About GAU


The dance theatre Ensemble GAU Company (then under the name GenerationAndereUmstände) was founded by Nadine Freisleben in 2013.

The term generation generally implies a group of a certain age. GAU Company subverts this interpretation by using it to describe the products as a certain social or political environment.

It started as a collective of 5 international dancers and choreographers: Rodolfo Piazza de la Silva, Ronja Häring, Sergio Verano, Lioba Kaszemeik and Nadine Freisleben.

In 2016 Nadine Freisleben took over the main management and concentrated on multidisciplinary dance theater and collaborations.

Over the years GAU Company has developed into an art factory that produces dance theater pieces nationally and internationally as in-house productions or in collaboration with other artists from various disciplines.

Being the head of the art factory, Nadine works as a dramaturge, choreographer and movement coach with different artists.

Since 2020 the PopUp Dance Studio has been the in-house rehearsal studio for GAU Company. In addition to regular classes, artists rehearsals and professional dancer training, the Audience, Action! - series takes place there.

All of GAU Company´s work has a multidisciplinary focus. Nadine seeks to contrast the concept of performative staging with the individual reality of the performers. The pieces are each a multidisciplinary collaboration of different artists, musicians, actors, poets, acrobats, etc. and dancers.

The performer´s individuality, cultural and artistic background and personality are supported in order to encourage the full awareness of the dance-theatre pieces they are part of. Their personal experiences, their origin and culture and consequently their whole being is manifested on stage. A real person is showing their inner self through their art form within a performative surrounding. The audience is able to see a performed reality to identify themselves with the story being transmitted through art.

All of GAU Company´s dance theatre pieces are having socio-critical aspects that deal with the interior and exterior borders of a human.

The goal is to create performances that are holistic in their artistic message and are able to reach out to different environments. Additionally, GAU Company seeks to work with different artists to have the possibility of sharing and exchanging knowledge and artistic approaches.