Marie Hallager Andersen
Marie Hallager Andersen is a dance artist and filmmaker working in the intersection of performance, film and installation. She trained in dance and holds an MA Creative Practice from Trinity Laban. She works across disciplines with anthropologists, film scholars, sound artists and other performers. She is interested in the tension between process and product and likes to foreground the work that is happening in the lived life in between the ‘important moments’.
As a mother of two girls, her attention for the last ten years has been divided between being a carer and creating artistic and academic work. So she has placed care work at the centre of her creation: motherhood, care for an elderly relative, and physical and mental health have become key concerns in her work. Through collaborations she explores the making of hybrid outcomes combining performance with film projections, lectures and installation. Her work investigates bodies and relationships in their aging, changing and porosity.
Marie is based in Horsens, Denmark.Website | Instagram
Natalia Barua
Natalia Barua is an award-winning dance artist and choreographer working predominantly in videodance, interdisciplinary performance and participation. Her work experiments with theatricality and form, attempting to explore a true synthesis of dance and video language, manifesting in single and multi-screen films, installations and performances. Her work has been presented at multiple screendance festivals and venues worldwide.
Natalia’s practice with communities has been evolving for over a decade, the focus of her work with children and teenagers, where she interacts as a collaborator, teacher and facilitator. She has particular experience working with groups with specialist educational needs and disabilities and in settings/areas where young people have very limited access to support and opportunities. Natalia is concerned with escapism and raising aspirations in this work, not with ‘fixing’ an issue in the community – enabling her the freedom to follow her artistic interests and giving the people she works with a genuine, undiluted experience of art.
Natalia is based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Shaq George
Shaquille was born and raised on Curaçao, at the age of 18 he came to the Netherlands to pursue a career as a professional dancer.
For the first two years he attended Albeda Dans College where he received formal training. Before that everything he knew was self-taught. After realising he wanted to dive deeper into the world of contemporary, he switched education and went to Fontys Hogeschool voor de Kunsten and graduated from the Contemporary Urban department in 2019. In the course of his studies, he received an opportunity to work and assist various choreographers and companies. He has worked with Amenti, In-Motus, Xclusiv Company & his own creations. After gaining knowledge and experience with said companies, he now ventures to further expand his horizon as a performer & choreographer. He believes in the mixture of various dance disciplines loaded with emotional value. Dance is not just an art form but a freedom of expression as well as an outlet for emotions.
Shaq is based in Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
Chelsea Gordon
Chelsea is a neurodivergent movement artist interested in people, communication and the role of identity within their self-expression. Their practice currently investigates the instinctive choreographies within the body and the way in which these instructions dictate how we navigate people and space. Specifically working with community dancers, Chelsea is interested in editing and curating these patterns to reveal new pathways and possibilities for movement.
Recently, Chelsea has recently completed an international research project, looking into the nuances of non-verbal communication in storytelling amongst the people of Jamaica. Exploring how timing, volume, and repetition are used universally to aid in expression and translation.
Chelsea is based in Birmingham, England.
Lovísa Ósk Gunnarsdóttir
Dancer and choreographer, Lovísa Ósk Gunnarsdóttir, has danced her whole life. After 16 years of a successful career at Iceland Dance Company she suffered an injury that forced her to reconsider her relationship with dance, the body, and her artistic practice. This process, along with the vivid feeling of an aging body, opened her eyes to the silence around menopause and her own lack of knowledge on the subject. She began researching and interviewing menopausal women in her local community. This led her to a masters degree in Performance Practice at Iceland ́s University of the Arts where she further developed her artistic practice and conducted research that revolved around aging, connecting to the body’s knowledge, history and menopause.
Lovísa is based in Iceland.
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Hubert Mielke
Hubert Mielke is a choreographer and dancer from both Poland and Germany. He studied at the National Music School in Poland and completed his dance education at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance SEAD in Austria in the direction of choreography and contemporary dance. He is the co-founder of LEHM Collective. His approach to choreography involves using movement as a means to explore concepts related to time, collective emergence and discordance.
Hubert is based in Ratingen, NRW Germany.
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Jacqueline Neuenhausen
Jacqueline Neuenhausen is an urban dancer, performer and choreographer, inspired by different movement techniques and interested in the identity-forming character of dance.
After learning from professional dancers and actors in the “B2B” youth company of the Tanzhaus NRW from 2014 to 2016, she continued her education in numerous workshops and courses with national and international dancers of all dance styles. She took part in various pieces and shows, directed by well-known choreographers and actors. Furthermore, she regularly takes part in battles and other competitions in Germany and abroad.
Jacqueline is a member of the Metamorphose Company of Kabawil e.V. and part of the Pandora Collective. She also was a member of the New Wave Ensemble, with whom she developed and performed various pieces. In 2022 she was on tour in with the dance theater piece “Der Weihnachtsroboter”.
Jacqueline is based in Düsseldorf, NRW Germany.
Bakani Pick-Up
Bakani is a choreographer, movement artist & improvisation practitioner. As well as creating their own work they have performed nationally and internationally works by Theo Clinkard, Anthea Hamilton & Fevered Sleep. With practice as research at the core of their work, they explore decolonisation through dance practice, haptic visuality and choreographic research.
Bakani is based in Leeds, England.
Anni Puuperä
Anni Puuperä is a Finnish contemporary dance artist based in Helsinki. She works as a choreographer, community artist, performer and dance teacher. She approaches dance through corporal movement, writing and visual arts.
Anni has worked as a dance artist in many theaters in Finland such as Zodiak – Centre for new dance, Oulu Theatre and Viirus theater. She has also performed in various festivals such as Sidestep festival and Urbanapa festival. Anni has created community dance projects with different kinds of groups since 2017. She has done artistic work with children, youth, elderly and groups who have special needs. In 2019 she made a collaboration with Kone foundation and was one of the artists in Community art trienal at Saari residence in Mynämäki, Finland.
Anni enjoys working with themes such as inclusivity and feminist pedagogy. Collaborative work and working with open questions are important working methods for her. She values practices where it is possible to share and create together. In her opinion, making and experiencing art should be available for everybody.
Anni is based in Helsinki, Finland.
Dylan Quinn
Dylan has been Artistic Director of Dylan Quinn Dance Theatre since 2010 and a dance artist for 26 years. He has worked primarily across the UK and Ireland and choreographed 14 professional productions including being engaged as Movement Director on numerous theatre productions, receiving a nominee as Movement Director in the Irish Times Theatre Awards as a result. A significant focus of his work is the social, cultural and political context of his environment and the value of artistic practice, specifically dance.
He was fortunate to be one of the Abbey Theatre 2021 Commemoration Artists and as a result he is currently developing a new piece of work from this programme. Having been engaged in participatory work and reflecting dance practice approaches for many years, he has a strong commitment to supporting the development of dance within his local context. He supports this through his direct practice, the company he has established, and in his role as Deputy Chair of People Dancing (UK).
Dylan is based in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland.
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