Siobhan Davies
Siobhan Davies is a renowned British choreographer who rose to prominence in the 1970s. Davies was a founding member of London Contemporary Dance Theatre and in 1982 joined forces with Richard Alston and Ian Spink to create independent dance company Second Stride. Founding Siobhan Davies Dance in 1988, she works closely with collaborating artists to ensure that their own artistic enquiry is part of the creative process. By 2002 she moved away from the traditional theatre circuit and started making work for gallery spaces. Davies applies choreography across a wide range of creative disciplines including visual arts and film. Recent choreographic works have been presented at some of the most prestigious art institutions in the UK and Europe, including Lenbachhaus (Munich), Whitechapel Gallery and Barbican Gallery (London) and Turner Contemporary (Margate). In 2016 she became Associate Professor at the Centre for Dance Research (CDaRE) at Coventry University.
Keith "K. Alexander" Corprew
Keith "K. Alexander" Corprew is a Black American interdisciplinary performance artist from Chesapeake, Virginia. He is in the Master of Fine Arts, Creative Practice (Transdisciplinary) Programme at Trinity Laban, where he was the 2022-2023 US-UK Fulbright Scholar. His choreographic and filmmaking practice explores the integration of music, movement, and text as a storytelling technique to uplift the voices of marginalized and oppressed communities.
Hofesh Shechter
Choreographer, filmmaker and composer, Hofesh Shechter OBE is Artistic Director of the UK-based Hofesh Shechter Company, formed in 2008. Shechter is recognised as one of the most exciting artists making work for both stage and film. His ability in both disciplines defy traditional expectations and in addition, Shechter is renowned for composing atmospheric musical scores that complement the unique physicality of his much-celebrated work.
Shechter’s stage work is often hailed as cinematic and it was only a matter of time before creating his directorial debut with the unapologetic and exhilarating new short film POLITICAL MOTHER: The Final Cut.
In 2021, Shechter collaborated with French filmmaker Cédric Klapisch to work on the much-anticipated feature ‘En corps’. Released in March 2022, along with a soundtrack created by Shechter himself, the film continues to be screened globally.
Shechter’s production Grand Finale was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production (2017) and in 2016 Shechter received a Tony Award nomination for his choreography for the Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof.
Luca Di Bartolo, Ivonne Bello
Born in Rimini in 1971, I started shooting when I was at 8 years old.
Photography has accompanied my whole life as an increasingly personal and intimate expression. A form of art allowing me to communicate to others my own emotions and those of others. A reality where to close oneself as a form of defense. I earned my degree in architecture in Florence in 2002 and before that I graduated in Math and Science. For many years I dealt with industrial archeology and did deep research for a book I later published dedicated to brick kilns. Starting back in the year 2000 I began to dedicate my interest to dance photography and, as years went by, it was in that world that I found my personal reality, to the point of attending tanztheater classes myself and collaborating with top professional dancers of the highest level. Among the artists and dance companies I’ve had the honour and pleasure of shooting: Giuseppe Picone, Letizia Giuliani, Svetlana Zekharova, Antonio Gades Dance Company, MaggioDanza, Bellet of Kiev, Aterbaletto and many others. Since 2014, I have been dealing increasingly with video-making, both in the field of dance and beyond.
Thomas Webber
Thomas Webber is a young Brazilian director at the beginning of his career in cinema. Despite studying architecture, he has always been interested in telling stories and venturing into the world of film.
His first short film was made without much technical knowledge, but with a lot of passion and inspiration from a true cinema lover. With the help of some professionals who identified with the script, he was able to finish the film, which had a good return in festivals around the world. This success helped him enter the film market in Brazil, where he started as a creative assistant and, in a short time, already took on the position of creative director at a production company.
Although he is a director at the beginning of his career, Thomas Webber already demonstrates boldness and creativity in his approaches to themes and narratives. With a critical and sensitive eye, his future film works promise to surprise and touch the audience.
Thomas Corriveau
Thomas Corriveau made his first films in the 1980s and pursued a career as a visual artist, working in the fields of drawing, painting, printmaking and animation. His works are part of various private and public collections and he has exhibited regularly in Canada and abroad. He is a professor at the School of Visual and Media Arts at Université du Québec in Montréal. Since ten years, he is fully involved as an independent animation filmmaker.
