Jasmine Ellis Projects
Jasmine Ellis Projects

The latest dance performance by Jasmine Ellis Projects Everything That Is Wrong
With Me explores the intersection of identity and creativity. It celebrates the richness
of neurodiverse perspectives with the concept of ‘radical softness’. Vulnerability is
used as a powerful artistic tool; delicate and dynamic movements embody the
complexity of human experience. With six dancers and live music by Olicía and
Lukas Bamesreiter, the piece creates a multi-sensory journey that challenges social
norms and redefines our understanding of normality and deviance.
Direction & Choreography: Jasmine Ellis
With: Bea Bidault, Luca Cacitti, Charles Heinrich, Alex Clair, Kim Kohlmann, Jacob
Thoman
Composition & Music: Olicía, Anna-Lucia Rupp, Fama M’Boup & Lukas
Bamesreiter
Stage Design: Nanako Oizumi
Costume Design: Sarah Kaldewey
Light Design: Barbara Westernach
Rehearsal Director: Kim Kohlmann
Directors Assistant: Selina Lettenbichler
Scientific Research: Kirsten Krans
Press: Simone Lutz, Hark Empen
Photos / Video: Ray Demski, Thomas Schermer
Technical Director:  Klaus Hammer
Sound: Mirko Blank
Lights: Maasl Maier
Technical Support: Alejandro Fernandez, Martin Schott, Enrico Fuchs
Artistic Production: Rat & Tat Kulturbüro
Thanks to Chiang-Mei Wang for her Thai Chi classes and wisdom on soft
strenght!
Jasmine Ellis | Director & Choreographer
Jasmine Ellis is a Canadian choreographer and film director based out of Munich,
Germany. A graduate of Etobicoke School of the Arts, The School of Toronto Dance
Theatre and Codarts Rotterdam Conservatory, she has worked professionally in
dance since 2006.
Ellis is regularly awarded grants for independent productions, in addition to receiving
commissions for creating stage works nationally and internationally. Ellis’s
uncategorised approach to movement, body language, text and music is the basis of
her artistic approach in which humour, vulnerability and familiarity are woven together
to create unexpected worlds.
As an award–winning film director, Ellis is the Artistic Director of Bad Posture
Productions. As an active member of the Munich independent dance scene, Ellis
heads the Bad Lemons Project, which promotes a lively and collaborative community
through professional training, training exchange and research projects.
Kim Kohlmann | Rehearsal Director & dancer
Kim Kohlmann is a London based artist. She graduated from Codarts Rotterdam and
continued her career in The Netherlands with Dansgroep Amsterdam and Noord
Nederlandse Dans before she moved to the UK and joined the Hofesh Shechter
Company for over 7 years.
Kim performed and created work with different choreographers from around the world
including: Hofesh Shechter, Emanuel Gat, Stephen Shropshire, Itzik Galili, Krisztina

de Châtel, Roy Assaf, Andrea Miller and others. She collaborated in creating a duet
that toured in England and was presented through ‘In Good Company’.
Kim became a freelance artist in 2019 and works regularly assisting and staging
pieces for Hofesh Shechter whilst occasionally teaching professional companies and
performing in project-based companies.
Bea Bidault | dancer
Originally from Barcelona, Bea discovered her passion for dance in her early
twenties. Her natural creative instinct led her to fully immerse herself in the world of
dance, finding purpose and connections. She pursued her studies at the London
School of Contemporary Dance, where she graduated with distinction in her Master’s
degree.
Bea has collaborated with an array of renowned artists and companies: Teac Damsa:
Worked under the direction of esteemed choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan.
Becky Namgauds: Served as a movement director for Namgauds' dance film and
performed in her live works. Additional Collaborations: Partnered with circus
performer Loosy Smokes, film director Miranda Stern, and participated in the
movement research for a new Disney film production. Akram Khan Company:
Recently joined the acclaimed company for their touring production of The Jungle
Book Reimagined.
Luca Cacitti  | dancer 
Luca was born in Italy 1989 and he began his dance journey with Ballroom/Latin
American dance at the age of 6 years old. In 2007 he moved to The Netherlands
where he studied at Codarts and was collaborating with the choreography-
department, performing the repertoire from prominent choreographers.In the last
years of his education he was invited to dance for Conny Jansenn Dans and later he
joined Noord Nederlands Dans performing works of the artistic director Stephen
Shropshire as well as guest choreographers, such as Itzik Galili, Edan Sharabi,
Andrea Miller, Roy Asaf and Emanuel Gat, and many others. 
Since 2012 he is based in Amsterdam and he is collaborating as a freelancer with
different choreographers & directors in Europe, for instance: Jasmine Ellis, Dunja
Jocic & Tomoko Mukaiyama, Tabea Martin, Marcus Azzini & Cecilia Moisio, Itamar
Serussi, Club Guy&Roni, Eyal Dadon, Falk Richter & Anouk Van Dijk, and many
others.He is currently collaborating with Heidi Vierthaler and OFF-Projects directed
by Amos Bental.
Charles Heinrich | dancer 
Charles studied at Conservatory superior of Paris and Ballet junior of Geneva. Then
he integrates the Junior company of Hofesh Shechter 5 years ago and since that he
continues to work for Hofesh Shechter Company for different projects and
productions. He also participates in the new production of William Cardoso as well as
different other freelance projects.
Alex Clair  | dancer
Alex is a freelance dancer, creator, and performer, working between Europe and the
U.S. She graduated from Booker T. Washington HSPVA and earned her BFA from
the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College (SUNY).
Recently, she toured with Alan Lucien Øyen's “Story, Story, Die” through his company
`WinterGuests` and continues to perform Andrea Costanzo Martini's work across

Europe and Israel. Alex collaborated on CHIROPTERA, a project by Damien Jalet,
featuring visual artist JR and composer Thomas Bangalter, performed at the Opera
Garnier in Paris. She was an artistic associate for On Mending, a film-to-stage project
by Emilie Leriche and Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern. In New York, she has worked with
Omri Drumlevich, as well as choreographers Madison Hicks, Troy Ogilvie, Doug
Varone, Martha Graham, and others.
Her own work has been presented at Dance Arts Faculty (Italy), The Academy of
Music and Dance (Israel), and Booker T. Washington HSPVA (USA). Recently, she
performed with Wiederhoeft at NYFW SS24 under creative director Austin Goodwin.
Website: www.alexclair.com

Jacob Thoman | dancer 
Filipino-American artist Jacob Thoman, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, trained with Exhale
Dance Tribe under the direction of founders Missy Lay Zimmer and Andrew Hubbard.
He also received additional training at The School for Creative and Performing Arts,
Cincinnati Ballet, and DeLa Dance Company. Jacob graduated in 2019 from The
Juilliard School, where he studied under the direction of Larry Rhodes and Alicia Graf
Mack.
In the summer of 2019, he performed in the inaugural production of Dragon Spring
Phoenix Rise, choreographed by Akram Khan at The Shed. Jacob was an Artistic
Associate at Gibney Company from 2019 to 2023, where he performed works by
Stefanie Batten Bland, Sharon Eyal, Tiffany Tregarthen & David Raymond, Johan
Inger, Sonya Tayeh, and Alan Lucien Øyen.
In 2022, he participated in an artist exchange with Øyen's company, winter guests,
touring the piece “Story, Story, Die”.
Most recently, Jacob has worked on film and commercial projects choreographed by
Celia Rowlson-Hall and Akira Uchida.
Anna-Lucia Rupp | Live-Music 
Anna-Lucia Rupp was born in Weingarten, Baden-Württemberg in 1993. Her life
stations were Ravensburg, Cape Town, Dresden, Copenhagen and Leipzig. The
singer and multi-instrumentalist gives her musical personality an individual face;
Deeply rooted in jazz, but influenced by folk, pop, experimental sounds and
electronics.
Since 2015 she has worked as a touring and recording musician, as a composer,
educator and workshop leader for singing and loops. She studied under prominent
(jazz) singers at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music in Dresden, as well as
in the Master of Music Creation at the Rytmisk Music Conservatory in Copenhagen.
She has already appeared on stage with greats such as Bobby McFerrin, Avishai
Cohen and Sophie Hunger and was a finalist in the international singing competition
at Unisa in Pretoria, South Africa. With her diverse bands, she has released 6 albums
and 3 EPs in the last 6 years and is working on further releases to be released in
2025. Website: www.annaluciarupp.com
Fama M´Boup| Live-Music 
Fama M'Boup is a native Berliner and part of a Senegalese family of musicians and
storytellers(Griots). She studied in Dresden, Copenhagen and Berlin, after her jazz-
focused training, she moves consistently between genres, participating in various
ensembles and artistic formats.

In 2022, she released her debut album with her ensemble “in June”, accompanied by
a book. She is also a member of the a cappella group “B O D I E S”, has collaborated
with artists such as Sophie Hunger and DOTA, writes for her duo “cocotá” and
teaches at the Jazz Institutin Berlin.
Her main project is the art-pop duo “Olicía”, where she performs next to Anna-Lucia
Rupp, constantly exploring new forms of creative work. Together, they founded the
label o-cetera, through which Olicía’s second studio album "Out of the Blue" will be
released on 1st of November 24, in collaboration with seven other art forms outside
of music.
Following the Jasmine Ellis production “Everything that is wrong with me”, Olicía will
embark on an album release tour. 
Website: famamboup.com & oliciamusic.com
Lukas Bamesreiter | Live-Music
Lukas Bamesreiter is the author of this short bio and not on social media but in the
mountains for he is aware of the facts that A) you can only grind rocket powder in
your own heart and that B) self-irony is a staple.
He is also known for his work in the jazz scenes of Austria and Germany; as a
conductor and composer with the BamesreiterSchwartzOrchestra; as a bandleader
and Swing guitarist with Hot Club du Nax and Mycophagy; as a trombonist with
Monika Roscher Big Band and Sarah Mettenleiter Quintet. He is screaming Jazz
standards on his new channel youtube.com/@L-Y-N-X-L-Y-N-X.
He is also working in Dance with Jasmine Ellis Projects, in contemporary
Circus/Performance with Verena Schneider and in Noise/Hardcore with Lukas Moritz
Wegscheider. 
Nanako Oizumi | Stage
Nanako Oizumi, set and costume designer, studied fine arts in Tokyo, Japan. After
graduating, she first worked as a set assistant and then as a freelance set designer in
Tokyo.
In 2013 she came to Germany on a scholarship for young artists funded by the
Japanese Ministry of Culture. After assisting at the Munich Kammerspiele, the
Theater Bremen and the Ruhrtriennale, she works as a freelance set and costume
designer.
She works at the Theater Bremen, Stadttheater Gießen, Landestheater Tübingen,
Landestheater Linz, Theater im Pumpenhaus Münster, Polish Dance Theater Posen,
among others, especially with the choreographers / directors Samir Akika, Mathilde
Lehmann, Yoshiko Waki ​, Lukas T. Goldbach, Caitlin van der Maas and Jasmine Ellis.
Sarah Kaldewey | Costumes
Sarah Kaldewey is a mastertailor, creative director and teacher in fashion and design.
Specialist in made-to-measure solutions with a radiant passion for costume design.
She is running ATELIER KALDEWEY in munich since 2013.
Sarah Kaldewey collaborated with Jasmine Ellis Projects since `Empathy` in 2018,
and created costumes for different contemporary cance projects. @atelier_kaldewey
Selina Lettenbichler | Directors Assistant
Selina Lettenbichler studied at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance and
graduated in 2015 as a contemporary stage dancer at the Contemporary Dance
School Hamburg. After her training she was a dancer with the Sticky Trace Company,

danced in various projects of the independent dance scene and opera and musical
productions at renowned houses in Germany and Austria.
Together with choreographer Jasmine Ellis she has recently been involved in three
projects as a dancer and currently as Directors Assistant.
Rat & Tat Kulturbüro | Artistic Production
Rat & Tat Kulturbüro, founded in 2012 by Laura Martegani and Katrin Dollinger, is
committed to cultural projects and collegial collaboration in the independent
performing arts. With an extended team of production managers, dramaturges and
networkers, they implement projects and improve cultural structures.
Sophie Thuma, who joined in 2021, works as an artistic production manager in the
independent performing arts community in Munich and specializes in contemporary
dance. In her spare time, she enjoys working at cultural and music festivals.

JASMINE ELLIS PROJECTS PRESENTS
GROUP
written and performed by Olicía & Lukas Bamesreiter
Group ( lyrics)
We are the dreamers of our lives
We are the dreamers, the other ones
We are the others, the unknown
 The powerless and the powerful
Magic powers in our minds
Magic wires in our brains
All the others can’t do that 
And we can’t do what they want  
Ah 
Ah
Done with us 
We are the children of the unknown
and the full grown
And our hearts beat faster
And our brains work harder
In a society that leaves us howling
That leaves us howling in the night 
But we are many many many many rising
Rising, Ri - ahoo!!
Magic powers in our minds
Magic wires in our brains
All the others can’t do that 
And we can’t do what they want 
Ah
We are the children of the unknown
and the full grown
And our hearts beat faster
And our brains work harder
In a society that leaves us howling

That leaves us howling in the night 
But we are many many many many rising
Rising, Ri - ahoo!!

JASMINE ELLIS PROJECTS PRESENTS
SONG FROM LUKAS
written and performed by Olicía & Lukas Bamesreiter
Song from Lukas
Why the fear
Why these blinding colours
Why the fucking institution
 
Who (i)s fault
Who (i)s choice
Who (i)s grief
Who is my name
 
Lucky
To turn on (To be of service)
Aren’t we
Happy
To boil over (To give it more than we can)
Aren’t we
Aren’t we
Blessed
To freak out (To participate in the gifted programme)
 
So lucky
To be anxious (To feel the pain)
Aren’t we
So happy
To be nervous (To be the ones to blame)
Aren’t we
Aren’t we
So blessed
To be ashamed
(Shame is a friend that keeps me alive)
 
Can’t it be dear AND wide
Can’t it be true AND wild
Show me the deal with your elders
Show me the price of your hard earned sadness
 
Since nothing can ever be the same
Please tell me I’m fine
And if the same things will always be fine

Please tell me I’m normal
And then when they find the new normal
Please tell me I’m the same
 
The same as you.
Who said that? Was it you? Was it me?
 
Did I push you too hard? Did you?
 
The shape of expectatio, is a broken foundation.

JASMINE ELLIS PROJECTS PRESENTS
RULES AND BOUNDARIES
written and performed by Olicía & Lukas Bamesreiter

rules and boundaries ( lyrics)
how far
and how long
and in what order
 
authorities
bring me peace, bring me peace, bring me peace
 
how deep
and how high
and through which door, through which door
 
authorities
bring me peace, bring me rules and boundaries
 
a square
a square
a line
a line
an outside
 
a forbidden area
but i am save here
i’ll stay here
 
authorities
bring me peace, bring me peace, bring me peace
 
a square
a square
a line

a line
an outside
 
a restricted area
 
and you say i’m save here
so i’ll stay here
 
authorities
bring me peace, bring me peace, bring me peace
JASMINE ELLIS PROJECTS PRESENTS
POWER
written and performed by Olicía & Lukas Bamesreiter

Power ( lyrics) 
You are nothing until, until you follow me
You, you are nothing until, until you follow me
 
Bow your head and down your knees
You bow your heart and bow your mind
By my feet you lie, you lie, you lie
I’m gonna hi- hide
And I will use you, use you until you loose 
Loose your self in me!
Loose your self in me!!!
 
aaaah 4x
 
Bend your knees go down go down and
Then look up - guess who you find
You go mad you cry you cry you cry
I don’t mi-ind 
And I will use you use you until you loose 
Loose your self in me!
Loose your self in me!!!
 
aaaah 4x

Supported by the Cultural Department of the City of Munich and the Bavarian
Association of Independent Performing Arts (Verband freie Darstellende
Künste Bayern e.V.) as part of the process funding of the “Förderpaket Freie Kunst
2024” with funds from the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts.” This
production is supported by Tanztendenz München e.V.