DECK DREI is a workspace and collective platform connecting creative disciplines in the field of dance and the performing arts. It is a collaborative and shared space with like-minded productive people cultivating the idea of exchange, new ways, try-out and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
Thomas Proksch (A)
discovered his passion for movement on the dancefloor of his favorite club in Vienna. Thereupon he moved to Berlin and studied Mime/ Pantomime at ETAGE – school for performing arts. He became a member of the physical theatre company Teatr Novogo Fronta (CZ) and collaborated with choreographers as Anja Müller (D), Magdalena Chowaniec (PL), Hermann Heisig (D), Rita Vilhena (P) a.o. At the time Thomas Proksch works on the performance Karl Lehr, on a dance connected to the phenomenon of emotional contagion.
Miriam Welk (D)
born on December 13,1983 in Germany. She is collaborating as a dancer, choreographer and dancefilm maker with numerous artists in projects like treasure factory. Her artistic interest lies in the experimental and interdisciplinary research combined with sociological and philosophical discurses in. Miriam Welk is the initiator of the artist collective wilde pferde. Her productions were shown at Festspielhaus Hellerau, FriedrichstatZentral e.V., Projekttheater (Dresden), Sophiensæle, Mica Moca Project(Berlin), at Tanzwoche Dresden 2009, OpenDans Festival 2010 and 2011 (Rotterdam). She also worked as a teacher in several projects in Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, Israel, The Palestinian Autonomous Territories.
Vera köppern (D)
Vera köppern is a contemporary flamenco dancer and choreographer.
Vera Köppern uses her dance as a means of channelling the energy and life force within her. She maximises flamenco’s inherent potential for powerful expression by playing freely with the theatrical and musical elements available to her – including those that are not commonly thought of as ‘flamenco-esque’.
Vera studied flamenco dance in Seville.