Bios of PQ Projects Participants | Page 1 15-L. FILMS Sala Beckett / Theatre and International Drama Centre (Performance Space Exhibition) 15-L. FILMS is a production company based in Barcelona, created in 2013 by Carlota Coloma and Adrià Lahuerta. They produce documentaries for cinema and other platforms, and for agencies and clients who want to explore the documentary genre in all its possibilities. Their productions have been selected and awarded in many festivals: MiradasDoc, Milano International Documentary Festival, HotDocs and DOCSMX among others. They have been selected to participate in several workshops and pitches such as: IDW Visions du Réel; Cross Video Days; Docs Barcelona. ABRA ENSEMBLE Hall I + Abra Ensemble (Performance Space Exhibition) ABRA Ensemble's works aspire to undermine existing power structures as they express themselves in the voice, language patterns and ways of speech. They seek rather communal, feminist strategies of composition, listening and creative-coexistence. Exposing the emergence of the music itself, ABRA Ensemble bridges the existing limits between contemporary virtuoso vocal art and the performative, transformative encounter with an audience. In the five years since its founding in 2013, the ensemble has performed at a diverse range of venues in Israel and Europe, released a debut album and gained considerable recognition both in the new-music and contemporary performance scene. YARON ABULAFIA Jury Member 2019 / PQ Ambassador Yaron Abulafia has designed over 200 theatre and dance performances, installations, concerts and television shows internationally. He has designed for the Netherlands Dans Theater, the English National Ballet, Rambert Dance Company, Staatsballett Berlin, Danza Contemporanea de Cuba and the Hungarian State Theatre of Cluj in Romania – to mention but a few. Abulafia has won several awards for his artistic work and most recently has published the book THE ART OF LIGHT ON STAGE (Routledge 2015), which is based upon his PhD research at the State University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He holds a Masters in Scenography (MFA) from the Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen, and BA in Theatre Studies from Tel Aviv University in Israel. Yaron is regularly invited as a guest lecturer in universities and art academies around the world, and was honoured to take part as a jury member in the most distinguished international exhibition of performance design – World Stage Design 2013 – organized by OISTAT organization once in 4 years. For designing ‘Peer Gynt’ (Romania, 2008), he has won the First Prize for lighting design (supported by PHILIPS), and has been nominated for the Knight of Illumination 2011 (‘Awakening’, Rambert, UK) and the lighting design prize for theatre (‘In the Solitude of Cotton Fields’, Israel, 2011). Bios of PQ Projects Participants | Page 2 MAREK ADAMOV Initiator, New Synagogue (Performance Space Exhibition) Marek Adamov studied culturolgy at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Comenius University in Bratislava. He co-founded the association Truc sphérique which he still leads. He runs a cultural centre Station Žilina Záriečie. He is the inciator of the reconstruction of the Synagogue into a modern cultural institution. TOBIAS AHLERS Project Manager, Studio theatre of the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Art (Performance Space Exhibition) Architect and Project leader at Ortner&Ortner Baukunst born in Eberswalde in 1973 studied architecture at the BTU Cottbus and Hochschule der Künste Berlin (today UdK Berlin). He worked as an architect for several offices in Berlin before starting at Ortner&Ortner Baukunst in 2007. He led the project Ernst-Busch-Academy of Dramatic arts and is now leading the Uferhallen Berlin. LEONARDO AKIO Director/Curator/Designer, Teatro de Contêiner Mungunzá (Performance Space Exhibition) Visual artist, graphic designer, technician-performer and art educator. FELIPE ALVARADO Dancer, Hunting the Tesseract (Formations) Dancer and floor acrobat. VICTOR AMÉ NAVARRO Sound Artist, By Mushrooms (Site Specific Performance) Much like mushrooms, Victor Amé Navarro was born in a land with no sun, and learnt to become the invisible hand working in the shadow, at the service of others. This resourceful Berlin-based architect/blacksmith/carpenter/musician helps artists make their visions become realities. Bios of PQ Projects Participants | Page 3 ANDAIME CIA DE TEATRO Silent Carnival (Site Specific Performance) Created in 2007 at the University of Brasilia, ANDAIME Cia de Teatro works in the various spheres of Theater, Performance, Cultural Production, Corporate and Institutional Theater as well as awareness and artistic training of groups and people through theater. In 2016, ANDAIME won the award for best street performance with the show "Poéticas Urbanas" within the SESC Prize of the Candango Theater. ANDAIME Cia de Teatro is headquartered in Brasilia and maintains active communication with local, national and international groups and collectives, representing a strong reference for the group theater produced in the Federal District. JUDE ANDERSON Artistic Director, The Public Cooling House (Performance Space Exhibition) Jude Anderson’s professional career began 25 years ago directing text-based site-specific performance in France where the National Theatre of Burgundy, Avignon Festival and European Festivals commissioned her work. Returning to Australia in 2001, she focused exclusively on creating small to large-scale live works offering new approaches to audience engagement. In 2004, she founded Punctum – a live arts organisation where artists and audiences have the means to experiment in and experience live arts. Via commissions to Punctum she has devised and produced over 47 new works. In 2018, Jude was awarded the Australia Council Experimental and Emerging Arts Practice Fellowship. ED ANDRADE About the Roles and Functions of a Performative Scenic Device: Reflections On the Relationship Between Literature and Contemporary Scenography (PQ Talks) Ed Andrade is an architect, set designer, trans-disciplinary practitioner/scholar, and a Professor at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, in Brazil. As a practicing set designer, he has created more than fifty sets for TV, cinema, music concerts, theatre and dance. With an expertise in performing arts, he has worked with notable theatre and dance brazilian companies and artists, and has won some prestigious awards as well as participated in world important Festivals. His research activities include the rapprochement between performing arts and visual arts and the investigation of the notion of performativity as a paradigm for contemporary scenography. Bios of PQ Projects Participants | Page 4 D. CHASE ANGIER Co-Curator of Formations As artistic director of Angier Performance Works, D. Chase Angier creates site-specific performances, performance installations, dance-theater, and walking performances. These intuitively driven works are created in collaboration with dynamic artists in the visual and performing arts; and have been exhibited internationally (Japan, Czech Republic, Germany, Mexico, The United Kingdom, Iceland) and nationally in theaters, galleries, and visually inspiring sites. She is the dance program director and professor of dance at Alfred University where she has developed a dance program based on creative place making, site specific choreography and interdisciplinary performance. Angier received her MFA in choreography from The Ohio State University and her BA in dance from The University of California, Los Angeles. She is the artistic director / curator for the Marlin Miller Dance Residency Program at Alfred University, and an elected board member of the NYSCA/ NYState DanceForce. angierperformanceworks.com ATTILA ANTAL Interdisciplinarity as a Key for the Scenography of Tomorrow (PQ Talks) ATTILA ANTAL is a theatre and film director, composer and author, and a DLA candidate at the University of Theatre and Film in Budapest, Hungary. He has worked in a wide range of theatre genres, including contemporary dance, drama, puppet, multimedia performances, and collaborated with various theatres and theatre groups in Hungary, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Romania, Germany, Pakistan. He founded The Institute for New Theatre in 2017 to be able to connect different artists from various artistic backgrounds and interests, to produce performances that go beyond the borders of the theatric forms. MAKIKO AOYAMA Performer, The Circuit - A Movement Scenario (Formations) Born in Aichi, Japan, Makiko Aoyama graduated from Northern School of Contemporary Dance in 2005. Since then she has worked for and collaborated with various companies and artists including: ACE dance and music, Collision, The Cholmondeleys, Lea Anderson, Fuel Theatre, Brightonshed, Frauke Requardt, Joanna Young, Sadler’s Wells Sampled and Clod Ensemble. Makiko has also helped choreograph works for Create (working together with a group of disabled adults and young children), Fuel Theatre – Phenomenal People (performing her solo piece as part of WOW festival at Southbank Centre), and Japan Society Family Day at the Golden Hinde – Momotaro. She has recently collaborated with a pianist Michael Start developing a new piece. ERMINA APOSTOLAKI Performing for the Precariat (PQ Talks) Ermina Apostolaki has studied Stage and Costume Design at Vakalo Art and Design College. She holds two Master’s degrees from the Technical University of Berlin, Institute of Architecture and from the National Technical University of Athens, School of Architecture.