Gaelyn and Gustavo Aguilar

TUG (Gaelyn and Gustavo Aguilar) is an interdisciplinary arts collective that creates contact zones where people can generate insights about, and produce actions around, contemporary social issues. Our work neither originates from, nor terminates with, material, but rather emerges out of our foundational gesture of triangulating creativity, critique, and citizenship. TUG is on faculty in the MFA Art Practice program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

MARCIA MILHAZES

Born and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. From 1970 to 1979 she was trained as ballet dancer by the Municipal Theater´s Opera Ballet School, Rio de Janeiro. Postgraduate in Dance Studies and Choreography/Choreology Laban Center for Movement and Dance, London, UK, 1991-1992. Founded her own Dance Company in 1996. Awarded professional career in Brazil and abroad, with 26 choreographic works and cross art projects, performing in renowned Festivals, Theaters, Art Gallery, Museums.

Olga Rabetskaya

Olga Rabetskaya is an artist from Belarus, who currently lives in the USA. She is a director, photographer and choreographer whose work spans across film, choreography and photography, multimedia production. Olga’s artistic research and exploration focuses on the deep knowledge of the body and how to share our emotional experience, memories and body intelligence through the movement. Her dance pieces and dance films were presented at international festivals in the USA and Europe.

Antoine Panier, Harold George

After fifteen years as a contemporary dancer, Antoine Panier redirected his professional activity to visual communication, video and filmmaking. Through his training and experience in dance, Antoine developed a new approach to cinema vs dance which results in an original work based on the relationship between the camera, the choreography and the movement. The image is often intrusive and intimate, leaving no room for modesty of emotions.

Harold George, is the choreographer and artistic director of Dunia Dance Theatre. His work is the result of an exploration of the meeting between Western and African cultures, theatre, painting and other artistic disciplines.

jake polonski

A graduate of the RCA, Jake is an accomplished cinematographer, with credits including Black Mirror, Billions and The Sparks Brothers.

Laura Bachman

Laura Bachman graduated from Paris Opera ballet school in 2011. The same year, she joined the Paris Opera Ballet as a full time member. In 2016, she worked with Benjamin Millepied’s LA Dance Project before joining De Keersmaeker’s cie, Rosas.

Since 2018, she has choreographed for Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch and Niels Schneider’s, Le Rite, also acting in the latter. 

In 2021, she directed her first film, Chimera.

Darren Johnson

A multi-disciplinary artist working primarily in film and poetry, Darren Johnson illuminates cinematic journeys spanning subjects from implicit bias and social justice to music and performing arts. Most recently, his films have screened at the Harlem Film Festival, Lincoln Center’s Dance on Camera Festival, and In/Motion, Chicago’s International Dance Film Festival. His spoken word poetry releases include an
audiobook, Conundrums of Indignant Bliss and a live jazz album Poetic Explorations with the Whitewashed Conundrums.