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Stina Fors (1989, SE) has found her love for the voice, the sonic and the loud. She received the Moving Forward Trajectory 2019/20
Andreas Hannes, born in Greece, studied at the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam. In 2018 he received the Moving Forward trajectory 18/19.
Lois Alexander (VS, 1991) is a dancer and choreographer based in The Netherlands.
Keren Rosenberg (1978, NL) is an Amsterdam based performer | maker | movement researcher.
Thais Di Marco (BR, 1987) is a choreographer, theatre director, teacher and project coordinator.
Charlie Laban Trier (DK, 1987) is a performer and choreographer with mainly a background in dances connected to house music.
Paula Chaves (CO, 1988) is a choreographer, performer and activist based in Amsterdam with a background in dance and circus.
Milou van Duijnhoven (1992, NL) is an actress and choreographer and works in Amsterdam
Courtney May Robertson (UK, 1992) is a dancer, teacher and choreographer.
Sigrid Stigsdatter Mathiassen (1990, DM) is a choreographer, performer and vocalist
Evangelos Biskas (1994, GR) studied dance and choreography at the Fontys Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Tilburg. With its graduation performance Eternal Chilling, he won the Moving Forward Traject 2017.
Japanese-Korean Jija Sohn (1982, JP) graduated from the School of New Dance Development (SNDO) in Amsterdam and was the first choreographer to be selected for the Moving Forward process.
Moreno Perna (1989, IT) is an Italian performer based in Amsterdam. He graduated in Modern Theatre Dance from Amsterdam University of the Arts and started out as a performer with Troubleyn/Jan Fabre in 2014.
Antonia Steffens (1992, DE) graduated from the SNDO (School for New Dance Development) in Amsterdam. Her works usually go in dialogue with practices of the unseen, imagination, metaphysics, dreams.
Moa Holgersson (SE, 1983) studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. She has previously worked with aerial disciplines and contemporary dance practices in both performative and visual arts contexts.
Karel Tuytschaever (°BE, 1985) graduated from the Royal Conservatory Antwerp in the Drama, an acting education led by Dora van der Groen. He is an actor, teacher and founder of the platform for his own hybrid work, BARRY. Starting from a passion for the body, BARRY produces work in between performance and visual arts, with attention for sound and image. The hybrid oeuvre includes next to (dance) performances also installations, theatre texts, publications and film.
Fernando (1983, BR) is a choreographer, performer and guest lecturer at the AHK. He studied theatre in his home city of Sao Paolo and choreography in Amsterdam at the School for new dance development (SNDO-AHK). Fernando makes intense and radical performances with a strong visual and performative character. At Dansmakers Amsterdam since 2011.
Jesus de Vega (SP) is a choreographer and performer born in the Canary Islands, Spain. His dance career began in 1993, having worked with companies and choreographers such as Emio Greco/PC, Galili Dance, Iceland Dance Company, Metros, Stephen Shropshire, André Gingras, Sylvain Emard and Vaclav Kunes amongst others.
Andrea Zavala (1987, SP) studied Fine Arts at Complutense University of Madrid and is currently studying choreography at the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) in Amsterdam.
Riccardo Guratti (IT, 1985) studied contemporary dance, improvisation, contact improvisation and theater in Italy and graduated among other from the S.N.D.O. (School for new dance development) in Amsterdam in 2015.
Chronos is a collective consisting of four dance artists, based in Amsterdam. During theireducation in Modern Theatre Dance at the Amsterdam School of the Arts, where they graduated in 2016, they already shared artistic ideas. During their last year in the school they founded the collective.
Cecilia Moisio (1978, FI) moved in 1997 to the Netherlands in order to study at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Amsterdam and graduated in 2001.
Gaia Gonnelli (Italy 1971) is a dancer, choreographer and dance teacher and attended the training Modern Dance in Amsterdam at the Amsterdam School of the Arts.
Marie Goeminne (1977, BE) is a choreographer and performer who makes performances on the cutting edge of dance, philosophy and fine art. In its work, Marie is moved by our most intimate and vulnerable issues and qualities.
Junadry Leocaria is dancer, maker and teacher who performed with dance company ISH and Don’t Hit Mama. In 2009 she founded, together with six other female dancers from the urban scene, Femme Lethal.
