Kristin Mente is a freelance dancer and choreographer and has been an active member of TanzNetzDresden since 2016. In 1997 she began her studies at the Palucca University of Dance Dresden and graduated in 2007 with a degree in stage dance. She received the Palucca scholarship for outstanding performance. In 2007 she received an engagement at the Tanztheater Bielefeld. In 2012 she left the Theater Bielefeld and worked as a freelance dancer and choreographer. In 2013 she developed the piece "Outside the Box" together with the author Maja das Gupta. Since the summer of 2015 she is back in Dresden, where she lives and works. Among other things, she is a guest dancer in several operas of the Semperoper Dresden.