(short biographies by the time of the residency)
Aline Landreau started to dance when she was five years old in a small town in the South-West of France. Following later on philosophy studies in Bordeaux university, she entered upon the Conservatory in 2002 in the contemporary dance course. She started back then to explore composition and improvisation related to contemporary music. In 2005, she joined the dance program F.A.C. in CNDC (Centre national de danse contemporaine) in Angers, and met artists such as Ko Murobushi, Vera Mantero, Nicolas Floc’h, Sylvain Prunenec, Shelley Senter and Emmanuelle Huynh. Joining Essais, the authorship course of CNDC in 2009, she developed a personal choreographic research, in dialog with Jennifer Lacey, Nuno Bizarro, Lia Rodrigues, Akira Kasaï and Vincent Dupont. Some performances, videos and sound installations arose, exploring the issue of perception trouble within the theater frame, in parallel with an idea of primitive identity, opening out a research on textures and un-distinguishing processes. Since 2007 she has been performing with Loïc Touzé, Emmanuelle Huynh, Kosei Sakamoto, and lately Vincent Dupont, and goes on collaboration projects related to sound practices. She also teaches since several years in different contexts, following her interest for somatic technics, practices sharing and improvisation frames. She co-founded and administrate Météores a production platform dedicated to young choreographers since 2010. http://www.alinelandreau.com/aline.landreau/accueil.html
Ana Rocha. Degree in Art History - University of Porto. Postgraduate on Contemporary Art Portuguese –Instituto Camões. Training in Fine Arts – Soares dos Reis High School. Training in contemporary dance, contact improvisation, choreography \ dramaturgy, performance, voice, somatic practices (feldenkrais, bodymind centering, alexander technic, release technic), kundalini yoga , chi Quong and tai chi. In January 2012, solo debut "Fraud by Nature" in Tanztage Festival in Berlin. DanceWeb'12 Impulstanz Festival - Vienna, with the support of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. INOVART 2010 \ 2011 international internship, at Uferstudios (Berlin). In September 2012, participated in SPCP - Deborah Hay in Findhorn \ Scotland. "Dynamic - turn your fucking head" solo which will debut in May 2013, after 9 months of practice. Collaborates with Meg Stuart since January 2012, as her assistant - and choreography produçtion Co-director of Mezzanine - www, mezzanine.pt – Obra Madrasta - www.obramadrasta.com. On going collaborater as a producer, dramaturg and cultural observer with portuguese and international artists since 2002. http://www.mezzanine.pt/
Jean-Lorin Sterian is a writer, playwright, performer and anthropologist. He has published five books of fiction and one of anthropology. He worked for some years as journalist for glossy magazines. In 2005, he resigned and went to Morroco to work as a volunteer. He has directed the documentaries: Gay in Romania (2006), The Playback Lesson (about his own band, 2007) and Smaller and Smaller Italy (2010). In 2008 he won DramAcum contest with the play Three in the Bench. Also in 2008 he created the lorgean theatre – “a theatre of intimate spaces” in his own flat, an open place for actors and dancers, which became a trade mark for alternative culture of Bucharest. He performed in the play Inertia for everybody (2010) with
Eduard Gabia, Alexandra Pirici, Maria Baroncea and Vlad Basalici. He performed several times at Casual Wednesday at Romanian Center of the Dance. He participated at workshops with Bojana Cvejic, Ivo Dimchev, Brynjar Bandlien, Florin Fieroiu, Eduard Gabia, Manuel Pelmus, Anne Juren, Janez Jansa, Ivo Dimchev, Alva Noe, Igor Dobricic. In 2012 he received the danceWEB scholarship for ImpulsTanz Vienna 2012 and the residency at Marguerite Yourcenar Villa. He made his solo debut in performance (Zugzwang, 2012) at Platforma.ro, eXplore Festival. He is deeply intersted in art and music. http://lorgean.wordpress.com/
Julian Barnett is a choreographer, performer, musician and teacher. He was born in Tokyo, Japan, grew up in Northern California, lives in New York City, and works regularly in Europe. His work is a colorful juxtaposition of dance, philosophy, visual art, film and music, all of which explore forms that have the ability to intensify subjectivity within space and time. This collaborative lens is frequently in play with new modes of sound perception, where live musical components are often created from the performers themselves. Julian has received critical acclaim for his growing body of work and his works have been invited throughout North America, Europe and Asia. His first work FLOAT, was acquired by the repertory company Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and performed internationally. Since FLOAT, Julian has focused on longer experimental works, creating BRIDGE (K3, Hamburg), MONUMENT (Dansateliers, Netherlands) and SOUND MEMORY (Danspace Project, NY), which was highlighted as one of the "Best of 2009" for Dance by Time Out New York. Julian studied dance, music and film at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and was a danceWEB scholar at Impulstanz in Vienna, Austria. In 2012, he completed the ArtEZ master of choreography program in Arnhem, Netherlands. http://www.julianbarnett.com/
Lilach Livne is an independent performing artist and a choreographer. At 2010 she studied choreography at the School for New Dance Development (SNDO), Amsterdam and on 2009 she graduated from Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD), Salzburg. Last summer, July 2012, she received a scholarship as a DanceWEB member at the Impulstanz Festival in Vienna. Nowadays Lilach is a student of Philosophy and Gender Studies in Tel Aviv University and beside that she is developing her research-performance "Hora for holders" which is dealing with the choreography of the ego, trying to find ways how a social experiment is the performance, how to build an undefined body from an undefined dialogue, how to not separate things from others because everything is one. She will present her research in three different platforms in a different frame each time: first at "Hanut" gallery, which host her for a residency for two months, there she will experiment the research on her mother, Second is a festival at Jaffa port, there she will experiment the research on a big group of women, trying to escape from images that they are locked in them, and the Third one is "New Dance" festival in Jerusalem which also support her process. Lilach received Scholarships from "Pais – Isreal Lottery Council for culture and art", and from "Israel-America Foundation". Lilach created several works in them "Monday Larissa – The Practice of saving", "we are performing-Let's make it Real", "Kein Schmerz=No pain" and more and she presented them in different theaters, festivals and galleries in Isreal and in Europe. Lilach also collaborated with the artist Andrious Mulokas several times and she worked with different choreographers as "Matanicola", Deborah Hay and more. Lilach believes that art is an emergency. http://lilachlivne.wix.com/covered
Mihaela Dancs. Former dentist Mihaela Dancs is currently a performer and choreographer based in Bucharest. Since 2004 she has danced among others for Allyson Green, Catalina Gubandru, Andreea Capitanescu, Florin Flueras, Maria Baroncea & Eduard Gabia, Bernard Baumgarten, Vava Stefanescu, Madalina Dan, Robin Dingemans. Her works include collaborations with Rui Catalao (Coada Soricelului and Follow That Summer), Carmen Cotofana (First Steps) and Madalina Dan ((anti) aging), solos (Reprogramare, Lulu’s Room, The Greatest Loss of All – adaptation of Deborah Hay’s Art and Life, Solo Performing Commissioning Project 2010), and have been presented in theaters, apartments, attics, churches, factories, art galleries and dance studios in Bucharest, Cluj, Timisoara, New York, San Diego, London, Riga, Venice etc. Since 2009 she teaches contemporary dance classes for non professionals and runs movement labs mostly organized by The National Dance Center Bucharest (CNDB). Together with Madalina Dan she develops an artistic practice, Creative Sanatorium, which she shares through workshops with actors, dancers and makers. In 2012 she initiates Azuga Summer School, an annually cultural intervention project and arts education program for kids with different social and cultural backgrounds. In 2010 and 2012 she receives the danceWEB Scholarship in Vienna.
Neil Callaghan has been making contemporary performance since 2002. He has worked with varoius constellations of people, including De Quincey Co. (Australia), Foreign Affairs (Germany), Emilyn Claid (UK), FATHoM (UK) and Kazuko Hoki (UK/Japan). He is an associate artist of Uninvited Guests (UK) and Hauser (UK). In August 2003, he co-founded ‘propeller’ performance along with other graduates from Dartington College of Arts. He is also involved in an on-going collaboration with Simone Kenyon, with whom he has made three performances and undertaken several education projects. More recently he has been working with David Rosenberg and Frauke Requardt on ‘Electric Hotel’ a co-production between Sadlers Wells and Fuel and the Motorshow, a LIFT festival commission. Since 2009 he has been a member of Lea Anderson’s all male dance company the Featherstonehaughs until the company’s final tour in 2011. Neil is also an Associate Artist of the National Youth Theatre, BAC and The Point, Eastleigh. He most recently made a solo, commissioned by Chisenhale Dance Space. Neil was a DanceWEB Scholarship recipient at Impulstanz Festival/2012 with the mentoring of Benoît Lachambre and Robin Poitras. He regularly teaches workshops at Dartington College of Arts, Roehampton University and Lancaster University. http://www.neilandsimone.co.uk/
Neil Callaghan has been making contemporary performance since 2002. He has worked with varoius constellations of people, including De Quincey Co. (Australia), Foreign Affairs (Germany), Emilyn Claid (UK), FATHoM (UK) and Kazuko Hoki (UK/Japan). He is an associate artist of Uninvited Guests (UK) and Hauser (UK). In August 2003, he co-founded ‘propeller’ performance along with other graduates from Dartington College of Arts. He is also involved in an on-going collaboration with Simone Kenyon, with whom he has made three performances and undertaken several education projects. More recently he has been working with David Rosenberg and Frauke Requardt on ‘Electric Hotel’ a co-production between Sadlers Wells and Fuel and the Motorshow, a LIFT festival commission. Since 2009 he has been a member of Lea Anderson’s all male dance company the Featherstonehaughs until the company’s final tour in 2011. Neil is also an Associate Artist of the National Youth Theatre, BAC and The Point, Eastleigh. He most recently made a solo, commissioned by Chisenhale Dance Space. Neil was a DanceWEB Scholarship recipient at Impulstanz Festival/2012 with the mentoring of Benoît Lachambre and Robin Poitras. He regularly teaches workshops at Dartington College of Arts, Roehampton University and Lancaster University. http://www.neilandsimone.co.uk/
Sofia Dias - Independent dancer/choreographer. Graduated by the National Conservatory of Dance in Lisbon. In 2001, she went to New York with the support of the Portuguese Ministry of Culture (I.P.A.E.) and guidance of Margarida Bettencourt; she attended the continuous formation at C.e.m. (Centro em Movimento) and kept on making many different workshops. In 2004 Sofia took part in the International Theatre Course La Nouvelle École des Maîtres, Project Thierry Salmon, with Jan Fabre; Material for the Spine with Steve Paxton/2011; and most recently on the DanceWEB Scholarship program at Impulstanz Festival/2012 with the mentoring of Benoît Lachambre and Robin Poitras, supported by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. In 2013 she was part of Residence & Reflection project from Kunstenfestivaldesarts, in Brussels. As a peformer she has worked with Sofia Neuparth, Ronit Ziv/Companhia Instável, Javier de Frutos/C.I., Alias Compagnie/Guilherme Botelho, Lilia Mestre/Random Scream, Corinne Rochet/Co. Utilité Publique, Maria Ramos, Luís Guerra de Laocoi, Tânia Carvalho, Clara Andermatt and Marco Martins, amongst others. Since 2006 she collaborates with Vítor Roriz co-creating several choreographic works presented in Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, France, Germany, Romania, Belgium, England, The Netherlands, Slovenia, Cyprus, Poland, Finland and Brazil. She's been teaching many workshops/classes (at C.e.m., Fórum Dança, Companhia Instável and Nomadic Modules/Alkantara, ESAD - Caldas da Raínha, FCverão, CDC Toulouse, Festival de Dança Contemporânea de São Paulo). In paralel she does experimental sound work, creating the soundscapes for her works and collaborations. http://sofiadiasvitorroriz.blogspot.pt/
outside visitor - Pedro Rosa (Horta, 1983). Estudou dança no Balleteatro e licenciou-se em Dança/Coreografia na ArtEZ School of Dance, em Arnhem, na Holanda. Dançou em peças de Né Barros, Victor Hugo Pontes, David Brandstaeter e Malgven Gerbes, Joclécio Azevedo, Katharina Horn e Simone Truong, entre outros. Como coreógrafo criou “88888”, "New Bodies for Invisible People", “Do outro lado espera a sombra” (Prémio LABJOVEM 2009) e “Hyper Nova Utopic Empire”, uma performance transdisciplinar inspirada no conceito de ficção científica. Recentemente dirigiu e estreou “A Construção”, um projecto de dança na comunidade do Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte com reclusas do Estabelecimento Prisional Especial de Santa Cruz do Bispo. Desde 2008 colabora proximamente com o Balleteatro, tendo leccionado nos cursos profissionais de Dança e Teatro, assim como no Serviço Educativo. Foi também Artista Associado do Balleteatro em 2009 e 2011. Em 2012 foi bolseiro da Gulbenkian no programa DanceWEB em Viena, Áustria. Desde Setembro 2013 integra a nova equipa artística do Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte. Em 2014 irá estrear PLAY GAME, um projecto de performance interactiva e escrita não-linear para smartphone, criado em colaboração com o dramaturgo Jorge Palinhos.
