Mona Louisa-Melinka Hempel

Mona Louisa-Melinka Hempel (all pronouns, DE/CHL) works in a multidisciplinary way and was trained in dance, choreography, and acting in Stuttgart, Paris, Santiago de Chile, Vienna, and Bremen. Starting in 2014, M studied Theatre Studies at Leipzig University and, from 2020, completed the Master’s program in Contemporary Arts Practice in Bern with the Federal Excellence Scholarship for Artists.

Since 2011, Mona has been working freelance, both solo and with/for “die apokalyptischen tänzerin*nen,” Florentina Holzinger, Heike Hennig, and calendal.

Further engagements include Theater Heilbronn in BODIES IN URBAN SPACES (Willie Dorner) and THE BALLROOM (Das Ballhaus, Ute Raab), at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe in THE JUNGLE BOOK (Das Dschungelbuch, Lee Beagley), and at Junges Schauspielhaus Bochum with SPLASH – un/coming of age (co-directed with Henrike Iglesias).

Mona’s artistic practice combines movement with visual arts, leading to installative performances and performative installations, for example in the context of stage spaces, museums, floor reliefs, scenic sketch collages, concerts, books, or typewriter choreographies.

Another important influence for Mona is an intersectional feminist approach, both in the products and in the process.