Collaborators
Alexandra Baybutt - Performer
Corinne Felgate - Costume designer
Maurice George - Performer
Thomas Goodwin - Performer
Janine Harrington - Performer
Russell Harris - Costume designer
Pauline Huguet - Rehearsal director
Katja Nyqvist - Performer
Maija Nurmio - Performer
Fay Patterson - Lighting designer
Valeria Primost - Choreographer/Performer
Nicholas Quinn - Choreographer/Performer
Frauke Requardt - Choreographer
Marie-Louise Stentebjerg - Choreographer/Performer
Christian Ubl- Choreographer/Performer
Athina Vahla - Choreographer
Rodrigo Valero-Puertas - Dramaturge/Visual Artist
Alexandra Baybutt - Performer
Al worked with MIKS on 'Only on Mondays' and 'Objects Of Friction And Facts', offering vocal coaching for Athina's work with the trio.
Al is exploring performance that anyone can take part in, you can find samples at www.firstpersontheatre.co.uk
And movement directing, facilitating, researching, occasionally performing and generally pottering around with movement, especially Laban Movement Analysis as come summer 2010 she'll be a Certified Movement Analyst fingers crossed.
For details of all that involves, see:
www.alexandrabaybutt.co.uk
Corinne Felgate - Costume designer
London based artist Corinne Felgate has exhibited and performed venues including the ICA, Shunt and The Nunnery. Working between the disciplines of Sculpture, Film and Performance her work interjects ironic notions of theatricality upon human actions and everyday objects, stripping back or switching the contexts in which they occur.
She often employs a humorous methodology as a means of re-questioning the "normative" utility of objects and behaviours. Her work focuses on the personal as well as collective mental relationships we build with objects and articles of language as well as other aspects of everyday life, questioning the validity of the “ordinary”.
She has a Masters in Sculpture form Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London and has studied The Slade School of Fine Art. Corinne also has a BA (hons) in Linguistics from University College London where she studied Visual Communication and its role in cognition.
Thomas Goodwin - Performer
Thomas graduated from Laban in 2003 and continued his studies in e.x.er.c.e, a professional training in France, studying improvisation and devising under the direction of Mathilde Monnier at the Centre Chorégraphique National Montpellier. In 2006 he travelled through China, Japan and Taiwan, studying various Martial Arts and giving movement workshops. He has been teaching hatha yoga for 5 years and most recently has started teaching qi-gong and meditation.
In his performance work, he has worked in such disciplines as Butoh and physical theatre as well as contemporary dance and with artists such as Hofesh Shechter, Ben Wright, Rosemary Lee and Luca Silvestrini. He is also making his own work that has been presented at The Place and Greenwich Dance, and is a co-founder of Longfellows Physical Theatre. He has recently received two commissions with Petra Söör to create two new works for Big Dance 2010.
Pauline Huguet - Rehearsal director
Pauline studied ballet (Conservatoire de Montpellier) and English literature (BA and MA from Montpellier University) before training as a contemporary dancer in London. Since she graduated from Laban in 2003 with a 1st class BA Hons, Pauline has performed with various physical theatre companies, including DV8 (Living Costs), Protein Dance (Big Sale) and Punchdrunk (The Firebird Ball, Marat/Sade and The Masque of the Red Death). She also works as a choreographic assistant and education associate for Protein Dance (Valfresco and Dear Body) and she extensively teaches dance (ballet, contemporary dance technique and choreography) in schools and for professional companies, in England and abroad.
Valeria Primost - Choreographer/Performer
Valeria studied in Buenos Aires and Amsterdam SNDO and MTD, where she graduated in June 2005. She has been since creating her own work as well as performing for other choreographers. The subject of her works are themes like migration (Born in Spring), absurdity (on the con-sequence of things), social vs. animal (Kissing Facts). She worked for Trisha Brown and performed with Julyen Hamilton, Katie Duck, Robert Steijn and Frans Poelstra a.o.
She created works for the Van Gogh Museum and Kasteel Groeneveld, a.o. and is the co-founder of The Meeting Point international platform for interdisciplinary arts. Today she develops activities for The Meeting Point based in Berlin and the research and performance group Danza Nomade. She has been a resident artist at the Space program with The Performance Corporation in Ireland and presently with the company MIKS in London October – November 2009 performing at Laban Theatre.
As a teacher she gives workshops on Personal Dance Technique, Instant composing and Movement Communication. She has been teaching at IUDANZA in Caracas, Sozo in Kassel, Montevideo Sitiada Festival in Uruguay, El Patio in Buenos Aires, Buitenkunst, Dansdrift and Anna Mora Studio in Holland.
Valeria also studied with Julyen Hamilton, Nienke Reehorst, David Zambrano, Cristina Barnils, Angellique Willkie and Sidi Larbi Chercaoui, Benoit Lechambre, Katie Duck, Mark Tompkins, Andrew Harwood, Mathilde Monnier, Martin Kilvady and Chrysa Parkinson.
And she was training with Sasha Waltz Company during 2008.
2010 planned collaborations: The Performance Corporation (Ireland), a research and working period with Moon Project in Utrecht, Holland. The Meeting Point performances. A three months residency in Buenos Aires for EN.TRES
Nicholas Quinn - Choreographer/Performer
Nicholas Quinn trained as a dancer at Laban (2004-2007). Upon completing his training he was the recipient of a danceWEB scholarship as part of the ImPulsTanz festival in Vienna in 2007. In 2008 he attended the ex.e.r.ce programme in Montpellier, France, pursuing an interest in what has been termed ‘conceptual dance’. Nicholas works as a performer/collaborator with Superlative Arts, Helena Stenkvist and currently MIKS amongst others.
Marie-Louise Stentebjerg - Choreographer/Performer
Marie-Louise is a choreographer and performer based in Denmark, but also showing work abroad. She graduated from Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance in 2005, a three-year professional program for contemporary dance and choreography. Since then she has been working with her own artistic projects and as a freelance performer, mainly in site-specific works.
She is one of the founding member of 3 independent organisations:
Reverse Collective – a newly founded (2009) cross-artistic group that focuses on the interaction between the disciplines of choreography, performance, music and visual art (installation). The aim is to find new expressions and methods in the work with stage art and to see where else this collaboration will lead.
So far the group has two finished projects; the dance performance “…and like the English girl who followed the rabbit through a gap in the hedge, I soon found myself falling into a new world” (performances: Junge Hunde, Louisana Museum for Modern Art, Diversia Festival for Contemporary Dance Duets, R:R:E).
Their second production, the performance “I am an everyday hero” premiered at Skopje Biennale 2009 in September. For more information see: reversecollective.wordpress.com
RISK:RECLAIM:ENTERTAIN - a art collective working for more open stages and “performativity” (in the context of stage art) in Copenhagen. It is as well a mini festival for emerging artist across disciplines – as long as the work includes a performative element. Fore more information see: 1rre.wordpress.com
Collectiv.At. - a Belgium-based dance company that was founded in 2004. Their work (“Petite Cuisine”, “Quien Soy Es” and “Room 21”) has been shown at festivals, theatres and galleries throughout Europe.
As a freelance artist Marie-Louise has been working with Deborah Vlaemans and Inge-Agnete Tarpgaard, Mork Dans, Marie M. Kristensen and Sarah Cederstrand in site-specific projects and done film work with/for Maia Soerensen and Madeleines Madteater.
Collaborative work; she is currently situated in London and working with MIKS. Earlier she has been part of a collaborative research project by Sara Gebran and together with Collectiv.At she was touring as part of a social/artistic project with the theatre group Interkunst, situated in Berlin.
Christian Ubl - Choreographer/Performer
Christian was born in Vienna (Austria) in 1972 and has lived in France for the past twelve years. In Vienna, he originally began as a professional figure skater and “Latin dancer.” He did this for ten years and won a lot of competitions in this discipline before moving on to study contemporary dance in two different private schools in Vienna (Vienne Dance Center and Mouve-on) for two years.
In 1996 Christian was accepted on a two year scholarship at the “Cellule Insertion Professional of contemporary dance -Cie Coline” in Istres, situated in the south of France. As a dancer and performer, he has worked with many French choreographers: Abou Lagraa, Robert Seyfried, Michel Kelemenis, Delphine Gaud, Christiane Blaise, Gilles Jobin, Thomas Lebrun, les Carnets Bagouet. In Ireland, he danced with the D.T.I Company based in Dublin and in Switzerland with the LINGA dance company based in Lausanne.
Parallel to his dance activity, Christian founded CUBe in 2001 (production structure Association loi 1901 for contemporary creations) and since 2005 he directed all the new artistic projects. Through the CUBe project, he proposes areas of research in movement, image and architecture. The objective is to assemble these singulars energies and to collectively question our society.
Rodrigo Valero-Puertas - Dramaturge/Visual Artist
After an early education on Photography and Fine Arts at various schools and cultural centres in Mexico City, Rodrigo studied a BA in History of Art at Universidad Iberoamericana. He moved to London in 2004 where he did a Fine Art course at Camberwell College of Arts (2004), a diploma in Art and Design at London College of Communication (2004-2005), and a BA (Hons) in Fine Art and Critical Studies at Goldsmiths College (2005-2008).
His artistic practice has focused on the creation of time-based work through ephemeral installations, temporal sculptures and performative situations. With an interest in cross-disciplinary processes of research and production, Valero-Puertas has been actively involved in a series of group exhibitions, dance/theatre collaborations and commissions around the UK, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, and Mexico.
