Dancer

Sahra Huby was born in Brussels where she studied dance and movement. She learned physical theater at the school “Ecole Internationale de Théâtre Lassaad” (method of J.Lecoq) and studied butoh and Bodyweather in Belgium, Holland and France. Between 2004 and 2006 she pursued a contemporary dance training at the Etage Berlin. Since April 2006 she work as freelance dancer, mainly in the company of Anna Konjetzky, but also with several other choreographer (like Ismael Ivo, Heike Hennig, Louise Chardon, Jo Fabian…). In november 2009 she won the competition “das beste deutsche Tanzsolo”, with the piece “Elephantengedächtniss” (choreographed by A.Konjetzky). In her dance research, influenced by butoh and contemporary dance, she works on extreme body qualities, and systems of thought and motion, searching for an open and complexe body. She works also in the field of fine arts, researching on the encounter of dance and drawing.

Dancer

Viviana Defazio was born in Trani(Bari) – Italy.
She has received her degree at the Folkwang University in Essen – Germany in 2005 and at the same time she is being working with different choreographers like Samir Akika/Unusual Symptom, Norbert Steinwarz, Kuo-Chu Wu and Leandro Kess.
In 2006 she was part of Theatre of Kassel as guest dancer directed from Johannes Wieland.
Since 2007 she is working as freelancer with Neuer Tanz Company Dusseldorf, Luzerner Theater and with choreographers like Anna Konjetzky, Romeo Castellucci, Davide Camplani, Jo Fabian, Angie Hiesl, Martha Hincapie/Periferic Bogota, Michael Purucker, Allora/Calzadilla.
In 2009 she started to create in collaboration with her siter her own works like “Il piano del tempo” and I´ve got you under my skin”, produced from Lucern theatre, Tanzhaus Zürich and Artblau Braunschweig and was invited to different Festivals like EisFabrik/Hannover, Ammutinamenti Festival/Ravenna, Duett-Fuhrt Biennale, /Apart/duett Festival and 100°/Sophiensäle.
In the last years of her work and research, she has been influenced from the practice of Body Weather.

Dancer

https://www.quindellorton.com

Quindell works as an independent dancer, choreographer, teacher and facilitator in Australia and Europe. She graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 2009 with First Class Honours and a member of Link Dance Company. She has worked with the likes of Anna Konjetzky, Superyoutour, Club Guy and Roni and Chrissie Parrott amongst others.

She works with Serena Chalker as Anything Is Valid Dance Theatre, a company with a focus on improvisation and site alternative performance. Quindell’s work has been featured at the Process Space Art Festival-PSAF (BU), Nomadic Village (UK), Edinburgh Fringe (UK), Perth Fringe World (AU), Adelaide Fringe (AU), Short + Sweet Dance Festival (AU), MoveMe Festival (AU), Springhouse (DE) and CADAM’s HiSTOREy’s (DE). Her work has a keen interest in improvisation and interactive and immersive art. She was named Most Outstanding Female Performer at the Short + Sweet Dance Festival 2012 for her critically acclaimed solo 216.

composer, musician, producer

http://www.maingardt.de

Anna Konjetzky and Sergej Maingardt have a strong collaboration, and worked already on the following project togetehr:
About a session, running, out, ground, lighting, fleck.schwinden
Sergej Maingardt graduated from the Univeristy of Music and Dance Cologne with a B.Mus. in electronical composition, he got a B.Eng. from the University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf in Media Technology and has a M.A. in Media and Cultural Analysis from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. He is studying electronic composition as master student with professor Michael Beil. In 2014/2015 he participates at International Ensemble Modern Academy.
The tension between his activities as a composer and as a scientist is an important aspect in his music. His interests are influenced by modern technologies as well as the way they change human perception. In his works he explores the limits of aesthetic principles of the contemporary music as well as those of aural cognition. Musical pieces for audio tapes belong to his work as the pieces for acoustic instruments, live electronics, electronics with sensors, sound installations. In addition to his solo projects, he collaborates with choregraphers, video artists and pop artists.
His works have been played at: International Summer Course for New Music Darmstadt 2014, Donaueschinger Musiktage 2012, Europe meets Vietnam in Contemporary dance 2013 (Hanoi, Vietnam), Gdansk Dance Festival 2013 (Poland), Bundeskunsthalle (Bonn, Germany), Acht Brücken Festival 2012/2011/2010 (Cologne, Germany), Kunstmuseum (Bonn, Germany), Art & Arcade (Haus für elektronische Künste, Basel, Swiss), Who Inspires Us? Tadeusz Kantor! (Cracow, Poland), Next_generation_4.0/5.0 (Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany), In Front (Aachen, Germany), Audio Art Festival (Krakau, Poland), Now & Next (tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany), Platina Festival (Cologne, Germany), Globolize:Cologne 2013 (Germany)

video-artist, light designer

www.reneliebert.com
(1980 in Neubrandenburg, East-Germany)

René Liebert is a video & light designer based in Berlin. His work ranges among artistic practice, conceptual development and technical realization of visual art within performing arts, audiovisual installations, film and experimental formats crossing the borders of these genres. He mainly works within a framework of artistic collaboration.
He holds a diploma in „Applied Theater Studies“ at the Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen, Germany as well as a Master in Documentary Film from the Escuela de Cine de Barcelona, Spain.
He is and has been teaching video editing at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen and Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf.
He holds a diploma in „Applied Theater Studies“ at the Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen, Germany as well as a Master in Documentary Film from the Escuela de Cine de Barcelona, Spain.
He is and has been teaching video editing at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen and Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf.
He holds a diploma in „Applied Theater Studies“ at the Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen, Germany as well as a Master in Documentary Film from the Escuela de Cine de Barcelona, Spain.
He is and has been teaching video editing at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen and Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf.