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Petya Stoykova (Bulgaria) is the founder, a teacher and a choreographer of the Dance Company DUNE. She graduated Ballet Directing from New Bulgarian University - Sofia, achieving professional qualification for Ballet Master - Director, Pedagogue. She specialises contemporary dance in many international dance ateliers and projects. Laureate of various prizes for choreography and dance (when participated with the formation Forsait) from national modern ballet contests. She has also won the National award for Choreography at the young choreographers contest Margarita Arnaudova, Sofia, in 1999. Petya had a scholarship from UNESCO for a stay with creative purposes in Senegal in 1999.
photo: Sofia Live
Violeta Vitanova (Bulgaria) is one of the most provocative and interesting young artists at independent practice, mostly performing in the independent sector. She graduated the National School of Dance Art, Sofia in 2003; in 2008 she received her Diploma from the National Music Academy "Pancho Vladigerov", specialising in Ballet Pedagogy. In 2005 she specialised in Contemporary Dance during the one-year program of Collectif du Marchepied in Lausanne, Switzerland where she was an intern at the Linga Dance Company. As a dancer, she has worked for Zevada - Sierre, Switzerland and for Derida Dance - Spain/Bulgaria.
Between 2008-2009 Violeta Vitanova and Stanislav Genadiev, along with Miroslav Yordanov, Diana Papazova and Ognyana Serafimova founded the contemporary dance company Kinesthetic Project. She becomes well known after her collaboration with Stanislav Genadiev in 2006 when the two of them create one of the most interesting and innovative contemporary dance projects: the multimedia performance Imago for which they win an Ikar in 2007 in the category Debut - the first award for a contemporary dance project given by the Union of Artists Bulgaria.
Sasha Dodo (Russia) is a writer of fairy tales, director of live poems, organizer of the creative festivals, labs and workshops.
"My directing career began long ago, but till this day all my best work is not presented to the public and is not documented, the rest of it is not interesting to speak about. It seems to me that the best works of art happen by themselves, without any special training. I like to move in this direction, to open what is open, to see in the casual a finely organized presentation. And it's all because I like poetry, like when an answer is ambiguous. I like when life is mysterious enough, it gives the whole a special quality."
Nowness - festival of spontaneous creativity 2012-2014, Center of Spontaneous Creativity Shantambala, Odessa, Ukraine
Solipsis - art lab about: poetry, dance improvisation and performance. 2016-2017, International.
Attila Bordás (Romania) is an independent artist well known as a choreographer, performer, contemporary dance trainer and theatre director. He believes in the variety and combination of stage arts, creating and directing theatre, dance theatre and physical theatre, sometimes performing in the works himself. He collaborates with different prestigious state theatres around the country and abroad. At a very young age, he began teaching dance and theatre, working mostly in Romania, but also teaching classes and workshops in Hungary as well in Greece. More recently, he has contributed to musicals, operas and open-air performances also, and was invited as a choreographer/ teacher at the University of Arts (U.A.T.) in Targu Mures and University of Theatre and Television Cluj-Napoca (U.B.B) for different artistic projects. Attila Bordas's style is both experimental and authentic. He has dedicated himself to a life of constant exploration of those universal tools that are attached to any form of stage art.
photo:
Rober Puteanu
Diego Agulló (Spain) was born in Madrid in 1980 and he presses orange juice every morning.
He is a researcher that practices dilettantism across art and philosophy investigating the affinity between the concepts of Body and Event.
Between 1998 and 2004, he studied philosophy focusing his research on the concepts of play, boredom and refrain. During that time he practiced painting, video and music and since 2003 he is part of the collective En Busca del Pasto, a project for music improvisation.
In 2005 he decided to quit his academic trajectory and he moved to Berlin where he started working as a freelance video artist and musician. Two years later he had a fortuitous and inevitable encounter with dance and performance that lasts until today having developed in collaboration an interdisciplinary body of work that passes through different forms such as performance, video art, participatory events, lectures, books, installations and workshops.
Adi Weinberg (Israel) received her dance training at the Haifa Program for Professional Dancers and did an apprenticeship in Vertigo Dance Company.
As a contemporary dancer she performed at many festivals around the world.
She has worked with choreographers, such as: Andrea Costanzo Martini, Nadar Rosano, Efrat Rubin, Rachel Erdos, Noa Zuk, Aviv Eveguy, Shimrit Golan, Yuval Goldstein, Sharon Vaisvaser, Deganit Shemi and Michael Miller. As well as Fresco dance company and Israeli Opera.
Her solo choreography Living Leaving was created during a residency program of Maat project and premiered at Maat Festival in Lublin, Poland. Since than, she continues to preform with her creation in different platforms and festivals such as Machol Shalem International Dance week, Tel Aviv Dance festival at Suzanne Dellal and more.
Adi is a Gaga teacher (the movement language developed by Ohad Naharin, artistic director and choreographer of the Bat Sheva Dance Company).
Additionally, she works as a Shiatsu therapist, Ayurveda-Seed masseur and a Pilates instructor.
