Participating artists

Virginnia Ogechi Krämer is a performer, facilitator, interdisciplinary artist and parent. Their interests range from embodied social justice to afrofuturism to cultural identity-focused artistic research and ritual. In spring 2023 Virginnia was artist in residence at Emerging Change/Tanzfabrik Berlin which birthed their solo work ‘hair pulling‘ (WT). As part of FemBlack Performance Collective they premiered with their first production ‘another space/memory‘ at Berliner Ringtheater in fall 2023.

Virginnia has collaborated as a performer at Kampagel, GropiusBau, Sophiensäle, Heizhaus as well as Ballhaus Naunynstraße. Virginnias practice interrogates roots (past), body (present), hair (future) and is shaped and inspired by collaborations with Valerie Renay, Magda Korsinsky, Yagi Taffere, Zwoisy Mears-Clarke, Toni Böckle and many more. Their work currently emerges into new unknowns with a profound urge to integrate loss, genocide and (be)coming together. 

Luana Naquin a.k.a Luana Madikera (she/her) is a multidisciplinary dancer who uses poetry, words, images, music and performance in her practice. Luana specializes in modern and urban African dances as well as traditional Afro-Caribbean dances. She uses various improvisation techniques and dance techniques (contemporary, pole dance…). Luana is currently researching the African heritage of the Afro-Caribbean population.

She is exploring the concepts of resilience, black identity, resistance, intergenerational trauma and decoloniality through music, traditional and modern dances of different African cultures. Luana researches the somatic aspects of dance and how dance can be a companion to life situations (for traumas, emotions, life phases…). In addition, Luana works as a dance teacher and gives Afrofusion workshops and dance classes for dance schools, events and clubs. Luana is part of the Tropical Bass Band “La Byle“, with whom she regularly performs. 

Gulnara Iskakova is a theatre director, actress, and pedagogue working with the new-processual method. After the war, she relocated to Tromsø, Norway. Together with Prokhor Gusev, she founded ISKRA production, a theatre company that explores various forms of performing arts. Her recent works in Norway include the performances “Grandma’s Recipes” and “Koridor. Nytt Liv,” as well as the interactive-documentary installation “Come Out from the Wardrobe.” Central to her work is the importance of the process, whether in directing, acting, or teaching. 

Lúa Mayenco Cardenal is a dancer, choreographer, educator and graphic artist. After graduating with honors from the Carmen Amaya Dance Conservatory (Madrid), Lúa moved to New York City to begin her Bachelor of Fine Arts at The Juilliard School. In the Spring of 2020, she became the first Spanish dancer to graduate from this institution and was one of six recipients of the Juilliard Career Advancement Grants in the class of 2020. In August of the same year, Lúa moved to Copenhagen to join Danish Dance Theatre and launch her professional career in Europe. During her time with the company, she has performed nationally and internally the works of renowned choreographers as Ina Christel Johannessen, Roy Assaf, Marie Topp, Fernando Melo, Dorotea Saykaly and Marina Mascarell among others. After closing her fourth season with DDT, Lúa now begins her freelance career from the Danish capital, exploring new ways of developing, connecting and sharing through movement. 

Samuel Valor Reyes (1996, he/him – they/them) is a theatermaker graduated from Toneelacademie Maastricht/Institute of Performative Arts and a performance artist of Spanish origin. They are part of the shifting generation of artists living in-between two or more cultures with strong connections to their Andalusian roots and multicultural Limburg.

With a strong fascination for bodies and celebrating the stories and memories we carry through them, Valor Reyes tries to create electricity, disturbance and pure bliss in each movement. The artistic practice always starts from clashing or blending multidisciplinary cross-overs where imagery, shape, movement and purpose meet. Their work pushes the limits of space in relation to the performer, creating worlds that are colorful, confronting, absurd and raw. In these spaces the search for connection, queerness, identity, empowerment, spirituality, falling and jumping bodies are always highlighted.  

Their philosophy is to allow the identity of the performer and their lived experiences be the backbone of the performance. Performance is a transformative space and this space belongs to all of us. In the past few years Valor Reyes has created The Age of Love, The Age of Resurrection, The Motherf*cking End of The Fatherf*cking World, Camp X-Ray, Misfitting in, Bootylicious Bodies, FASHIONCLASH Afterparty and Ravijnenvanrimpels.  

Gøril Nilsen is a Sámi/Norwegian composer, musician and music producer working across the industry of music and art, writing music for artists, dance performances, audiovisual art and theatre. Gøril recently composed music for one of the biggest events by European Capital of Culture that took place at midsummer in Bodø 2024. Gøril has toured and released music with the band I SEE RIVERS for 10 years. The band played sold out European tours with artists such as Cosmo Sheldrake and Newton Faulkner, and played venues such as Olympia Theatre in Dublin, Albert Hall Manchester as well as industry festivals such as SXSW, Great Escape and Eurosonic. Their latest single release was A-listed on BBC radio as well as performed live on Sunday Brunch, the most watched day time TV program in the UK. 

Anastasia Krasnoshchoka is a Ukrainian choreographer and dancer currently based in Denmark. She trained at the Copenhagen Contemporary Dance School and has always harbored a deep passion for dance, despite a non-linear path to her career. Alongside pursuing an academic journey leading to a PhD in laser diode lighting, Anastasia navigated a winding road towards her love for dance. 

Today, she blends her artistic practice with activism work for Ukraine. Within the realm of dance, Anastasia loves to create immersive atmospheres that stir powerful emotions. She embraces improvisation as a vital part of her work, allowing her to craft spontaneous and authentic movements.Furthermore, she firmly believes in using the language of dance to address important social and political issues, utilizing art to spark thought-provoking conversations.  

Her debut full-length work, “Flowers also cry,” is a poignant ode to women in wartime—a documentary-based piece that delves into the diverse roles women assume during times of conflict. Since its premiere in Copenhagen in September 2023, “Flowers also cry” has garnered acclaim, winning the European Charlemagne Youth Prize, representing Denmark and embarking on a successful tour across Scandinavia. 

Actress, playwright.

She has acted in plays such as “Los Hombres Blancos deben morir” (Sala Cincómonos, 2021), in films such as “A través de tu mirada” (Netflix, 2024) or the short film “1,5 y +” (pending release). She is a founding member of the theater company “La Fatal” and has co-written “Bisila”, one of the pieces selected in the Z Festival 2024 circuit. In addition, she was assistant director and artistic producer of the show “Black Man Solo” (Periferia Cimarronas, 2023).

She has been trained as an actress in the free school of Eòlia (2020) and the actor’s studio of Laura Jou (2021-2025). As a multidisciplinary artist she has also trained in singing and movement with Queralt Albinyana or Rogelio Lordá. In 2021 she finished her training in Assistant Theatre Direction at Eòlia. She trained in Scenic Creation with Azkona Toloza at Sala Becket (2023) and today, she has training in playwrighting with Denise Duncan.   

Natalie Cox (US/DK) is a contemporary dance artist currently based in Copenhagen. 

Originally from Los Angeles, CA, she began her dance education at Degas Dance Studio followed by her attendance at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. After high school, she attended the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University and eventually Copenhagen Contemporary Dance School. Following graduation, she continued on to choreograph her own work, teach, and act for film. Most recently she performed in Anastasiia Krasnoshchoka’s work “Flowers Also Cry”, which has now been presented in Denmark, Sweden, and Finland. Artistically, Natalie is interested in utilizing her physicality, and is constantly trying to challenge her habits and tendencies. She loves to tell narratives, and to represent matters that are important to her. For her, dance is inherently political, and can be employed as a powerful tool to embody and give voice to critical issues.  

Michi Maxi Schulz (she/her) is an performance artist and project manager in the performing arts scene in Berlin. Her projects connect the themes of intersectional feminism, anti-ableism, and critical whiteness. Her work consists of artistic, performative and political formats. Since 2016, Michaela has been deeply engaged with the topics of dying, death, grief and care (DDGC) and in 2017 she initiated the project “#yodo – you only die once.”

Since then, she has been collaborating with artists and experts to advance the destigmatization of DDGC through various artistic means. The overarching goal of #yodo is to establish a contemporary form of artistic knowledge transfer. Michi has been volunteering as a death and grief companion at the outpatient Lazarus hospice service Berlin for the last 8 years, accompanying many people in their final stages of life. Through her years of experience as a death and grief companion, she has become an expert through experience. 

Choreographer and multidisciplinary artist. Shorlady conceives herself as an indigenous-African-European artist. She is currently studying at the Conservatory of Dance at L’Institut del Teatre specializing in choreography and performance.

She has worked in performance and visual arts with artists such as: Rigoberta Bandini, Marial Arnal, Becca Stevens among others, and with choreographers such as Alesandra Seutin, Aimar Perez Galí, Marta Ros, Helena Gispert, among others. Film directors, such as Irene Moray, Elena Martín Gimeno, María Trénor, Irene Baque.

She has worked in projects coordinated by the Festival de les llums. Het Theater Festival, Festival Grec. She is currently part of the collective Tinta Negra in Barcelona. 

Born in Estonia in 2000 and raised between Tallinn and Barcelona. Maria Solei is a dance artist who sees her field as a strong medium for freedom of expression and a uniquely abstract way to connect on important topics. She began her training at The Estonian Dance Academy and pursued filmmaking at Collegium Educationis Revaliae, subsequently dancing with ETA Kompanii for two seasons. In 2020, she commenced her studies at CCDS in Copenhagen, while collaborating with international collectives like Taikabox, Copenhagen International Arts Collective, Dansverkstæðið, and e-lektron. Recently, she performed in “Flowers Also Cry,” by Anastasia Krasnoshchoka which won the European Charlemagne Youth Prize in Denmark, and was nominated for The Best Dance Performance of the Year at the Estonian Theatre Award for “Body Of Dreams.” Maria Solei finds inspiration in refreshing and surprising details, which is why traveling and experiencing different cultures, stories, and forms of nature is one of her priorities on this journey. 

Artistic assistant, KAIHO

Sara’s academic dance career started in 2015 while studying at the Dance Arts Faculty and ended in 2018 while being part of the dance program at the Nuova Officina della Danza. In 2021 she became part of the emerging Franco-Swiss company Snorkel Rabbit, directed by Bryan Arias and Alba Carbonel Castillo, in the pieces “A distant perception” and “100 years”. Sara recently starred as a performer in “Zèbre” in collaboration with Antonin Comestaz produced by Korzo and NDT. For the last 2 years Sara has been working for KAIHO as an artistic assistant for creations such as “Watching Beards Grow’ of Equilibrio Dinamico Ensemble” and “Next Stop” of the AHK.

Marie Peeters (she/her, 1996, Leuven), studied Art History, Musicology and Theatre Studies at the University of Ghent (2018) and Film and Theatre Studies at UAntwerpen (2019). During her studies, she did dramaturgy internships at fABULEUS for Merlijn of het barre land  and at Ontroerend Goed for Loopstation.  

Since graduating, she has collaborated on performances as a dramaturge for various theatre, circus and dance companies such as collectief dOFt (TWEESTRIJD, Kapottepoppenkoppen, Zozoöfzo, Dummies en FOON), Menzo Kircz (Onduidelijke Correspondenties), Hanna Mampuys/fABULEUS (Softies), Ferre Marnef/Desnor (Ponge), Ugo Dehaes/Kwaad Bloed (Simple Machines, Limp), Sofie Palmers/fABULEUS (Off the Record), Wannes Deneer/ Matter Of Sound (Speaking Characters, BALK en RrrrrRrrRrrrrrrrr), THERE THERE Company (Chaïm), Circumstances/Piet Van Dycke (EXIT en Glorious Bodies), dinsdag.org (Alice in Randomland), Callebaut en De Broeck (Ob°joie), Senne Vanderschelden, Marius Lefever en Jef Van der Burght (Silly Symphonies), Piet Van Dycke/ fABULEUS (Beyond the Edge), jong theatergezelschap TINT (Q & A) Jakobe Geens (Organiek Mechaniek) and Anouk Friedli (Dans Dans Dans, een spel in bijna tienduizend woorden).  

Marie has been part of the artistic team of fABULEUS since 2023.  

Lara is a choreographer/dancer currently based in Copenhagen. In her work she investigates how (new) sensuous paradigms and our entanglement with them inform the constitution of perceived and shared realities. She explores how aesthetic narratives of process and change inform actual change, and how our experience of motion shapes contemporary mythologies. Lara works with dancing and embodiment processes, other mediums, such as film and text, are used in her artistic practice to mold and carry, or further develop logics of dancing. Her major works include THE SWIMMER (2022), HIKE (2022) and Body Maintenance (2021- present). She is co-founder of KOMMA Performance Productions, a member driven and collective association, supporting the development and production of dance works, based in Copenhagen. Lara holds a BA in Dance and Choreography from the Danish National School of Performing Arts, and is currently being educated as a somatic movement practitioner in BMC®.

Lighting designer, KAIHO

Thibault Condy has devoted himself for more than 15 years exclusively to the work of light(ing), in all its forms, in a cross path between cinema and live performance. First trained in the performing arts at the University of Mirail de Toulouse, as part of the III license directed by Arnaud Rykner, then in cinema imagery at the Institut des Arts de Diffusion in Belgium where he presented a research dissertation entitled “Improvised Cinema Filming:, he then continued his career as a director of photography / cinematographer and stage performance lighting designer, constantly seeking to feed one with the other. He has since collaborated with À Nos Fantômes by Cie Menteuses, Valhalla by Cie PetriDish, Mousse by Cie Scratch, Lions by Cie Poivre Rose, All The Fun and How To Welcome the Aliens by Cie EaEo, LOOP by Cie Stoptoï and ECHO of the company Le Geste qui Sauve. He is currently working in the creation of Drache Nationale by Cie Scratch, Plonger by Cie Meneuses, and Talweg by PetriDish.

Director, playwright, screenwriter. Academic of the Academy of Performing Arts of Spain. 

She has premiered about twenty plays, among them “Títuba. Bruixa, negra i ramera” (Sala Periferia. Author and Director 2021, 2022); “El combate del siglo” (Author and Director, Sala Beckett 2020-21), “Negrata de merda” (Author and director, Teatre Tantarantana 2019); “Henrietta, a serenate for Costa Rica (co author, Teatro Espressivo 2021), ”Mamita Yunai” (dramaturgy/adaptation 2016) at Teatro Espressivo in Costa Rica, “Una dona en el mirall” (author and director) at Sala Atrium in Barcelona, “La Taverna dels Bufons” (assistant director and co-writer (Focus-Teatre Romea 2016). As an actress she has participated in plays such as “What the foc” directed by Junior Mthombeni and Gerardo Salinas at the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya (2024). 

She has won awards such as the runner-up of the Marqués de Bradomín Award for theatrical texts 2006, Premi Ciutat de Manacor de Teatre, Jaume Vidal Alcover 2018; author of the VII Laboratorio de Escritura Teatral de la Fundación SGAE 2019 and resident author of Sala Beckett for the 2019-2020 season. 

She has a Dregree in Directing and Playwrighting form Institut del Teatre, Master Degree in Theatre and Cinema (Universidade da Coruña), graduate in Dramatic Arts and in Journalism by Universidad de Costa Rica (2004). 

Hannah Parsons is a queer dance artist, choreographer and performer based in London and Oslo, and working across Europe. Hannah’s practice explores voice and sound, applying a choreographic approach to sound, and a sonic approach to movement making. She creates performances with the collective Unbaptised Infants (UK/ES) most recently with the work RITUAL created and performed throughout Spain and the Basque Country. As a performer they currently work with Simone Mousset in Empire of a Faun Imaginary (LUX/FR/UK), and Elinor Lewis with the work TIMBER. She has previously worked with artists including Marina Abramovic, Martin Creed, Joe Garbett, and Seke Chimutengwende, amongst others. Hannah has performed at galleries including the Tate, the Hayward Gallery, the Serpentine, La Casa Encendida (Madrid), and Artium (Basque Country), and theatres Sadler’s Wells, Les Hivernales (Avignon), Dansens’ Hus (Oslo). Hannah graduated from Laban with a BA in Contemporary Dance in 2014. 

Nata Mandaria (she/her) is a socio-cultural worker and tries to include these facets in her work as a writer and performer. Originally from Limburg, she found her home in Brussels when she was eighteen. She herself likes to say that she grew up in “Little Georgia”. Her artistic practice often starts from her story as the daughter of Georgian Orthodox, first-generation immigrants and all the limitations, blessings and curses that entails. Someone once told her that everything starts with “a feeling.” She gives that feeling back to an audience through rhythmic spoken words. Nata has previously performed with her spoken word at Outside In Festival, FASHIONCLASH, Theater Aan Zee and Europalia Georgia. As a performer, she has played parts in Samuel Valor Reyes’ The Age of Love and (The Age Of) Resurrection. After a four year break, she has delved into making theatre again with her most recent work in progress ‘moederwittevrouwen / თეთრი დედა ქალები’. 

Maria Lothe is a dance artist / activist based in Oslo, working in various group constellations as a performer, and as a performer and choreographer in her own and collective works. She thrives in collaborative working environments, and is interested in the meeting point between movement, voice and object work, the site specific and processes in nature and culture. Maria has performed for artists and companies within dance, theatre and performance art, mainly in Norway and the UK, most recently with BodyCartography Project in the outdoor work “Resisting Extinction”, Karstein Solli in the body voice research “Stemmer Overens” and Kalfoss/Mikalsen in the community project “Lonely Riders”. She has a two year degree in choreography and improvisation from Skolen for Samtidsdans in Oslo (2012) and a BA in contemporary dance from Trinity Laban in London (2015). Maria is the recipient of the Norwegian government grant for young artists in 2023-2024.

Ingvild Marstein Olsen is a Norwegian dance artist based in Oslo, she works in Norway and also across the European dance scene. Ingvild is interested in collaborative work across the cultural fields and takes on the role as a performer and choreographer. Ingvild also created the multidisciplinary work River Being (2022), which currently tours the European dance scene. She has worked with Panta Rei Danseteater (2019), in the multiple roles of performer, choreographer, and coordinator. Ingvild has performed in works, both outdoors, in galleries and on stage for choreographers such as; Katrine Kirsebom, Rahel Vonmoos, Alison Curtis-Jones, and Deborah Lennie. Ingvild graduated from Laban with a MA in Dance Performance (Transitions Dance Company) and BA in Contemporary Dance.

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Degree in Dramatic Art from the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona Master in Performing Arts from the UAB. Actress in plays such as El día del Watusi. Director Iván Morales, La plaça del Diamant. Director Carlota Subirós, Immunitat. Director Jordi Casanovas, Salvació Imminent… Director Pau Roca, Bonus Track. Director Cárol López, Un Déu Salvatge. Jasmina Reza. Director Tamzin Townsend. Teatre Goya; among many others. In the audiovisual field, he has participated in productions such as La Mesías. Directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi. Movistar Plus+ (Nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Actors and Actresses Union Awards. Red Queen. Directed by Koldo Serra. Prime Video; Zorras. Directed by Aritz Moreno and Ana Vázquez. Atresplayer; Días Mejores. Dir. Alejo Flah. Atresplayer and Com si fos ahir Dir. Sònia Sánchez, and En la ciudad, by Cesc Gay, among others. 

Dance artist, performer and choreographer based in Oslo. Olivia is dedicated to the practice of performance and this work has taken her to international stages in both independent and dance company environments. Notably with Candoco Dance Company 2017-22, she performed the work of makers: Jeanine Durning, Yasmeen Godder, Trisha Brown Company, Jerome Bel, Eun Me Ahn, and Jo Bannon. Olivia collaborates as a performer/choreographer in other contexts in mixed-media environments, most recently in Switzerland with River Being (2022). She studied Contemporary Dance (BA) at Laban 2012-15, and has an MA in Dance Performance, Laban 2015/16. The practice of performance and the labour of the dancer is her main motivation and fire. Olivia wants to build and be exposed to more performative experiences, to work in the material of the dancing performing body.

Ran is a choreographer and artist-researcher who resides in Copenhagen and partly in Seoul. Based on her autoethnography, she has created multidisciplinary performances upon shamanism and traditional dances from post-colonial perspectives. After relocating to Denmark, she engaged in a climate activism performance group, Becoming Species. She sees the potential in intertwined narratives of decentralized collective activism, multispecies practices, and relearning indigenous cosmology & ancestral tradition. Her current practice is participating in and writing these movements and regenerating everyday communal rituals. She studied MFA in Choreography at KNUA and MA in Religious Studies at KU. Her major works include I Confess My Faith (2012), The God of the Earth Comes Up Imperfectly (2013), The Death of Vagina (2015), Floating Bottle Project (2016–2019) and most recently ‘We/Re Confess Our Faith (2023).

Karl is a Brazilian-born composer, sound artist & technician currently living in Copenhagen, Denmark. Navigating at the intersection of Art & Technology, often using software programming environments to design custom interactive systems for compositions, performances and installations. Karl currently works as a sound designer and technician for theatre and other performing arts. 

Performer and ARTivist for the rights of the people with disabilities. Affected by the polio epidemic in June 1961. Since 2010 in the world of integrated dance participating in dance workshops with companies such as Cando Co, Cía. Jordi Cortés, Alta Realitat, Marisa Brugarolas, Adam Benjamin, Stop Gap, Thomas Mettler. Performer and integrated dancer in the company “Liant la Troca”. Integrated dancer performer in “l’Associaciació KIAKAHART, Arts en Moviment”. He collaborates in the collective “En torno en la Silla”, co-creating free design objects of support for mobility for people with disabilities. Speaker at TEDx Talk Madrid 2015. He collaborates as an accessibility reporter for the “Codi de Barris” program between 2016 and 2018. Between 2019 and 2022 he participated as an actor and dancer in the Dutch dance documentary A way to B, by Jos de Putter and Clara van Gool. 

Prokhor Gusev is an exile theatre and sound artist who utilizes the new-processual method of Boris Yukhananov and the “impulse” method of Tamara Dascinskaya, which incorporates P.M. Ershov’s practices, yoga, and meditation. His work delves into themes of theatre as a spiritual practice, equality, and challenging societal stereotypes, often with a political lens. Prokhor Gusev creates a wide range of artistic projects as a director, producer and actor, including documentary works, immersive installations, and puppet and shadow theatre. Together with Gulnara Iskakova he founded ISKRA production – theater company that is working with different types of performing arts. 

Pianist, composer, DJ facilitator in Ecstatic Dance and actor. They have worked as a classical piano player until their condition in chronic fatigue. They are a member of “Trans*poesía”, a music-poetic project of love and politics around the trans experience. They have composed and performed the music of Akompasado, by Jordi Cortès contemporary dance company. They are the creator of “Patas Arriba, guerrila poético musical” (@patasarriba21), together with the poet Gemma Almagro. They have founded “Ecstatic Dance Barbàrie project” (@ecstaticdancebarbarie), a safe space for BIPOC, neurodiverse people and sexual, gender and functional diversities. They promote the visibility of transfeminist and functional diversity movements and participate in the integrated dance company Liant la Troca. They are a collaborator of “Associació Endometriosi Catalunya”.  

Kadri Sirel is an Estonian choreographer, performer, and artist researcher whose often site-specific projects address the topic of production. Be it self-production, production of meanings, values or products, she works with the dancing body to investigate the tension between individual and societal desires. Her methods include improvisation and somatic practices, documentation, and co-creation to reimagine the value of dancers’ labour within capitalism. She graduated from the Viljandi Culture Academy Dance Art department (EST) and holds a Master’s degree from the Home of Performance Practices at the ArtEZ University of Arts (NL).

Laura Morales Dávila(Seville,1986) is a choreographer and performer graduated of a professional Dance Conservatory in Seville,Spain. Best dancer award by the AISGE Foundation to attend as international choreographer to the American Dance Festival. In 2013, together with Greta García, created the multidisciplinary collective Hermanas Gestring, winning the first prize in the Certamen Coreográfico de Madrid. In 2017 she premiered her first solo, starting that year her own company, Laura Morales.She has collaborated with Horacio Macuacua ,Aitana Cordero, Judith Sánchez Ruiz in “Encaje for Ten” which premiered at Uferstudios 2019 and Trauma Bar & Kino in 2021, with Caroline Beach in “Sailor on Aisle 5” and SONDERANGEBOT. In 2020, she created “Me Laura Palmer” which was produced by the Lofft Theatre in Leipzig. And her last production “El último acto de Fe” premiered en 2021 at the Teatro Central de Sevilla. 

Steph Quinci is a Berlin-based dance and performance artist. Their aesthetic and research-based pursuits are defined by soft a legato demeanour, sculptural studies, release, and suppleness. Their dance background is a mix of classical ballet, American modern dance, and their studies as a junior collective member with the Compania Zappala in Sicily. Since five years they’ve danced with Paula Rosolen/Haptic Hide (Frankfurt AM), as well as working often with Go Plastic Company (Dresden), Caroline Beach (Berlin), Sandra Man (Berlin), Enad Marouf (Berlin) and as a guest performaner for Constanza Macras/Dorky Park (Berlin). 

Valeria Januškevitš acquired the profession of choreographer and dance teacher in 2017 at the University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy, Estonia and currently works in Estonia as a freelance dance artist and dance teacher. During her university studies she had exchange studies in Austria and Portugal. In the past her movement research focus has been on identity, authenticity and memory- creative and research residencies at Viljandi Koidu Seltsimaja, Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava. For the past year she has been in a collaborative research process that evolved into performance Artefakturism: farces and ruins. Also in the past year she’s been in TantsuRUUM residency (Estonia) focusing on creating parallels between eco- anxiety and movement research, finding tools to connect body and physicality with her performance idea. In recent years, Valeria has collaborated with performance artists as choreographer, dancer, director, artist and dramaturg.

Master of ceremonies, rhapsode, facilitator, carpenter. Singer and writer of the rap group “BOCAdeBABA” and the rap-metal group “Prosòdia”. They moderate events such as Rima Hip Hop Fest, Cabaret Trans, Festival de Curts de Terror Can Batlló, Assajar és de cobards, Cabaret de Risc de 9barris. In 2021 they performed in “Heroïnes o res”, directed by I. Morales and D. Climent, premiered at the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya. In 2022 they participated in the research residency “Ramas y Rizomas” with La Cosateria Teatre, at the Sala Mutant in Valencia, and in the creation -assistant director and sound space- of the piece “En mi piel todos los bosques”, by L. Lloret Veciana, premiered at the Sala Ultramar. They participated as an interpreter in “Amor, matrimoni i altres assumptes menors” at Sala Beckett Barcelona, in the context of Grec 2022. They write and promote videos. Workshop teacher on rap, creation and LGTBIQ+ diversity.   

Kerli Ever (she/her) engages with performing arts (mostly dance) in various ways: at times as a dramaturg, at times as a critic, at times simply as a part of the audience. She has an academic background in Theatre Research (MA, 2022, Tartu University), in Culture Theory (BA, 2015, Tallinn University), and in Reviewing-Editing (BA, 2011, Tallinn University). Her work so far can be characterized by her focus on bodily sensations seen as inherently political. Currently she is interested in ruins (both literally and figuratively) as not only the traces of something now absent, but also as fertile grounds for new directions. Alongside theatre projects she is working as an editor of study materials for civic and health education in schools. Kerli lives in Tallinn.

Sigrid Savi is a choreographer and performance artist based in Berlin and Tallinn. Her work has been characterized as socio-critical, melancholic, absurd and entertaining. She has done her performances from theaters and clubs to galleries and even on a rooftop and in the limestone quarry. Besides doing solo works she recently started to create together with other choreographers, visual artists and composers.

Afrofeminist creator, graduated in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and in Communication at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Trained at the Col-legi del Teatre de Barcelona. Part of the Tinta Negra collective. She was a resident scriptwriter in the first edition of the Residence for Screenwriters of the Academy of Catalan Cinema, under the direction of Carla Simón. As an actress she has participated in “What the foc” directed by Junior Mthombeni and Gerardo Salinas at the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya (2024), in the monologue “Fam”, directed by Ester Nadal; “Assaig sobre la ceguesa” by José Saramago in 2022, and the dramatized reading of “Running for democracy” in the project “Between Lands” directed by Michael de Cook in 2021, among others. 

Amelie Sabbagh (Würzburg, 1991) is a performance artist, stage/costume designer, and activist working in the fields of theater, dance, and performance. After completing a degree in theater, film, and media studies in Vienna, she studied stage and costume design at the HfBK Dresden as well as Fine Arts at the University of Leeds in England. She explores themes of sexualization of femme bodies, female anger, and gender inequality and racism in both digital and analogue spaces. Her works have been shown at venues such as the Volkstheater Wien, objekt klein a Dresden, Hole of Fame, and the Festspielhaus Hellerau. She did costume design for “The Kidnapping of the Bride,” which won the Short Film Jury Award at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. 

Caroline Beach (Dallas, Texas, 1990) is a choreographer and performance artist based in Dresden and Berlin. She holds an MA in Choreography from the Palucca Hochschule and is finishing a Masters at the AdBK Nürnberg under prof. JP Raether. She has made works for a multitude of spaces across a range of mediums including theaters, galleries, offspaces, a lake, the Internet, and a media storage closet. She explores much of her work through the lens of Sailor, a slippery and permeable avatar that sails around the materiality of desire beyond the neoliberal chokehold. She plays in the band Cocktail Napkin with Casey Ouzounis. 

Lisa Rüger (Bergisch Gladbach, 1993) is performance artist, strip-performer, costume designer and set designer. She is a passionate advocate of the pro-sexwork movement with a focus on queer-femme bodies. In 2022, Lisa completed her degree in stage and costume design at HfBK Dresden, studying as well at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her work has been featured in various off-spaces, festivals and clubs, as well as at the Fusion Festival, the Theaterakademie August Everding in Munich, the NSDokumentationszentrum in Munich, the Körber Studio Junge Regie 2021, the Staatstheater Saarbrücken, the Staatstheater Kassel, and Hellerau, Zentrum für Europäische Künste. 

Keity Pook is an Estonian, UK-based performance artist, choreographer, dance teacher, and movement director. She holds an MA from the London Contemporary Dance School and a BA in Choreography and Dance Pedagogy from the University of Tartu. In 2020, she co-founded ‘inklingroom’, an art collective hosting sound and dance events in London, Berlin, Tallinn, and Bristol. In addition, she curated “Movement Class with inklingroom”, an interactive radio show at Netil Radio in 2021 featuring emerging choreographers. Art Council England awarded her a Creative Development fund for her project ‘Choreography to Cinematography’. In 2022, she received support from Arts Council England, PRS Foundation, and Help Musicians to create multidisciplinary live performances with electronic composer Yraki. Her work explores the individual’s experience in a contemporary world context juxtaposed with natural and sociopolitical environments, often representing it through post-internet aesthetical presence.

Author and performer, KAIHO

Marina Cherry is a contortionist/acro-dancer, educated at ESAC (Brussels) and ENC (Montreal). Her research-based approach to creation and performing puts her somewhere between dance, contemporary circus and physical theatre; with her body as the tool of manipulation and method for redefining traditional constructs and deconstructing techniques to find her own language. She is currently based in Brussels and is still actively touring her first solo show Only Bones v.1.6 (original conception by Thomas Monckton) as well as working on collaborative projects around Europe, including companies Les Argonauts (BE), Petri Dish (BE/SE), Cirkus Cirkör (SE), and Vaudeville by the Decavita Sisters (SE). Marina has recently completed a degree in philosophy with the University of London (2022).

Artistic director, KAIHO

Brandon Lagaert has mainly crafted his signature style while working for the internationally renowned dance-theatre company Peeping Tom as a multidisciplinary performer in the pieces ‘Vader’, ‘Moeder’, ‘Kind’, ‘Dido & Aeneas’ and ‘La Visita’. Touring with the company worldwide for a decade he was an integral part and known for his surreal mixture between text and movement. Lagaert combines elements coming from different disciplines such as urban / contemporary dance, theatre / film into a unique style. He does this under the name of his company KAIHO of which the award-winning performances ‘Subdued’ and ‘Doggy Rugburn’ have been an integral part. Since 2023 on he has been focussing heavily on building out his company through various collaborations: A site specific creation called “Abandoned Minds” with Rui Paixāo and a new touring performance for dance company Equilibrio Dinamico called “Welcome to my funeral”.