Sabrina Sadowska

CEO

artistic director TANZ|MODERNE|TANZ festival

trained as a dancer and ballet teacher in her hometown of Basel (Switzerland), after which she was engaged at the theater in Trier, Bremerhaven and the Opera of Halle. She ran the Ballett Vorpommern in Greifswald together with Ralf Dörnen from 1997 -2013, first as ballet master and, from 1999 on, as assistant director. In 2013 she came to the Chemnitz Opera as operations director, choreographer and first ballet master, and in 2017 she became artistic director of the Ballet Chemnitz. 

Furthermore she worked as curator for the international festival TANZTENDENZEN in Greifswald (2000-2016), founded the international festival TANZ | MODERNE | TANZ in Chemnitz and she is a curator on the council preparing the Chemnitz application to be the cultural capital of Europe in 2025. On the 7th of March 2016 she was awarded the Medal of Merit of the German State by German Federal President Joachim Gauck.

Michal Sandor

Projekt Manager

completed his dance education at the dance conservatory in his hometown of Bratislava, Slovakia.
His career as a dancer began in 1994 at the Slovakian National Theater, after which he was engaged in Salzburg, Austria, at theater Vorpommern, the state theater of Braunschweig and the State Opera in Hannover as well as the theater of Bonn, where he first began to choreograph.

In 2008 he moved to the Landesbühnen Sachsen, where he created pieces for the musical theater and acting departments, worked as an educator and ran a ‘dance-lab’ (which offered interdisciplinary cultural education for youths) at the Landesbühnen theater.

Besides his work as a dance educator he was also very involved in the field of cultural management and graduated with a Master of Arts in Cultural Management from the Dresden International University in 2018. He gained practical experience during an internship at the ballet operations office at Semperopera Dresden, by organizing and participating in contemporary dance workshops in Japan and by organizing projects for the cultural education of children and youths in Saxony. 

Projects

TANZ|MODERNE|Education: offers dance projects in schools, workshops and community dance for all ages.

TANZ|MODERNE|Urban: supports the urban dance scene through projects such as „Gemeinsam Stärker“ (“Stronger Together”) and organizes Dance Battles in the context of the TANZ|MODERNE|TANZ festival

TANZ|MODERNE|Audience: coordinates interactive projects and encounters between audience members and local artists, with the goal of introducing contemporary dance to a new audience which comprises all social and economic classes: Projects such as the annual TANZ|MODERNE|TANZ festival, which brings international guest performances to Chemnitz, offers dance performances in urban and public spaces as well as audience workshops, lectures, and an Urban Dance Battle. It also gives international young choreographers a platform for works which they especially created for Chemnitz,  under the project title “Made in Chemnitz”.