPoC, and disabled artists. It develops innovative, intersectional, and anti-ableist formats of accessibility and explores integrated creative audio description. T.I.A. connects diverse dance styles and perspectives, raises awareness among cultural institutions for inclusion, and has presented works at venues including Mousonturm, Implantieren Festival, and Riviera Festival.

Co-Artistic Direction and Dance Performance: Hannah Dewor, Amelia Uzategui Bonilla

Audio Description, Concept, Idea and Education: Hannah Dewor, Lilian Korner and Amelia Uzategui Bonilla

Access Dramaturgy and Community Management: Lilian Korner

Composition, Music and Artistic Collaboration: Santiago Pisano, Mariano Sauco

Set and Costume Design: Pedro Abad

Dramaturgy: Charlotte Arens

Technical Direction: Jimmy Kömpel

Production Management: Amelia Uzategui Bonilla

Funded by the Hessian Ministry of Science and the Arts and the Cultural Office of the City of Frankfurt am Main Additional funding provided by the KUNSTVOLL programme, the funding programme for Arts Education of the Kulturfonds Frankfurt Rhein Main, and the Arts Education funding of the City of Frankfurt The workshops and subsequent tour are part of the project “T.I.A. for Young Audiences”, made possible by Next Steps, a programme by Bureau Ritter and funded by the Crespo Foundation. The production would also like to thank the students of the Hemann-Herzog-Schule for enabling the research into dance and audio description.