Angela Alves is a Berlin-based choreographer, dancer, and cultural worker living with a chronic neurological condition. Her practice unfolds at the intersection of body, art, and politics, challenging dominant narratives of health and illness. Working from lived experience, she develops performances and installations that explore vulnerability, rest, and alternative modes of productivity within the arts. Her work foregrounds inclusive strategies, centering practices such as resting, quitting, and “cripping” as forms of resistance and care. Alves studied dance at ArtEZ (NL) and dance studies at the Free University of Berlin. Since 2023, she has been an artistic associate in the project team of Prof. Claire Cunningham at the Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin (HZT), contributing to research and practice in inclusive and embodied performance.

Prof. Dr. Monika Ankele is Professor of the History of Medicine and Medical Museology at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Director of the Berlin Museum of Medical History. A historian by training, her research focuses on the history of psychiatry, patient perspectives, and the material cultures of medicine. She is a founding board member of the International Association for Medical & Health Humanities and Artistic Research (IMHAR) and has co-directed its affiliated institute at the Hochschule für Künste im Sozialen in Ottersberg. Her work bridges historical inquiry with contemporary debates in the medical humanities. Recent publications include contributions to Art and the Critical Medical Humanities (Bloomsbury, 2026). In May 2026, she will open the exhibition Horizontal: Politics and Poetics from the Sickbed at the Berlin Museum of Medical History.