Maud Blandel
Choreographer
Originally trained as a dancer-performer in Toulouse, Maud Blandel (FR/CH) is now a choreographer based in Lausanne. She completed her training at La Manufacture (Lausanne), then at HEAD in Geneva. In 2015, she founded the association I L K A and began her own activity. Her approach to dramaturgy, her taste for transformation and her concern for musicality lead her to create singular, powerfully composed choreographic objects. Maud is interested in exploring physicalities and states of presence resulting from a constant negotiation between principles dictated by/for the collective and individual expressivity. Recently involved in the sound creation of L'oeil nu, she now gives sound and music a decisive place as a genuine dramaturgical tool.
Maud has collaborated with Cindy Van Acker, Heiner Goebbels and Romeo Castellucci, and is very active with young artists. Interested in teaching, she is a regular speaker at various schools. Maud has been artist-in-residence at the Arsenic (Lausanne) since 2018, and will be associate artist at the CNDC in Angers and at Bonlieu scène nationale in Annecy for the years 2024 - 2026.

Flavio Virzì
Guitarist and composer
Flavio Virzì is a guitarist and composer from Palermo. An eclectic explorer of different aesthetics, he is a regular guest musician with renowned contemporary music ensembles, including the Ictus Ensemble (Belgium), Contrechamps (Switzerland) and Ensemble Mosaik (Germany). He has performed at numerous international festivals, including Milano Musica, Ultraschall Berlin, Salzburger Festspiele and Schwetzingen SWR Festspiele, and has collaborated with institutions such as the Berlin Staatsoper, Hamburg Staatsoper, Opéra national du Rhin, Theater Freiburg, Bayerische Staatsoper and Accademia Teatro alla Scala.
His compositions are the fruit of a process of assimilation of multiple influences, and explore microtonality, elements of non-European musical traditions and improvisation. His recordings are published by labels such as Wergo, Stradivarius and Da Vinci Publishing.
Flavio Virzì graduated in classical guitar at the Conservatory "A. Scarlatti" Conservatory in Palermo, then continued his studies in Paris with the renowned master Alberto Ponce at the École Normale de Musique "A. Cortot" (Diplôme Supérieur d'Exécution). Thanks to a Swiss federal grant, he furthered his studies at the Musik Akademie in Basel under the guidance of Stephan Schmidt and Mike Svoboda (Master in music performance - guitar and Master specialized in contemporary music performance).

ASLAA
The Association Sports et Loisirs pour Aveugles et Amblyopes
is a non-profit organization founded in 1973 to promote sporting and cultural activities for the visually impaired. While integration of the visually impaired is not always possible in the school or professional environments, the association strives to encourage it through sport and leisure activities. In addition to the sporting aspect, cross-country and tandem skiing make a significant educational contribution: they require blind people to have the qualities that are essential to their mobility: reflexes, flexibility, a sense of direction, the ability to overcome apprehension, a feel for the terrain, and great confidence in themselves and others.