Naomi Sanfo: ausland

All The Rivers

All the Rivers is a series of involved artistic exchange, in form of workshops and Flash-residencies.

Open to any medium and discipline within arts, stage tech, and the community around them, All the Rivers is focused on the transformative power of exchange and cooperation/collaboration within and between arts, artists, community, society and their peripheries. We see a sharing of skills, knowledge, insight and creative process as a mutual spiral of growth, and are looking for an active, aware practice of exchange, involvement and commitment, in an informed and inclusive mindset and effort.

Creativity is formed in constant dialogue of learning and teaching, of voicing and listening. in both workshops and residencies, artists and workshop leaders invite the participants for either or both.

The series offers workshops on a wide range of topics, from inclusive, aware and accessible production and creation, technical skills, inspiring practices and involved creation. Information about the workshops you find below this text.

As part of All The Rivers there are 5 Flash Residencies, short, production-orientated residencies followed by a public showing. They aim to offer public participation - in any form and medium, from performing arts to visual arts, sound or installations, aiming to reach out and enter into dialogue with the audience and community as part of the artistic process and its performance.

The jury members Nuray Demir, Katharina Ludwig and Ece Tufan selected 5 groups of artists from 78 submitted proposals. We are happy to announce

Flash Residency 1 by Promona Sengupta, Aymara Llanque Zonta, Rasha Al Jundi, Maricarmen Gutiérrez

Flash Residency 2 by Gruppe Wissenslücke

Flash Residency 3 by Inès Lamari, Sami Belatra, Yasmin Zarrouk

Flash Residency 4 by Virginnia Krämer, Luana Madikera, Michaela Maxi Schulz

Flash Residency 5 by Naia Urresti, Samantha Tiussi, and Coco Stoppelli.

All The Rivers is funded by Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt - Spartenoffene Förderung

Naomi Sanfo

My name is Naomi Sanfo-Ansorge, I am 31 years old, I live in Hamburg and I am working as a dancer, dance teacher, choreographer as well as a dramaturg for artistic audidescription for dance an music theatre in Hamburg and Berlin. Since february 2022 I perform for Chorosom dance company in different productions, I lead e.g. inclusive workshops in dance (theatre) for children and adults and I teach workshops around the topics of artistic audiodescription and the aesthetics of access. In April 2024 I did an experimental artistic residency for the Junges Nationaltheater Mannheim where we explored how to create young theatre as a more sensual experience for all and find ways how to make the institution more accessible for blind and visually impaired audiences on structural side. I live with a degenerative visual impairment and I connect my work as a dancer and performer with my personal way of reception and the diverse perspectives of an audience with visual impairments. Since two years I work as a dramaturg for artistic audiodescription and I advise productions during the rehearsal process for example at Kampnagel Hamburg. As a dancer I try to create poetic phrases which are combined and connected with my movements to describe my way of dance for visually impaired and blind people in the audience. In addition I integrate audiodescription as well as other sensitive aesthetic tools from the beginning of the choreographic process.
I aim to make stage art accessible for every person and I work for the empowerment of artists with visual impairments to work in accessible surroundings. It is important for me to understand “tools for accessability” as an inspiration and creative impulse for my art.