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Choreography & Set Design: Stijn Celis
Assistant to Choreographer: Joanne Fong
Lighting Design: Erik Berglund
Costume Design: Kathy Brunner
Music: James Brown, Bretschneider, Steve Reich, Aka Pygmie

Belgian choreographer Stijn Celis danced with many companies, including Royal Ballet of Flanders, Contemporary Dance Zürich, Cullberg Ballet and Geneva Ballet until, in 1998, devoting himself to choreography and other artistic disciplines, including working set design. From 2004
to summer 2007, Switzerland-based Celis was artistic director of the Bern Ballet. His Practice Paradise was presented by Diversions in 2004. 

"I've set out to introduce for each of the five sections a different physical idea, working from the group as a whole into the individual and personal. I'm hoping for it to be a sensual experience for the audience. I am proposing new ideas, new physical ideas. It is very physical, bold, in the detail,and, I hope, poetic with a hint of philosophy. I have also used text from the book ‘Will Happiness Find Me?' by Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss. The music is American minimalist, electronic and even a little tribal." Stijn Celis

Strange Attractors: Prelude & Part II

Choreography: Stephen Petronio
Assistant to Choreographer: Gerald Casel
Music: Placebo with vocals by David Bowie (Prelude); James Lavelle (Part II)
Original Costumes:Tara Subkoff and Mathew Levi of Imitation of Christ (Prelude); Tanya Sarne of Ghost (Part II)
Costume Realisation: Rhia Whitnell
Lighting Design: Ken Tabachnick
Lighting Realisation: Joe Fletcher

Petronio was born in Newark, New Jersey, and received a B.A. from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he began dancing in 1974. Initially influenced by the works of Steve Paxton and Rudolf Nureyev, Petronio went on to become the first male dancer of the Trisha Brown Company, where he danced from 1979 to 1986. He founded Stephen Petronio Company in 1984. He has received international acclaim for his ground-breaking choreography and the company has toured extensively across the United States and in Canada, Mexico, Europe, South America, Australia, Korea and Russia.

Petronio is known for his high profile collaborations with the Greenwich Village elite and has worked with artists including Cindy Sherman, Anish Kapoor, Rufus Wainwright, Laurie Anderson as well as Lou Reed, Michael Nyman and James Lavelle; the list goes on.

His status as the pride of the New York dance scene is represented by an equally impressive award line-up, including a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts award, the first American Choreographer Award in 1987, and a New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) in 1986. 

Sugarwater

Choreography & Set Design: Stephen Shropshire
Assistant to Choreographer: Joanne Fong
Lighting Design: Otto Eggersgluess
Costume Design: Jolanda Hendriks
Costume Assistant: Malu Dijk
Music: New compositions based on Handel's Water Music by Anne Parlevliet

Shropshire studied choreography with Bessie Schonberg whilst a student at the Juilliard School in New York City.

In 1999 Shropshire moved to the Netherlands to work with Galili Dance and went on to create a number successful works for the company - including ‘the Piper's Progress' for which in 2002 he won both the Grand Prize and Public's Prize at the Luxembourg International Choreographic competition. In recent years, Shropshire has created new works for the Iceland Dance Company, Scapino Ballet Rotterdam and Norrdans, and is currently one of four resident choreographers working with the newest dance house in the Netherlands, Station Zuid. He has recently been appointed future artistic director of Northern Netherlands Dance (NND).

Peeled

Choreography & Lighting Design: Itzik Galili
Assistant to Choreographer: Jussi Nousiainen
Lighting Realisation: Yaron Abulatia
Costume Design: Natasja Lansen
Costume Realisation: Jane Williams
Music: Percossa 

Tel Aviv born Itzik Galili studied with Nira Paz in Tel Aviv and went on to dance with Bat-Dor Dance Company and Batsheva Dance Company. In 1991 Galili moved to the Netherlands. In 1992 "The Butterfly Effect" won the Public Prize at the International Competition for Choreographers in Groningen. In 1997 he was nominated by the Ministry of Culture as Artistic Director of a newly founded and publicly supported dance company to be based in Groningen: The Dance Company of the Northern Netherlands / Galili Dance.

‘Movement is my language, my means of communicating; a wordless language which makes it all the more eloquent.'  Itzik Galili

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