SÉBASTIEN PROVENCHER / choreography and performance
Sébastien est diplômé d’un baccalauréat en danse contemporaine à l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), où il reçoit la bourse William Douglas. Ses créations ont été présentés dans divers festivals et évènements à Montréal tels que Quartiers Danses, Zone Homa, Vue sur la Relève, Short and Sweet, La petite Scène à Québec, Dance Matters à Toronto et Auteurs de Troubles à Lyon. Ses créations sont orientées autour de questionnements sur la notion du genre, de l’interdisciplinarité et des enjeux sociopolitiques. Sa plus récente création, Children of Chemistry a reçu la bourse Prix Coup de Cœur du Public au festival Quartiers Danses en 2015.En parallèle à sa carrière de chorégraphe, Sébastien est également interprète pour divers chorégraphes tel que Emmanuel Jouthe, Sasha Kleinplatz, Manon Olig ny, Helen Simard et George Stamos. Il travaille également au sein de la compagnie Social Growl Dance de Riley Sims à Toronto depuis juillet 2015. S’intéressant particulièrement à l’apport de l’interprète dans le processus créatif, Sébastien multiplie également ses collaborations avec divers chorégraphes émergents de Montréal, dont Philippe Dandonneau, Claudia Chan Tak et Louis-Elyan Martin.
PIA ACHTERNKAMP / music and performance
Pia Achternkamp (aka "loh") is a composer who is researching on the borderlands of music, performing arts, language and fine arts.
She interrupted her studies of philosophy at Humboldt University Berlin in order to dedicate herself fully to composition of music and soundscapes for theatre/dance projects. As she has always been curious about the interdependencies in sound, space, movement and dialogue, Pia is usually performing her music live on stage when working in the context of performing arts.
She presented her work in HAU Berlin, Maxim Gorki Theatre and ACUD with the director Asaf Hameiri and in Volksbühne Berlin with her performance/research group "Future Witchcraft Project".
With her solo project "loh" Pia is exploring the power of endless repetition and minimal variations. She developed a strong fascination for the phenomenon of silence in music.
Pia is part of a few bands: CHRUCH / grau& / Mildred / Pomelo
MICAELA KÜHN JARA / creative production
Micaela Kühn Jara works in the intersection between education and artistic production and has a particular interest in participatory processes. She is the Young Audience Artistic Advisor at Dansehallerne and a guest lecturer at The Danish National School of Performing Arts. In addition, she is the creative producer and tour manager for Alfredo Zinola as well as other freelance German and Danish choreographers. She is the best.
SIEGMAR ZACHARIAS / dramaturgy and outside eye
Siegmar Zacharias’ works develop formats of performances, lectures, installations, juxtaposing theory and materiality. They are situated between labour and humour, do-it-yourself low tech and high-tech. They have been presented nationally and internationally in theatres, festivals, conferences, galleries, green houses, the woods, and up in the sky. Questions such as co-authorship, the function of the audience, affect- and experiential knowledge production are crucial to her work.
She has developed an artistic research that involves, experimenting with forms and formats of writing, drawing, real time text production, and engineering situations of knowledge production in the field of performance. This practice collides approaches from philosophy, with pop culture, science and para-science. Observing and realising the entanglement of the relations of human and non-human actors into an ecology of performance.
She initiated WOW – We work here, a research and exchange platform of Berlin based female artists, that engages in forms of articulating artistic practice through the specific perspective and conditioning of living and working in Berlin.
Siegmar teaches seminars and workshops colliding philosophical investigations with performance methodologies, regularly at DasArts, Amsterdam, DOCH, Stockholm, Folkwang Universität Essen, HZT Berlin.
BRAULIO BANDEIRA (Deepneue) / music
Bráulio Bandeira is an important figure of the black queer community and the underground performance and music scene in Berlin. After his studies in theatre acting, both in ESMAE in Porto and later on in The Commedia School in Copenhagen, he studied Dance and Anthropology on the side of Maguy Marin in The National Choreographic Centre (CCN) of Rillieux-la-Pape, France. Through this connection of the dancing body, he became interested in Music making and DJing under the alias of Deepneue. Through the stage and/or dance floors in clubs, his work has always been strongly influenced by the gay and queer community. In 2017 he co-creates an artistic platform called TrashEra that has as goal to highlight and sublimate through parties, photo and video, art exhibitions, performances and other diverse medias the alternative and underground culture and lifestyles of the city of Berlin. Working both as a creator but also as a performer, Art Director, DJ and Music Producer he addresses the problematic of the contemporary queer culture, highlighting racial, gender or other minorities issues.
NICOLA DUBOIS / light design
Nicola Dubois s’intéresse à la lumière et aux mots. Diplômé de l’École Supérieure de Théâtre, il s’inté-
resse aux phénomènes de la perception, au sensible et également à la matérialité et la technique. Dans le
cadre de sa pratique, il joue avec les projecteurs comme avec des idées, et aime se situer autant du côté
de la conception lumière que de la régie. En conception, il explore l’espace, le rythme et les phénomènes
optiques auprès des créateurs de la relève en arts vivants. Du côté de la régie, il s’amuse à disséquer les
composantes scéniques auprès d’Olivier Morin (Queue Cerise, Peer Gynt), Véronique Bossé (Iseult &
Evaelle) et Philippe Dandonneau (J’ai rasé mes jambes six fois and no sex happened).