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Jude Walton

Jude Walton is a British / Australian independent dance artist, filmmaker and director. Walton has remained an instrumental figure in the Australian art scene. In 1990, she founded the Bachelor of Arts in Performance Studies at Victoria University where she taught in the undergraduate and postgraduate areas of Performance Studies until 2012. Walton was a founding member of the journal Writings on Dance and a Board member of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) Melbourne.

Gesa Piper

Gesa Piper (she/her) is a German born dance-artist and -pedagogue based in Helsinki (FI). She is active as a performer, teacher and choreographer nationally and internationally, has taught in various programs at the University of the Arts Helsinki. She holds a BA from the Dance Academy ArtEZ in Arnhem and went through RAD classical ballet training since she was five years old. Her artistic interest deals with embodied ecological intra-relationality, process oriented psychophysical practices, ancestry and sociopolitical questions.

Sarita Beraha

Sarita Beraha is a Greek born and Paris based performer, visual artist and somatic therapist. She has a degree in Theatre Studies from Université de
Sorbonne. She is a somatic therapist and a Certified Teacher of Body Mind Centering®. She completed the seven-year training programme in Amherst, Massachusetts with BMC® founder Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Her interest in contact improvisation and spontaneous
composition nourish her work. Kirsty Simpson, Simone Forti, Julyen Hamilton, Barre Philips were significant support figures.

Markus A. Castor

Markus A. Castor is research director at the German Centre for Art History in Paris. He studied Art History, Classical Archaeology and Philosophy at the universities of Trier, Freiburg i. Br. and Constance. Assistant Professor at Freiburg University, Researcher of the Department of Italian Studies at the Technical University of Dresden he taught Art History at several universities in Germany and Paris, especially on modern times.