Manifesto

We maiskinder meet regularly to exchange through verbal and non verbal creative expressions with respect, care, engagement & joy. We would like to establish a safe space where we people in Cologne/NRW with diverse stories practice dance, connectedness, spirituality, queering the norms of modernity coloniality. We invite everyone who feels identified with us to join NO NEED of an artistic background or special physical abilities. We embrace all forms of embodied expression.

.. I love how you move, how complex your smile ..

is choregraphed by your heart…

MONTHLY Gatherings!

Altefeuerwache - Köln
every 3rd Saturday of the month! 15:00
& every 4th Monday of the month 19:00

Information
Join us at our monthly meeings,
we will host artistic impulses through movement, music, some Tee and snacks.

3rd Saturday of the Month!
& 4th Monday of the Month!

maiskinder
Sebastian Varra
Dasha Myasnikova
Constanza Ruiz Camposano
Elina Brams
Giada Peli
Artëm
Jovana Petrovska
Yeojin Kim
iSaAc Espinoza Hidrobo

Origins

film
by maiskind

Artistic Direction & Choreography
iSaAc Espinoza Hidrobo

Videographie & Production:
Beomseok Jeong

Visual post production:
Beomseok Jeong

Production:
maiskind - iSaAc Espinoza Hidrobo
Co-production:
Cheersforfears

Production: release 2023/24

music by
Emilia Golos
Szymon Wojcik
Thea Soti

painter
Joanna Stange

maiskinderx
maiskinder
Ander Ballarin
Brigitte Huezo
Ceci SanJosé
Cosntanza Ruiz Campusano
Dasha Myasnikova
Demetris Vasilakis
Eithan Albay
Franz-Josef Heumannskämper
Lisa Hellmich
Maria Mercedes Flores
Yeojin Kim

..multispecies stories making maisKIN..

Gathering of Gargoyles

10th September
Keupstraße & Wienerplatz

maiskinderx
Dasha Myasnikova
Franz-Josef Heumannskämper
El Bicho - Pablo Alvarado
Yas Calasse
Elina Brams
Jimin Seo
Stacy Ivanova
Sophie Inky Qualia
Yeojin Kim
*Angelov

music by:
Thea Soti

photography:
Yonga Sicimoglu

videographie
Maja Pilati

artistic direction
iSaAc Espinoza Hidrobo

Gefördert durch das Diversitätfonds NRW, ein Programm des Ministeriums für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Northrein-Westfalen

Information:
This Saturday 10th September 17:00
Wienerplatz - Köln Mülheim

..transformative ritual acts by reclaiming public spaces…

Dance Gathering at tanz.tausch MG

23rd of June
Opening the Tanztausch Festival in Mönchengladbach!

Artistic Direction & Choreography:
iSaAc Espinoza Hidrobo

Performerx
Today performerx:
Sebastian Varra
Dasha Myasnikova
iSaAc Espinoza Hidrobo

Photos by: Lucie Schulze

Musikerx:
Carl-Noë Struck (live)
Szymon Wojcik
Emilia Golos
Thea Soti

Dramaturgie:
Mia Hofner

Production
maiskind - iSaAc Espinoza Hidrobo
Ana Gonzalez - assistant

Koproduction:
TRANSIT - Cheersforfears

maiskind with/by:
Jimin Seo, Yeojin Kim
Lisa Hellmich, Sebastian Varra
Dasha Myasnikova, Franz-Josef Heumannskämper
Demetris Vasilakis, Brigitte Huezo
Ander Ballarin, Maria Mercedes Fllores
Constanza Ruiz Campusano

infos:
23rd June 2023
Tanztausch Festival Opening Mönchengladbach

maiskind ☀️ SUNgathering

Saturday 15th July
Deutzer Brücke Köln

maiskind with/by:
Sebastian Varra
Dasha Myasnikova

photo:
Tania Sukhina

Artistic direction & Choreography:
iSaAc Espinoza Hidrobo

infos:
Saturday 15th July 2023
Deutzer Brücke Köln

Because “it’s not about you, it’s about all of us”.

PIEL

film
by maiskind

music by
Emilia Golos
Szymon Wojcik
Thea Soti

painter
Joanna Stange

Gathering of Gargoyles X

23rd September
St. Michael Kirche - Köln

Info:
23rd September 2022, 19:30 UhrSt. Michael Kirche – Brüsselerplatz Köln

Installation & Headshapes
Joanna Stange

Artistic Direction & Choregraphy:
iSaAc Espinoza Hidrobo

maiskind with/by:
Demetris Vasilakis
Fiona Witherell
iSaAc Espinoza Hidrobo
Lisa Hellmich

Music by:
Emilia Golos
Szymon Wojcik

Dramaturgie:
Mia Hofner

Sponsor:
Diversitätfonds NRW
Gefördert durch das Diversitätfonds NRW, ein Programm des Ministeriums für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Northrein-Westfalen

Interact with people, respect the distance, share love..

CSD Köln PRIDE!

Joanna Stange & maiskind
3rd July
Alter Markt Köln

Let’s shake! Let’s shine! Bring your friends and dress fabulous!! maiskind ist eine community queerer Künstler*innen im öffentlichen Raum Kölns. Joanna Stange zusammen mit maiskind lädt alle Anwensenden ein, ihre Arbeit zu erleben. Perfomers with painted Shirts will be dancing and celebrating all of us. Then, it is not about you, it is about all of us. Die Shirts sind anschließend am Infostand zu erwerben. Jedes Top ist ein Unikat! Visuell und olfaktorisch!

Performex
Anbid Zaman
Milena Cestao
Goa Kolewijn
Elina Brams
Livia
Pablo el Bicho
Sebastian Varra
Zoe Celini
Ander Ballarin
Sebastian Varra
Constanza Javiera Camposano
Dasha Myasnikova
Jimin Seo
Yeojin Kim
Lisa Hellmich
Franz-Josef Heumannskämper
Carl Noë Struck

Artistic Direction
Joanna Stange
iSaAc Espinoza Hidrobo

Photography:
Claus Daniel Herrmann
Roman Jungblut

Produced by:
maiskind - iSaAc Espinoza Hidrobo
Joanna Stange
CSD Köln - Anbid Zaman

3rd July 2022
Alter Markt Köln

… I am from your mouth…

Dance Gathering at tanz.tausch FESTIVAL!!!

20th August
Südstadt Köln

Artistic Direction & Choreography
iSaAc Espinoza Hidrobo

Performerx
Sebastian Varra
Szymon Wojcik
Dasha Myasnikova
Jimin Seo
Yeojin Kim
Lisa Hellmich
Franz-Josef Heumannskämper

Musikerx
Szymon Wojcik (live)
Emilia Golos
Thea Soti
Carl-Noë Struck

Dramaturgy
Mia Hofner

Production:
maiskind - iSaAc Espinoza Hidrobo
Ana Gonzalez - assistant

Koproduction
TRANSIT - Cheersforfears

Information:
Samstag 20. August 2022 14:00 @Roland Straße 103 (Südstadt)

FREE Eintritt

…. where i come from has no name… and it constantly transforms…

MAIS STARS

maiskind meets Starlab
18th - 24th July
Ku - Köln

Artistic direction & Choreography:
iSaAc Espinoza Hidrobo

Artistic direction & Choreography:
Filu Sampé

maiskinderx & Starlab
Leoni Stöckle
Sebastian Varra
Ceci Casajua
Gale Weathers
Lara Mettendorf
Jonaas Sampé
Johanna von Schönfeld

music by:
Carl Noë Struck
Emilia Golos

videographie
Yonca Sicimoglu

sponsor:
Gefördert durch die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Mediem im Programm NEUESTART KULTUR, Hilfsprogramm DIS-TANZEN des Dachverband Tanz Deutschland

info:
maiskind meets Starlab
18th-24th July 2022 @Ku Südstadt Köln

..I am from chambers of the heart…

maiskind the film

artistic direction & choregraphy
iSaAc Espinoza Hidrobo

Videographie & Production:
Beomseok Jeong

Visual post production:
Beomseok Jeong

Production:
maiskind - iSaAc Espinoza Hidrobo
Co-production:
Cheersforfears

maiskinder
Ander Ballarin
Brigitte Huezo
Ceci SanJosé
Cosntanza Ruiz Campusano
Dasha Myasnikova
Demetris Vasilakis
Eithan Albay
Franz-Josef Heumannskämper
Lisa Hellmich
Maria Mercedes Flores
Yeojin Kim

music by
Emilia Golos
Szymon Wojcik
Thea Soti

painter
Joanna Stange

Zinegoak Bilbao LGBTQIA+ Festival for Performance and Film 2022
TRANSIT - Festival Cheersforfears 2022

maiskind mit Meche

Sunday 22nd of May
Grüngürtel Köln

facilitator
Maria Mercedes Flores

artistic direction:
iSaAc Espinoza Hidrobo

Sponsor
Gefördert durch das Diversitätfonds NRW, ein Programm des Ministeriums für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Northrein-Westfalen.

maiskind mit Meche
It’s sun time so it’s maiskind time!
Join us on Sunday 22nd of May at 14:00 Grüngürtel

… the face of maiskind, is the face of the people in the street…

Dance Gathering - maiskind

3rd Sept - K-Mühlheim
4th Sept - K-Deutz

artistic direction/concept/choreography:
iSaAc Espinoza Hidrobo

maiskinderx:
Ander Ballarin
Brigitte Huezo
Constanza Ruiz Campusano
Dasha Myasnikova
Demetris Vasilakis
Franz-Josef Heumannskämper

music by
Thea Soti
Emilia Golos
Szymon Wojcik

painter:
Joanna Stange
Dan Arenzon

Videographie
Beomseok Jeong

Photography:
Sam Youssef

Production Assistant:
Ana Gonzalez

Technische Assistenz
Bastian van Velthoven

Costume:
she-saac
Joanna Stange

Consultation
During the working progress
Sasa Asentic
Cyndia Garcia-Weyandt

Production
a maikind production
iSaAc Espinoza Hidrobo

in Koproduktion mit cheersforfears im Rahmen von TRANSIT - Plattform für künstlerische Recherche unnd Produktion, welche gefördert wird von Fonds Darstellende Künste aus Mitteln dder Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur undd Medien
Gefördert durch das Auf geht’s Stipendium des Ministerium für Kultur unnd Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen.

Info:
Join our Dance Gathering
3rd & 4th September
Please Register under maiskind@gmail.com
the maiskind community invites EVERYONE to join our WORK IN PROGRESS, no movement background needed, all ages.

….follow along, tune in, and hop out whenever please…

maiskind meets Baraka

1st of July PRIDE WE

Description
Baraka, artist Joanna Stange and the maiskind community come together for an evening to celebrate us the our diversity. We will share poems, colouring and impulses to dance and interact together. Everyone is welcome to come, follow, watch and leave at any time. No artistic or dance background is required, but a love of chocolate.
Afterwarsd PRIDE Party. 🌈

gathering with
painter & facilitator
Joanna Stange

artistic direction & facilitator
iSaAc Espinoza Hidrobo

Baraka - Rubicon
a place for international queers

Sponsor:
Gefördert durch das Diversitätfonds NRW, ein Programm des Ministeriums für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Northrein-Westfalen.

Info:
Join us on this Friday 1st of July from 18:00 at Baraka - Rubicon

Free of cost

maiskind mit Mia

info:
Super exciting next gathering with our dear Mia
on Sunday the 26th of June at 15:00
at Inhaus Kalk (inside)
Ottmar-Pohl Platz (right next to the Halle Kalk)

faciitator
Mia Hofner

artistic direction:
iSaAc Espinoza Hidrobo

Photography
Frederike Wetzels

Gefördert durch das Diversitätfonds NRW, ein Programm des Ministeriums für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Northrein-Westfalen.

…I am from what cells have forgotten…

..I am from what will never finish…

iSaAc she/sie/elle. The voices high up in the Andes. maiskind is my baby. I adore trans volcanic rituals & dark chocolate.🤤 📸Nathan Ishar

iSaAc

artistic director
Darya / Dasha she/her. Rooted in Siberia, maiskind is rituals.✨ As we sing the song of many voices from the past and from the future 📸Nathan Ishar

Darya / Dasha

performerx - facilitator
Sebastian he/him. 💋A creature running down from the mountains, maiskind is a calebration, 🧚🏼‍♂️ i like big earrings and watching lights in the night, The long legs are not only there to be looked at, beware 👀. 📸Nathan Ishar

Sebastian

performerx - facilitator
Jimin she/it/my name. 🦈 From the shiny flowy rainbow over the universe. maiskind is fantasia world. Sweet creamy marshmallowed dark chocolate with strawberry chips ice cream ❣️ 📸Natha Ishar

Jimin

performerx
Jin she/they. ❤️ From HyeonJung my mom, from all the memories and experiences beyond, from Korea. 🌽 maiskind is a space, space for LoVE & SHARE; Cotton Candy icecream 🌶 📸 Nathan Ishar

Jin

performerx
Szymon he/him. I come from Eastern Europe, maiskind is connection, Pistachio ice-cream 💚💚💚💚💚 📸Nathan Ishar

Szymon

musician - performerx
Joanna she/sie. I am from Blue Planet 💙. maiskind is love and i love vanilla ice-creamat some point i want to have the courage to be me every moment. 📸Nathan Ishar

Joanna

painter - facilitator
Cony - Constanza Javiera she/her. From el sur del sur Chile maiskind is creating new words through connection, joy creating new realities by moving 💃🏾 📸Nathan Ishar

Cony - Constanza Javiera

performerx
Christi she/they. From the Karaganda. maiskind is political 💓 love love love 💓💓💓 📸Nathan Ishar

Christi

performerx
Franz-Josef he/him. 💅🏻 From the West. maiskind is colorful hugs, openspace, dreaming. i am the oldest !. i love concrete poetry, early movies by Fassbinder, heart/sex. 🤓 📸Nathan Ishar

Franz-Josef

performerx
Maria Mercedes - Meche she /her. 🔥 From The hot and dry flatlands, Venezuela🔥 maiskind is freedom of being & connection. I dream about a more compassionate world 📸Nathan Ishar

Maria Mercedes - Meche

performerx - facilitator
Emilia she/they. 🧚🏼‍♂️ From being lost maiskind: looking. I love to swin in a lake 📸Nathan Ishar

Emilia

musician - performerx
Ceci she/her. I come from a magic trick. maiskind is You 💋. i love music, chocolate ice-cream always🍫🍫 📸Nathan Ishar

Ceci

performerx
Sarita all pronouns. I come from my mama Ceci. i love dancing in maiskind and eating chocolate. 💜 I have passion for unicorns and my favorite colour is black 🦄🦄🦄. 📸Nathan Ishar

Sarita

performex
Fiona she/they. Canada is home. maiskind is opportunity. i love 8 piano 🎹 📸Yonca Sicimoglu

Fiona

performerx
Thea Soti she/sie. i am from everywhere, growing up in Hungary and Serbian. maiskind are transgessions you do not need to apologise for. love is next of sKIN.🔥

Thea Soti

musician - performex
Beom he/him Beomseok Jeong. From the space of nothingness 💫 maiskind is the glasses where we cann see the things clearly and being happy with that fact that we can face it, which we never have seen so clearly. I 💚 Pistacchio icecream @zgn.tz

Beom

Videographer
Carl Noë he/him. From around here. maiskind is empowerment. my fav song: Ouda - Hamid al Shaeri. 🌛 📸Yonca Sicimoglu

Carl Noë

musician - performerx
Gale all pronouns 👛 A strange girl in a typical world. maiskind is light. i 🥰 Hazelnut ice cream (I love nuts obvsly) I sing rap in english, japanese or german and i produce my own music 🎹 Hyperpop is my reason to get up in the morning (currentlly obsessed with brakennce and Rakky Ripper)👠

Gale

performex - musician
Sophie she/her I come from the ✨desert✨ maiskind means friendship, love, compassion and fun times 📸Yonca Sicimoglu

Sophie

performex
Lisa Hellmich she/heR. From Cologne. maiskind is joy, i 💚 pistachio ice cream & Sampa the Great 📸Oliver Look

Lisa Hellmich

performerx
Elina They/them From The sea and in between. maiskind is joy spreading. i 🧡 Bad Karma by Axel Thesleff 📸Oliver Look

Elina

performerx
Yas Calasse she/her. From Motherland, South Africa. maiskind is Empowerment. 💜 i love Cookie crumble straberry jam from Van Leeuwen NYC!!!!💥 maiskind is sense of community, hope and liberation in being 📸Yonca Sicimoglu

Yas Calasse

performex
Maja she/sie 🎬 From Cles Italy but also Barcelona. maiskind is Queerness. i love cheescake, film and music 📸Yonca Sicimoglu

Maja

videographer
Ana Gonzalez she/her. from the south of Spain

Ana Gonzalez

production asisstant
El Bicho - Pablo el Bicho 🐚from everywhere🐚 maiskind is search. i dream of a place of calm, of silence, of quiteness, of freedom, of being what i really want to be. 📸Yonca Sicimoglu.

El Bicho - Pablo

performerx
Roman They/Them. From Rural Catholic Madness. maiskind is inspiration. pubilc positivity. I 💚 pistacchio🍦. 📸Helenhabenicht

Roman

multimedia artist / musician
Lara she/her. From Cologne. In maiskind Everybody can be as they are, togetherness, colorfullness, acceptance, celebrating life, humanity & diversity.🌱 I dream of a barrierefrei society ✊🏾 📸Yonca Sicimoglu.

Lara

performerx
Yonca she/they 🌳 From Planet Earth. maiskind is love. I like “i always dance to “kiss” by prince & love “The Five Devils” by Léa Mysius 🌈

Yonca

videographer -photographer
Nathan Ishar no pronoums 🌱 I wish i knew🌱 maiskind is inspiring. i 💚 hazelnut icecream. I played Violin and like Beau Travail - Claire Denis, Jeanne Dielmann - Chantal Akerman. Camus, Joker?? 📸Josefine Luka Simonsen

Nathan Ishar

photographer
Daniel he/him. From Cologne. maiskind is Humanity❣️ Boldness, Expression of Dignity. I 🖤 Dark Chocolate and love Tight - Louis Cole, Electronic, Soul, Funk, Trip Hop, Ambience & Indie 📸: Self Portrait

Daniel

Photographer, Illustrator, Comic Artist

PRIDE – T-Shirt

35 EUR
PRIDE – T-Shirt

35 EUR
PRIDE – T-Shirt

35 EUR

collaborate with us

Are you an institution? Or an organisation interested in our work?Any form of collaboration, communication should be approached with care to create safer spaces for all those involved.If you are interested to collaborate or book one of maiskind works please be aware that we also require a conversation to understand how you or your institution is engaged in decolonization, your local international communities and the visibility of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. What will you do to make the work accessible to our communities in your space, and how will you engage with the communities to make future collaborations and access to your space possible.

credits

Supported by: Diversitätfonds NRW. Auf Geht’s Stpendium NRW. Ministeriums für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes NRW.// TRANSIT- Programm Cheers for Fears. // Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Tanz Köln – ZZT Köln. // SOFRA Queer Migrants e.V. // Interfemme e.V. // Niehler Freiheit. // Bundesregierung für Kultur und Mediem im Programm NEUESTART KULTUR, Hilfsprogramm DIS-TANZEN des Dachverband Tanz Deutschland.
Collaborators: Beomseok Jeong, Ander Ballarin, Brigitte Huezo, Ceci SanJosé, Cosntanza Ruiz Campusano, Dasha Myasnikova, Demetris Vasilakis, Eithan Albay, Franz-Josef Heumannskämper, Lisa Hellmich, Maria Mercedes Flores, Yeojin KimAnder Ballarin, Brigitte Huezo, Sara SanJosé, Cosntanza Ruiz Campusano, Dasha Myasnikova, Demetris Vasilakis, Eithan Albay, Franz-Josef Heumannskämper, Lisa Hellmich, Maria, Mercedes Flores, Yeojin Kim, Emilia Golos, Szymon Wojcik, Thea Soti, Maja Pilati, El Bicho - Pablo Alvarado, Yas Calasse, Elina Brams, Jimin Seo, Stacy Ivanova, Sophie Inky Qualia, Starlab, Filu Sampé, Yonga Sicimoglu, Diversitätfonds NRW, Anbid Zaman, Joanna Stange, Mia Hofner, Milena Cestao, Goa Kolewijn, Zoe Celini, Carl Noë StruckLeoni Stöckle, Gale Weathers, Lara Mettendorf, Jonaas Sampé, Initiative Cheers for Fears
Photos: Nathan Ishar. Daniel Hermann. Oliver Look. Yonca Sicimoglu. Beomseok Jeong. Lucie Schulze. Tanya Sukhina.
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