Jorge León
director

Born in Charleroi (Belgium) in 1967.
He studied at the Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle in Brussels, in the Image section. He was an associate professor at this institute from 1995 to 1997, and in 2014 and 2015.
As a director and playwright in theater and dance, he created several shows in collaboration with Simone Aughterlony:
- UNI*FORM (2015 Zürich)
- Deserve (2010, KunstenFestivaldesarts, Brussels)
- Between Amateurs (2006, Tonic , 2007)
- We need To Talk (2011)
As operator and cameraman (Selection):
- L'été avec Anton by Jasna Krajinovic (2011), grand prix du Jury, mention spéciale du jury étudiant, prix des lycéens et apprentis au festival du film des droits de l'homme, Paris 2013
- La Chambre de Damien by Jasna Krajinovic (2007), prix Étoile de la Scam 2009
- Los Nietos by Marie-Paule Jeunhomme (2007)
As a director, he mainly signs documentaries (Selection):
- Before We Go (2014), International Critics' Award at IndieLisboa 2015, Étoiles de la Scam 2015, Prix Scam/SACD for Best Documentary 2014. World premiere: FIDMarseille July 2014 (international competition, two awards). National release in France fall 2015.
- Vous êtes Servis (2010) Cinéma du Réel, Paris, France, March 2010. Special mention from the library jury. Festival International du Film d'Environnement, Paris, France, November 2010. Special prize from the Filmer le Travail jury, Poitiers, France, February 2011. I've seen films" award, International Film Festival, Milan, October 2010. More than twenty festival selections. ❖10min. [video 19 min, 2009]. Ciné Festival, Huesca, Spain, 2009. Best Documentary Short DocLisboa, Portugal, 2009. Best Documentary Short SelectionLeeds Film Festival, Great Britain, 2009. Grand Jury Prize and Best Film Curtocircuito Santiago de Compostella, October 2009. More than twenty festival selections
- Between Two Chairs (video, 15 min, 2007), programmed at various theater festivals, including Kaai-Theatre (Brussels), Volksbühne (Berlin), Stuk (Leuven)...

Ictus
contemporary music ensemble from Brussels

Since 1994, the ensemble has cohabited with the P.A.R.T.S dance school and the Rosas company (directed by Anne-Teresa De Keersmaeker), with whom it has already staged fourteen productions, from "Amor Constante" to "Vortex Temporum". Ictus has also worked with other choreographers: Wim Vandekeybus, Maud Le Pladec, Eleanor Bauer, Fumiyo Ikeda.
Ictus is a permanent collective of some twenty co-opted musicians (including conductor Georges-Elie Octors). From the outset, the ensemble has gambled on the irreversible mutation of ensembles towards the mixed status of electric orchestra, for example by hiring a regular sound engineer as an instrumentalist. Among the twenty or so CDs released by Ictus, the two albums devoted to Fausto Romitelli left their mark on their era through their interpretation and mixing. Today, Ictus is launching a new collection of CDs on the Sub Rosa label, Contra Naturam.
Each year, Ictus builds a season in Brussels, in partnership with the Kaaitheater and Bozar. This season allows us to experiment with new programs for a cultivated but non-specialized audience of theater, dance and music lovers. Since 2004, the ensemble has also been in residence at the Opéra de Lille. In addition to in-depth work with the Opéra (themed concerts and educational activities), Ictus presents a stage production every year. Fans will no doubt recall Georges Aperghis's "Avis de Tempête" in 2004, Michaël Levinas's "La Métamorphose" in 2011, Wolfgang Mitterer's "Marta" in 2016.
Ictus also works on the question of formats and listening devices: very short or very long concerts, hidden programs (the Blind Dates in Ghent), commented concerts, concert-festivals where the audience circulates between the podiums (the famous "Liquid Rooms" presented throughout Europe). Finally, Ictus runs an Advanced Master's course in modern music performance, in collaboration with the Ghent School of Arts.

Eva Reiter
flutist

Born in Vienna, Eva Reiter studied recorder and viola da gamba - graduating with honors - at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, then at the Sweelinck Conservatory (Amsterdam), where she obtained her master's degree with distinction. She is currently very active on stage as a soloist or in various baroque music orchestras such as Unidas or Le Badinage, and in contemporary music with Ictus, Klangforum Wien and Elastic Band, among others. She has been a permanent member of the Ictus ensemble (Brussels) since February 2015. She received the "Publicity Preis" from the SKE fund and the "Förderungspreis of the City of Vienna", the "Queen Marie José International Composition Prize" in 2008, and in 2016, grants from the Federal Chancellery of Arts as well as the Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart) and the Erste Bank, among others. In 2009, her piece "Alle Verbindungen gelten nur jetzt" was selected for the International Music Council's International Rostrum of Composers. Eva Reiter's compositions have been performed at international festivals such as Transit/Leuven, Ars Musica/Bruxelles, ISCM World New Music Festival/Stuttgart, Musikprotokoll/Graz, generator and Wien Modern/Vienna (Konzerthaus). She performs at numerous festivals of both early and contemporary music.

George (Alexander) van Dam
violinist

Born in Namibia, George (Alexander) van Dam has been active in the field of contemporary music since the beginning of his career. He has worked with numerous composers, both as a soloist and as a member of contemporary ensembles such as Ensemble Moderne Frankfurt, MusikFabrik and Ictus, of which he was a founding member. Following close collaborations with young composers such as Cassol, De Mey, Harada and Vermeersch, among others, creations have been written for him, including Mochizuki's Homeobox, premiered by the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie. He has taken part in masterclasses with Dorothy DeLay, Z. Gilels, A. Markov, A. Rosand and Rainer Kussmaul, and studied at the Brussels Conservatory with Georges Octors and Arie van Lysebeth. In 2012, he resumed his harpsichord studies - with Robert Kohnen, Ketil Haugsand, Bob van Asperen and Elisabeth Joyé - reviving his childhood fascination with early keyboard music.
His compositions include chamber music, the song cycles "Engel-Lieder" (for countertenor James Bowman), "Lorca Songs", "Melanchotopia" (created with Claron McFadden for the Centre d'art contemporain Witte de With - Rotterdam), a concerto for violin and timbila orchestra (with Grupo Percussão Porto), music for silent films, theater and dance (with Ballet National de Marseille, Needcomagny, Ultima Vez, among others) and collaborations with visual artists. More recent projects include compositions for the play "Escorial" directed by Josse De Pauw (based on Michel de Ghelderode's "Escurial"), with Collegium Vocale Gent/Transparant ; for the experimental film "Sequenza", with Manon de Boer (based on Luciano Berio's "Sequenza VIII"); for the installation "untitled (prelude)" by Lotte Van den Audenaeren; for the soundtrack to Harry Cleven's film "Mon Ange"; and for Jérôme le Maire's documentary on hospital burn-out, "Burning Out".