BIOS

Elisabeth Bakambamba Tambwe was born in Kinshasa and grew up in France, where she studied visual arts and sculpture. In her choreographic work, the artist deals with the sensitive and fragile dimension of the body and the concept of normality, which she criticizes as tyrannical and degrading. Her most recent works have been shown at the Wiener Festwochen, steirischer herbst, brut Wien, donaufestival, WUK performing arts, ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival and Afro Vibes Amsterdam, among others.

Badekou Annick Prisca Agbadou aka ANNICK CHOCO is an Ivorian
dancer and singer. Before starting her solo career in the music style Couper Decaler, she danced for the Ivorian pop star Serge Beynaud, among others. At the same time she is a performer and played in the plays “The Ambassador”, “The International Criminal Court”, “Kabuki Noir”” and “Stories from the Vienna Forest” by Gintersdorfer/Klaßen, among others. Since November 2016 she is a member of the dance and theater group LA FLEUR, which works mainly between Germany and France. She is protagonist in the pieces “Pièce d’actualité n°11: Trop d’inspiration dans le 93” “Un truc d’ouf” and “NANA ou est-ce que tu connais le bara” after Émile Zola.

Luca Bonamore is a dancer, choreographer, and performer, born in Rome and currently working as a freelancer in Vienna. He completed his contemporary dance studies and earned his bachelor’s degree in 2023 from the Music and Arts Private University of the City of Vienna (MUK). His recent collaborations include “Lapse” for the SPIT Festival at Tanzquartier Wien (2022), “I hear you. But don’t” at Studio Hanniball Berlin (2022), “Tanzkonzert” at Club Liaison / Wiener Festwochen (2023), and “Lapse and the Scarlet Sun” at the Odeon Theater / Impulstanz (2023). Luca performed in “FUGUE FOUR: RESPONSE” at Volkstheater Wien (8:tension / Impulstanz 2023) and presented his solo work “Lamentations” at the Rakete Festival at Tanzquartier Wien (2023), as well as the piece “Silent Lovers” at Schauspielhaus Wien / Impulstanz 2024 (8:tension). Luca is currently working on his new piece Rubberball, set to premiere in January 2025 at Tanzquartier Wien, and is acting in the theater production “Lost (Du weißt wieso)” by Olivia Axel Scheucher at Kosmos Theater Wien.

Lau Lukkarila (they/them) is an artist born by the Bay of Bothnia in northern Finland. Their recent works include Never Underestimate the Calmness on My Face in My Voice with Zeynab Kirikou Gueye (2024) Kunstraum Niederösterreich; Lapse and the Scarlet Sun with Luca Bonamore (2023) ImPulsTanz Festival; kneading to the 3rd millennia (2021) brut Wien/Freischwimmen Network; NYXXX (2020) imagetanz/brut Wien & 8:tensions series/ImPulsTanz (2021) and Trouble (2019) / Rakete Festival/Tanzquartier Wien.

As a qualified actor David Ketters field of activity includes theatre/film and television. He has worked at the Volkstheater Vienna and in various independent productions (Alma, Last Days of Mankind, etc.) and for various broadcasters such as AmazonePrime, ZDF, Servus TV and others. The documentary film on the topic of “dementia”, realised together with Marcus Josef Weiss, was awarded the TELEIOS State Prize.

Evandro Pedroni is a Brazilian performer, dancer and choreographer based in Vienna. Recently he is featured in productions by Cocoon Dance, Akemi Takeya, Elisabeth Tambwe, Costas Kekis, Mzamo Nondlwana, among others. Evandro’s work or collaborations have been showcased in festivals such as ImPulsTanz, Imagetanz, Kultursommer Wien, PAD – Performance Art Depot (DE), FAKI 18 (HR) and has been supported by Tanzzentrale Nuremberg, Wien Kultur, WUK, brut Wien, Im_flieger, Bears in the Park, HochX Theater und Live Art (DE) and EinTanzHaus (DE).

Indra Jäger born in Frankfurt/Main, has been living in Vienna since 2000. After studying journalism and communication sciences she co-initiated and directed the art and culture association IM ERSTEN (2012-16). Since then, she is working as a curator and producer, since 2022 for Dig Up Productions. In 2023 Indra joined the Austrian solution journalism platform relevant.news as an editor and chief of service and began to work as a freelance research assistant at the Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Studies (CMC).

Ariel Elbert (they/them), stage and costume designer with a diploma from the HfBK Dresden, has worked on projects such as *Beyond the Overflow* (2023) and *Speech of Love – Absence* (2022) with Elisabeth Bakambamba Tambwe – Further works include *Performance HALT* (2021), *SOMATOGENESIS* (2021) and *Dining Room* (2020). Ariel works freelance on various performance and art projects and has worked as an assistant on productions such as *Le Grand Macabre* (2021) by Martin G. Berger and *Replacement Place* (2015) by Patricia Noworol.

Ursula Winterauer (alias Gischt lives and works as a composer, electronic music producer and curator in Vienna. Her works deal with raw and brutal sounds in digital over-determination, delivering differentiated interpretations of the industrial, techno and ambient genres. Winterauer is the bassist of the doom pop band Eaeres and is part of the duo The Answer is No with Maja Osojnik. She works as a sound designer and composer for film and develops compositions for contemporary dance, is label boss of Ventil Records, co-organiser and commercial director of the Unsafe+Sounds Festival and curator of New Salt – Festival for sonic exploration & digital art.

LINKS

https://www.instagram.com/gischt____/
http://ventil-records.com/

Svetlana Schwin was born in Krasnoturyinsk in the Urals in 1984. She studied performing arts in Bremen (Germany) and theatre studies and philosophy in Vienna. She works as a freelance lighting designer, theatre director and author in Vienna. The youth play ‘Pietro Pizzi’ won the Jungwild Förderpreis and the STELLA. She took part in the writing workshop at the Schauspielhaus Wien theatre. The radio play ‘Mein Mitleid mit den Dingen’ won the special prize for poetry in the 2018 competition for short radio plays. As a lighting designer, she works with independent groups in the dance and performance scene. She creates her own light objects and light installations, such as the lighthouse in 2020. Her performance ‘Kuss’, a play with body and light, has existed for over 9 years in 4 versions and has been shown at WUK, Werk and Ballhaus Ost in Berlin, among others.

Eduardo Triviño-Cely was born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1990. He lives and works between Colombia and Austria. Through experimental processes in sound, sculpture and digital media, he intervenes in public space with installations, performances and actions. He explores the value of failure, mistakes, the invisible and the limits of perception. In doing so, he searches for new perspectives on our natural environment and questions cultural concepts. With a background in the visual arts, he is self-taught in his approach to sound and operates in the experimental realm, incorporating materials, concepts, new technologies and body parts. His years of working in theatre have led to his artistic work being influenced by set design, acting, props and dialogue.