She has initiated many European networks, been the director of inter-disciplinary festivals and produced international co-productions in the field of dance, media and performance art. From 1993 to 1998, she was the founding and artistic director of Pictures of (e)Motion, an international festival for dance, film and new media at the Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Bonn. She was curator of the dance programme at Theater Heilbronn from 2003 to 2008. She was appointed project director of Tanzplan Deutschland by the German Kulturstiftung des Bundes (Federal Cultural Foundation) in 2004. Her many years of experience of working with artists, institutions and sponsors formed the basis of a partnership-based promotional strategy that was rolled out, under her guidance, in nine cities and with the support of many project partners. Tanzplan Deutschland mobilised 21 million euros for dance and became a model project internationally. When the Tanzplan Deutschland project came to an end in 2011, she founded the non-for-profit company DIEHL+RITTER (now Bureau Ritter) with Ingo Diehl in order to manage, among other initiatives, the Kulturstiftung des Bundes new dance funds: TANZFONDS ERBE (Dance Heritage Fund) and TANZFONDS PARTNER (Dance Partners Fund). She teaches culture management at various European universities and is a certified coach and facilitator of processes of change. Madeline Ritter is an expert of Initiativegroup Tanzförderung Stadt-Land-Bund as well as a member of the Supervisory Board of Kulturfabrik Kampnagel in Hamburg, the board of trustees of the Kulturfonds (Cultural Fund) Frankfurt RheinMain, the Advisory Board of Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln and since June 2014 of the Board of Trustees of Pina Bausch Foundation.

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.

In 2017/2018 she took part in the Festival Production Management Training held by the European Festivals Association. Since 2019, she has been responsible for managing the Swiss choreographer Lea Moro’s company. In February 2021, she completed the professional development course in business administration at the Technical University of Nuremberg. She joined Bureau Ritter in June 2021 as production director of the Dance On Ensemble.

She has been working at Bureau Ritter since 2016: as a production assistant and then as production manager of the Dance On Ensemble between 2016 to 2018 and since 2018 as artistic director of the Dance On Lab and the creative learning programme Dance On Participation. She is on the selection committee of the Federal Cultural Foundation’s Tanzland funding programme.

Most recently, she worked at the Stasi Records Archive (Federal Archive) as a student assistant in the visitor services department. For several years now, she has volunteered as a carer for people with disabilities. She first came to Bureau Ritter as an intern in 2015 and returned in June 2022 as a production and participation collaborator.

Riccarda Herre completed her dance training at the ballet school of the Hamburg State Opera in 1987. She then worked as a soloist for various companies in Germany and abroad, including CIE Red Notes in Paris, the Volksbühne Berlin and the Tanztheater of the German National Theatre in Weimar. In 2004 she graduated from the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre as a culture and media manager and went on to work as a producer for various dance companies, theatres and festivals, including Tanz im August. During Tanzplan Deutschland she took on the organisation of the first Dance Education Biennale and then became a founding member of Bureau Ritter, where she coordinated the Dance Heritage Fund, among other projects.

From 2009 to 2013 he worked as an independent project and event manager for, e.g., Internet & Society Collaboratory, Stiftung Menschen für Menschen, and Discover Football. From 2013 to 2015 he oversaw the Dance Partners Fund and Dance Heritage Fund, both initiated by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, at sauerbrey | raabe. büro für kulturelle angelegenheiten. From 2015 to 2019 he has been responsible for RomArchive’s financial administration as well as contractual arangements and legal matters related to funding. He has been financial manager for Dance On since July 2019.

From 2015 to 2017, she was co-director of Theater RambaZamba. She then moved to Schauspiel Leipzig, where she worked for five years as press spokesperson and head of public relations. She has been part of the team at Bureau Ritter since August 2022, responsible for communications with a specific focus on the Dance on Ensemble.