Friederike Adolph, originally from Berlin, studied media and cultural studies and management. As of she worked for Houston Ballet, first as marketing manager, then as press officer. In , at the invitation of Reid Anderson, she joined the Stuttgart Ballet, where she ran the department for Press, Dramaturgy and Public Relations until After the birth of her two sons, she assisted Eric Gauthier in the founding and development of Gauthier Dance at the Theaterhaus Stuttgart from to as dramaturg, consultant and press officer.
Aszure Barton is a Canadian-American choreographer, director and innovator. She started tap dancing at the age of three and later began creating her own choreographies as a student at Canada's National Ballet School. She has also choreographed for theater, film, and opera, including Broadway.
Early in her career, Aszure developed a working relationship with Mikhail Baryshnikov, with whom she collaborated on several projects.
She is the current Resident Artist at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, where her newest work was called "exquisite, subversive, exhilarating and mildly offensive - as dance should be to move it somewhere new" Chicago Tribune. Aszure Barton continues to be an innovator of form, having contributed to an evolution of highly specialized dance and theater companies worldwide. As an educator, Aszure is regularly invited to collaborate with private, public and independent art institutions and forums around the globe.
The most important values she took from her work with Jooss were 'honesty and precision', as she later put it: honesty in approaching reality and precision in developing form. At the end of the s she gained attention with her first choreographies, including "Im Wind der Zeit" In the Wind of Time , for which she won first prize in the Cologne choreography competition.
