Helge Letonja
Helge Letonja is an artistic director, dancer and choreographer. Besides these professions, he regularly acts as senior lecturer, as well as being a member of an international panel during competitions. In 1996 he founded Steptext Dance Company in Bremen (currently: Steptext Dance Project), a company for which he creates two choreographies per theatre season. Letonja is also co-founder of ´Dance Town: Bremen´, an initiative for contemporary dance in Bremen. He is responsible for its content, conceptual and programming activity, and also develops and directs the initiative. Letonja efforts to connect the regional with the national as well as to foster diversity and dynamics of contemporary dance creation.