GUEST MENTORS | YEAR 2 | U(R)TOPIAS ACADEMY OF CHOREOGRAPHY
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GUEST MENTORS | YEAR 2 | U(R)TOPIAS ACADEMY OF CHOREOGRAPHY -
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Jasmin Vardimon
A leading force in British dance theatre for over twenty years, an award winning choreographer, Jasmin Vardimon has built a reputation for challenging, exciting and visually stunning dance theatre and continues to add to the body of critically acclaimed, artistically respected yet accessible work both for the company she formed in 1998 and for some of the leading organisations she collaborated with. An Associate Artist at Sadler’s Wells since 2006, Jasmin …
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Olivier Dubois
Olivier Dubois has been shaking up the French contemporary dance scene for more than a decade with some of the most radical choreographic work to date. The director of Ballet du Nord from 2014 to 2017, he was named one of the twenty-five best dancers in the world in 2011 by Dance Europe magazine and boasts a unique experience working between creation, interpretation and pedagogy. Olivier Dubois has performed for Angelin Preljocaj, Cirque du Soleil, …
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Roberto Fratini Serafide
Roberto Fratini Serafide is a dramaturg and dance theorician. He's professor of Dance Theory and Dramaturgy for the CSD (Institut del Teatre, Barcelona), and active as a dramaturg for different international companies in the field of contemporay dance and participatory theatre (Caterina Sagna, Roger Bernat, Philippe Saire, La Veronal/Marcos Morau, …
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Patricia Apergi
Patricia Apergi was born in Athens. She completed her education in the branches of dance, theatre and choreography at the Kapodistrian University in Athens (philosophical school), the Niki Kotaxaki dance school, the Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis and the Middlesex University in London. Ιn April 2006 she found the Aerites dance company, with which she has choreographed the pieces: The House of Trouble (2023), U(R)TOPIAS (2021), Hero (2020), Polittes (Citizens Defeated) …
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Lenio Kaklea
Lenio Kaklea is a dancer, choreographer, director and writer born in Athens, Greece and based in Paris. She studies at the National Conservatory of Contemporary Dance in Athens (SSCD), where she is formed in classical ballet and American modern techniques and repertories such as Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham and Jose Limon. In 2005, she is awarded the Pratsika Foundation Prize and moves to France, where she studies at the CNDC in Angers and starts to collaborate with …
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Nikos Vlasopoulos
Nikos Vlasopoulos was born in Athens in 1971. He studied cinema with specialization in directing photography. From 1995-2005 he has worked in several productions in television and cinema. Since 2000 he has been working as a lighting designer for theatre, music, opera and dance performances and has collaborated with the most remarkable and interesting artists, directors and choreographers in Greece. His works have been presented in all the major stages of the country, such as …
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Manolis Manousakis
Manolis Manousakis was born in Athens. He studied composition and directing at Columbia College Chicago in Illinois and in 2007 he received a Master's degree in Sound Arts and Technologies from the Department of Music Studies of Ionian University. In 2016, he received a PhD from De Montfort University with his study, "Cross-arts Production Methods Utilizing Collectives." ….
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Grigoris Panopoulos
Born in Athens in 1981, he studied Economics at the University of Crete but his love for experimental cinema pushed him to the postgraduate program of the School of Fine Arts "Digital Forms of Art" from which he graduated. His interest is focused on non-narrative art forms and especially on the search for a cinematic language that manages to connect experimental cinema with narrative …