Knocking

Viktoria Andersson
Gorik Bellemans
Ruben Brown
Alvilda Faber Striim
Kaelin Isserlin
Sierra Kellman
Sofia Larriera

Choreographer: Horacio Macuacua
Set & Costume Designer: Hanna Kisch
Composer: Nandele Regino Maguni
Light Designer: Sascha Görg

The Mozambican dancer and choreographer Horácio Macuacua is the artistic director of the dance company that bears his name. Macuacua develops projects aimed at going beyond established forms. With an open mind and a readiness to capture the moment, movement is immediately transformed into compositions that are complex and refined, with both depth and playfulness, darkness and light. Each composition is a journey to reshape and reinvent within the framework of meaning-making.

He has carried out projects such as COMUM, Orobroy, Stop! (first prize at the Danse l’Afrique Danse Festival 2010), Smile If You Can!, Fighting Room, Convoy, Paradise is not in the sky!, Theka, Mugangueni, I am tired, and Here’s to Life.

Macuacua has collaborated with choreographers such as Cristina Moura, Thomas Hauert, Pablo Colbert, George Khumalo, Wim Vandekeybus/Última Vez, and David Zambrano, whom he regards as his mentor.

He has led classes and workshops in France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands, Cyprus, the USA, South Korea, Brazil, South Africa, and Mozambique.

Hanna Kisch is an artist, costume designer, and scenographer with a BA in Fine Art from Konstfack.
Moving fluidly between art, fashion, and performing arts, she has collaborated with institutions such as ArkDes, Ballett Basel, MDT, and Cullberg.

In her work, Kisch explores the body, materiality, and transformation through a distinct sensitivity to texture. She often works with silicone, thermoplastic, and latex—materials that extend, distort, and transform. Her aesthetic plays with silhouettes where the historical, the contemporary, and the futuristic merge.

As a scenographer, she creates spatial environments that function not merely as backdrops but as active agents in the stage narrative. Through her interdisciplinary practice, she seeks to challenge the boundaries between body, costume, and stage.

Nandele is one of the most innovative beat makers, producers and DJs coming from Mozambique.
He is at the forefront of the alternative and experimental music scene with his mix of bass-heavy boombap instrumentals, ambient, techno, EBM, dubstep, trap, psychedelic hip-hop beats, and the Makonde rhythms of Northern Mozambique.

The son of the first Black director of the Mozambican National Radio after the country's independence, this is where he gets his musical background — listening from an early age to a vast musical catalogue ranging from Michael Jackson to Fela Kuti, from Kanda Bongo Man to Santana and Marvin Gaye, which he incorporates into his beat making.

A prolific producer and writer, Nandele has written music for contemporary dance performances, films, and has a number of band projects including Cantinho das Cores, The Mute Band (who won Best New Band at the Mozambican Music Awards in 2016), and Azagaia & Os Cortadores da Lenha. He has collaborated with artists such as Felix Laband (RSA), Dion Monti (CHF), Symbiz (DEU), Boogz Brown (REU), and African Ghost Valley (CAN).

He has graced stages at some of the biggest festivals in Southern Africa: Afropunk Johannesburg, MTN Bushfire Festival in Swaziland, and Azgo Festival in Mozambique.
His first EP Argolas Deliciosas and his first full-length album Likumbi were released through Mozambican independent label Kongoloti Records. He has also released EPs/cassettes through Inserttapes in Sweden (Blu Kidz), Already Dead Tapes and Records in Los Angeles (Plafonddeinst), and Cotch International in London (FF).

Nandele is also a member and founder of the audiovisual group Muave. He is part of the Miss collective that recently released a multidisciplinary performance called Degradação (Re)Generativa, and is part of the international collective Proximal Distal, which recently completed a residency and will release a publication and vinyl.

Nandele has remixed tracks for Dubokaj meets Lee Scratch Perry and Mothers of Mars, and has produced for the Tresor 30 compilation alongside techno pioneers Jeff Mills and DJ Stingray, as well as established and upcoming artists around the world. He is part of the artist roster of Tresor Records.

He has produced a jingle in collaboration with ASAAS Collective from Palestine for Radio Alhara, where his live performances and mixes are regularly broadcast. He has also composed for the original soundtrack of the comic book Informais, created by Anima Studio Criativo.

Nandele believes that through his music he can do the unimaginable, communicating and taking us on his journey to try to reach other planets.

Sascha Görg works as a freelance stage-technician and light designer. After a traineeship as a bank clerk and studying history and philosophy at the University of Cologne, he began training as an event technician at the Tanzhaus NRW in Düsseldorf in August 2023, which he expects to complete in July 2026.

In addition to supervising productions in almost all independent production houses in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, he has conceived and realised many productions in the fields of dance, performance, (physical-) theatre, music, techno parties and shows in between.

He is also active as an actor, performer and dancer.

Recent lighting designs include Edelweißpiraten by Frederike Bohr, presented at studiobühne köln in Cologne, and PinkePinke by Khadidiatou Rachel Bangoura shown at tanzhaus nrw in Düsseldorf. Die Nacht, in der wir Männer wurden by Saskia Rudat, shown at Barnes Crossing and TanzFaktur in Cologne, as well as Theater im Depot in Dortmund. Mawu Lisa and Femina Saga Genesis by Marie-Zoe Buchholz was performed at tanzhaus nrw and Fabrik Heeder in Krefeld, while Life is a jungle by Khadidiatou Rachel Bangoura and Horácio Macuacua was featured at TanzFaktur in Cologne. Tina Streich presented (N)ADHS at orangerie theater and Barnes Crossing in Cologne, and La Vacabose by Maria Mercedes Flores Mujica was staged at both Kampnagel in Hamburg and tanzhaus nrw in Düsseldorf. The work my home on two feet (MHOTF) by insha in company appeared at TanzFaktur in Cologne. Finally Nano Operas by paradeiser productions was shown at FM674 Stage in Cologne and Pathos Theater in Munich.