Keisha Grant, Finbar Somers, Finbar Somers
Keisha Grant is a Jamaican – Birmingham UK born choreographer, teacher and Artistic Director. She began dance classes at the age of 3 at her local Dance school in Birmingham before going on to train at Laban Centre and Roehampton University of Surrey, graduating with a degree in Fine Art for community and Dance Studies. Her artistic portfolio of collaborations span across Jazz, choral – orchestral live music to micro biology, digital technology and film. Her interests have always been expressing the human experience, using dance to make sense of our selves and the world around us.
Finbar Somers is a filmmaker based in the UK. He studied BSc Film and Television Production at the University of York, and currently resides in London working as a director and producer through his company Umbra Motion Picture Company Ltd.
Finbar's projects have been presented at the Royal Television Society, Sheffield DocFest, DMZ Industry, Docs By The Sea, Global Short Docs among others.
Wei Jiang
Wei Jiang graduated from Beijing Dance Academy with a major in Chinese Classical Dance Teaching, and participated in the gold award for group dance performance of "The Orchid King Enters the Orchestra Music" in 2008.
In 2010 he was the runner up of Beijing Tai Chi and the champion of Tai Chi Sword.
In 2011 he featured in the dance drama "Liliang" and in 2014 he was invited by Ningxia Song and Dance Theater to participate in the dance drama "Flower" In the same year he participated in the modern dance drama "Lotus" and "The Beginning of Man".
In 2015 he was the male lead of modern dance drama Painted Skin and national dance drama Kite. He was the recipient of the 2018 Dance Drama Lotus Award.
Sandra Geco
Sandra Geco trained at tah Ecole Supérieure de Danse de Cannes and the Jeune ballet du Geneva Dance Center in Geneva. She has worked with a Variety of companies and creative bodies in Paris.
Sandra is now working to develop her own dance style by blending her classical/hip hop technique and pointe work.
She has worked with Hybrid company (choreographer Lionel Hun “cirque du soleil”), José Montalvo and has recently participated in Wim Vandekeybus' new creation "Speak Low if you speak love" currently on international tour.
Anjana Ghonasgi, Pratik Iyer
Anjana Ghonasgi is a versatile performing artist and storyteller with over 20+ years of performance experience. She holds a Masters Diploma with Distinction in Bharatanatyam. She is a graduate from New York City’s Broadway Dance Center and has worked in New York City as a professional artist for almost 3 years. Highlight of Anjana’s career thus far has been performing solo with maestro A.R Rahman for 2017 IIFA ROCKS at MetLife Stadium. Experimental Film & Film on Women. Her work film has been nominated as a semifinalist in the category of Best Dance Film at Couch International Film Festival in Toronto, Canada.
Pratik Iyer is a storyteller from Chennai who loves to explore new art forms and contribute to the changing space of cinema.
Elaine Harvey
Elaine is a dance artist and director of the Moving Minds Project which provides year-round improvisational movement and dance sessions for people living with dementia and their family members. Her current research uses dance and participatory practice to explore embodied experiences of living with dementia and examines how the body might be better incorporated into the discussion around diverse conceptions of the self and lived experiences of dementia.
Olivia Griselda
Olivia Griselda is a Singapore-based, Indonesia-born writer and director. She most recently directed “Rite of Passage”, a dance short film that was shot as part of Cinemovement Laboratory 6: Solo in Indonesia.
She directed, wrote, and produced the romantic comedy short film “Just Because We’re Friends”, which premiered in Minikino Film Week’s Bali International Short Film Festival 2019. Her YouTube comedy web series “Alice Wants a Date” was successfully crowdfunded through Indiegogo.
Over the last six years, she has worked on publicity and digital marketing campaigns for BBC StoryWorks and Asian Food Channel.
Olivia graduated from Singapore Management University, majoring in marketing and psychology. Besides filmmaking, she has recently been doing stand-up comedy.
Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
Ioanna Paraskevopoulou is a dancer, based in Αthens.
She graduated from the Greek State School of Dance in Athens, Greece and is currently studying at the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of Ionian University. Her research focuses on the relation between audiovisual media and movement.
She was awarded in the Festival Culturel International de la Danse Contemporaine, Algiers (2013) for the piece 21-mneme by Maria Koliopoulou and in the InShadow festival (2013) in Lisbon with Konstantinos Rizos for the video dance project Sans Attente.
She was awarded the Artworks – Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship in 2019. For her video project “All She Likes Is Popping Bubble Wrap” she was awarded the FIVideodanza Festival Sound Design Award and Maracay Festival Best Video Art. Recently, the 10min-long version of "MOS"(40 minute live stage choreographic work) entitled "Coconut Effect" won one of the four prizes at the Danse Élargie competition organised by Theatre de la Ville- Paris.
Dani Cobarrubias, Carmen Porras
Dani Cobarrubias. Degree in Film Direction at the School of Visual Arts (Madrid) and Photography at the EFTI School (Madrid).
Carmen Porras. Choreographer and performer of contemporary dance. Founder of the association Artes Sanas en Movimiento.
Founders of Nido Productions, have directed and produced the documentaries “La petite Nelly”, “Tangueando”, "Despiert@s" and “El Seco sabe”.
As well as the short films “Inside (Inhabited Landscapes)”, “Bajo la piel”, “Nammu” and “Arbasoei”.
His video dances have been screened in more than seventy festivals around the world.