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Márta Ladjánszki (Hungary) is a dancer, choreographer, teacher, artistic vice president of L1 Association. After learning classical ballet, gymnastics on the apparatus, jazz and modern dance in Hungary and in Vienna, she co-founded KOMPmANIA Contemporary Dance Theatre at the end of 1996. Until 2002 she worked there as dancer and co-creator and she had her own works beside that group mainly in Hungarian projects. She started her solo career and won several prizes, too. In 2001 she was invited to join the L1 Independent Dancers’ Partnership, which was founded by seven dancers/creators in Budapest. She was chosen to be the artistic director of the union and from 2011 on she took over the artistic leadership of L1 association – which name changed into L1 Independent Artists Association of Public Utility.
www.martaatwork.com // www.L1.hu
Raúl Tamez (Mexico) received a ‘Luna del Auditorio’, one of the most prestigious awards for performing arts in Mexico, recognising the creation of the International Contemporary Dance Festival of Mexico City. In 2016, due to his talent for choreography, he won the ‘National Dance Award of Mexico’. Tamez holds a bachelor degree in dance at Codarts in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He has been dancing professionally for 14 years in different countries such as China (2 move dance company), Lithuania (Aura Dance Theater), Latvia (Riga’s Chamber Ballet), Canada (Le Jeune Ballet du Quebec), Spain (It dansa), The Netherlands (Dirk Dumon) and Mexico (National Dance Company of contemporary dance, CEPRODAC). Through his career as a dancer he has had the opportunity to do repertoire by Nacho Duato, Alexander Eckman, Wayne Mc Gregor, Ohad Naharin, Sidi Larbi
Cherkaoui, Rafael Bonachela and Jiry Kilian. As a choreographer he has got different grants and awards. Tamez has presented his work at the most important venues for perming arts in Mexico and in different countries such as Spain, Colombia, Cuba, The Netherlands and Sweden. Raúl Tamez also holds a bachelor degree in sociology and an MA in Dance at the John Moores Liverpool University.
Gregor Kamnikar (Slovenia) je član DISKOlektiva, ki raziskuje "to, kar je" v vlogah kot so plesalec, izvajalec, koreograf, klovn, pedagog, pisec, producent, MC (če omenimo samo nekatere); v oblikah kot so predstava, ples, igra, dogodek, koreografija, eksperiment, instalacija, predavanje, delavnica, publikacija, klovnska točka, video, partitura (če omenimo samo nekatere). Člani DISKOlektiva od leta 2010 igrajo Igro imen, v kateri si izmenjujejo in sposojajo imena drug drugega v umetniške namene. Iz obdobja pred intenzivnejšim igranjem Igre imen (pred 2010) pa naj omenimo: umetniško raziskovanje bistrogibnosti (gibalno-telesne inteligentnosti) Plazma od cca 2000, ustanovitev Kolektiva Federacija leta 2009 z Andrejo Rauch Podrzavnik in Snježano Premuš ter delo na številnih umetniških, raziskovalnih in pedagoških projektih; izdaja knjige Zmes za ples, 2012, po naročilu JSKD in sozaložbi s Federacijo; ki deluje kot uvod v sodobno plesno umetnost; improvizacijsko plesno predstavo 39 (vaj v umiranju) http://39.upri.se