Photo by Claudia Malecka
Alvin Collantes
Performance, Co-Creation, Photography, Mentoring
Alvin Collantes (he/they) is a Filipino-Canadian dance artist, drag performer, Certified Gaga teacher and a newly Certified Jungian Life Coach based in Berlin, Germany.
As a dance artist, Alvin recently performed with Kiani Del Valle’s KDV Dance Ensemble premiere of “La Tierra Quemada” for 2022 Berlin Art Week. He has also performed for Michèle Lamy premiering Matt Lambert’s film “Infinite 2” in Julia Stochek Collection under the choreography of Steven Fast. Currently, he is working on an intimate collaboration with musician Jun Suzuki entitled FLUIDS. Recently have been in Treptower Park, APAL Residency and Magical Hackerism: Elasticity of Resilience in SAVVY Contemporary.
As a dance educator, Alvin was awarded in 2020 by the Canadian Arts Council and Ontario Arts Council with the “Skills and Career Development Grant for People of Colour Scholarship” to become the first Certified Gaga Teacher from Toronto. Alvin has taught workshops around the globe including Canada, Germany, The Philippines, Thailand & Sweden. During the Pandemic, Alvin founded “Dose of Pleasure: Dance Floor Meditation Practice.” This movement was featured in Umbigo Magazine, Kaltblut Magazine, Companion Magazine, tipBerlin, iheartBerlin, ARTE TV, Vice Germany, iHeartBerlin and DW News and was awarded a special grant by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe.
Julie Peters
Production Management
Julie Peters (she/her/hers) is a cultural worker and performer alternating between creation and production for and with other artists. She is currently involved in a self-organised collective, develops her own projects (among other things a participative and performative audiowalk) and is collaborating in the children's theatre Theater o.N..
Julie is committed to art as an accessible and educational journey. The different paths she has taken, as well as her involvement in social activities, drive Julie's interest in uninhibited forms of movement. It is important to her that institutions and structures work in constant reorientation and mindfulness towards their time and society.
Photo by Mauricio Torres
Shaly Lopez
Technical Direction, Stage Management
Shaly Lopez (he/him/his) is a scenographer and light designer, based in Berlin. His work explores Spaces as dynamic systems, considering that the way in which we perceive space trans-forms the experience of it and the way that we create relations -with the place, with the other and with ourselves-. Using light, sound and scent as the main tools, his work aims to drive the audience through subtle and very detailed atmospheric compositions.
Dominica Greene
Co-Creation, Artistic Advice
Dominica Greene (she/her/hers) is a Black woman who channels her Caribbean heritage and Queerness into an art-based existence. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Dominica creates conceptual, body-based art rooted in her belief that dance is not something to be learned, but an innate entity that all humans have access to and are perpetually engaging with. Her work is centered around ancestry, elemental and human nature, racial and structural paradigms, and energetic exchange – individual, collective and ancestral. She is a current Artist in Residence at MOtiVe Brooklyn.
Greene holds a BFA in Contemporary Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and an Honorable Mention in Modern Dance from YoungArts. As a freelance dance artist, she has collaborated and performed both nationally and internationally with many notable dance-makers, and was a full-time company member with Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company for two seasons. Presently, she is a company member and dramaturg with UNA Productions.
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Tuan Ly
Dramaturgy, Performance
Tuan Ly (he/him/his) was born in Germany and is currently based in Dresden. He trained at London Contemporary Dance School, graduating with an MA in Dance Practice. Tuan danced for choreographer Maresa Von Stockert from 2014-2018, performing and touring in her works across the UK, France, and Germany. He then joined composer Heiner Goebbels' ensemble for ‘Everything that Happened and Would Happen’, which was on an international tour between 2018-2020, as well as summer 2023. Since 2020, Tuan has been part of Landesbühnen Sachsen's dance company under the direction of Natalie Wagner. He has performed in galleries and at festivals such as Park Avenue Armory in New York, the Saatchi Gallery and V&A Museum in London, the Ruhrtriennale and at Staatsoper Hannover/Tanztheater International in Germany, and at the Edinburgh Fringe, amongst many others. He danced in works by J Neve Harrington (UK), Kasia Zaremba-Byrne (UK/PL), Rui Xu (CN), Willi Dorner (AT), Yotam Peled (IL/DE) and Theater der Klänge. Movement directing and choreography credits include productions in the UK, Luxembourg and Germany.
César Brodermann
Choreography, Photography, Videography, Performance, Co-Creation
César Broddermann (he/him/his) Originally from Mexico City. Queer Multidisciplinary Artist, Contemporary Dancer, Choreographer, Photographer and Artistic Director. His work combines movement, performance, photography and film studying the unlimited potential of the human being and its connection with the Earth. The search for freedom, distance and the notion of self are ideas that César constantly studies. He does this through artistic practices that he has discovered, implementing them in his daily life. César resides in New York City from 2014-2018 where he graduates with honors from the Peridance Capezio Center Certificate Program and works with various artists and companies incl. Andrea Miller's Gallim Dance. From 2018-2022 he resides in Tel Aviv working with Batsheva Dance Company - The Young Ensemble under the direction of Gili Navot performing works by Ohad Naharin, Sharon Eyal, Noa Zuk, Bobbi Jene & Or Schrieber as well as developing 5 creative processes as part of the Batsheva Dancers Create program and becoming a Certified Gaga Teacher. His work has been presented and awarded at International Festivals.
www.cesarbrodermann.com / @cesarbrodermann @cesarbrodermannphotography
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Barnaby Booth
Lighting Design
Barnaby Booth (he/him/his) is a lighting designer and choreographer. His lighting credits include work for DeNada Dance Theatre/Carlos Pons Guerra, Sita Ostheimer, Andrea Costanzo Martini, National Dance Company of Wales, Jamaal Burkmar/Extended Play, Wilhelmina Ojanen, Northern Rasals, Jack Philp, Crystal Zillwood, Akeim Toussaint Buck and Staatstheater Kassel, to name a few...A graduate of the Northern School of Contemporary Dance (NSCD) and the Salzburg Experiemntal Academy of Dance (SEAD), he has choreographed for English National Opera, has contributed choreography to short films and music videos and is an associate artist of TRAK dance Ensemble (Austria). He has made work for Poetic Disaster's Club/Club Guy and Roni (Netherlands), Folkwang Tanzstudio (Germany) Los Little Guys (US/Mexico), Dantzaz Dance Company (Spain) and Verve/Northern School of Contemporary Dance (UK).
SUM1 / Morgan Bobrow-Williams
Music Production
SUM1/Morgan Bobrow-Williams (they/them/theirs) is a transdisciplinary, conceptual and performance artist creating work at the intersection of movement/dance, live performance, music, film, photography, collage, sculpture, and installation. Their music moniker is SUM1. Born and raised in Augusta, Georgia they moved to New York City where they attended Marymount Manhattan College from 2014-2018 and received a BFA in Dance Performance with a concentration in Choreography. Morgan went on to dance as a full-time company member at Staatstheater Kassel in Germany under the direction of Johannes Wieland between 2018-2020. Morgan is currently a freelance artist based in New York City. In 2020, they were awarded the Tanz Farm Residency which initiated the research and development of THE RUNNING PROJECT (TRP), and will continue with a second residency in the Fall of 2021. The first live iteration of TRP was a performance installation solo created by Morgan entitled BLACK GLADIATOR, presented by Triskelion Arts in Brooklyn, NY. They are one of 1011 Magazine’s 2021 Black Artist Fund Recipients, and are currently an Artist In Residence at Merriweather District, Maryland. They recently released their debut album entitled “SUM1”, available on all streaming platforms.
Photo by Jac Martinez
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slowdanger
Music Production
slowdanger (they/them/theirs) is a multidisciplinary performance entity based out of Pittsburgh PA, founded by Taylor Knight (they/them) and Anna Thompson (they/them). They build saturated sound and performance worlds through the use of embodiment, technology, vocalization, electronic instrumentation and dance performance frameworks. From directing music videos to scoring plays, slowdanger transforms their shape to adapt to a variety of different containers. Their work has been featured internationally in venues ranging from proscenium theater and gallery to nightclub and dive bar. Throughout their extensive and eclectic performing career slowdanger has opened/shared the stage with notable music acts such as Yaeji, Abdu Ali, serpentwithfeet, and more. They have created sound scores for dance for Gibney Dance Company, Francesca Harper, MICHIYAYA Dance, Bill Shannon, Sidra Bell, Dorchel Haqq, Mark Caserta, Jasmine Hearn and more. They have been featured in/by Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” (2018), MoMA, The Kennedy Center, The Warhol Museum, Usine C, and more. They are 2022 awardees of the NPN Creation Fund and NEFA/National Dance Project to create their upcoming work, SUPERCELL.
www.slowdangerslowdanger.com / @__slowdanger__ @slowdanger__
Sébastien Brun
Music Production
Sébastien Brun (he/him/his) is a multidisciplinary music activist, composer, and producer. He comes from a background in mathematics and contemporary music and primarily focuses on his projects (Ar Ker, Horns, Parquet) and the Carton Records label he founded nearly 15 years ago. His work explores repetition, stacking, overlays, distortion, and differences in scales of perception of time and sound spaces. He is also interested in the role of the body in music and collaborates with performative theater, contemporary dance and circus. He also continues his work as a sideman alongside Frédérick Galiay, Vincent Courtois, and Joce Mienniel.
Photo by Maxime Sève
Sara Herrlander
Photography
Sara Herrlander (she/her/hers) is a Scandinavian documentary photographer and visual artist. Herrlander’s main motivation as an artist is to capture authenticity. Since picking up her first camera at the age of nine, her work focuses on documenting her surroundings with a raw, almost childlike sincerity. Her photographs allow people to feel intimately close with her subjects and are recognizable by her signature use of ochre and blue. In November 2022 she participated in her first group exhibition at Exgirlfriend contemporary art gallery, exhibiting a selection of her series "Body in memory" alongside a durational dance performance by Sebastian Abarbanell.
Sina Lesnik
Videography, Photography
Sina Lesnik (she/her/hers), based in Berlin. Photography and Film.
Photo by Sina Lesnik
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Kianí Del Valle
Choreography, Direction, Mentoring
Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, del Valle has danced in numerous companies and trained in schools such as Balleteatro de Nana Hudo PR, Ballet de San Juan PR, Andanza PR, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater NYC, RASTRO Dance Company NYC, Sasha Waltz & Guests Berlin, Matanicola Berlin and Costa Compagnie, a pioneer European group working with A.I. and dance.
Kiani’s own KDV Dance Ensemble as well as her solo work has been presented in theatres and museums such as: Getty Museum LA, Serpentine Gallery, Roundhouse London, Barbican Center London, Dance Theatre Workshop, Tribeca Performing Arts Centre NYC, National Sawdust Brooklyn, Cathedral Vibiana LA, Konzerthaus Berlin and most recently Copenhagen Contemporary. Del Valle has been involved in the music scene, collaborating in live performances and music videos for artists such as:OBJEKT, Bendik Giske, Simian Mobile Disco, Floating Points, CLARK, Matthew Dear, Dirty Projectors, John Legend, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, and Rammstein to name a few. Clients include: LEXUS, MERCEDES BENZ, SELFRIDGES, UNIQLO, and established danish fashion designer STINE GOYA. Del Valle was awarded Latin American Artist of the year by UNESCO and the Institute of Puerto Rican culture.
Drew Lewis
Music Production
Drew Lewis (he/him/his) is a performer and creator originally from Oak Park, IL. He graduated magna cum laude from Cornish College of the Arts in 2016. Upon graduation, he moved to New York to join Sidra Bell Dance New York, with whom he performed and toured extensively for three seasons. Other performance credits include C-LS, Project 44 and Attack Theatre. He is currently based in Chicago where he freelances as a dancer, choreographer, composer, and educator.
Photo by Alonzo Blanco
Apricot Productions
Production Management & PR
Apricot Productions is an international production and management company for multi-disciplinary artists based in Berlin. We give your ideas space to grow. You create, we do the rest. We offer assistance in preproduction/post-production, management, Social Media Marketing and Campaigning for projects, permits for performances, project financing and consultations, resources for dancers, artists, choreographers looking for work, podcast outreach for inspiring cultural events, press assistance, marketing, and tour organization. Unlike “the Apple", which has the Christian-biblical connotation of temptation and seduction within personal pleasures, "the Apricot" is a non-threatening entity. It facilitates an entry rather than banishment from paradise. Studied by philosophers throughout recorded history, apricots are often thought of as the genesis of artistic expression. Students who studied at Plato's Academy in Athens, plucked them from trees to draw inspiration from the orange flesh and blood-red seed. Confucious famously taught his students while sitting under an apricot tree in the Zhou-dynasty, China. Mary Beale's 1663 text in the “painting of apricots'' is the earliest-known instructional English manuscript written by a painter identifying as female. Fruit tastes goodgive it a try.