Denis ‘Kooné’ Kuhnert was born in the East of Germany. In 1989 he discovered the hip-hop culture by doing graffiti art and in 1993 he…
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Cheng-An Wu
Cheng-An Wu trained at the School of Dance, Taipei National University of the Arts. He danced for Focus Dance Company, Taiwan in D-Man in the…
Catherine Schaub Abkarian
Catherine studied at Beaux-Arts in Bourges and Paris before studying Kathakali (dance-theater from South India) for five years in France and India. She has worked…
Theo TJ Lowe
Born and raised in London, Theo trained at the Brit School for Performing Arts and Technology and Laban, where he graduated with a BA (Hons)…
Blenard Azizaj
Blenard Azizaj was born in Albania. He graduated from the National State School of Athens (Greece) in 2010 as dancer and teacher. He worked with…
Andrej Petrovic
Andrej Petrovic was born 1982 in Bojnice, Slovakia and graduated from the Dance Conservatory in Banska Bystrica before joining Študio Tanca Professional Dance Theatre/Zuzana Hájková….
Ben Frost
Ben Frost was born in 1980 in Melbourne. He lives in Reykjavík. The music of Ben Frost is about contrast; influenced as much by Classical…
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Israel Galván
Israel Galvá́n de los Reyes was awarded the National Dance Prize 2005, “Creation” section, by the Culture Department of the Spanish Government, for “his capacity…
Christine Leboutte
Christine has been working with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui since 2003 in four different productions: Foi, Tempus fugit, Myth and Babel/words. She was trained in classical…
B C Manjunath
Manjunath revealed an innate musical talent even as a young boy and he imbibed the best in Carnatic Talavadya from his parents. Later he enlarged…
Bernhard Schimpelsberger
British-Austrian drummer Bernhard Schimpelsberger is a singular phenomenon in the world of percussion today. A rhythmic visionary who has unified the percussion traditions of India…
Guy Hoare
Guy designs lighting for dance, theatre and opera. He designed the lighting for Arthur Pita’s The Metamorphosis and Mark Bruce’s Dracula which won the South…
Sue Buckmaster
Sue is the Artistic Director of Theatre-Rites and has many years of experience as a director, dramaturg and puppetry specialist working with a wide variety…
Karthika Naïr
Karthika Naïr is a poet, fabulist and librettist whose books include The Honey Hunter/ Le Tigre de Miel (illustrated by Joëlle Jolivet), which later became the grandmother’s…