Artists
PERFORMANCE
Aleksandra Jakubczak, theatre director. Graduated from State Theatre Academy in Warsaw, has now worked for three years directing, devising and co-creating theatre pieces, installations and performances in Poland. Her main interests are new forms of documentary-based narratives, radical fiction and combining theatre forms with installation and performance art. (–> read more)
Event: | Failing |
Alexandre Bellenger was born in 1975 in Créteil, France. He started by doing the clown when he was 5. He entered the music creation as a singer and guitarist in grunge bands before getting interest in experimental music. He has played on stage or recorded with internationally renown musicians such as Noël Akchoté, Otomo Yoshihide, Rüdiger Carl, Jean-François Pauvros. (–> read more)
Event: | Power |
Anne Lindner is an independent artist based in Luxembourg. She graduated in 2007 with a B.A (Honours) in Fine Art and Design from De Montfort University in Leicester, England. Anne’s work is mainly contemplating on emotional and social issues in reflecting society itself. Her main interest lies within installations and encaustic: her use of different media and material is her creative strength. (–> read more)
Event: | Power |
Bill Balaskas is an artist, writer and academic working across different media and dissemination platforms. He was born in 1983 in Thessaloniki, Greece, where he studied economics, before moving to the United Kingdom in order to study art. His background has influenced significantly his artistic practice, especially ever since the outbreak of the global financial crisis of 2008. (–> read more)
Event: | Power |
Jill Crovisier got selected to participate in the China EU Art School in Beijing, organized by the British Council of Arts in 2005. In 2007, she graduated in Ballet and Contemporary Dance from the Conservatory of Music in Esch/Alzette (LU). She continued to study dance in NYC and France, where she also obtained her dance teaching qualification.
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Event: | Instant Composing |
Jeff Schinker wurde 1985 in Luxemburg geboren. Er hat vergleichende Literaturwissenschaften an der Sorbonne studiert. Nach einigen Veröffentlichungen in verschiedenen Anthologien hat er mit “Retrouvailles” 2015 seinen ersten eigenständigen Text bei Hydre Éditions veröffentlicht.
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Event: | The Other |
Gianfranco Celestino was born in Turin, Italy. He studied classical piano at the Conservatory G. Verdi in Turin (1992) and dance-theatre at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany (2000). Since 2004 he lives in Luxembourg. He worked among others with Les Ballets C. de la B (B), Unit.Control (LU) and ARAZZO Tanztheater (D). Since 2002 he works on his own choreographic ideas. (–> read more)
Events: | Instant Composing || The Spectator’s Role |
Guy Marsan is a French-Canadian performer, actor, creator, based in Hamburg, Germany. After studying theatre in Canada, he studied physical theatre and mime corporel in Paris. In 2013, Guy received a grant from the Ontario Ministry of Culture to complete a Master of Arts in Performance Studies at the Universität Hamburg.
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Event: | Freedom of the Body |
Hagen van den Broeck, originally from Holland and currently living in Hamburg, worked as an actor/singer/director in The Hague for six years and studied Theatre Science and acting in Amsterdam and London and Corporate Communication in Utrecht.
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Event: | Rituals and Art |
Marie Werthschulte studied Medien- and Kulturwissenschaften at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf and at Department of Theatre and Film der University of British Columbia, Vancouver. In 2014 she graduated at Universität Hamburg in Performance Studies (MA). She currently researches on ritualistic qualities within the performance arts. (–> read more)
Event: | Rituals and Art |
Marion Rothhaar est née en 1972 à Zweibrücken, metteure en scène et dramaturge pour le théâtre et la danse, et Marc Planceon, acteur, danseur, performeur, questionneront l’opposition ou le rapport de l’art et du sport. Ils élargiront leurs propos en se référant à d’autres expériences de femmes enfants sportives et qui ont été confrontées aux distorsions du corps. (–> read more)
Event: | Rituals and Art |
Marek Jason Isleib was born in 1968 in Berlin. He graduated from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague / The Netherlands as a Classical and Modern dancer in 1990. He has worked professionally for 25 years in The Netherlands and Germany in the field of classical ballet, modern dance and improvisation.
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Event: | Power |
Oliver Augst is a composer, singer and author of radio plays. He has been active for nearly three decades in the fields of cd production, radio plays and live creations and theatre production with various ensembles. He has got an international stage experience including collaborations with Blixa Bargeld (Germany), Raymond Pettibon (USA) or Keiji Haino (Japan). (–> read more)
Event: | Power |
Sayoko Onishi started studying classical ballet from age 5 until 15. From 1975 she studied contemporary dance in the Dance academy led by Mr. Mitsuaki Sasaki. In 1986 she studied butoh dance with Mr. Ipei Yamada in the dance company Hoppo-Butoh Ha, afterwards she began an intensive artistic collaboration under the supervision of Mr. Hironobu Oikawa. (–> read more)
Event: | Instant Composing |
Shlomit Fundaminsky is a freelance choreographer, performer, researcher of improvisation and teacher. Lives, works and creates in Israel. Teaching and appearing with her works in Israel and around the world. She is Artistic director of “GVANIM” Festival 2015 &2017 in Suzanne Dellal Center, Tel Aviv.
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Event: | Freedom of the Body |
Susanne Schuda was born in the 1970s in Vienna, she lives and works in Berlin and Vienna. Growing-up in a country with a schizophrenic approach to history, politics, social interaction and humour, she was able to train her awareness of ambivalence, dilemma and paradox from an early age. Her work engages with the wide-ranging impact of a media-based society. (–> read more)
Event: | Failing |
Suzan Noesen is an artist and multdisciplinary author from Luxembourg. She develops dramaturgic structures as a base for projects involving different artistic media ranging from drawing and painting, performance and singing to writing and directing. She studied conceptual art at KABK The Hague, as well as painting at the Meisterschüler class at HGB Leipzig, and followed a training in physical theatre. (–> read more)
Event: | Freedom of the Body |
Event: | The Other |
Yuko Kominami was born in Japan and studied Butoh and dance in Tokyo. After graduating with a BA in Japanese History from Waseda University, she did a Professional Diploma in Community Dance Studies and attended an Independent Study Programme at Laban Centre London from 1998 to 2000.
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Event: | Rituals and Art |
MUSIC
Laurent Payfert is a French double bass player and composer. He has been trained in classical music at the Conservatoire de Metz (F). Playing as a bassist in rock and funk bands, he gets into jazz and improvised music by the end of the 80ies, stylistically influenced by encounters with H. Van De Geyn, Ricardo Del Fra and Steve Laca.
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Event: | Instant Composing |
Simon Rose has performed from solo to orchestras in Europe, US and Canada. Interest as a free improviser developed exploring the possibilities created by purposefully limiting himself to the alto saxophone. During the last two years Rose has focused on the baritone sax. He has led the trio Badland (Simon Fell, Steve Noble) for 15 years.
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Event: | Instant Composing |
Tomàs Tello was born in 1981 in Lima, Peru. He had a deep interest in sound from a very early age. He studied harmony and composition with Jorge Madueño and guitar with Andrés Prado. From 2001 to 2002 he lived in Barcelona and attended the “Taller de Musics”, there he practiced the Oud with Gani Mirzo.
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Event: | Instant Composing |
Tom Dockhal is a DJ from Luxembourg.
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Event: | Instant Composing |
PARTICIPATIVE PERFORMANCE
Ella Vibsuals – For over a decade Eliezer Vela and Laura Celada have been working on artistic projects. In 2012 they founded ELLA VIBSUALS and now collaborate to create vibrational sounds and images in audiovisuals and performances. They are based in Barcelona.
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Event: | PLAY(ing) |
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Fernanda Ortiz studied art history (Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires), Fine Arts (Instituto Vocacional de Arte y Escuela de Bellas Artes Manuel Belgrano) and dance (Folkwang University of the Arts). She was a member of the company Neuer Tanz, led by the visual artist and photographer V.A.Wölfl. Since 2005, she realized KUNSTAKT/ONEN and WBILD Improvisations. (–> read more)
Event: | The Spectator’s Role |
Ian De Toffoli gets a PhD in French literature at the Sorbonne in Paris in 2011. He has published two novels and numerous articles and short texts in anthologies and journals. His first play ‘L’Annonce’ is staged at CAPe Ettelbrück in October 2009. In 2012 he was ‘writer in residence’ at the National Theatre of Luxembourg.
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Event: | The Spectator’s Role |
Larisa Faber was born in Romania and raised in Luxembourg. She trained at Drama Centre London. Recent credits include: it felt empty…, Fräulein Else & Leutnant Gustl, Plan(g) B (all with MASKéNADA), Frrrups (Traffo CarréRotondes), Bout’Chou (Philharmonie), Olga’s Room (Speaking in Tongues Theatre Company / Neimënster / Arcola Theatre London). (–> read more)
Event: | The Spectator’s Role |
Lori Baldwin is a performance artist, actress, writer, and cultural organizer. She creates havoc and play by facilitating inclusive party spaces and performance events. She is originally from the USA, and currently lives and works in between Budapest and Berlin. She has been making original performance work both in collectives and individually since 2009.(–> read more)
Event: | Failing |
Rose Cleary, born 1990, UK. Since graduating from Central St. Martins in 2012, she has exhibited internationally at galleries including Nahmad Projects, London; Backlit Gallery, Nottingham; and The Vaults, London. She has also worked alongside clients such as Dr Marten’s. Based in Essex, UK.
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Event: | PLAY(ing) |
Valérie Reding works at the intersection of performance, dance, photography and video and uses her body to explore the potential of empathy, vulnerability, transformation and drag in order to question norms and stereotypes of gender, sexualities and identities.
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Event: | PLAY(ing) |
Victoria Hauke explores energetic, somatic and sensory processes in the body related to their physical and emotional quality. Her work is situated in socio-cultural contexts and within questions about environmental change, as well asin relation with her artistic background in Western contemporary dance. Since 1993, she created about 45 works that have been shown nationally and internationally. (–> read more)
Events: | The Spectator’s Role |
VISUAL ART
Catherine Richard graduates in film and audiovisual studies at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in 1999 and begins an eclectic career as a film director in 2002. She has since then participated in various audiovisual projects: short films, historical documentaries and artistic videos. Her latest project isthe documentary “Ebrima au pays des anciens” for the Luxembourg “Routwäissgro” series. (–> read more)
Events: | The Spectator’s Role |
Daisy Billowes is an emerging contemporary fine artist. For the past 6 years she has been intently studying and questioning the different forms of the printed image in relation to the history of craft, mechanical and digital (re)production. In 2017 she graduated from the Royal College of Art, having achieved a Distinction in a 2-year Master’s Program in Fine Art: Print.(–> read more)
Event: | Failing |
Johana Blanc studied in Geneva, lives and works in Paris. Using mainly drawing and edition, she intends to comprehend art works and their presence, questioning their immateriality, fleetingness, precarity and contingency. She considers her productions as situations, “coincidences of an observer’s look and an artist’s work.”
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Event: | Failing |
Kin is a Glasgow-based artist combining sound, moving image and physical structures to create multi-sensory installations incorporating motion sensors, digital software, tracking devices and drones to examine understandings of nature, agency, and how environments mediate relationships between people.
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Event: | Power |
Event: | Rituals and Art |
Ivar Veermäe was born 1982 in Tallinn, Estonia and lives in Berlin). He is a visual artist and his work circles around questions of public space, networks and new technologies. As a result of long-term artistic research by means of photography, film and sound, his works are presented in versatile ways.
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Event: | Power |
Justine Blau holds a master’s degree in sculpture from the Wimbledon School of Art. Exhibitions among others: Tous les chemins mènent à Schengen, Frac Lorraine, Metz (2015); The Project, Luxembourg (2015); Euroartphoto, Palazzo Stelline, Milan (2014); The world is blue like anorange, Arendt & Medernach, Luxembourg (2014)
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Event: | The Spectator’s Role |
Sneja Dobrosavljevic graduated from Camberwell College of Arts /UAL with an MA in Digital Arts after she had graduated with an MA in social and visual communications. In her interactive video installations she mimics the world of advertising. She promotes fake products in order to create awareness for blind consumerism and the growing power of the food industry. (–> read more)
Event: | Rituals and Art |
Lisa Busche born 1973 in Hamburg studied from 2000 to 2006 visual arts at Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig and was a master-class student of Walter Dahn. She lives and works in Cologne.
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Event: | Rituals and Art |
MULTIMEDIA ART
Florian Tuercke is a sound and media artist who mainly deals in his work with the public space. In his projects he mixes various artistic disciplines and strategies in which often the experimental setup and the process itself are more important than the result. The live aspect, as well as interactive and participatory elements often play a crucial role. (–> read more)
Event: | The Spectator’s Role |
Kamil Guenatri was born on February 2, 1984 in Algeria. He lived in Algiers until the age of 17 and then moved to France (Toulouse) in order study mathematics and computer sciences. In 2007, he obtained a master’s degree in computer systems engineering at the University Paul Sabatier. At the same time, he developed a passion for literature and performance art. (–> read more)
Event: | Freedom of the Body |
Manuel Vason is a visual activist interested to explore the correspondence between the art of photographing and the art of performing. Vason believes the space in between the action and the image is a fertile space of creative expansion. In 2016 Vason founded DARC, a collective of artists interested to explore the potentiality of creative documentation. (–> read more)
Event: | Freedom of the Body |
Marta Pisco, theatre maker, born in 15.11.1974 in Lisbon, Portugal, educated as an architect, did her master at DasArts in Amsterdam, working since 2003 as a performer, coach, producer and visual arts curator – both in Brazil and with theatre group Space, a Hungarian-Dutch company based in Amsterdam.
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Event: | The Other |
Michel Feinen studied visual arts in Strasbourg. After his studies he came to Luxembourg where he works as an independent artist. He’s practicing drawing, photography and steel sculpture. He’s also working for diverse musical groups, artistic projects (music and theatre) and workshops.
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Event: | Instant Composing |
Annick Sophie “Neckel” Scholtus, born in 1982, lives and works in Luxembourg. An artist and photographer, she studied Arts at Monpellier University and did her Masters inPhotography at Paris VIII University. In 2009, she creates the project called “Roulot’ grpahe”, a moving caravan containing a Camera Obscura.
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Event: | Instant Composing |
OTHER
Nina Schaeffer is working as a professional Lighting Designer and Tech for many concert venues and theaters in her hometown, Luxembourg since 2001. For the past 7 years she was employed by a company called den Atelier (www.atelier.lu). She was working as a LD, Production- and Stage Manager. In 2015, she has founded her own Company called Thunderbolt and Lightning. (–> read more)
Event: | Instant Composing |
Sandra Masemann works as an independent trainer, consultant and coach. Her training focuses on: successful handling of mistakes, successful communication, presence training, team training, improvisational and creative training, facilitation of processes and events. She leads learning and training processes in companies & organizations and moderates and stages large events. (–> read more)
Event: | Power |
Sandy Artuso is a FNR-funded PhD candidate in the Department of German Studies at the University of Luxembourg, where she is writing her thesis about German autobiographies written by trans people. She is a member of the theatre collective Independent Little Lies. She has worked as a journalist and co-edited a queer magazine called “Die Preziöse”. (–> read more)
Event: | Freedom of the Body |
Isabel Scott – After completing her education in Luxembourg she studied at King’s College London and the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has worked as a journalist for Cid Fraen an Gender and Forum- für Politik, Gesellschaft und Kultur. Isabel Scott presents her own radio show “The Deep End” on Radio Ara.
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Event: | PLAY(ing) |