DD Dorvillier
DD Dorvillier's work raises questions about the complex relationships between abstraction, physicality, language, perception and meaning. Her practice is both conceptual and physical, often drawing on external sources to construct her scores and choreographic materials. Research into the relationship (or non-relationship) between music and dance, and work with light as an artistic material, are often the driving forces behind his work. DD Dorvillier's artistic career began in New York in 1989. From 1991, she lived and worked in Brooklyn at the Matzoh Factory, a former factory converted into a place for creation, performance and parties, with choreographer Jennifer Monson. In 2010, she moved to France. Her creative and performance work has won Bessie Awards: Dressed for Floating (2003), Nottthing Is Importanttt(2007), Parades & Changes, replays (2010). She has also received the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award (2007), the John Simon Guggenheim Award (2011), and the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award (2013). In the course of her work, she has developed an important approach to the relationship between sound, light and movement, with Nottthing Is Importanttt(2007) a suite of three autonomous pieces - a dance, a film and a sound installation; CPAU, Get Ready!(2009), a tryptic that confronts the impossibility of understanding choreography in linguistic terms, and Danza Permanente (2012), a string quartet transposed into movement by four dancers. These three pieces were created in collaboration with composer Zeena Parkins and lighting designer Thomas Dunn. They have been presented in New York at venues such as The Kitchen and New York Live Arts, as well as in France (Atelier de Paris / Carolyn Carlson, Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis), Belgium (Playground Festival/STUK, Kaaitheater, DeSingel), Austria (Impusltanz) and Germany (Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Hebbel am Ufer). His latest creation "Extra Shapes (2015), a collaboration with composer Sébastien Roux and lighting designer Thomas Dunn, programmed at Festival Les Musiques 2016, tours internationally and was presented at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in February 2017.

Sébastien Roux
Sébastien Roux (b. 1977) composes experimental music, which he presents in the form of recordings, listening sessions, sound installations and radio works. He works around questions of listening, sound space and composition within formal constraints. Since 2011, he has been developing an approach based on the principle of sound translation, which involves using a pre-existing work (visual, musical, literary) as the score for a new sound piece. This process gave rise to "Quatuor", based on Beethoven's 10th Quartet, and "Nouvelle", a radio play based on Flaubert's "La légende de Saint Julien l'Hospitalier". The most recent development in this translation process is "Inevitable Music", which aims to use the rules and techniques of Sol LeWitt's wall drawings for sound purposes. Roux also collaborates regularly with artists from a variety of disciplines. He works with author Célia Houdart and set designer Olivier Vadrot on transdisciplinary and site-specific projects. He has also created the sound environment for several choreographic pieces by DD Dorvillier, Sylvain Prunenec and Rémy Héritier. He has received commissions and residencies from EMPAC (USA), Deutschland-radio Kultur, WDR (Westdeutscher Rundfunk), ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie), RSR (Radio Suisse Romande), GRM (Groupe de Recherches Musicales), Scène Nationale de Montbéliard, La Muse en Circuit - Centre National de Création Musicale, CESARE and gmem-CNCM-marseille. He was laureate of the Villa Médicis hors-les-murs (USA, 2012) and of La Muse en Circuit's radio art competition. He was a resident at the Villa Médicis in Rome for the 2015-2016 season.

Thomas Dunn
Thomas Dunn is an American artist based in New York. His approach to lighting design stems from years of investigative work with light, treating it as both a sculptural tool and a facet of scenography. Over time, he developed and, inevitably, learned to consider light in new ways, playing with its perceptual qualities, using it as a tool to activate, bend and manipulate space. His early work was inspired by James Turrell and Robert Irwin. Dunn has created the lighting designs for all human future dance corps projects since 2004: "Coming Out of the Night With Names" (2004), "No Change or freedom is a psychokinetic skill" (2005), "Nottthing Is Importanttt" (2007), "Choreography, a Prologue for the Apocalypse of Understanding", "Get Ready! "(2009), "Piece Sans Paroles" (2010)", "Danza Permanente" (2012), "Diary of an Image" (2014), and "Extra Shapes" (2015). In 2007, he won a Bessie Award for his work on "Nottthing Is Importanttt" at The Kitchen. He also works for TheaterWorks Singapore, The Civilians, Trajal Harrel, Sens Productions, and Beth Gill, among others. In 2009, he received the Kevin Kline Award for Outstanding Lighting Design.

Katerina Andreou
After studying law at the University of Athens, then dance at the Athens School of Dance, Katerina Andreou joined ESSAIS, the master's program in choreographic creation at the Centre National de la Danse Contemporaine d'Angers (CNDC), directed by Emmanuelle Huynh. She has worked with artists DD Dorvillier, Emmanuelle Huynh, Lenio Kaklea, Anna Gaiotti, Dinis Machado, Ana Rita Teodoro and Jocelyn Cottencin. She was part of the TRANSFABRIK project on the politics of programming, directed by Yvane Chapuis and Franz Anton Cramer, and of the Emanticipation collective laboratory at the Lafayette Foundation in Paris. In 2015 she received the Danceweb grant from the ImpulsTanz festival in Vienna. In her own choreographic work, she is interested in writing and practices that seek the threshold of negotiation between autonomy and authority. For her latest piece A kind of fierce she won the 2016 Jardin d'Europe prize during the ImpulsTanz festival (Vienna).

Ayşe Orhon
Ayşe Orhon is a performer and choreographer. She graduated from ArtEZ in 2001 and from Theaterschool Amsterdam with her research "Permeable Manifestations". In 2013, she danced with Aydın Teker and Emmanuelle Huynh and collaborated with visual artist Gülsün Orhon. She has presented her pieces "Can You Repeat?" (2007), "hava" (2009), "ÇOK" (2010), "folk" (2011) at several European festivals, as well as her latest performance "thinging" (2013), in which the audience can become the sole actor in the piece. Lately, she has been teaching and directing Huynh's "Cribles" with various teams at several festivals. Since 1997, Ayşe Orhon has worked on movement and therapy through it. She has been a guest lecturer at the CNDC in Angers, as well as at two universities in Istanbul since 2002. Since 2004, she has been teaching Pilates as a post-rehabilitation and movement therapy technique. Finally, trained in classical Ottoman and Western music (harp), she has a growing interest in the "voice in movement".

Balkis Moutashar
Balkis Moutashar initially studied philosophy, before training in contemporary dance at the Centre Chorégraphique de Montpellier (Exerce training, 2001). Familiar with gender differences, she went on to work with choreographers such as Didier Théron, Pierre Droulers and Claudia Triozzzi, as well as music hall and theater companies, and DJ and composer Jeff Mills. She began her own choreographic work in 2009, and has since created "Les Portes Pareilles", a piece tracing a path between contemporary dance and music-hall, "Intersection", a quartet exploring the structure of bodies in relation to the machinery of theater, and Shirley, which revisits the figure of the diva. She collaborated as choreographer on the creation of "Sosie(s)", by Julie Kretshmar, with a group of Comorian women, and continued her work as a performer, taking part in Jérôme Bel's Gala for the Marseille Festival.