The association Villa Wigman für TANZ e.V. is an initiative of independent dance professionals and other supporters in Dresden and was founded on April 26, 2016. Its declared goal was and is to preserve the former workplace of the dancer and choreographer Mary Wigman, Bautzner Straße 107 in Dresden, and to operate the culturally and historically valuable location as a rehearsal, production and mediation center for contemporary dance and other performing arts.

Since August 2019, the villa\wigman has been owned and operated by the association Villa Wigman für TANZ e.V. through a ground lease agreement between the state capital Dresden and the association and is being gradually renovated.

The association Villa Wigman für TANZ e.V. now has over 60 members, mainly dance, theatre and other arts professionals, as well as people who support the vision of combining the preservation of the cultural-historical site with its use as a production house for dance and other performing arts.

The renovation of the individual construction phases is funded by TANZPAKT Dresden-Stadt, the state, the federal government (2019-2021), TANZPAKT in residence (2022-2024), the Saxon Ministry for Science, Culture and Tourism, the state capital Dresden, as well as funds from the Volker Homann Foundation, the HERMANN REEMTSMA FOUNDATION and donations.

1981-90 dance education at the Palucca School Dresden, 1990-97 engagement in the ballet of the Saxon State Opera Dresden. Since 1997 freelance work, including numerous solo recitals, choreographies for productions in music and spoken theater as well as for school dance projects. Teaching position at the Dresden University of Music. With the dance evening "Tänze in SCHWARZWEISS" dedicated to Dore Hoyer, Katja Erfurth was nominated for the Saxon Dance Award 2015. Katja Erfurth is a member of the Saxon Academy of Arts, Vice President of the Saxon Cultural Senate and was elected a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts in 2024. She is also active on various specialist and cultural advisory boards and juries. Katja Erfurth received the Art Prize of the State Capital Dresden in 2020.

Studied dance in Nuremberg, Berlin and Linz. Between 2008-10 she lived and worked in Israel. Johanna Roggan works as a dancer and choreographer throughout Germany and internationally and gives workshops for interactive systems, GYROKINESIS® and contemporary dance. In 2013 she founded the dance company 'the guts company'. For the 2016/17 season, the guts company received double pass funding from the German Federal Cultural Foundation together with the Societaetstheater Dresden. In 2019, her work "Das Eigene/ HEIMAT" was awarded the Ursula Cain Promotion Prize as part of the Saxon Dance Prize.

1971-75 studies of information technology at the TU Dresden. Doctorate and habilitation in the field of systems theory. Associate professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the TU Dresden. Head of research projects in the field of parallel processing.

Studied acting at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama. After engagements at the Thalia Theater Hamburg, Stadttheater Gießen, Landesbühnen Sachsen, Freilichtspiele Schwäbisch Hall, among others, she began her own productions in 2005. Since 2010 she is part of the collective missingdots (formerly Theater La Lune), which researches socially relevant topics and deals with them in a questioning, researching and provocative way in order to develop artistic interdisciplinary realizations for plays and performative actions. She is active in the advisory board of the performing arts in the cultural office of Dresden and is committed to cultural-political issues of Saxony. missingdots is a member of the Landesverband Freie Theater Sachsen and the association Villa Wigman für TANZ e.V..

Dance training at the Palucca University of Dance Dresden and at the Center for Contemporary Dance Cologne. Since 2011 freelance dancer in Dresden. Together with Wiebke Bickhardt she founded the JuWie Dance Company. In addition to her own projects, she frequently collaborates with artists of other disciplines, such as the composer John Moran in the production "The Manson Family - Opera" and "everyone" as well as the object theater group Cie.Freaks und Fremde, among others in the productions "Songs for Bulgakov" and
"Eldorado". She danced for the guts company in "Das Eigene/ HEIMAT" and in the production "Geometrisches Ballett" in the choreography of Katja Erfurth.