janne&tabea
we are a performance art collective founded by the two artists Janne Schröder and Tabea Sandmann, who know each other from their studies at Universität Hildesheim (GER). After both made their own way to Porto (PT), they met each other again, driven by the common interest of creating socially engaged performative projects. In 2024 they started to collaborate in diverse contexts, exploring radical tenderness as a performative strategy to question and transform our social interactions.
Together they facilitate workshops, create performances in community contexts, choreograph and perform on stage. Besides their collaboration as colleagues, they understand their friendship as a driving force and inspiration for their ongoing work.
Janne
Schröder
(1995)
is a performer, director and facilitator. Her work is based on movement, exploring the sensorial as well as the political body with improvisation and imagination techniques. In choreographic compositions she combines movement with text material, inviting her audience to a reality of shared vulnerability, of resistance and beauty, that is poetic and political at the same time. She has an international Master’s degree in Performing Public Space (NL) and a Bachelor’s degree in Cultural Studies and Aesthetic Practice (GER).
In 2025 she took part in FAICC – Intensive Course in Interpretation and Choreography by Instável – Choreographic Centre in Porto. She has performed at renowned international dance festivals such as DDD – Dias da Dança and Serralves em Festa. Since 2020 she is part of the artistic direction of PELE, where she develops artistic interventions and site-specific performances in community contexts in Portugal.
Tabea
Sandmann
(1997)
is a dancer and choreographer. In her artistic practice, she combines contemporary dance with performance art and poetry. She is driven by the question of how to find artistic expressions for the struggles for social equity, exploring ways of creating collectively and more inclusively.
She is one of the founding members of The Leftovers Collective, which performs regularly in the city of Porto. As an interpreter she performed in works of Joclécio Azevedo, Mafada Deville, Marie-Lena Kayser, Kosma Bresson and Margarida Montenÿ. After studying Performing Arts at the University of Hildesheim (GER) and Acting at ESMAE Porto, she participated in OficinaZero 2022/23, an Intensive Contemporary Dance Programme in Porto (PT).
In 2024, she participated in Recurso, a programme for emerging creators, initiated by ESTRUTURA A.C. She is currently involved in different projects as a dancer and collaborates as a choreographer with Associação PELE and A Era Uma Vez Teatro.
