Mandy Unger
Mandy Unger aka. M.over works as a choreographer, dancer, networker and DJ.
She founded the M.over Company in Leipzig in 2019. Her stage productions are a conglomerate of pop and contemporary art as well as sociological field studies. She is particularly interested in the aesthetics of her childhood, which were devalued by classism.
As a dancer, she explores the foundation of floorwork, contemporary dance and social and urban dance (hip hop freestyle, experimental and house).
Since 2024/2025 she has been in the Artist Development Programme of LOFFT - DAS THEATER (funded by the City of Leipzig - Cultural Office). In recent years, she has received numerous scholarships and grants from Tanzpakt in Residence, Theaterverband Thüringen, Kulturstiftung Sachsen and several research grants from Dachverband Tanz and Fonds Darstellende Künste.
In 2023, she took part in the mentoring programme of Verbund Mitte Ost and was mentored by choreographer Anna Till. She has already danced at Tanztheater Erfurt (Ester Ambrosino), with goPlastic Company (Cindy Hammer), Floor on Fire (the Saxons), Bounce urban! (Andrea von Gundten). She has also developed choreographies for renowned theatres such as Schauspielhaus Leipzig (‘Nullerjahre’ directed by Marco Damghani), PHÖNIX Theatre Festival (Erfurt), Leipziger Tanztheater & Tanzlabor Leipzig (dramaturgy), stellwerk Theater Weimar, Grüner Salon Berlin (Volksbühne), Theater Natur Festival in Benneckenstein im Harz, Werkstattmacher e.V. and LOFFT - DAS THEATER, Projekttheater Dresden and Theater Bernburg. At the interface of choreography and visual arts, she has collaborated with the UdK Berlin, Halle Burg Giebichenstein, Kunsthaus Dresden, Zukunftsvisionenfestival Görlitz and Galerie Waidspeicher Erfurt and the magazine LE MILES, among others.
From 2020-2024, she also headed the dance project area at the HEIZHAUS youth cultural centre and was project coordinator for the integrative KOMET project, which promotes dance offerings in rural regions of Saxony. In the dance scene, she has been organising the House Dance Sessions in Leipzig since 2019 and regularly takes part in local and regional jams and battles. She has already reached the final of Style Wild Leipzig several times in the house and experimental categories. As a freelance dance teacher, she teaches dance theatre, performance, experimental and contemporary dance in public dance institutions and leads numerous socio-cultural dance projects in Germany and abroad and regularly teaches in the full-time training programme at Tanzzentrale Leipzig (choreography & dance education).2019 Mandy Unger founded the M.over Company in Leipzig. The company covers a broad spectrum ranging from classical and contemporary dance to hip hop, popping, experimental and house styles. The stage productions are a conglomerate of pop and contemporary art. M.over Company looks at social issues such as classism, consumption, gender identity and the rhizome-like networking of the world using electronic music, techno and urban sub- and media culture.
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Groove Experimental
Workshop
House, Hip Hop & Contemporary Fusion
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In the workshop, dancers are encouraged to creatively use new and individual movement patterns by playing with musical structures, groove and improvisation.
Small dynamic routines are developed, inspired by the styles of house, hip hop, contemporary and floorwork. These will be changed over the course through input and aleatorics, so that playing with habits can become a challenge.
In order to focus on the ‘experimental’ genre, the exploration of musicality and individual tasks is an essential part of the training.
The workshop will take place on Sunday, 6 October from 11:30 to 13:00. Information on prices and registration can be found here.
Rauschen, Bouncen, Loslassen
Diving into Mandy's choreographic working methods.
In her choreographic work, Mandy explores the nature of electronic music, such as house, techno or hip hop, as vectors for social symbiosis and transformation. She considers the musical landscapes and their cultural movement vocabularies both as a source for choreographic creations and as a form of expression of historical and cultural movements.
In this interactive evening, Mandy will offer an insight into her choreographic work through both a discussion and a physical exploration of her choreographic approach.
During the discussion, Mandy will talk about her approach to the interaction between musical structures and movement patterns, as well as her vision of dance as a material and building block of social processes.
In a second part, Mandy will offer participants who wish a physical exploration of her approach to movement and her method of creating choreography. Participation in this exploration is free. It will be designed to be accessible to a wide audience and give participants the opportunity to experience her working processes either visually or physically.
Participation in this exploration is free. It is designed to be accessible to a wide audience and to give participants the opportunity to experience their working processes either visually or physically.
Thursday, 03 October at 20:00.
Admission by free donation. No registration required.
Followed by DJ set by Mandy.