Marina Tsartsara is a Dance and Visual Artist & educator (MSc), a Body-Mind Centering® Teacher in the official Body-Mind Centering® trainings in the UK, Spain & Greece. She is also the Administrative Director of the Greek BMC® program ISTOS. Since 2014 she has been researching and developing 'Somatic Art Practice', an transdisciplinary practice that interlaces somatics and artmaking via the two branches of Mindfulness & Drawing and BMC® & Visual Artmaking. 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 Somatic Therapist, Mindfulness 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

Penelope Morout is a graduate of the National School of Dance (Athens) and the National Technical University of Athens – School of Architecture, with a Master’s degree in Theatre Practices from ArtEZ University of the Arts (NL). She is an interdisciplinary dance artist interested in creating hybrid projects through the fusion of various mediums. As a dancer & performer, she has performed at the Kalamata International Dance Festival, at Athens and Epidaurus Festival, at Teatro de la Danza Guillermina Bravo CDMX and since 2018 she has been working with theatre companies as a director/choreographer/scenographer. As a filmmaker, she has collaborated with TANZAHOi International Screendance Festival Hamburg and has participated in exhibitions and various video dance & dance animation festivals around the world (Italy, Brazil, France, Greece, Indonesia). Within the years, she has evolved “Sculpting Body-Images” workshop, which she shares around the world (PERA GAU School of Performing Arts Cyprus, Munus Encuentro Mexico, Nunart Guinardó Barcelona, The School of Disobedience Budapest, Murate Art District Florence). Within 2023, she has created original group pieces in collaboration with Area Espai de Dansa i Creació Barcelona, MUDA Dance Center Ghent and Škola suvremenog plesa Ane Maletić Zagreb. She consistently trains and gets inspired by “Fighting Monkey Practice” (founded by Linda Kapetanea and Jozef Frucek), which she has been teaching since 2021 at the Kalamata International Dance Festival in Greece for participants over 50 years old. In 2021, Penelope Morout founded CROSS IMPACT Co, and, ever since, is actively creating her own work. Both her previous performance THE BOX || That Dead Space Between Us, as well as her new one EMOTIONAL DOGS have been funded by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. For the latter, she has gained additional support from X-Church (Gainsborough, UK), El Sortidor (Barcelona, ES) and the Murate Art District (Florence, ΙΤ). Full bio

Carlos Osatinsky and Fernando Nicolás Pelliccioli are contemporary dancers, performers, choreographers, explorers and facilitators of movement. They met in 1996 studying dance at the Taller de Danza Contemporánea of the San Martín Theatre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Fernando has been a member of the Contemporary Ballet of the San Martín Theatre. Carlos from the Tucumán Contemporary Dance Group. Both have collaborated in Argentina with various choreographers from the independent scene, including Beatriz Lábatte, Miguel Robles, Margarita Bali and Susana Tambutti. Seeking to expand their experiences, in 2000 they traveled to Europe, creating their base in the city of Berlin, Germany. They do not define themselves as a “dance company”, “group” or “collective” but as singular beings who share visions, connecting in needs and discrepancies, exchanging roles, moving and exploring interests in the artistic field and through their passage on the world. Their common work is permanently mobilised by research into different interactive modes of relationship between performers, performance and spectators. They thus combine works for the stages, galleries, site specifics and a mix with visual and multimedia languages. His pieces have been and are shown, among others, in Spain, Portugal, Austria, Germany, Argentina, the Czech Republic and South Korea. They have developed pieces in residencies at M.U.N.T (Museum of the National University of Tucumán), Argentina, LaborGras, Berlin, Germany, La Gomera Choreographic Center, Spain; Dependance Stift Millstatt, Austria, Danscentrum Väst, Gothenburg, Sweden, Cultivating Culture, Sao Luis, Forum Dança, Portugal. Along with their individual experiences as performers and creators, they have collaborated with other artists in Europe and Argentina such as Anna Hubber, Davide Camplani, Andres Corchero/ Rosa Muñoz, Damian Muñoz, Roberto Oliván, Tomi Paasonen, Trinidad G. Espinosa, Sonusdos, Toula Limnaios, Irina Pauls, tanzApartment, Andrea K. Schlehwein, Helena Lizari, Yuko Matsuyama, Jonathan Martineau, Zufit Simon, Hyoung Min Kim, F.A.C.E., Otro Espacio, Tanzcompagnie RUBATO, NETZWERK AKS, Pedro Prazeres, Grace Euna Kim, among others. Although they reside in Germany, they continue nurturing the bridge that connects them with South America and Asia. They have also participated in the Seoul International Improvisation Festival, Chuncheon International Mime Festival and Busan International Dance Festival, Pedras Festival Lisboa Portugal, Buenos Aires Dance Festival, Notafe Festival Estonia, Festival Cuerpos in Argentina, Festival Danza al Margen, Festival Breve in Chaco, among others. Thanks to their various collaborations they have been able to perform in Indonesia, Europe and China. Under the title espaciopropio.augenblick, they teach classes and workshops where they share and develop the conceptual and material axes explored in their work. They are motivated to discover tools that facilitate and support creative and vital processes based on the body's own experience. They have been invited as Guest Professors at the School of Dance of the Korea National University of Arts, in Seoul, South Korea; have guided laboratories for c.e.m. (center in movement, Lisbon), in F.A.C.E. (Buenos Aires) and Ushuaia (Argentina). They have taught classes, workshops, laboratories and intensive seminars at various festivals and sites in Argentina and Europe. They continually collaborate with Jonathan Martineau in Spain on his Butosofia research and together they have created the annual retreat for the exploration of the body in nature “The Body in its World” which has already been held for seven editions. Full bio

Rafaela Sahyoun is a Latin American from São Paulo, working in the field of arts as a dancer, choreographer, and educator. She spirals through these roles within the ever-evolving landscape of performative practices, community, and context. She dedicates herself to artistic and pedagogical projects that unfold and shape-shift continuously through ongoing research and shared practices. Actively collaborating with artists, researchers, students, and art institutions in Brazil and abroad, she has a strong inclination towards hybrid formats of multicultural collaborations in dialogues with multidisciplinary disciplines. As an educator, she cultivates her movement practice "The Body The Player The Journey" in diverse contexts, such as universities, higher education dance and theater schools, undergraduate and postgraduate programs, and both dance and theater companies. Her most recent choreographic work, "Fôlego" (2022), was commissioned by São Paulo City Ballet (Balé da Cidade de São Paulo, BCSP) in partnership with São Paulo Cultural Center (Centro Cultural de São Paulo, CCSP) and had its 2023 season at São Paulo Municipal Theater (Theatro Municipal de São Paulo). Full bio

Antoinette Helbing (she/her) is a German dance artist and member of the artist-run platform Dance CooperativE in Copenhagen (DK). She divides her time between creating choreographic works, guest performing in dance works by others, a broad teaching practice, motherhood (two kids 10 & 8) and her practice within the Feldenkrais method. Her choreographic work is driven by her wish to create art that evokes the viewer's sense of belonging, of togetherness and empathy - seeing those attributes as patches for the holes in the world’s community. Our endlessly self-centered way of life is threatening both ecosystems and humanity. Societies are increasingly categorizing and exclusive while our physical closeness with each other reduces. And yet we are bodies - ripe, receptive, vulnerable and demanding. Despite the influence of the digital world that reduces our ability to sense ourselves and others. What does it mean to exist as a body in our modern world? As a reminder that we, beyond our instagram handles, are actual living and breathing beings, Antoinette creates experiences within and across bodies. Working towards connection, she addresses the empathic through multi-sensory experiences. Confronting with the sensual force of the moment, she makes the audience aware of themselves by their own sensual experience of themselves as spectators. She wishes to use her research within sensorial transference to transfer the performers’ sensations directly into the audience's body. In this bodily translation she sees the potential to fantasize, to sense and to think from another body's perspective. Her works can often be placed in borderline situations: fluctuating betweens dance, installation, concert and film. They might unfold in several versions that apply the artistic research in different formats - making it possible for all her works to perform outside of the theater space. With a simple touring setup and the flexibility to perform in a great variety of spaces she continuously expands her artistic research by performing her works. 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

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

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 1996) is facilitating, researching and curating in the field of dance, based half year in Lefkada and half in Athens. She has graduated from National School of Dance (2021), and she is finishing her studies in School of Drama – Faculty of Fine Arts – Auth. Her main interest revolves around educational processes and ways of holding the space for people to explore & flourish through the dance experience. Since 2017 she has been teaching dance classes for children in dance schools and summer camps. Her lessons focus on the experience of dance, the development of children's creativity within non-judgmental contexts, the cultivation of body awareness and the relationship with rhythm and the environment. Since 2020 she has been developing with Giorgos Sioras Deligiannis an original practice in couples with the basic working condition of the closed eyes of one body and the feeling of touch as a moving stimulus, under the name of Losing Ground. Together they share workshops and continue their common practice. Since 2020 she has been researching, developing and sharing a series of workshops and classes under the title Bloom Inside | sensorial explorations | reflective dances | creative practices -a practice of  mindful movement and dance improvisation, which suggests ways around how we can move and dance with awareness of the environment while at the same time maintaining a clear connection with our inner core. Since 2021 she is the co-founder and co-curator of the international dance educational program Unplugged Dance, which focuses on highlighting practices and methods that approach dance as a practice of embodiment, and of the venue Paleochori, a space hosting retreats, artistic residencies and workshops related to movement, dance and other body & mind practices. 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. For the last two years, she has been working as an organization, communication and promotion manager in dance schools, artistic educational programs and productions in the field of dance. Full bio

Vasiliki Tsagkari studied education at the Early childhood Education Department of University of Athens and Dance in City of Bristol College in the U.K. She has studied improvisation techniques, release and releasing techniques (Skinner releasing technique, Mary Fulkerson's Imagery Release), Alexander technique, Body Mind Centering, martial arts (Aikido and Tai-Chi) and physical theatre (Odin Theatre). Since 2004 she has been creating performance work and collaborating with dancers, choreographers, musicians and visual artists, creating performances and performing in Greece, England, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland and Germany. From 2008 to 2010 she was an artist in residence and a member of the artists' collective ARM based in artspace Rondeel in Maastricht (NL). Vasiliki has taught improvisation and contemporary dance workshops and classes for children and adults in U.K., The Netherlands and Greece. She is a mother of a twelve year old boy and the last eight years she has been looking after an olive farm in Messinia, Greece. Physical work close to the earth as well as the observation of nature's elements through the process of cultivating, opened up a wide research field and has informed a lot her approach to dance. In 2022 she created the solo ritualistic performance “The passage”. It was a project related to climate change and environmental crisis and later on, in 2023, it became a performance pilgrimage, along the line of the Hellenic Trench, a sea biome that is currently under threat of drilling for oil in the sea. For “The Passage” pilgrimage she collaborated with several local activist organisations as well as photographers and videographers. Since 2022 she has been working on her own dance pedagogy, MELT, giving workshops about dance with nature, combining several different influences, approaches on somatics and physical experiences like physically working with the earth and allowing for more than human life to have agency in the process of embodied learning. Her main interests are sensitivity and sensuality in movement, the kinaesthetics of language, as well as the transformation of elements of everyday living into physical poetry. The experience of the body moving that asks to be shared, to be articulated as a public statement. She is a certified teacher of SkinnerReleasing Technique (introductory) since 2017. Full bio