Dance On Team
Ty Boomershine
Artistic Director Dance On Ensemble
Ty Boomershine studied dance at the Fort Hayes School for the Performing Arts in Columbus, Ohio, completing his studies with a B.F.A. from Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri.
In addition to working with Lucinda Childs Dance, Emio Greco | PC, LeineRoebana, Dan Wagoner, Gus Solomons Jr., Bill T. Jones, Ton Simons and the Merce Cunningham Repertory Ensemble, he has also performed in various works by Yvonne Rainer, Dancenoise and in Robert Wilson’s Einstein on the Beach. Since 2007, he has been Artistic Assistant to Lucinda Childs and since 2013 rehearsal director for ICKamsterdam. Ty Boomershine has been a member of the Dance On Ensemble since 2015 and is its Artistic Director since 2019.
Hélène Philippot
Executive Producer On Ensemble
Hélène Philippot studied musicology and music management at the Université Paris IV Sorbonne and Universität der Künste Berlin. From 2008 to 2012, she worked for a range of cultural organisations in France, including the Orchestre National d’Île-de-France, the festival Les Nuits du Mont Rome and the Opéra National de Paris. Between 2013 and 2021, she worked for the Berliner Festspiele as production manager for international co-productions in the fields of circus and dance, as well as for the festival Jazzfest Berlin.
From 2019 to 2022, she worked as company manager for the choreographer Lea Moro in Berlin and Zurich. Since June 2021, Hélène has been responsible for the Dance On Ensemble founded by Bureau Ritter as Executive Producer. Hélène Philippot is constantly continuing her education. She took part in the Festival Production Management Training of the European Festivals Association from 2017 to 2018. In 2021, she completed the professional development course in business administration at the Technical University of Nuremberg and in 2024 she took part in the further education course ‘Leadership & Diversity in Cultural and Media Organisations’ at the Erich Pommer Institute.
Anastasia Luck
Senior Producer Dance On Ensemble
Anastasia Luck studied art history and theatre studies at the FU Berlin and completed her master’s degree in cultural and media management there in 2022. During her studies, she worked as a research assistant at the university’s art history department, among other places. Several internships took her from the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin to the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence.
Most recently, she worked at the Stasi Records Archive (Federal Archive) as a student assistant in the visitor services department. She first came to Bureau Ritter as an intern in 2015 and returned in June 2022 as a production and participation collaborator. She is now Senior Producer for the Dance On Ensemble.
Valentin Braun
Productionsassistant Dance On Ensemble
Laura Böttinger
Project Director Care in Motion & Artistic Directior Participation
Laura Böttinger studied classical dance at the MUK Music and Arts University in Vienna. There she was involved in the Dance Association ‘Ich bin O.K.’ for people with and without disabilities. She has worked as a dancer for the LUX Helsinki Festival, Kadir Amigo Memis (HAU Hebbel am Ufer) and Yolanda Gutierrez (Kampnagel, Kigali), among others. She has been part of the Bureau Ritter team since 2016: from 2016 to 2020, she worked first as a Production Assistant and later as Production Director of the Dance On Ensemble.
Since 2018, she has been the artistic director of the Dance On Participation programme and the Dance On Lab. Laura leads workshops and introductory talks and creates artistic stage works with community groups.
In 2021, she developed the idea and concept for the participation format “Out of the Care Home, Into the Theatre” (Raus aus dem Heim, rein ins Theater), for which she is responsible programmatically. She is also the project lead for “Care in Motion” (Bewegte Pflege), a feasibility study on cultural participation in care homes.
Tomke Behrmann
Project Coordinatior Care in Motion & Dance On Participation
Tomke Behrmann studied sociology and philosophy in Frankfurt am Main and Buenos Aires and completed a master’s degree in critical dance studies at FU Berlin. During her studies, she worked at the Federal Association for the Independent Performing Arts (BFDK) on the pilot project “Verbindung fördern” (Fostering Connections), for nationwide and cross-disciplinary structural and network promotion.
She gained further experience in the cultural sector as a dresser at the English Theatre Frankfurt, as a student assistant to the international guest professorship in the Master’s programme in Critical Dance Studies, as an intern at the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz and at Kulturprojekte Berlin, as part of the city partnership between Windhoek and Berlin. In November 2025, Tomke Behrmann joined Bureau Ritter as project coordinator for “Care in Motion”.
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