Dmitrijus Andrušanecas (LT) is currently studying for a Master's degree at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, focusing his artistic research on diverse bodies, ages and abilities on stage. He has experience in different fields of culture mostly between the publishing industry and dance theatre. Dmitrijus worked over a decade in the publishing industry taking various positions from management, communication to translation and reviews. He also has a background in professional ballroom dancing – today he participates in contemporary dance projects. During the past year he started to explore his interest in dance criticism by attending various seminars and lectures organized by the Lithuanian Dance Information Centre. His texts have been published in the culture columns of major national websites. Today Dmitrijus continues to improve his skills in dance criticism.
Kärt Koppel (1998) is a geek of performance art, who investigates the intersection of pop and high culture through text, social media and performance. She writes a monthly column About Dance Without Dance in Tantsu Kuukiri and is ⅓ of the non-musical girl group Unholy Trinity. Her recent projects include a Dance Criticism research residency (2022–2023), her dance debut So You Think You Can Dance (director-performer with Unholy Trinity 2023); work-in-progress performative installation Stalker Dance (2023) and a hyper-pop performance Rat’s Rumba (2024), both created in collaboration with Liisbeth Horn and Anumai Raska. Kärt’s ideas, concepts and forms are stewed in office aesthetics.
Nicola Mitropoulou is an artist and curator based in Cyprus whose practice exists in a perpetual state of flux. Her work considers the dialectics of fluidity, intertwining elements of performativity and collective praxis to negotiate current spatiotemporal peripheries. Her projects unfold in the form of collaborative research, exhibitions, writing and performance.
Greta Bourke has a degree in English Literature and History of Art from Trinity College Dublin. After graduating, she worked for several years in the art world and in publishing in London and then went to live in Santiago, Chile, where she worked as a journalist, editor and consultant. She returned to Dublin in 2016 to work with John Scott as Company Manager of Irish Modern Dance Theatre. In 2022 Greta joined Tipperary Dance as Creative Producer where she produces multiple events and works, including Tipperary Dance Festival. Greta is based in Dublin, Ireland.
Raised in Hawai’i and Aotearoa New Zealand, Amit Noy lives and works in Marseille, France. He writes about dances and the artists that make them for publications including Artforum, BOMB Magazine, Gagosian Quarterly and the Brooklyn Rail. As a choreographer, his work – often involving multiple generations of his own family – has been presented by Théâtre de la Ville, Paris, Ballet National de Marseille and Montpellier Danse (forthcoming). As a dancer, he has collaborated with Michael Keegan-Dolan since 2019, performing in MÁM and NOBODADDY. ‘Amit’ means colleague, or simply good friend.
Born in Naples in 1995, Maria Chiara de Nobili earned her BA in Contemporary Dance from Dancehaus Milano and an MA in Choreography from Palucca University of Dance Dresden, where she also completed the Artistic Master Class Programme (2021–2023). In 2018, she joined La Biennale di Venezia’s College Choreographers programme and returned in 2019 as a guest choreographer with Wrap. In 2020, she co-founded Miller de Nobili with Alexander Miller, debuting Momento, winner of Scapino Ballet Rotterdam’s Production Prize. Their works, including PACK, Don’t you dare!, Labyrinth, and There was still time, have toured extensively across Europe, supported by institutions such as La Biennale di Venezia, Teatros del Canal, HELLERAU, HAU (Tanzplattform Deutschland 2022), Scapino Ballet Rotterdam, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Residenzzentrum tanz+, Agora of Montpellier Danse, and Tanzlabor Ulm, among others.