Delicia is a Greek/Jewish UK (London/Bristol) based dance artist working within a range of different aspects of dance, including performance, choreography, education and community projects. She holds a degree in Combined Creative Arts (Contemporary Dance and Literature) and an MRes in Choreography and Performance. She is currently working as a freelance dance artist for various theatre, site specific, on screen and community projects, a dance educator and the artistic co-director of AllouAqui Dance Theatre, which she founded alongside dance artist Xavier De Santos. Her choreographic practice dives into our humanness and our fantasy worlds to playfully interweave them, creating stories and characters that reveal aspects of the realities they exist in while attempting to shift them. Often in a mix of movement, imagery, text and sound her work takes various shapes and forms; from dance theatre performances and improvisation pieces to site-specific installations and screendance projects. Her current research explores intertextual relationships among movement/creative practice, literary texts and sociocultural practices. Full bio

Lilach Pnina Livne - artist, choreographer, dancer, researcher, feminist, mother. Developer of the movement & choreographic method: Spirit Dance. In 2021 Livne opened a New Art Institution which brings a new relation between Art & Reality called - LILACH PNINA LIVNE, at Dror 7, Jaffa, Israel. The institution contains four main elements: a Gallery, a School, a Magazine, a Studio: ● The Performative Exhibition Gallery: featuring only ongoing performative exhibitions. ● De Spirit: School for New Directions & Relations in Performing Arts, Choreography and Dance. ● Better FUTURE: an international Magazine for innovative approaches to performative practices. ● Livne's Studio: Practice & Theory. And more than all a place to practice the new method Livne brings into the world, a place where girls, teenagers, dancers, non-dancers, mothers, artists, non-artists, olders can unite, meet themselves and others through art and practice a different way of “body-being-in-the-world”. The institution is an independent initiation of Livne which appears from the need to create a new kind of system - a system that is supporting new kinds of relations - between the dancer and the choreographer, the artist and the institution, the artist and the curator, the experiencer and the viewer, the practice and the performance. The institution is a research-process-based project which pushes borders and is willing to expand the way we produce, consume and engage with the art - creating a more ‘Continuous-Relation’ with the art itself & its audience. Livne’s practice focuses on the relationship between choreography, philosophy & religion - questioning the potentiality of inventing other forms of life through art. Livne treats the performance medium as a field to practice our ‘body-being-in-the-world’ and her method offers a reversal in the logic of image creation which helps to manifest different kinds of realities, groups, gangs, organizations, forums, cults, etc. Livne creates performances, exhibitions, parties, conferences, prayers, books, schools, labs and presents her works in visual art contexts ,philosophy contexts and dance contexts such as the 20th Sydney Art Biennale, Australia, International Dance Festival – Impulstanz, Vienna, Blackbox Teater, Oslo, Coventry University UK, CCA TLV among others and in 2018 her practice book 'Prayer for the Abstract' was published. Livne also works at 'At Risk Youth' institutes, incorporating her artistic research of 'Seeing - Being Seen’ into social work. Studied Choreography at the School for the Arts in Amsterdam - SNDO, studied experimental dance at SEAD, Austria, studied Philosophy (Esthetics, Religions & Gender Studies) at The Tel-Aviv University. In 2012 received the danceWEB scholarship in the frame of ImPulstanz Festival. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lilach.livne.9/ Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lilachpninalivne/ Full bio

Quindell Orton works as an independent dance artist in Germany and Australia as a choreographer, facilitator, and most often researcher and performer, questioning and searching. Approaching the body as a porous, sentient entity that is affected by the environment and society and in turn affects it. Probing the relationship between sociopolitical-analytical discourses and the body and finding the real need to move. Quindell works as a solo artist and in collaboration with others in the field of performance. Based in Munich, Germany, Quindell Orton was born in Subiaco/Noongar Land (Whadjuk people are the traditional owners who’s land was never ceded) and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Dance from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Quindell is interested in how analytical discourse interacts with the body as a reflective, porous, sentient entity. Quindell searches, for-specificity in the body, how the body can open up realms of association, and is searching how her practice actively relates to and can interrupt the status quo to affect change. Quindell's work often combines movement, spoken word and sound in this investigation. As a performer Quindell has toured internationally (performing at Impulse, Augenblick mal, Reaktor Shanghai, Sommerszene Salzburg, Bipod Festival amongst others). Quindell has worked with the likes of Anna Konjetzky (DE), Superyoutour (DE), Christiane Huber and Lena Grossman (DE), Mortiz Ostruschnjak (DE), Lee Mingwei (TW), Varinia Canto Vila (CL) and Hauptaktion/Oliver Zahn (DE) and is cofounder of site alternative performance company Anything Is Valid Dance Theatre. Quindell’s work has been featured at the Process Space Art Festival-PSAF (BU), Nomadic Village (UK), You Are Here Festival (AU), Short + Sweet Dance Festival where Quindell was awarded Most Outstanding Female Performer (AU), MoveMe Festival (AU), Springhouse (DE) and CADAM’s HiSTOREy’s (DE). Full bio

Sahra Huby works as a freelance dancer. She studied dance and movement in her home city Brussels. She learned physical theater at the school “Ecole Internationale de Théâtre Lassaad”, and pursued a contemporary dance training at the Etage Berlin. Since 2006, she works with many different dancemakers around Europe, (like Ismael Ivo, Jo Fabian, Heike Hennig, Sebastian Hirn, Theatre Fragile, CADAM, Annette Geller, Ilona Paszty, Eleni Kamma...) Her artistic pathway is very interlinked with the german choreographer Anna Konjetzky in Munich. With her, she created many dance pieces, including a number of solos such as chipping, über die wut, move more morph it...touring nationally and internationally, but she also works on many others but collaborates also on many different levels, as member of the Nomadic Academy, and in diverse research and exchange formats where dance is not only happening on stage, but is used as a langage to communicate with others, to investigate topics, and to enter in dialogue with other artists and audience. A own hybrid format is the her long term performance project in private appartments called "Dance Kitchen“ (started in 2016). Not only dance, but also drawing is an important part of her artistic work. Lately she has created a lot of stop motions movies, and started the research project “Cartographies”, (supported by the kulturreferat des Stadt München and the stipendia Bayern inovativ), using drawins and mapping to question the representation and perception of the human body. Full bio

Since 2005 Anna Konjetzky creates dance performances and dance installations in which choreographic thinking is a practice of reflection and transformation and is imbedded in a socio-political context, which can be found not just in the topic and aesthetics she works with but also in the settings and formats she creates for her choreographies, her artistic research and in the facilitation of exchange platforms, collaborative researches, shared trainings.... Anna Konjetzky’s works happen physically, aesthetically and politically within a queer-feminist discourse – she sees her work always as a proposition for a dialogue. Her work has been shown for example at Spielart, Dance, Tanzwerkstatt Munich, Cofestival Ljubljana, Tanztage Potsdam, Grand théâtre national Luxembouerg, Festival Danse Balsa Marni Bruxelles, Sommerszene Salzburg,Tempo festival Rio di Janeiro... in Krakow, Warsaw, Nürnberg, Kampala, Nairobi, Hanoi, Istanbul, Gent, Shanghai, Brazil, South Africa... She also creates for established dance companies such as Staatstheater Saarbrücken or Staatstheater Braunschweig. She teaches regularly at several universities, and creates pieces with the students: for example MDT dance university Amsterdam, ZZT cologne, Sead Salzburg, Beaux-arts Bruxelles. She received several prizes and scholarships, including her work for youth, ’running’ which was one of the three finalists for German Theatre Prize FAUST 2018 and the dance-scholarship of the city of Munich in 2011. In 2009 she won the competition ‚operare’ of the Contemporary Opera Berlin, during the festival euro-scene Leipzig 2009, 2014 she received the „Förderpreis Tanz“ from the city of Munich. Her dance-installation „Abdrücke“ was invited in 2012 to the Tanzplattform Germany where 15 of the top productions from Germany are shown every two years. She is third time recipient of three-year funding from the city of Munich, producing regularly new works and researching as the company Anna Konjetzky & Co and conducting three year research project Nomadic Academy (https://nomadic-ak.com) through the support of TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund. Full bio

Graduate of National School of Dance (2014), dancer, choreographer and curator in the field of dance research and education. He curated Platform for the performing arts Meta (2015-2019), meetings for artistic research and creation (2018-2019) and co-curated festival Lycabettus (2020-2021). For the past seven years collective initiatives have been a main source of interest, reflection and a place to be. His personal artistic research raises questions regarding identity and creates practices that provoke the relation between the public and the private space. Since 2018 he has showcased two series of works, The Selfy Series and Regulatory Bodies, both partly founded by the Greek Ministry of Arts. Since 2009 he has been a yoga instructor and currently he has been giving classes mainly outdoors throughout the year. Full bio

Kyveli Kouvatsi (born in Lefkada, Greece) has graduated from National School of Dance (2021), and she is finishing her studies in School of Drama – Faculty of Fine Arts – Auth. She lives in Athens and seeks different ways to exist through dance, research, sharing and learning. Since 2020 she has been working on the practice of Losing Ground, with Giorgos Sioras Deligiannis, evolving together the research mainly in terms of teaching methodology, and facilitating a first workshop (Losing Ground | Suggestions on consensual movement) in October 2021. Since then they have been teaching open Losing Ground courses, workshops and continue their common practice. She is the co-founder and co-curator of the Unplugged Dance educational program and the artistic hosting space Paleochori in Neochori, Lefkada, Gr. In November 2022, she presented the film "About Dance Education and Other Mysteries | Interviews of graduates and seniors in 2021", a documentary about professional dance education in Greece. With an intention to continue exploring and learning through different roles, she is currently sharing improvisation and movement research courses in Athens, Gr. Full bio

Defne Erdur (TR) is trained in Contemporary Dance (PhD), Sociology (MA), Intermodel Expressive Art Therapy, Body Therapies (Deep Tissue Release, Trigger Point & Movement, Integrative Craniosacral Therapy), Meditation (World Peace Initiative), and Trauma Healing (Somatic Experiencing, Integral Somatic Psychology, Full Embodiment). In 2016 she completed her PhD thesis on Contact Improvisation in Turkey (DANCE EDUCATION ON THE TRANSITIVE LINE BETWEEN LIFE AND ART: Contributions of the Technique, Methodology and Pedagogy of Contact Improvisation to the Physical, Artistic and Psycho-social Development of Amateur Dancers). For the past two decades she has been regularly teaching and sharing her research around the world. Besides giving her workshops (Hunting Gathering Cultivating, Every Body Knows, Consent Improvisation) and holding residencies (MA- Pregnant Nothingness, Moving Library) she prefers co-teaching, co-creating with other facilitatiors and researchers. In years she has worked with different populations (professional and amateur movers, therapists, women, LGBTQ+ people and migrant children and youth). Her movement teaching practice is mostly informed by her intensive trainings with Simone Forti, Julyen Hamilton, John Britton, Nancy Stark Smith, Daniel Lepkoff, Kirstie Simson, Nita Little, Frey Faust, Keith Hennessy, Martin Keogh, Aydın Teker, Marcia Plevin and Julia Buckroyd. Currently, in response to many worldwide crisis, she is mainly interested in sharing trauma informed movement practices and resting practices. www.defneerdur.com Full bio

Marina Tsartsara is a Dance and Visual Artist & educator (MSc), a Body-Mind Centering® Teacher in the oficial Body-Mind Centering® trainings in the UK, Spain Greece, and a Mindfulness teacher. Since 2014 she have been researching and developing the Somatic Art Practice, an interdisciplinary practice that interlaces somatics and artmaking via the two branches of Mindfulness & Drawing and BMC® & Visual Art. Her BA (Hons) and MSc studies are on Dance & Visual Art and Screendance (Videodance). Her MPhil is on Performance Autoethnography researching on the subject of the personal experience of genetic/chronic physical illness via dance and visual arts (Medical Humanities). She is a Holistic Life Coach, Yoga Vinyasa teacher and a Hakomi student. Main influences in her teaching come from dear teachers like: Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Curious, Charlie Morrissey, Julyen Hamilton, Deborah Hay, Miranda Tufnell, Rosemary Butcher, Kirstie Simson, Liz Aggiss among others. https://www.somaticwellbeing.info/ Full bio

Sonia Ntova is a dance practitioner based in Greece. She works around Europe for the past 10 years in solo works, collaborations with different artists, while teaching dance -movement in various contexts. She completed her Master's degree with excellence, in the field of Dance and Participation (Danish National School of Performing Arts in Copenhagen, DK). Along with a state diploma in classical and contemporary dance from the Greek Ministry of Culture (GR). Her work in been outlined by the weaving between art, movement, and pedagogy. It supports the importance of embodied art as a chance to reconnect to the physicality of both ourselves and our environments. Her interest lies in making high-quality artistic processes available to people. Her current focus is on the question of "What reembodiment do we need in a context of global ethical and ecological crisis?" Her movement practice is based on the continuous inquiry of perceptual engagement and the sensorial world. She deals with structures that permit the free association of the body and the personal discovery of the participant. Her process is accessible for all bodies with or without experience. She invites participants to activate imagination and sensitivity while investigating their sensorial world. She runs and collaborates in various artistic-educational programs with a central focus on the sensitive body (ERASMUS + programs). She is a collaborator in the program “it could be me – it could be you” by Drama & Education Network and UNHCR Greece (Agency for Refugees) running educational workshops aiming to cultivate empathy and inclusivity concerning refugees phenomena. She is the artistic leader in the project ‘Sensorial Ecotopias’, researching with teenagers, the term ‘sustainability and the dimensions of active biopolitics’. She collaborates with Duncan Dance Centre (Athens) in the "Moving Ground” program based on the relationship between permaculture and dance. She is a research associate in the 'NOMADIC ACADEMY’- research dance project, led by Anna Konjetzky (Munich), designing dance practices focusing on body politics through the prism of a feminist perspective. Full bio

Androniki Marathaki is a choreographer, performer and educator in dance. With the support of the Greek Scholarship Foundation she started her artistic research in choreography and improvisation in dance in C.S.S.D. under the name “modulated choreographies”. Since then, by maintaining elasticity to what dance might be and by expanding the boundaries of dance education and choreographing, she is interested in the various ways humans perceive movement and in that way constructing cultural forms and social relations in different environments. By adopting “practice” as her main choreographing method, she facilitates conditions from which ‘awareness’ can be cultivated for anyone that participates in a dance event. In her work, from a dance performance to a workshop, the different processes of experiencing (choreographing, performing, observing) are intewaved in order to release compositional as well as defamiliarization processes of movement that are also related in everyday life and are able to develop capacities in the world-making and self-creation. Engaged on a regular basis in somatic practices and as well as eastern practises and philosophies all these years she elaborates her dance practice and shares it in workshops and improvisation dance classes for multicellular groups of people as well as for people with a lot of experience in improvising and somatic practices. Under the name “Let’s be comfortable in our own skin” she cultivates the last years a dance improvisation practice that wishes to expand regulatory mechanisms in the human body and our perception, sensorial communication, self-agency and collectiveness and lastly to find pleasure within an effortless movement. With a group of exceptional collaborators, she is now researching on her new project “a dance for pain” that is one of the reflections of the dance improvisational practice and is funded by NEON organization, Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports, Island Connection Residency Program, Unplugged Dance educational program and International Milos Festival. She was a dance instructor in the educational program of Onassis Foundation “Dancing to Connect”, as well as an invited artist for the program “Zoom In” (artist-craftsman collaboration program). Part of her research presented in TWIXTlab: art, anthropology & the everyday in collaboration to Duncan Dance Centre. Her lecture is integrated in a digital archive for dance artistic research in Greece (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9I_I2i93xw) and is under the jurisdiction of Research Center for Humanitarian Sciences and TWIXTlab. Till now, she has presented her research in flows of movement, spacescapes and relationscapes in two thematics: «Love & Revolution» (5 performances, 3 workshops and 3 dance practices in public space) and “it's not about if you will love me tomorrow” (3 performances, 2 workshops). The last one involves the project “holy purple” , a project that consists of a dance performance, an installation, a digital performance and a workshop and is inspired by the nature of a dancer and her/his processes for taking the “next step”. Full bio

Rafaela Sahyoun (BR) is a dance artist, movement practitioner, educator & choreographer based between Brazil & Portugal. Teaching plays an essential role in her practice. Since 2014, she has been teaching workshop formats alongside immersive dance courses for different dance companies, public and private institutions, Bachelor degrees, and Post- Graduate programs, as well as teaching for national and international auditions. Since 2019 Rafaela has been a guest teacher and collaborator at Pera School of Performing Arts – GAU, teaching the Bachelor's Degree in Dance and leading the auditions. Besides teaching, she has made three dance productions for university students: Something to Phase Us: Who goes there (2022), Wheel of Radical Affection (2021), and VAWM (20/21). Since 2020 she teaches at the Post-Graduate Program Corpo: Dança, Teatro e Performance at Célia Helena Centro de Artes e Educação in São Paulo. As an emerging choreographer, her latest creation in Brazil, Fôlego (2022), is nominated for the APCA Dance Award of 2022 within the category: Premiere of the year 2022. This creation was made for Balé da Cidade de São Paulo and commissioned by Centro Cultural São Paulo [CCSP]. As a freelance dancer and performer, she is featured in productions by: Sara Shelton Mann (USA), Judith Sánches Ruíz (CU/DE), Renan Martins (DE/BR), Alessandro Sciarroni (IT), Morena Nascimento(BR), Clarice Lima (BR), Marco Torrice (IT/BE), Clair Lefevrè (FR/AT), Nigel Charnoch (GB), Willi Dorner (AT), Marcus Moreno (BR), Cristian Duarte (BR), Talita Florêncio (BR) and other people she admires. From 2015 to 2018, she was a company member of Jorge Garcia Dance Company in São Paulo. Rafaela graduated from SEAD - Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (Austria) in 2013 and graduated with the program Dance Studies at Trinity Laban (London) in 2010. Full bio