Lene
Stenseth - director and performer
Lene Stenseth works and lives in Oslo, Norway. She has her dance education from Laban Centre for Movement and Dance in London ( 1 year) and Modern Theatre Dance School in Amsterdam (4 years). She also has a Bachelor in Aesthetics with art history and media as main subjects from the University of Oslo. Lene has worked as a dancer and performer in Scandinavia, Europe and New York. In Amsterdam she worked with choregraphers such as Martin Butler, Jennifer Hanna, Kriztina de Châtel, Wim Kannekens, Karin Post, Paul Selwyn Norton and Michael Schumacher. The last years she has been working as a choreographer in own projects , solo film projects and projects with performance artist Marthe Ramm Fortun and dancer Kristin Ryg Helgebostad. Some projects have been performance based, site spesific and colloborations with artists from the field of visual arts and shown in galleries or outdoors. Most of her work combine photography and film with dance. As a dancer Lene has worked with Inger-Reidun Olsen/Kompani iRo and Linda Birkedal/Molitrix Scenekunst on numerous projects. This year Lene has worked with Martin Butler and Maximilian Ehrhardt on the opera Perseus and Andromeda, premiering a pilot at the prestigious theatre festival in Almagro, Spain. Later this year she is going to participate in the new work of Molitrix Scenekunst, premiere at Tou scene in Octobre.
Andrea
Fagarazzi - performer
Andrea
Fagarazzi
is a performer, visual artist and choreographer born in Vicenza,
Italy. He started his dance training from the age of eighteen in
Vicenza. He graduated [BA, Fine Arts] at the Accademia
di Belle Arti di Brera - Milano
in 2006 with Francesca Alfano Miglietti (FAM), theorist of the
mutations related to the visual languages. In 2002, he graduated with
a scholarship in performing arts at Professione
MAS Academy
directed by Susanna Beltrami, in Milan. In 2005 he was selected for
the danceWEB
Scholarship Programme
directed by David Zambrano at the ImPulsTanz
Festival
in Vienna. He attended dance, voice, butoh and joga research projects
with Vera Mantero, Ko Morobushi, Marten Spangberg, David Moss,
Charmaine Le Blanc, Martin Kilvady, DD Dorviller, Mathilde Monnier,
Wim Vandekeybus, M. Abbondanza e A. Bertoni, Mariah Maloney (Trisha
Brown Company),
Ananda Leone, Anat Geiger, and masterclasses at the Atelier
de Paris Carolyn Carlson.
As
performer, he has collaborated for several choreographers and
directors such as Emio
Greco & Pieter C. Scholten,
Sasha
Waltz & Guests,
Matanicola,
Frédéric
Flamand/ Cherleroi Dance,
Micha
Van Hoecke
and Cristina
Muti Mazzavillani,
with Studio
Festi
in Tokyo, among others, joining prestigious venues as "Edinburgh
International Festival", "TanzIm August Festival" in
Berlin, "Norderzoon Festival" in Groningen, "Civitanova
Danza", "Italia in Giappone", "Ravenna
Festival".
From 2000 his work has been presented in Italy,
Argentina, Nederlands, Belgium, Spain trough different exhibitions
and festivals such as es.terni
- International Festival Of Contemporary Arts,
Inequilibrio.08
- Armunia Festival
di Castiglioncello (IT), Contemporanea/Colline/Festival
08
di Prato, Primavera
Teatri 08
(IT), 2008
Culturas Exhibition & Awards for the Intercultural Dialogue
(ES), OperaEstate
Festival 2007
in Bassano del Grappa, Festival
Lavori in Pelle 2007
(IT), Festival
F.i.a.e.s. 2003
(Argentina), Corpo
e Anima,
Ultrasegno.
As well, some of his photographical works have been selected as
promotional images for the Festivals Body
Stroke '05
in Brugge (B), Something
Raw '05
iin Amsterdam.
I-Chen
Zuffellato – performer
I-Chen
Zuffellato was born in Taiwan in 1979 but grew up in Italy. In 2004
she graduated at the Amsterdam University of Arts, the TheaterSchool.
In the years 2000 and 2001 she was invited by the choreographer
Carolyn Carlson to attend the Accademia Isola Danza, promoted by La
Biennale di Venezia, where she studied with important personalities
of the dance field such as Carolyn Carlson, Caterina Sagna, Jean
Cebron, Ivan Wolfe, Malou Airaudo, Bill T. Jones, Frey Faust, Nigel
Charnock, Larrio Ekson, Jennifer Muller, Janet Panetta among others.
During this time she collaborated as a dancer for Michele Abbondanza
and Antonella Bertoni in the performance Argonautika and in the
performance by Simona Bucci for the closing Galà of the Leone D'Oro
Prize (Biennale di Venezia). She attended dance, theatre research
projects with Motus, Andrew Morrish, Frey Faust, Benoit Lachambre.
From 2002 till 2006, she mainly worked in Holland, collaborating as a
performer with the Dutch company De Meekers of Arthur Rosenfeld, with
Sarah Manya, Marie-Cécile de Bont and the company Piet Rogie &
Co.. In the year 2006 she participated to improvisation events such
as Mad Sunday - Muiderpoort Theater in Amsterdam and Partiture
Improvvise curated by Laura Moro in Castelfranco Veneto. In the
summer 2006 she danced in the opera The Magic Flute of W.A. Mozart
directed by maestro Riccardo Muti and choreographed by Min Tanaka for
the Salzburg Festival 06. She has recently collaborated with theatre
director Martin Butler for the avatar-interactive project The
Girlfriend Experience. Since 2007 she is working with theatre
director Michael Laub.