Notes on Choreography and Women work.

Responsabile della programmazione alla Place des Arts (Montréal, Canada) dal 2014. Da oltre 30 anni è attiva nell’ambiente artistico, in particolare dal 2000 al 2015 è stata co-direttrice generale e artistica della rinomata Danse Danse 2000-2015. Ha fatto parte di diversi consigli di amministrazione nell’ambito della cultura, dell'educazione e della socialità. Tra i suoi numerosi progetti, si annovera la creazione di Printemps Nordique nel 2018 sulla creatività e la cultura dei paesi nordici e programmi comunitari innovativi. È stata nominata nel 2016 Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres dal governo francese.

Is a dramaturge, choreographer and facilitator with expertise in participatory projects, transdisciplinary research and artist driven networks. She is the project dramaturge for the EU funded projects Empowering Dance and Dancing Museums – The Democracy of Beings. Monica was the editor of the digital publication for the EU funded project Migrant Bodies - Moving Borders, identifying and developing inclusive practices for migrants and refugees through dance. In recent years Monica collaborates with choreographer Gary Joplin at Theater Freiburg in creating works with non-professionals that take on societally urgent topics – “Die Krone an meiner Wand” (2017), “Grenzland” (2019) and “The 3rd Box” (2020-22). Since 2019 she collaborates with Yasmeen Godder Company on the Practicing Empathy project, which grew from their co-artistic direction of Störung/Hafra’ah (2015-16), bringing together people living with Parkinson’s Disease, professional dancers and scientists to collaboratively research movement.

Is a Franco-American interdisciplinary scholar and curator. Her research focuses on the intersections between dance and the visual arts (notably, dance in museum spaces and screendance). She is editor in chief of  the French dance research journal Repères, cahier de danse published by La Briqueterie - National Choreographic Development Center and founding co-director of the International Video Dance Festival of Burgundy, an annual screendance platform created in 2009. Since 2016, she has been an invited curator in the dance department of Theatre Freiburg (Germany) and has initiated numerous screendance projects at La Briqueterie (production residency, education & outreach), with Numeridanse.TV, and in collaboration with the Lyon Dance Biennale. In 2015, she co-edited the book Art in Motion: Current Research in Screendance. She regularly writes for Dance Magazine (USA), Dance International (Canada) and Alternatives Théâtrales (Belgium), among other print and electronic publications. Initially trained in dance under Merce Cunningham and Kazuo Ohno (Japan), she holds degrees in dance history and visual studies from La Sorbonne.

Is a choreography curator, visual dramaturge and performance-maker; In years 2004-2020 she run first regular dance space/choreographic development center in Poznan, Poland, within Art Stations Foundation by Grażyna Kulczyk. Here she’s been featuring international avant-garde choreographers and intensively supporting the development of Polish dance artists. Since 2019 Joanna curates Acziun Susch – Muzeum Susch program dedicated to choreographic reflection and research. Parallel to her curatorial work, Joanna pursues practice as visual dramaturge and performance maker. She co-operates with several Polish and international choreographers as well as conceives own works and engages in international collaboration projects in Europe and North and South America.

Was born in Zurich / Switzerland. She studied cultural anthropology (focus on theatre anthropology). During her studies she started as a freelance curator for art exhibitions and as organizer of theater and dance workshops for the International Theatre Institute. 1999 she took over the direction of the Rote Fabrik Fabriktheater in Zurich. 2007-2012 she worked for Gessnerallee Zurich, first as dramaturg responsible for the dance program and in her final year as interimistic director. In August 2012 she was appointed as director of ZÜRICH TANZT, a three days festival of dance and performances in public space. Besides that she was a member oft the artistic board of the festival Zürcher Theater Spektakel 2012-2014. She became the artistic director of Tanzhaus Zürich in August 2014.

Dopo gli studi classici, si è laureata in Scienze Politiche presso l’Università Statale di Milano. Si è occupata di comunicazione e di marketing presso varie aziende multinazionali e per la Fondazione Bussolera Branca. Trasferitasi in Canton Ticino nel 2013, ha collaborato con il Percento Culturale Migros e con il Museo Comunale di Arte Moderna di Ascona. Si è occupata di manifestazioni culturali come il Festival di Cinema Giovane Castellinaria, il Food In Film Festival, Letteraltura e Piazzaparola. Attualmente è membro di Direzione e Responsabile Cultura della Fondazione Monte Verità.

Katja Vaghi’s research expertise rests on her theoretical and practical background. A Swiss Italian choreographer, somatic teacher and dance researcher, during her education in modern dance and ballet at Ballet Arts in NYC, she experienced different modern dance techniques (in particular Horton and Limón) together with urban and traditional dances (Hip hop and funk, Bharatanatyam and African dance). Her education was then complemented with a MA in literature and linguistics from Zurich University (English, Italian and Contemporary Norwegian) and a PhD in dance philosophy on the works of Jiří Kylián at the University of Roehampton (UK) under the supervision of Dr Anna Pakes and Dr Gerladine Morris. She has been associated lecturer at the University of Northampton (UK) and at the Rambert School for Ballet and Contemporary Dance, where she still is visiting lecturer specialized in dance history and philosophy for BA and MA programs. She is now lecturer in dance history, theory,improvisation and composition at DIE ETAGE, school for performing and visual arts in Berlin. She is also visiting lecturer at the University of Roehampton (UK), school of the arts, dance section, and at the University of applied Sciences and Arts in Coburg, where she teaches embodiment and spatial experiences to architects, interior and integrated designers.

Is a dancer and postdoc at the Institute of Theatre Studies where she is part of the research project “Auto_Bio_Graphy as Performance. A Field of Dance Historiographic Innovation” funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Her research as a dance scholar focuses on choreographic practices and aesthetics, ethnographic and oral history methodology, as well as digital techniques for research and documentation of dance practices. Waterhouse’s viewpoint within dance studies makes use of her methodological competences across ‘research’ and ‘creative’ practices in the arts, the humanities and the natural sciences: an education comprising of a BA in Physics from Harvard University, an MFA in dance practice from The Ohio State University and a PhD in dance studies from the Universität Bern/Hochschule der Künste Bern. Between 2015-2018 she was a research fellow at the Free University of Berlin and leader of the project “Motion Together,” funded by the Volkswagen Stiftung, a ‘research-creation’ project on entrainment in the arts and daily life. As a performer, she danced from 2004-2012 in Ballett Frankfurt/The Forsythe Company. Since that time, in parallel and often nurturing her scholarly work, she has continued to develop performances and artistic research projects, including with the groups HOOD, tō, and Movement Forum Bern.