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Ispasion Show Productions is a dance company known worldwide for its impressive creativity and graceful beauty. The main mission of the artists is to create unforgettable stage experiences that evoke emotions and captivate the audience.

Dance in its various forms is the central focus. Neo-Flamenco and Neo-Tango, Spanish and contemporary dance, as well as ballet, combine with cutting-edge stage technology and avant-garde visual effects to create a top-tier show.

The artists of the company are talented dancers with diverse backgrounds. They are admired not only for their flawless technique but also for their breathtaking interpretations and expressive stage presence.

With a breath of fresh air, the violinists Charlotte Balle (Berlin) and Lisa Barry (Stuttgart), together with the violist Dorothea Galler and the cellist Maria Friedrich (both Munich), have been sailing the oceans of music together since 2009.

Equally at home in the regions of classical music as in jazz and pop, they surprise us time and again with stylish garments in which they know how to wrap works of all genres with their own arrangements.

Their staged concerts and their concert format "Folgekonzerte" combine thematically bound, upscale, profound and humorous entertainment with the aim of stimulating reflection, questioning and, of course, smiling.

In addition to their own ever-expanding programmes, with which they perform as a string quartet in concert series and at festivals, they are often asked to perform as guests of other artists on large stages due to their inviting stage presence and stylistic diversity. For example, they played with Jon Lord (Deep Purple) on his last major tour, with Silje Nergaard and the Tord Gustavsen Trio, with Marialy Pacheco, Joo Kraus and Omar Sosa or in musical readings with the Munich crime scene detectives on several tours.

For more than two decades, Galerie Holzhauer Hamburg has called an old factory loft in Hamburg-Ottensen its home. Gallery owner Angela Holzhauer regularly showcases her program at art fairs and on board the MS EUROPA 2. She has a particular affinity for works on paper – drawings, printmaking, and folds – as well as sculpture. In recent years, the program has expanded to include increasingly more international artists who work conceptually and installatively. The gallery has gained significant recognition through its long-standing collaboration with Georges Adéagbo, the "grand-père" of African conceptual art, highlighted by an acquisition by the Hamburger Kunsthalle in 2024.

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Angela Holzhauer’s passion for art was sparked by her grandfather, a collector and active member of the Bremen Art Association, with whom she visited exhibitions and discussed what she saw at a young age. This early influence led her to study art history and theater studies in Erlangen and Vienna. After working as a journalist for Süddeutsche Zeitung and ELLE in Munich, she moved to Hamburg, where she now serves as editor-in-chief of the magazine of the Friends of the Hamburger Kunsthalle, guides tours through the Falckenberg Collection at Deichtorhallen, and holds various teaching positions.

In 2004, she founded her own gallery for contemporary art, where the focus is on communication and discussion about art. She describes the ideal relationship between gallery owner and artists as a "lovely Foxtrot," inspired by the influential British gallerist Sadie Coles, where both move in rhythm toward the same direction, with the artwork leading and setting the tone for the program's continued development. Additionally, Angela Holzhauer is a board member of the Landesverband Hamburger Galerien (LVHG).