2010 Next Wave Festival NOV 2010

Elliott Puckette, Untitled, 2008

Published by: BAM 2010 Next Wave Festival is part of Diverse Voices at BAM sponsored by: 2010 Next Wave Festival

Brooklyn Academy of

Alan H. Fishman, Chairman of the Board William I. Campbell, Vice Chairman of the Board Adam E. Max, Vice Chairman of the Board

Karen Brooks Hopkins, President Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer

presents Gezeiten

Approximate BAM Howard Gilman House running time: Nov 3, 5 & 6, 2010 at 7:30pm one hour and 50 minutes, no Sasha Waltz & Guests intermission Directed and choreographed by Sasha Waltz

Music by Jonathan Bepler and Johann Sebastian Bach Stage design by Thomas Schenk and Sasha Waltz Costume design by Beate Borrmann Lighting design by Martin Hauk

BAM 2010 Next Wave Festival is part of Diverse Voices at BAM sponsored by Time Warner Inc.

Leadership support for the Next Wave Festival provided by The Ford Foundation.

Leadership support for Gezeiten provided by brigitte nyc.

Major support for at BAM provided by The Harkness Foundation for Dance and The SHS Foundation. Gezeiten

Dance & Choreography Liza Alpízar Aguilar Koen De Preter Davide Camplani Virgis Puodziunas Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola Sasa Queliz Matija Ferlin Maria Eugenia Rivas Medina Gabriel Galindez Cruz Mata Sakka Maria Öhman Claudia de Serpa Soares Pinar Ömerbeyoglu Xuan Shi Friederike Plafki Davide Sportelli

Music Baroque cello Martin Seemann Suites for Violoncello Johann Sebastian Bach No 1 in G major, BWV 1007: Sarabande No 2 in D minor, BWV 1008: Prelude, Courante, Sarabande No 5 in C minor, BWV 1011: Prelude

Production credits Light technician Martin Hauk Stage technician Daniel Herrmann Sound technician Lutz Nerger Assistant technical direction Carsten Grigo Props Brad Hwang Wardrobe Jana Bolze, Beate Borrmann Hair & makeup Kati Heimann Rehearsal director Luc Dunberry Assistant director Steffen Döring, Francesca Noia Tour management Karsten Liske Technical direction Reinhard Wizisla Artistic direction—Sasha Waltz & Guests Jochen Sandig

Produced in association with Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz,

Sasha Waltz & Guests is funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds Gezeiten

A room where traces and vestiges of the past are evident. The last remaining place of sanctuary, the final refuge. The catastrophe outside is destroying everything, threatening the captives of a common destiny, Photo: Sebastian Bolesch penetrating ever deeper. With their current work, Gezeiten (Tides), Sasha Waltz and her new ensemble of 16 dancers investigate the trans- formations to which life is continu- ally subjected. Seeking an idiom which can fathom the physical and metaphysical strata, Gezeiten is concerned with the interrelation of destruction and renewal. Sasha Waltz takes diverse aesthetic and contextual standpoints, bringing to- gether the representational and sur- real theatricality of her early pieces, where everyday objects transmute to become living dance partners, with the abstraction and physical dynamism of her recent works. She concentrates in particular on the crises that disrupt the normal flow. With peril outside, the captives face existential questions and terrors, deliberations regarding ownership and power, and the simultaneous dwindling and increase of compas- sion for the suffering of others. New regulations and structures are estab- lished. What will remain following disintegration and collapse? How do we rebuild our world—again and again? What is worth saving? Who’s Who Photo: Gert Weigelt

Sasha Waltz (choreography/direction) was born Medea, with music by Pascal Dusapin and text in Karlsruhe, . She studied dance and by Heiner Müller, had its world premiere in Lux- choreography in and New York. In emburg as a part of the European Culture Capital 1993 she co-founded her company, Sasha Waltz City 2007; in October of that year, the Opéra de & Guests, with Jochen Sandig in Berlin. In 1996 Paris presented choreography by Sasha Waltz she opened the critically acclaimed sophiensaele, to Hector Berlioz’ dramatic symphony Roméo et a theater she co-founded with Sandig. In 2000, Juliette. The music-based choreographic project Waltz was named one of the artistic directors of Jagden und Formen (Zustand 2008), with music Berlin’s Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz where— by , developed with the Ensemble among others—she created the pieces Körper Modern, premiered in Frankfurt am Main in the (BAM 2002 Next Wave), S, and noBody, as well spring of 2008. In March 2009 Sasha Waltz & as the choreographic installation insideout. In Guests presented the project Dialoge 09—Neues 2005 Sasha Waltz & Guests once again became Museum at the New Museum in Berlin. Dialoge an independent company, with Jochen Sandig 09— MAXXI by Waltz inaugurated Rome’s new as artistic director. In January 2005 her first museum, MAXXI_Museo nazionale delle arti choreography for opera, Dido & Aeneas, had its del XXI secolo, in November 2009. In 2010 world premiere at Grand Théâtre de , her new choreography, Continu, premiered Luxembourg. In 2007 Sasha Waltz presented, in Zurich, followed by her next choreographic among other works, two choreographed opera: opera, Passion, (composed by Pascal Dusapin) Who’s Who

at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris. Waltz 1995 and designed the sets for Travelogue was awarded the French Honor of Officier de III—All Ways Six Steps, Allee der Kosmonauten, l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2009 as well as Zweiland, Na Zemlje, Körper, noBody, insideout the Caroline-Neuber-Preis in 2010. In 2011 the (which was awarded the 2004 OPUS Prize for opera Matsukaze by Japanese composer Toshio Best Stage Design), and Dido & Aeneas. He also Hosokawa with choreography by Sasha designed Luc Dunberry’s anything else and Don’t Waltz will première at the Oper La Monnaie in we, as well as d’avant by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, . , and Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Es- naola. Schenk designed together with Pia Maier- Jonathan Bepler (music) was born in Pennsyl- Schriever the set for Sasha Waltz’ choreography vania in 1959. His compositions are presented Roméo et Juliette at the Paris Opera in 2007 internationally in a multitude of contexts. His as well as for Continu (world premiere at Zurich more recent works include a video-opera em- Festival 2010). ploying 600 voices, performed at the Acropolis in ; an electronic score for which Beate Borrmann (costume design) was born premiered in Montpellier; a work for four pianos 1975 in Berlin. She studied fashion, costume, and noise generators, which was presented at and stage design in Berlin, St. Petersburg, and BAM; and a film score for the Cremaster film Krakow. Besides working as an assistant cos- cycle by artist Matthew Barney. Bepler first tume and stage designer she has produced her worked with Waltz in 2000 as composer for S. own designs for Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, They have since developed projects together Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, and Kleist- within the framework of Dialoge in Essen, Berlin, theater Frankfurt/Oder. She has been working and Bordeaux. with Sasha Waltz since 2003.

Thomas Schenk (stage design) was born 1958 Martin Hauk (lighting design) was born in 1961 in Mainz, Germany where he studied architec- in Berlin, and studied theater and event technol- ture. He has worked with Sasha Waltz since ogy. While employed by Art Lab Studios, Berlin,

Photo: Sebastian Bolesch Who’s Who Photo: Gert Weigelt

he produced events for Shell, Skoda, and IBM, productions Dialogue 09— and and created the lighting for Cora Frost, Gayle Dialogue 09—MAXXI. Of the repertoire of Sasha Tufts, Tim Fischer, and Alex B. He has worked Waltz & Guests, Alpízar Aguilar also performs in with Sasha Waltz since 1996, lighting Zweiland, Medea, Jagden und Formen (Zustand 2008), Körper, S, noBody, insideout, and Continu. and Continu.

Liza Alpízar Aguilar (dancer) was born in 1983 Davide Camplani (dancer) was born in 1968 in in San José, Costa Rica. She studied dance at Marone, . He studied contemporary dance the Conservatorio El Barco in Costa Rica where with Giulia Gussago and Claudio Gasparotto and she also took part in various workshops with at the Folkwang-Hochschule in Essen, where he Verónica Yáñez, Jimmy Ortíz, Juan Kruz Diaz graduated in 1999. He has danced with Giulia de Garaio Esnaola, Joëlle Bouvier, Lutz Förster, Gussago in Italy, the Mark Sieczkarek Company, Fernando Suels, and Dominique Mercy. She Malou Airaudo, and the Bonn Opera, among performed Soffio by Paco Decina, Corazón de others. Camplani participated in the film produc- Azufre by Fernando Hurtado, Hay un Tiempo by tion Arie (2003), directed by Gianluca Vallero, Stephan Brinkman, and with Costa Rican dance as choreographer and dancer, and as a dancer companies, 4pelos (Losdenmedium) by Jimmy in the film história (2007), by Karsten Liske. He Ortíz, DiquisTiquis, and Las hijas de otro. Alpízar has been working with Sasha Waltz & Guests Aguilar took classes with Jeremy Nelson, Luis since 1999. Camplani can be seen dancing in Malvacias, Janet Panetta, and Susan Klein. She Körper, noBody, Medea, Travelogue I—Twenty first danced for Sasha Waltz & Guests in 2006 to eight, Jagden und Formen (Zustand 2008), in the production Dialoge 06—Radiale Systeme. and Continu by Sasha Waltz, The rest of you by Since then, she has also taken part in the Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola and Luc Dun- Who’s Who berry, and Don’t we by Dunberry. He also took Elysées, Paris. He also creates his own pieces: part in various Dialoge projects by Sasha Waltz. The rest of you (2000) with choreographer Luc Since 2008 Camplani has directed the children’s Dunberry and My Dearest... My Fairest (2000) dance company of Sasha Waltz & Guests togeth- with Australian musician-performer Joanna Dud- er with Mata Sakka und Gabriel Galindez Cruz. ley, whose solo piece He taught me to yodel he In 2009 he started working on his own project, directed as well. He was the initiator of d’avant From…. To, in the framework of the support (2002), a collaborative with the choreographers program Choreographen der Zukunft, sponsored Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Damien Jalet, and Luc by BASF SE, by Sasha Waltz & Guests. Dunberry. In 2004, with Joanna Dudley and Rufus Didwiszus, he premiered Colours may Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola (dancer) fade with friction read instructions carefully store was born in 1966 in Legazpi, the Spanish part in a cool and dry place no side effects. In 2007, of the Basque territories. He studied early music in cooperation with the Akademie für Alte Musik at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Berlin, he directed, choreographed, and danced San Sebastián and at the Academie voor Oude in the choreographic concert 4 Elemente —4 Muziek Amsterdam. Following his education as Jahreszeiten. He was invited to take part in Zon- a countertenor, he changed to dance. He has Mai (2007), the first installation at the Cité natio- worked with, among others, Pieter C. Scholten, nale de l’histoire de l’immigration at the Palais de Emio Greco, Arthur Rosenfeld, Luc Dunberry, la Porte Dorée in Paris, by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Lloyd Newson in DV8 Physical Theatre’s and Gilles Delmas. His latest creation Ars melan- Enter Achilles. He has taken part in various choliae premiered in 2008 at the Radialsystem internationally acclaimed films as a dancer, V, in Berlin, uniting voice and movement. De actor, and choreographer. He has worked with Garaio Esnaola is in demand around the world Sasha Waltz since 1996. Not only did he dance as a teacher and is a regular guest lecturer at the in the pieces Allee der Kosmonauten, Zweiland, Folkwang-Hochschule in Essen. and Na Zemlje, he is also responsible for their musical conception and in part for their composi- Matija Ferlin (dancer) was born in Pula, Croatia, tion. From 1999 to 2005 he was a member in 1982. He started his dance education at the of the dance ensemble of the Schaubühne age of six at the local dance studio for kids in am Lehniner Platz, where he could be seen in Pula and was a member of Pula’s National Youth the choreographies Körper, 17-25/4, noBody, Theater from 1995 to 2000. He is a gradu- insideout, and Impromptus by Sasha Waltz. He ate of the School for New Dance Development, has been a member of Sasha Waltz & Guests Theaterschool Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor since 2005 and has danced in Dido & Aeneas, de Kunsten in Amsterdam. Ferlin has presented Medea, and Continu by Waltz, as well as in Luc and performed his own work in Croatia and Am- Dunberrys Don’t we, for which he also composed sterdam, and has worked with choreographers the music. He was assistant choreographer to Keren Levi, Martin Butler, David Zambrano, and Sasha Waltz in Roméo et Juliette (with music by Ame Henderson. He has collaborated with Sasha Hector Berlioz) for the Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris, Waltz & Guests since 2005. which premiered in October 2007 at the Opéra Bastille. He in and is the project director Gabriel Galindez Cruz (dancer) was born in and artistic assistant of Jagden und Formen 1977 in Cali, Colombia. He studied dance at (Zustand 2008) by Sasha Waltz & Guests and the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine Ensemble Modern. He also works as repetiteur d’Angers in and at the Hochschule für and rehearsal director for Sasha Waltz & Guests, Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt in among others for the choreographic opera, Germany. Galindez Cruz has danced in pieces Passion,t by Waltz and Pascal Dusapin, which by Dominique Dupuy, Alvaro Restrepo, Car- premiered in Oct 2010 at Théâtre des Champs men Werner, Dieter Heitkamp, Toula Limnaios, Who’s Who and Wilhelm Groener, among others. He was Friederike Plafki (dancer) was born in Jena, awarded in Jeunes Talents Cirque Europa 2008 Germany. She is a trained physiotherapist. In with the contemporary circus company AIUAIO. 2001 she began studying contemporary dance With the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, at the Balance 1 dance academy in Berlin and in Galindez Cruz has performed in 4 Elemente—4 2001 she won the competition for best German Jahreszeiten by Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio dance solo at the euroscene festival in . Esnaola. He has created several short pieces; In many years of intensive collaboration with the his recent creations Marca, Solo, and Duo were Leipzig-based choreographer Heike Hennig she presented in 2008 at Dock 11 Berlin and at the co-created a large number of choreographies, Insoliti Festival in Turin, Italy. He has danced including the solo, sosha, which was created for with Sasha Waltz & Guests since 2005. He the Westend Unfinished dance festival in Leipzig. can be seen in Medea and Jagden und Formen In 2003 she worked with Ingo Reulecke and (Zustand 2008), among other works. Since Lukas Matthaei on the production Winterreisen, 2007 he has managed the children’s company presented in Hau 2, Berlin. In 2005 she was of Sasha Waltz & Guests at the Radialsystem working with Riki von Falken on the production V Berlin. Since 2009, he has been part of the Begegnung, which was shown in the Akad- dance company of the Theater St. Gallen in emie der Künste, Berlin. She participated at the Switzerland under the direction of Marco Santi. danceWeb scholarship-program/05 in . As a dance teacher he has worked in Colombia Since 2005 Plafki has been working with Sasha (Berkana Danza and Danza Común), Mexico Waltz & Guests and dances in the various Dia- (Bruja danza), Italy (Espacio Lyria), Frankfurt loge projects by Sasha Waltz. (Tanzszene), and Berlin (Dock 11, Tanzfabrik, and Marameo). Koen De Preter (dancer) was born 1981 in Bonheiden, . From 1999 to 2003 he Maria Öhman (dancer) was born in Huddinge, studied dance-theater at the Fontys Dance in 1978. After finishing her studies at Academy in Tilburg, . He performed the Swedish ballet school in in 1997 in Young people, old voices by Raimund Hoghe she worked for six years with Swedish choreog- (Bruges-Brussels); La femme qui rit and Zwei- raphers Cristina Caprioli, Kajsa Giertz, and Irène punktspielerei with T.R.A.S.H. (Tilburg); Boy XL Hultman, among others. In 2003 she partici- of United-C (Netherlands); and 9x9 with Les Bal- pated in Danceweb in Vienna. She was a lets C de la B (Brussels); and created les mots... member of cie SOIT, led by Hans van der Broeck, toujours les mots bien sur. He has collaborated for the production Almost Dark. She first danced with Sasha Waltz & Guests since 2005. for Sasha Waltz & Guests in August 2005. Virgis Puodziunas (dancer) was born in 1973 Pinar Ömerbeyoglu (dancer) was born in in Kaunas, . He has studied at the in 1978. From 1991 to 1999 she studied ballet theater AURA (Kaunas), Erick at the Izmir State Conservatory ballet depart- Hawkins Dance School and Tisch School of Arts ment, danced at the Antalya State Opera and (New York), Bennington College, and Ballet, and performed for the Izmir State Theatre. Contemporary Dance School. He has danced in She decided to switch to contemporary dance engagements with AURA, Erick Hawkins Dance and studied for two years at the modern depart- Company, and Wendy Perron Dance Company ment of the State Conservatory and one (New York). From 1996 until 1999, he danced year with Susan Quinn at SEAD in Salzburg, and choreographed at the Deutsches Nation- . Ömerbeyoglu has been dancing for altheater Weimar. Since 2001, he has been Sasha Waltz & Guests since August 2005. She working as a dancer and artistic associate for the performed in Dialoge 09—Neues Museum and dance department at the Staatstheater Kassel Dialoge 09—MAXXI and also dances in Medea. where he also works as a multimedia artist. Who’s Who

He has completed several films, two of which, Würfel, 1 (2000, Kampnagel Fabrik, Hamburg 25 cent and mad butterfly, have screened at and , ), and a collaboration the festival Dance on Screen at Radialsystem V with Jan Pusch, Who Knows, Maybe Tennes- Berlin in 2007. Puodziunas has been with Sasha see (2000, Lübeck). She took part in Reverse Waltz & Guests since 1999 and has performed me not by the Canadian choreographer Benoît in Körper, S, Dido & Aeneas, Medea, Jagden Lachambre. She has been a company member und Formen (Zustand 2008), and the new of Sasha Waltz & Guests since 2007 and has choreographic opera, Passion, by Waltz. With danced in nobody, insideout, Impromptus, Dido Sasha Waltz & Guests, he also works on his own & Aeneas, Medea, and Continu, by Sasha Waltz. multimedia projects. Maria Eugenia Rivas Medina (dancer) was Sasa Queliz (dancer) was born in 1971 in Santo born in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, in 1974. From Domingo, Dominican Republic. She studied 1990 to 1994 she taught ballet to academy ballet at the Dance Academy Articentro Miriam students at the Isadora Duncan Academy in Bello and theater at the National Art Academy for Caracas. The following year she worked as a Drama, Bellas Artes Santo Domingo. From 1990 professional dancer with the Farten Company, until 1992, she was a member of the Ballet under director Sandra Leda. From 1995 to 1998 Classico Nacional and simultaneously studied she studied dance and music with numerous modern dance at the Dance Academy Lourdes professors including Ruben Echeverria, Clover Ramirez. She danced for the companies Danza- Roppe, Jacques Broquet, Isabel Soto, Rumen hoy and Neodanza in Caracas, the Public Eye– Rachev, Carmen Ortiz, Adriana Urdaneta, and Sara Gebran in , and Compagnie An- Luz Urdaneta. As a member of the Danzahoy gela Guerreiro, Hamburg. From 1997—99 she Company she danced in Oto el Pirata, Pequeno worked with Labor GRAS in Hamburg. Her own Tirano, and Perfecto Amor, among others. The choreography includes A-Des Tiempo (1999, following three years, she danced at the Sarta Santo Domingo), Why is this reality? (2003, de Cuentas Company in Caracas and assisted Choreographisches Zentrum NRW Essen), 0, Carmen Ortiz with creating new choreography. Photo: Sebastian Bolesch Who’s Who Photo: Sebastian Bolesch

From 2000 to 2001 she studied contemporary Baus, Ingo Reulecke, and Felix Ruckert in New dance at the Isoladanza Academy in and York and various European cities. In New York worked with Carolyn Carlson, Nigel Charnock, she presented two of her choreographic works and Joan Woodbury. Afterwards she joined the and since 2003 she has worked in Berlin with Arearea Company and danced in pieces like Le Joris Camelin. She joined Sasha Waltz & Guests Ultime Cose and Le Mura e La Terra, before she in August 2005. She has danced in Medea, Jag- returned to Venice, where she taught African and den und Formen (Zustand 2008), and Continu contemporary dance. Rivas Medina has been by Waltz. With Davide Camplani and Gabriel working with Sasha Waltz & Guests since 2006. Galindez Cruz, Sakka directs the children’s dance company of Sasha Waltz & Guests at Radialsys- Mata Sakka (dancer) was born in Larisa, Greece. tem V. She finished her dance degree at the Center of Performing Arts in . With a scholarship Claudia de Serpa Soares (dancer) was born in from the National Scholarship Foundation-IKY , . She studied dance with Isabel and Cunningham Dance Foundation, she contin- Merlini and Luis Xarez before joining Lisbon ued her studies in New York at the Merce Cun- School of Dance Conservatorio Nacional and ningham studio, where she received her degree, the Superior School of Dance. She continued danced repertory work, and started teaching the her studies in France at the Centre National de technique. She performed works by Horeftes, Danse Contemporaine d’Angers and subse- Metakinisi, Stephan Koplowitz, Bryan Hayes, Liz quently worked with Iztok Kovac in Slovenia and Gerrin, Veronika Riz, Editta Braun, MS Shrit- Paulo Ribeiro in Lisbon. In 1999 she joined the tmacher, Jan Pusch, Cocoon dance, La Fura dels dance ensemble of the Schaubühne am Lehniner Who’s Who

Platz, Berlin under the artistic direction of Sasha Xuan Shi (dancer) was born 1975 in the Yun- Waltz. In the following years she also performed nan Province of northern China. He studied folk with Luc Dunberry, Benoit Lachambre, Isabelle dance at the Central College Peking between Schad, and Junko Wada. Since 2003, de Serpa 1986 and 1992. He was subsequently with the Soares has choreographed films for Eve Suss- Canton Modern Dance Company for eight years man and The Rufus Corporation: 89 seconds at and toured the US, UK, Germany, and more. In Alcazar and The Rape of the Sabine Women. 2000 he was invited to be a guest student at She also directed and performed Crossroads the Folkwang-Hochschule in Essen. In 2001 he with actor Ronald Kukulies and Edgar, a duet received a scholarship to work in the US, where directed and performed with Grayson Millwood, he danced with Shen Wei Dance Company. which premiered in Freiburg in April 2007 and In 2008 and 2009 he choreographed with was presented in the 2007 festival Tanz (Berlin). Niannian Zhou the duets Parallel, Moving, and In 2008 she took part in Fish Love, a theater The Sound of Qin, produced by Sasha Waltz & piece based on Chekhov novels and directed by Guests in the framework of the support program, Lilo Baur (Lausanne and Paris). She tours Sasha Choreographen der Zukunft. Shi dances in Waltz’s repertory pieces Zweiland, noBody, Kör- Körper, S, noBody, insideout, Impromptus, Dido per, and Impromptus, and joins the company in & Aeneas, Medea, and Continu, and the cho- improvisations or short term projets. reographic opera, Passion, by Waltz. He joined Sasha Waltz & Guests in 2002. Davide Sportelli (dancer) is a creator, performer, and movement/improvisation/composition Martin Seemann (baroque cello) studied at the teacher active in Europe and internationally. Hochschule der Künste Berlin with Wolfgang After studying music and theater, he pursued Boettcher. He completed his studies as a dance in Rome with Cristina Menconi and Sacha scholarship holder of the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Ramos, and at Accademia Isoladanza, Biennale by Ivan Monighetti in Basel. Since 1987 he has of Venice, with choreographers and teachers regularly taken part in master classes by Anner such as Carolyn Carlson, Malou Airaudo, Raf- Bylsma. Besides the standard repertoire, he is faella Giordano, Nigel Charnock, Bill T. Jones, mainly interested in the interpretation of 17th- to Inaki Azpillaga, Frey Faust, Ivan Wolfe, Susanne 19th-century (baroque and piccolo) cello music, Linke, and David Zambrano. During the last and he is also fascinated by performing tempo- 10 years he has been collaborating with Wil- rary music. He performed in the world premiere liam Forsythe, Caterina Sagna, Ingo Reulecke, of Arvo Pärt’s Fratres arranged for violoncello Michäel D’Auzon, Annapaola Bacalov, Roberto and orchestra. As a soloist he has performed in Cocconi, and Giorgio Barberio Corsetti. Sportelli many European countries and has toured to the has been working with Sasha Waltz & Guests US and Japan with chamber music engage- since 2005, dancing in such pieces as Medea ments. Since 1998 he has been a member of and participating in various Dialoge projects by the baroque ensemble Concerto Brandenburg. Waltz. He is based in Berlin, where he carries out research on performance, creation, and writing.