For the DRESDEN FRANKFURT Dance Company, it’s the beginning of a new era. In this 2023/24 season, dancer and choreographer Ioannis Mandafounis has taken the helm as Artistic Director and now heads the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company together with Annika Glose. The new ensemble consists of seventeen dancers, and its first premiere took place on 15 November in Frankfurt.

And DOMINIK MENTZOS will continue to accompany them with his camera. We present you his first portraits of the ‘new’ company.

The home of the Dance Company is at its two residency venues, the HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts in Dresden and the Bockenheimer Depot in Frankfurt am Main. As an ensemble which is highly in demand internationally, the company regularly embarks on guest performance tours.

The Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company was formed in 2015 from the free ensemble of The Forsythe Company. After the first ten years of the company, Jacopo Godani took over artistic direction of the ensemble which has since...