Gabriele Klein is Professor of Sociology of Movement, Sport and Dance and Performance Studies at the University of Hamburg. She is Director of the Center for Performance Studies and PI of the Cluster of Excellence »Understanding Written Artefacts« at the UHH. She was spokeswoman for the research group »Translation and Frames. Practices of medial transformations«, deputy spokeswoman for the research training group »Loose Connections. Collectivity in urban and digital space" (both UHH) and member of the artistic-scientific college "Aesthetics of the Virtual" at the HfBK Hamburg. Her research focuses on cultural and social theory and social history of the body, movement and sport, dance and performance theory, contemporary dance and performance art, urban movement cultures and popular dance cultures.

Sandra Noeth is head of dramaturgy at »Tanzquartier Wien«. 2006-2009 she was research assistant at the University of Hamburg. Her research interests are ethics and politics of the body and dramaturgical methods in contemporary dance and choreography.