WORKSHOP LEADERS
Kirsi Monni
Doctor of arts (Dance) Kirsi Monni has worked in the field of dance art since the 1980s as a choreographer, dancer, teacher and researcher. She has created over thirty own and commissioned choreographies for different dance companies and free-lancer artists. She has been teaching and lecturing since 1986 mainly in the Theatre Academy but also in other universities, schools and seminars. Monni completed her post gradual studies in the Theatre Academy in 2004. In her written thesis she analysed paradigm shifts in western dance art during the twentieth-century and outlined a current ontology for dance art with the help of the fundamental ontology of Martin Heidegger. She has been awarded twice the “State Prize for Dance Art” and three times the “5-years artist-grant” from the ministry of education.
She is a founding member of Zodiak – The Centre for New Dance in Helsinki where she worked as a member of the artistic directors team and the association board for two decades and as artistic director for the year 2008. She has also been in the artistic directors team for international festivals Helsinki Act (1996–2001) and Side Step festival (2002–2008). In 2009 she was appointed as professor of choreography at the Theatre Academy Helsinki, Department of Dance.
Victoria Perez Royo
Assistant professor in Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Zaragoza University, guest professor at the Choreography MA and Dance BA programmes of the Palucca Schule (Dresden) and at the MA in Performing Arts Practice and Visual Culture of the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares (Madrid).
Postdoctoral scholarship by InterArt (2009) and doctoral scholarship (2005-2007) by La Caixa and DAAD at the Institut für Theaterwisenschaft of the Freie Universität (Berlin). Research stay (2000-2002) at the Institut für Theaterwisenschaft of the J.W. Goethe University- Frankfurt, Germany.
PhD in Philosophy, Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts (2007) in the Faculty of Philosophy of the Universidad de Salamanca. “Danza y tecnología. Modelos de interacción” (Dance and Technology. Models of Interaction)
Master’s degree in Philosophy, Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts (2002) in the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Salamanca. “La obra abierta en las artes plásticas y el videoarte” (The open text in visual arts and video art)
ARTEA member, she currently coordinates the projects ‘Research in the Performing Arts” and “Artistic Migrations”.
Concept and organisation of the Symposium „Tanz und Architektur / Tanz im Kontext“ (Dance and Architecture / Dance in Context) in Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum for Contemporary Art, Berlin, September 2007 (together with María Buendía).
Editor of the book ¡A bailar a la calle! Danza contemporánea, espacio público y arquitectura (2008). (Dance in the street. Contemporary dance, public space and architecture); together with José A. Sánchez she has also edited Practice and research (2010) and with Cuqui Jerez To be continued. 10 textos en cadena y unas páginas en blanco (2011).
Konstantina Georgelou
Konstantina Georgelou works as performing arts theorist, dramaturge and researcher. She is currently lecturer and research advisor at the ArtEZ Master of Choreography and lecturer at Theatre Studies department of Utrecht University. Konstantina completed her PhD research at Utrecht University, entitled 'performless: the operation of l'informe in postdramatic theatre', and she was later on appointed as post-doc fellow at the Centre for the Humanities. In 2011 she co-curated the PSi Regional Research Cluster in Athens and she is founding member of the Institute for Live Arts Research in Greece.
Between 2003-2012 she worked as a dramaturge and artistic coordinator for Quasi Stellar / Apostolia Papadamaki theatre-dance Company in Greece and for the period 2008-2011 she was external collaborator of Kalamata International Dance Festival in Research and Programming. Amongst others, she has worked as dramaturgical advisor with Danae Theodoridou, Ingrid Berger Myhre and Valasia Simeon and as performance researcher with ICKamsterdam, Dansateliers Rotterdam, HetVeem theatre, DasArts and the Amsterdam Master of Choreography. Currently she is part of the Working Group on Art of Lawlessness in Holland, which seeks to explore, problematise and propose discursive and artistic practices of 'lawlessness', situated in diverse cultural, political and social contexts.
Jasna Žmak
Freelance dramaturg, playwright and scriptwriter, assistant researcher at the Department of Dramaturgy at the Academy of Drama Art of the University of Zagreb where she graduated in 2011. As dramaturg she has recently collaborated with directors Oliver Frljić and Borut Šeparović, and as writer with director and choreographer Matija Ferlin. Both of her performance texts (Solitaries and The Other at the Same Time) were published. Since 2010 she is board member of the Center for Drama Art in Zagreb as well as the editorial board of the performing arts journal Frakcija. In 2008 she co-founded an initiative that stages readings of performance texts by young Croatian authors. In 2009 she was awarded with the Routledge prize at the Performance Studies international #15 conference in Zagreb.
Sophia New
Sophia New studied Philosophy and Literature with German at Sussex University (1993- 1997) and has an MA in Feminist Performance from Bristol University (1998). She is a co-founder of plan b with Daniel Belasco Rogers. Since 2002 they have made over 25 projects for different cities, festivals, and galleries. Their work is often site specific and includes performance, GPS, sound and video. She also has worked as a solo performer and video maker and had grants from Artsadmin, the Anglo German foundation in London and Isis Arts in Newcastle. She also works as an independent performer and has worked with Antonia Baehr, Penelope Wehrli, Petra Sabish, Gob Squad, and Forced Entertainment. She has taught on performance courses in Gloucester University, Aberystwyth University and Das Arts in Amsterdam, as well as giving a course on Urban Interventions with Daniel Belasco Rogers at the HafenCity University Hamburg. She regularly teaches Live Art and Performance with Siegmar Zacharias at Folkwang University for the Arts and in Bochum.
Dr Martin Hargreaves
Dr Martin Hargreaves leads the MA The Body in Performance programme at Trinity Laban. He works between hysteria and boredom and at the intersection of queer cultural practices and minimalism.
Doctor of arts (Dance) Kirsi Monni has worked in the field of dance art since the 1980s as a choreographer, dancer, teacher and researcher. She has created over thirty own and commissioned choreographies for different dance companies and free-lancer artists. She has been teaching and lecturing since 1986 mainly in the Theatre Academy but also in other universities, schools and seminars. Monni completed her post gradual studies in the Theatre Academy in 2004. In her written thesis she analysed paradigm shifts in western dance art during the twentieth-century and outlined a current ontology for dance art with the help of the fundamental ontology of Martin Heidegger. She has been awarded twice the “State Prize for Dance Art” and three times the “5-years artist-grant” from the ministry of education.
She is a founding member of Zodiak – The Centre for New Dance in Helsinki where she worked as a member of the artistic directors team and the association board for two decades and as artistic director for the year 2008. She has also been in the artistic directors team for international festivals Helsinki Act (1996–2001) and Side Step festival (2002–2008). In 2009 she was appointed as professor of choreography at the Theatre Academy Helsinki, Department of Dance.
Victoria Perez Royo
Assistant professor in Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Zaragoza University, guest professor at the Choreography MA and Dance BA programmes of the Palucca Schule (Dresden) and at the MA in Performing Arts Practice and Visual Culture of the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares (Madrid).
Postdoctoral scholarship by InterArt (2009) and doctoral scholarship (2005-2007) by La Caixa and DAAD at the Institut für Theaterwisenschaft of the Freie Universität (Berlin). Research stay (2000-2002) at the Institut für Theaterwisenschaft of the J.W. Goethe University- Frankfurt, Germany.
PhD in Philosophy, Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts (2007) in the Faculty of Philosophy of the Universidad de Salamanca. “Danza y tecnología. Modelos de interacción” (Dance and Technology. Models of Interaction)
Master’s degree in Philosophy, Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts (2002) in the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Salamanca. “La obra abierta en las artes plásticas y el videoarte” (The open text in visual arts and video art)
ARTEA member, she currently coordinates the projects ‘Research in the Performing Arts” and “Artistic Migrations”.
Concept and organisation of the Symposium „Tanz und Architektur / Tanz im Kontext“ (Dance and Architecture / Dance in Context) in Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum for Contemporary Art, Berlin, September 2007 (together with María Buendía).
Editor of the book ¡A bailar a la calle! Danza contemporánea, espacio público y arquitectura (2008). (Dance in the street. Contemporary dance, public space and architecture); together with José A. Sánchez she has also edited Practice and research (2010) and with Cuqui Jerez To be continued. 10 textos en cadena y unas páginas en blanco (2011).
Konstantina Georgelou
Konstantina Georgelou works as performing arts theorist, dramaturge and researcher. She is currently lecturer and research advisor at the ArtEZ Master of Choreography and lecturer at Theatre Studies department of Utrecht University. Konstantina completed her PhD research at Utrecht University, entitled 'performless: the operation of l'informe in postdramatic theatre', and she was later on appointed as post-doc fellow at the Centre for the Humanities. In 2011 she co-curated the PSi Regional Research Cluster in Athens and she is founding member of the Institute for Live Arts Research in Greece.
Between 2003-2012 she worked as a dramaturge and artistic coordinator for Quasi Stellar / Apostolia Papadamaki theatre-dance Company in Greece and for the period 2008-2011 she was external collaborator of Kalamata International Dance Festival in Research and Programming. Amongst others, she has worked as dramaturgical advisor with Danae Theodoridou, Ingrid Berger Myhre and Valasia Simeon and as performance researcher with ICKamsterdam, Dansateliers Rotterdam, HetVeem theatre, DasArts and the Amsterdam Master of Choreography. Currently she is part of the Working Group on Art of Lawlessness in Holland, which seeks to explore, problematise and propose discursive and artistic practices of 'lawlessness', situated in diverse cultural, political and social contexts.
Jasna Žmak
Freelance dramaturg, playwright and scriptwriter, assistant researcher at the Department of Dramaturgy at the Academy of Drama Art of the University of Zagreb where she graduated in 2011. As dramaturg she has recently collaborated with directors Oliver Frljić and Borut Šeparović, and as writer with director and choreographer Matija Ferlin. Both of her performance texts (Solitaries and The Other at the Same Time) were published. Since 2010 she is board member of the Center for Drama Art in Zagreb as well as the editorial board of the performing arts journal Frakcija. In 2008 she co-founded an initiative that stages readings of performance texts by young Croatian authors. In 2009 she was awarded with the Routledge prize at the Performance Studies international #15 conference in Zagreb.
Sophia New
Sophia New studied Philosophy and Literature with German at Sussex University (1993- 1997) and has an MA in Feminist Performance from Bristol University (1998). She is a co-founder of plan b with Daniel Belasco Rogers. Since 2002 they have made over 25 projects for different cities, festivals, and galleries. Their work is often site specific and includes performance, GPS, sound and video. She also has worked as a solo performer and video maker and had grants from Artsadmin, the Anglo German foundation in London and Isis Arts in Newcastle. She also works as an independent performer and has worked with Antonia Baehr, Penelope Wehrli, Petra Sabish, Gob Squad, and Forced Entertainment. She has taught on performance courses in Gloucester University, Aberystwyth University and Das Arts in Amsterdam, as well as giving a course on Urban Interventions with Daniel Belasco Rogers at the HafenCity University Hamburg. She regularly teaches Live Art and Performance with Siegmar Zacharias at Folkwang University for the Arts and in Bochum.
Dr Martin Hargreaves
Dr Martin Hargreaves leads the MA The Body in Performance programme at Trinity Laban. He works between hysteria and boredom and at the intersection of queer cultural practices and minimalism.