About
Aurora Nova is a theatre booking agency and consultancy firm based in Berlin. We bring some of the best internationally touring shows in dance, circus and theatre to festivals and venues worldwide.
We specialise in highly creative shows that transcend borders, touch our hearts and create profound and enjoyable experiences for their audiences.
Wolfgang hoffmann
Director
Wolfgang is the founder of Aurora Nova, which was initially set up as an international festival program for visual theatre and dance, during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Originating from East Germany, Wolfgang co-founded Fabrik Potsdam in 1990, a dance venue in a squatted factory building, in which he worked both as performer and as co-director for fifteen years, before moving to Ireland, where he was director of the Dublin Fringe Festival for 4 years. In 2012, Wolfgang set up Aurora Nova as a tour booking agency to follow his passion for finding exciting, new and relevant artistic expressions in an increasingly polarizing world.
m: +49 176 63483906
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CAROLINA ORTEGA
BOOKING AGENT
Carolina is a Venezuelan director, performer and curator – in Aurora Nova she works as an agent and sustainability consultant. She studied Theatre direction and dramaturgy at RADA London and Universität der Künste Berlin – she’s also a trained actor and clown (Gaulier, Lee Delong, John Mowat). She completed the sustainability consultant and transformation manager certificate and runs the Sustainability Lab – an Aurora Nova project for sustainability on tour. Previously she produced and curated CASA Latin American Theatre Festival and worked as Creative Producer at the Bush Theatre London, and as a general manager of Islington Community Theatre (now Company Three).
m: +49 176 98816775
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CLAUDIUS BENSCH
BOOKING AGENT
Claudius is a passionate circus expert working at Aurora Nova as an international booking agent and senior producer since 2013. He has over 25 years experience and knowledge of the international contemporary circus genre and has worked as a festival curator, programmer, artistic director, consultant, jury member and talent scout.
m: +49 172 7439108
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DANIELLE DEVERY
BOOKING AGENT
Danielle is a Paris-based International Theatre Booking Agent for Aurora Nova with notable experience in performance art, the performing arts and the visual arts. Over the past decade she has held strategic management roles in the arts, government and human rights including Head of Exhibition for Biennale of Sydney and General Manager of Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), International Director for Circa, as well as China Project Manager for the International Federation of Journalists. She was Chair of Sydney’s independent queer Red Rattler Theatre, supporting radical and intense queer theatre projects. She holds a Bachelor of Communications (UTS) and a Master of Laws (UNSW).
m: +33 7 8190 8130
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PEARL HERBERT
BOOKING AGENT
Pearl is a Berlin-based arts worker currently performing as an International Theatre Booking Agent with Aurora Nova, dedicated to connecting artists and audiences on an international scale. A multifaceted creative individual from Australia, Pearl has a deep-rooted passion for storytelling, more than two decades worth of experience as a performer and a decade as a producer traversing the the realms of music, dance, film/television, radio and theatre.
m: +49 1525 1687932
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TZU-YIN HSU
BOOKING AGENT
Tzu-Yin is a dynamic Taiwanese art professional with a decade of experience managing impactful artistic projects. Currently based in Germany, she is a booking agent at Aurora Nova, serves as an ISPA Taiwan Fellow (2023–2025) and a Youth Advisory Committee member for Taiwan’s Executive Yuan. Her past projects include the Aerowaves Spring Forward Festival (2024), co-curating the FOKUS TAIWAN Festival at Staatstheater Darmstadt (2023), coordinating Taiwanese showcases at Tanzmesse (2022, 2024) and working as company manager of B.DANCE.
m: +886 972 353 955
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CHRISTINA HINTERBERGER
ADMINISTRATOR
Christina is Aurora Nova’s Administrator and responsible for all things contracting. She studied Theatre Studies and Cultural Management and is deeply interested in Contemporary Circus, Physical Theatre and international connections. In the past she has gathered experience interning and working with Theatres, Festivals and The German Federal Association for Contemporary Circus.
m: +49 1525 1681036
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PRAISE FOR AURORA NOVA
“Like any revolutionary movement, Aurora Nova is in a constantly changing state itself. Inspiring, and unstoppable.”
“For lovers of international dance and largely text-free theatre the most adventurous Fringe programming, and the venue of choice, is Aurora Nova.”
“For the past seven years, it’s been worth heading to Edinburgh in August simply to see what’s on at Aurora Nova.”