Petrushka Choreography and performance: Ildar Tagirov (Russia)

Who is Ratatouille? He amuses even on his deathbed. He is used to indulging people, their customs and concerns. He is tired of being a comedy. No one see the tragedy in his eyes. He decides to stop being a clown. He is a normal, sensual and feeling person, yet society has caused him to internalise something which he will never lose: the fear of being misunderstood. Ratatouille is a prototype of a 19th century Russian marionette.

Ildar Tagirov (Russia) Education:  2017: Brussels International Ballet School Internship, Brussels, Belgium  2016: National Conservatory of Music & Dance of Paris Internship, Paris,  2015: Сinevox Junior Company Scholarship, Switzerland  2014: State Choreographic College, Ukraine Workshops:  2018: Sergey Vanaev, Bremerhaven Theater, Bremerhaven, Germany  2017: Amanda Bennett, Theater Basel, Basel, Switzerland  2017: Yamit Kalef, Kibbuz Dance Company, Israel  2017: Lesley Telford, Nederlands Dans Theater 1, Nederlands  2017: Pina Bausch Theater, Wuppertal, Germany  2016: James Sutherland, Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern, Germany  2015: Adi Salant, Batsheva Dance Company, Israel  2014: Wim Vandekeybus, Ultima Vez Dance Company, Brussels, Belgium

Engagements:  2017 – 2018: Principal Dancer and Actor, Immersive spectacle "Dialogues" (Artistic Director: Polina Baranichenko), Ukraine  2015 – 2018: Principal Dancer at Leningrad Center Theater (Artistic Director: Felix Mikhailov), Russia  2017: Soloist Dancer for a Project at The Bolshoi Theatre “Faces”, Youth Ballet Program (Director: Sergei Filin), Russia  2014 – 2015: Principal Dancer at Kiev Modern Ballet Theater (Artistic Director: Radu Poklitaru), Ukraine  2013 – 2014: Soloist Dancer at Young Ballet of Kyiv Theater (Artistic Director: Dmitrii Kaigorodov), Ukraine

Free projects:  2018: Certamen Internacional de Coreografía Burgos, New York, USA  2018: Festival “10 Sentidos”, Valencia,  2018: Quinzena de Dança de Almada  2017: XIII International Ballet Competition and Choreographers  2018: Marius Petipa Gala, Paris, France  2017: Anniversary Dance Gala, Berlin, Germany  2017: Brussels International Ballet Gala, Rome, Italy  2017: Presentation of the new Lexus brand space, Moscow, Russia  2016: Russian concert project “Opera – Hit”, Moscow, Russia  2016: Solocoreografico 2016, International solo dance showcase, Turin, Italy  2015 – 2016: VKIBC, New York, USA  2016: Spoleto IDC  2015: Tripudium Ballet IDC, Milan, Italy

Gennadi Choreography: Rotem Weissman (Israel) Performance: Márton Gláser (Hungary)

The performer explores the desire to control and direct the audience. The solo creates a dark yet intimate atmosphere, inviting, commanding and confusing, captivating yet sensitive. The audience is invited into a dark, unique world full of mystery and imagination, and to be hypnotized by the quality of the body language and the visceral journey of the dancer.

Rotem Weissman (Israel) Education:  2009 – 2015: High School: Dance Department at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance; 7th grade –12th grade, Jerusalem, Israel  2015 – 2017: Maslool – Professional Dance Program. Artistic Directors: Naomi Perlov, Offir Dagan, Tel Aviv, Israel (The 'Maslool' is a professional dance program of the Bikurey Ha'Itim performing arts center)  2017 – 2018: International Choreographic Exchange program in sead – a one-year postgraduate program that offers young choreographers the opportunity to create their own work independently within a supportive artistic environment

Engagements:  2015: Got an "Excellence dancer" position from the Israeli army  Summer 2018: Residency in Play Practice Residency – Bangalore, India  2018 – 2019: Artist in residence at Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, Salzburg, Austria

Free projects:  2017: "And the woman had spoken", a piece that took part in “Gvanim” dance festival – a stage for young choreographers at the Suzanne Dellal dance Center, Tel Aviv, Israel  2018: "All the possible ways to fall" piece that preformed at the "New Faces New Dances" festival in Salzburg, Rapoblic theater  June 2018: "BAUHAUS" a piece that preformed at "because the night" in ARGEKULTUR, Salzburg, Austria – with three dancers from Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance  December 2018: performance at the International choreography competition – Machol Shalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Márton Gláser (Hungary) Education:  started dancing early  got involved with several dance styles and forms  started studying dance at Dance and Fine art school in Győr,Hungary  currently student at Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance – 3rd year

Engagements:  Worked with different choreographers like: Anton Lachky, Sadé and Kristina Alleyne, Edivaldo Ernesto, Michikazu Matsune, Konstandina Efthimiadou

SIRI Choreography: Julia Maria Koch (Germany) Performance: Siri Elmqvist (Sweden)

SIRI is a cyber fantasy which plays with mixing an artificial and a human identity. Above all, it asks what it means to be human. Are empathy and true love characteristics that only we are privileged to have? Are they maybe the only things impossible to replicate? This work appeals to the responsibility we bear in dealing with artificial intelligence.

Julia Maria Koch (Germany) Education:  1995 – 2000: Advanced training Christine Reiner, Weilheim, Germany  1999 – 2000: Advanced Training Rolleff King, Munich, Germany  2000 – 1999: Full-time training at the Nuremberg-Fuerth Ballet Centre, Germany  2000 – 2002: Full-time education (EAT) at Studio Harmonic in Paris, France  2005 – 2010: Study of choreography at the Conservatory of Barcelona (Institut del Teatre), Barcelona, Spain  2011: Title of the choreography (Licenciatura) of the Institut del Teatre  2010 – 2018: workshops as with Russell Maliphant, Sasha Waltz&Guests, Travers / Copenhaguen etc.

Engagements: As a dancer:  2002 – 2003: Robert Solomon Company, Duesseldorf, Germany  2003 – 2004: Staatstheater Darmstadt, Germany  2006 – 2014: Gran Teatre del Liceu in 13 Productions and two tourings, Barcelona, Spain

 2009: Compania La Veronal (“Los pájaros muertos”)  2013: Tanzcompanie Flamencos en route  2014: Festival de Perelada As a choreographer:  2009: choreographic Assistent / Ridge Theater / Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) “Lightning at our feet”, New York, USA  2017 – 2018: “HEIMAT” (perfect tragic place), triple bill evening / Deutsche Tanzkompanie

Free projects:  2007 – 2011: Festival de Tardor, Barcelona, Spain  2008: Events for Museums, Barcelona, Spain  2009: “Grup 21” / Music of Amber / CCCB Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain  2009: “Multimedia reciclada”, Barcelona, Spain  2008 – 2009: “Coreografias Polifonicas” with choirs, Barcelona, Spain  2010: “Quina” with Lluis Sola  2010 – 2012: Projecte: La Plage / La Travesia  2012: Hirundo Maris Catalonia, Spain  2014: Dancefilm “Solarliod” Berlin / Iceland  2014/15: Hither and Thither/ Uferstudios, Berlin, Germany  2014/15: Charon  2015/16: Zenith / Nadir  2015/16: Before we reel  2017/18: Deals with god  2018/19: Humanoid Series

Siri Elmqvist (Sweden) Education:  2004 – 2007: Professional Danceprogram, Piteå, Sweden  2007 – 2010: Balettakademien, Gothenburg – Director Hugo Tham

 2010 – 2012: Maslool Bikurey Ha’Itim, Tel Aviv – Directors Naomi Perlov and Offir Dagan  2018 – 2019: Universal Perfomer, Die Etage, Director Thomas Zimmerman, Berlin, Germany

Engagements:  2013: ilDance, Sweden, Directors Israel Aloni and Lee Brummer  2014 – 2015: AURA Dance Theatre, Director Birute Letukaite, Lithuania  2016: Siciliano Contemporary Ballet, Director Salvatore Siciliano, Berlin, Germany  2017: ilDance, Directors Israel Aloni and Lee Brummer, Sweden

Free projects:  2014: Rehearsal Director and Rehearsal Assistant for “CV’s”, by Paul Hess, Germany  2015: Dancer in solo performance “Iris”, by Francesco Dalmasso, Italy  2017: Part of Research and Development, by Tobiah Booth Remmers, Austria  Danced and choreographed musicvideo for singer Joey Ryan  Danced and choreographed musicvideo for singer Ken Burke  Dancer in “Deals with God”, by Julia Maria Koch, Germany

The Hidden Garden

Choreography: Jill Crovisier (Luxembourg) Performance: Samuli Emery (Finland)

Growing up we loose the ability to live in connection with our mind. We become increasingly preoccupied by what is useful. The desire for power, control and perfection. Man becomes comparable to a supernatural creature. Obsessed, this creature sucks the life out of those who dare to confront it. Dreams, simple pleasures and poetry are suffocated. The Hidden Garden is a mysterious place where the real and the fantastic are intertwined. A choreography inspired by the gothic novel, fantastic literature, and the modern customs today’s society.

Jill Crovisier (Luxembourg)

Education:

- 2014 – 2018: Share Intensive, Hofesh Schechter Company Intensive, Eastman summer intensive, Batsheva Gaga intensive - 2014: study of Balinese dance and music with the Semara Pegulingan Mandala Giri Company, Indonesia - 2012 – 2013: MASA dance journey with the KCDC; Rami Be'er, Matz Ek, Ohad Naharin repertory, Israel - 2010 – 2011: Winter intensive Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, Alvin Ailey school NYC., New York City, USA - 2009: LACDC intenisve - 2007 – 2009: EPSE dance Montpellier, France - 2005: EU art school Bejing, China - 1994 – 2007: Conservatory of music and dance LU, Prix Supèrieur in Ballet and Contemporary dance

Engagements:

- 2018: NO MAN'S LAND - B.Dance company, Taiwan (choreographer) - TNUA university master degree exam choreography, Taiwan - 2017 – 2018: Cie mirage, France (dancer) - 2015 – 2018: Hannah Ma dance, Germany (dancer) - 2017: Dancing Colors by EME (choreographer) - 2016: MATKA children's dance piece by Dance Development, Luxembourg and Finland (choreographer) - 2015: Steps and Beats by EME (choreographer) - 2007: Weis dance people company, Luxembourg (dancer)

Free projects:

- 2015 – 2018: independent choreographic creations under the JC movement production: SIEBEN, The Hidden Garden, Zement the solo, Zement, We are We - 2004 – 2018: Independent dancer for: Liat Kedem, Australia; Anu Sistonen, Finland; Gianfranco Celestino, Italy/Luxembourg; Elisabeth Schilling, Germany; Kendra J Horsburgh, Luxembourg, United Kingdom; Danièle Pater, Luxembourg; Johannes Wieland, Germany; Pia Vinson, USA - 2013 – 2018: realisation of short dance films - 2017: participation with Zement the solo at Lucky Trimmer.Hannover Choreographic Competition and won the CICC production award at CICC

Samuli Emery (Finland)

Education:

He has trained intensively in various approaches to contemporary dance, as well as voguing, hiphop, house dance, ballet, jazz and physical theatre. In 2019 Samuli will graduate from Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD) with a major in choreography.

Engagements:

- Most notable working experiences include working for Finland's most renowned artists Saara Aalto and Isac Elliot, performing and choreographing for Hugo Boss and dancing for the prime-time TV- productions “Tähdet, Tähdet” and “Eurovision Song Contest” - Performed for many renowned choreographers such as Helder Seabra, Julyen Hamilton, Milan Tomašik, Vittoria de Ferrari and Eleonore Valere Lachky to name a few

Free projects:

- Performed and competed in numerous international events and gained several awards both as a performer and choreographer, like the “Audience’s Favourite” in the Solo Competition of Gdansk Dance Festival.

empeiría Choreography and performance: Marcelina Liebner ()

„It‘s all about senses and emotions. Power and fragility, sensuality, sexuality, anger, fear... No feelings are wrong, no feelings are right. The piece is inspired by the theory that all knowledge is based on experience derived from the senses.“

Marcelina Liebner (Poland) Education:  July 2017: International Contemporary Dance Workshops, , Czech Republic  Gaga / Dancers with Guy Shomroni  Ohad Naharin´s repertoire with Guy Shomroni  Creative / Physical Floor-work with Victor Kavalinka  2015 – 2018: Iwanson International School of Contemporary Dance, Munich, Germany  Pieces with Caroline Finn, Alessandro Perreira, Nadine Gerspacher, Minka-Marie Heiß, Isabela Blum, Pia Fossdal, Regine Blum, Matteo Caryone  July 2018: International Contemporary Dance Summer School, Koszecin, Poland  September – November 2018: Munich DancePAT, Munich, Germany  Tom Weinberger / Gaga dancers, Israel  Tamara Gvozdenovic, Serbia

Engagements:  May 2016, June 2017 and May 2018: “Festival Junger Tanz”, Munich, Germany

Free projects:  May 2017: Festival “HIER=JETZT”, Schwere-Reiter, Munich, Germany  “Off” choreography: Marcelina Liebner, Lotta Sandborgh  March 2018: „I@chance“, Munich, Germany  „0=1” choreography and dance: Daniel Adriansson, Marcelina Liebner  June 2018: Faust Symphonie für Orgel & Tanz nach Franz Liszt with dancers from Gärtnerplatztheater Philharmonie im Gasteig, Munich, Germany  October 2018: “Transformation” choreography: Pedro Dias, St.Ignazio Church, Rome, Italy  October 2018: 1st prize of the jury and public prize “Unvoiced” choreography and dance; Solo Dance Contest at Theater Tanzspeicher, Würzburg, Germany

Do You Love Me Choreography and performance: Shirly Barbie (Israel)

The piece deals with thoughts on displays of falseness on, loneliness and the longing for love. It explores the tension between private feelings and their public expression. How do we project our lives, feelings and personality? What is true?

Shirly Barbie (Israel) Education:  2009 – 2011: Dance and choreography school, Haiffa, Israel  2010: fitness trainer diploma, Tel Aviv Univesity, Campus Siim  2013: Ilan Lev terapist diploma  2015: Ballet teacher diploma.  2017: Chabak acting course  2017 – 2018: studing 1st degree Philosophy and Theatre – Open university Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

Engagements:  2011 – 2015: dancer and soloist at the Gil C. Harush dance company:  "TAKANA" for Gvanim be mahol festival, Suzanne Dellal  "GOOD ENOUGH PARENTS"  "GARLINA PORTZELAN" Mahol Aher festival, Suzanne Dellal  "WHITE WASH" La Mama theatre, israely dance week, New York, USA  "DEADICATE" and more  "Three cups" – Noa Atar Dancer in various operas at the Israeli opera house:  Macbeth  Madam Butterfly

 Faust  Rigoletto

 2017: dancer in videodance exhibition "Term of use". Shenkar University

Free projects: theatre:  2015: “The Goldbesser variations” director Gal Alon  “Under the skin” by Rakefet Binyamin  2016: “The color of money” by Hadar Galron  “Lizoleta in May” Alon Ophehim Habima national Theatre, Tmuna  2017: That and that two - Rakefet Benjamin "Tzavta Theatre"  “And Thus can be called a women” by Rakefet Benjamin, Habima national Theatre, Hakameri grand Theatre  Directed “Shfuya” (Sane) for The ally Theatre  2018: lead actor in “And Thus can be called a women” Tzavta Theatre  Created “Do you love me” – Duet  “Les Femmes”, a nine dancers piece for the Fresco dance company workshop