Edith Wolf-Perez

Edith Wolf-Perez

Austria – D.ID

Two passions have guided Edith’s professional development: dance and writing.
Already during her dance education at the Laban Centre London, Edith started to work in inclusive, participatory dance projects and has led community dance interventions in various settings in Germany and the UK.
After moving to Vienna, her work has taken a different direction: she became a journalist and in 1989 co-founded a dance magazine, followed by the online magazine www.tanz.at that she continues editing. She also writes for national and international trade magazines and newspapers.
She is holding an M.A. in European Cultural Policy from the University of Warwick that has added a European dimension to her work. She co-authored an international report about cultural policies in 42 European countries, and, in the last 15 years, has co-managed European projects in the area of arts and education.
This area of work is closely related to her interest in creative learning through dance as a process of lifelong learning. During her work as artistic director of the summer school at the festival Bolzano Danza (2006 to 2015), she has widened the programme to include all age groups from 5 to 80 years as well as introduced some special dance projects for young people.
Edith is currently undertaking her PhD studies at Faculty of Music Sociology at the University of Music Vienna. The title of her thesis is: “Migrancy as a Narrative of Contemporary Dance”, a comparative view on the influence of migrant artists and the work with migrant communities on the development of participatory and inclusive practices in the UK and Austria. She is a speaker at international professional conferences.

Antonio Gabelić

Antonio Gabelić

Croatia – Hipp

Antonio Gabelić lives to write and writes to live (he is a general practice writer, one could say). He has worked as a journalist (both print and digital), he was a screenwriter for many television series, short films and television shows and wrote many theatre plays that were performed at numerous theatres in Croatia. Antonio was educated at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. He participated in many workshops and talent campuses. He won numerous awards for his work. His short film “Travelling” was screened at Cannes film festival (official program). Antonio participated in many international project, such as Migrant bodies.

Lara Crippa

Lara Crippa

Italy – CSC

Lara Crippa, born in Padua, spent her early years travelling and dancing. She studied ballet at the Academy Comini following methods Vaganova and Cecchetti, completing her repertoire studies with Elisabetta Terabust and ballet masters Franco De Vita and Raymond Lukens. She also studied Graham technique with Susan Sentler, and went to Vienna to deepen her studies in modern/contemporary technique (Limon, Cunningham, Horton, Flying). At 20 she won a fellowship for the first Professional Dancers Course held in Rovigo and Ferrara, where she studied the Italian contemporary repertoire (M. Bigonzetti, F. Monteverde, V. Sieni). She danced for Dimensione Balletto, Fabula Saltica, Il Posto and Tango Maudit. She started then to teach Ballet, with a Diploma in barre technique at the Academy Teatro alla Scala. At the same time she completed her classical studies and graduated in Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice (2000), followed by a Master degree in Technical Translation after which she worked for four years as Foreign Marketing responsible. Thereafter she had a seven years full-time teaching experience at secondary school, and kept working as technical English translator and interpreter. In Venice she also obtained a diploma in Managing and Promoting Cultural Events, after which she collaborated for two years with the Biennale of Venice, following the promotion of the Dance Academy – directed by Carolyn Carlson – and the UNESCO projects related to Dance/Music/Theatre. Moreover she was responsible for the President’s guests during Biennale Cinema. Since 2010 she has been specializing in Social Media Marketing, teaching web strategies and content creation. She collaborates as dance consultant for different e-zines, besides the creation of the Dance Blog Parole di Danza. She writes for Corriere della Sera | Corriere del Veneto – Sguardi di Danza, ABCDance Blog, and the specialized web magazine Dance&Culture. Among other collaborations: panel in dance competition, further training courses, and critical dance presentations. In November 2016 Micha van Hoecke put on stage her interview: Pensieri dell’Anima (OFFBEAT.lab project).

Marie Pons

Marie Pons

Based in Lille, Marie works with dance in several ways. Writing is at the core of her activities and the projects she develops. She is a dance journalist and independant critic for several publications (Mouvement, LM Magazine, Ma Culture, Revue Facettes…). Through her practice Marie initiated dialogues and collaborations with several choreographers such as Meytal Blanaru, Tatiana Julien, Mylène Benoit, João Costa Espinho. She is developing tools to document the creative process in dance by combining the use of sound, image and text. She worked on the European project Dancing Museums in 2016-2017. She is also associate editor in charge of audiovisual content for Springback Magazine, European plateform dedicated to dance.
Marie is editor in chief of the paper publication Les Démêlées, dedicated to dance reviews and to the choreographic scene of the North of France. She made the Carnet de bord, a collaborative writing tool for dance in complicity with the Theatre Le Vivat scène conventionnée Armentières 2017 -2019.

 

 

Sara Houston

Sara Houston

London

Dr. Sara Houston is Principal Lecturer in Dance Studies at the University of Roehampton, UK. Her main research focus is community dance for, with and by marginalised people and groups. For the last eight years Sara has been playing a lead role in researching dance and Parkinson’s internationally. Her work with English National Ballet’s dance for Parkinson’s programme won her the BUPA Foundation Vitality for Life Prize in 2011 and she was a Finalist for the National Public Engagement Awards in 2014 in her work to engage the public with the dance and Parkinson’s research. She is currently a member of the AHRC Social Choreography Network, which is discussing the ethics of movement practice and research with people who have gone through forced migration. Sara is Chair of People Dancing, the national strategic organisation for community dance in the UK and an advisory group member of the Dance for Parkinson’s Partnership UK and Queensland Ballet’s Dance for Parkinson’s programme in Australia. Her book, Dancing with Parkinson’s, will be out in August 2019, published by Intellect Books.

 

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