About

Driven by the belief that professional dance artists need access to continuous high-quality training, a meeting space and shared experiences Jasmine Ellis founded Bad Lemons Project for the independent dance scene in Munich. By providing professional training and research projects a current and vibrant dance scene is promoted and strengthened. 

Professional Training / Bad Lemons Project
Bad Lemons Project provides continuous affordable professional contemporary dance training. The initiative is known for bringing exciting internationally reputable artists to teach in Munich. 

The series of classes takes place once/twice a month, Monday to Friday, 9:00 am – 10:30 am. Each of these week-long training blocks is taught by different international visiting artists and takes place at a professional level. The continuation of affordable professional training enriches and strengthens network structures and artistic exchanges both within Munich and with international dancers and choreographers.

Research Project / Bad Lemons Project
Due to the high demand for a more intensive collaboration with visiting artists, Bad Lemons offers studio space for some of artists to exchange ideas, research, and create. The results of the work-in-progress creations can be presented publicly at the end of each week.

Professional Munich-based artists interested in collaborating with the Bad Lemons Project in any one of these areas can email badlemonsdance@gmail.com.

TEAM
Artistic Director:  Jasmine Ellis
Guest Artistic Director 2023 & 2024 & 2025 – Susanne Schneider
Project Management: Sophie Thuma, Laura Martegani, Rat&Tat Kulturbüro
Project Support/Social Media: Laura Manz
Sign-In Support: Eléonore Bovet, Wiebke Dobers, Emmanuelle Rizzo, Anastasia Lyubinksi, Erica D’Amico, Aurora Bonetti, Jula Hoffmann, Chiara Görig
contact: badlemonsdance@gmail.com

Susanne Schneider served as Guest Artistic Director in 2023, 2024, and 2025, contributing fresh perspectives and thoughtful curation to the program. Jasmine Ellis has now resumed responsibility for programming the classes for the 2026 season.

Previous teachers include:
Renan Martins (Brazil/Heidelberg), Cyril Baldy (France), Alessandra Corti (Italy), Johanna Richter (Munich), Tina Halford (Freiburg), Verena Pircher (Countertechnique),  David Hernandez (Spain),  João Santiago (Munich), Josh Haines, Laura Vilar (Barcelona),  Paula Niehoff (Munich), Antoni Androulakis (Brussels), Laura Saumweber  (Munich), Michael Loehr (Berlin),  Marta Rak (Munich/Croatia),  Laura Manz  (Munich), Heidi Vierthaler , Aron Nowak  (Munich/Hannover), Chris-Pascal Englund-Braun (Munich), Winston Reynolds, Lukas Malkowski (Berlin/Canda), Victor Rottier (Kassel), Búi Rouch (Faroe Islands), Sebastian Zuber, Matteo Carvone (Munich) , Merryn Kritzinger (Montreal), Amos Ben-Tal / OFF projects (Amsterdam), Zoe Gyssler(DE), Nil Teisner (Munich), Diego Tortelli  (Munich, Italy), Kwame Asafo-Adjei / Spoken Movement (London), Zoe Gyssler, Alexandra Wells / IMAGE TECH (New York), Sidra Bell ( New York), Ami Shulman (Montreal), Tamara Gvozdenovic (Switzerland), Breeanne Saxton (Berlin), Yael Cibulski (Isreal), Chiang-Mei Wang (Munich), Cristina D’Alberto (Munich), Shannon Leypoldt (Berlin), Samuel Minguillon (Amsterdam), Shaked Dagan (Isreal), Annie Gagnon / Rehearsal Director Compagnie Marie Chouinard. (Montreal), Akira Yoshida ( ) , Dante Murillo, Daphna Horenczyk (Vienna), Daina Ashbee \ Dance Festival (Montreal), Emese Nagy/ MA•ZE Dance Company (Budapest), David Russo (Munich), Daniela Bendini (Munich), Manuel Molino / Complex Simplicity (Berlin)


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