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Irene Fiordilino is a freelance choreographer and the Director of the emerging Scirocco Dance Theatre Company. Irene’s research sits in between choreography and architecture, with a particular outlook towards interdisciplinary practices and collaborative methodologies. Irene is a PhD student in Creative Practice at Trinity Laban,and she also works as a lecturer, speaker and teacher. Since 2018 she has been presenting her choreographic work at many international festivals and venues in UK, Europe, India, USA, and UAE. https://www.sciroccodancetheatre.com

Julia Pond is an interdisciplinary, independent dance artist. Her diverse experience includes helping to found an experimental contemplative artistic community (Art Monastery Project), an MA in International Relations, 3 full-length dance/theatre works made in collaboration with musicians, 20 years of immersion in Duncan technique and repertory, and 8 years of ‘accidental practice-as-research’ in the corporate world. This last helped inform Julia’s current work, a durational installation of a company called BRED which is ‘rethinking value and productivity’ Julia is a co-initiator of the podcast DanceOutsideDance, featuring interdisciplinary conversations. As a performer Julia has worked with visual and dance artists, including Serena Korda, Julie-Rose Bower, Zorka Wollny, Lori Belilove’s Isadora Duncan Dance Company (2001-2005). Teaching credits include Lincoln University, Intercultural Roots, People’s Friendship University Moscow, and others throughout the UK and Europe. She co-organised the Isadora Duncan International Symposium (2014-2018) and has presented her research at Trinity Laban’s Parallax 15 Symposium and Art. Earth’s Borrowed Time Symposium. https://juliapond.com

Purnima is a Modak Method teacher (AYM), and Rebirthing Breathwork therapist for over two decades. Awarded in Education and Training (QCF), TQUK Level 3, she was directed and trained by Kusum Modak, the very creator of AYM, in India. Purnima is naturally intuitive and has a strong native ancestor background. She believes that touch blesses our life from our birth onwards and can act as a powerful source of healing. As a spiritual channel, her unique approach deeply treats and restores vital energy.  http://www.purnimabodywork.com

With a voice that awakens the heart and soul, FIAA is a homegrown UK female artist who shares stories from real-life struggles and experiences, and strives to chase her lifelong dreams. FIAA provides a valuable insight into her musical mind and showcases her strength, determination and unquestionable talent. FIAA's stunning vocal channels a heartfelt and emotive energy similar to Emeli Sandé, Ella Henderson and Ella Eyre. Her streams skyrocketed, hitting heights of more than 30K streams without any industry support. You may have seen FIAA on your screens via the BBC show “Little Mix: The Search” where she wowed Perry, Jesy, Jade & Leigh-Anne to book herself a place in the final eight girl band members. Since the show, FIAA continues to go from strength to strength and is now a part of a Girl Duo named Sunset Olive. FIAA has previously teamed up with Rag'n'Bone Man to produce a charity single that will benefit multiple children's charities:, FIAA spent time in foster care and hopes to instil the importance of family - both chosen & blood. https://instagram.com/fiaahamilton

Patrick Campbell is an academic and theatre-maker based in Manchester (UK). He has worked with a number of theatre groups and organizations, including Triangle Theatre (UK), COSmino (Berlin), Contact Theatre (UK) and Teatro Vila Velha (Brazil). His solo performance Black Rivers premiered at the MansWork Festival in 2018, and has subsequently toured the UK, Denmark and Brazil. His co-authored monograph, A Poetics of Third Theatre: Performer Training, Dramaturgy, Participation, written alongside Dr. Jane Turner, will be published by Routledge in 2020.

Defiant Theatre consists Andrés Montes Zuluaga and Maud Madlyn. Andrés is an indisciplinary artist who approaches the body as plastic matter and art as an intensification of the sensitive. Explores the materiality of time in each of their works which last from a brief moment up to ten days. Reflects on the imprint and memory of the body and the event. Because they consider each piece as a topological object or as a self-contained universe with its own rules, their portfolio allows us to transit from action art to drama, expanded theatre, urban intervention, choreographic questions, performative conferences, video-art, photography, archive unfolding and sound art. Their work has been shown in Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Mexico, England, Italy and France. Graduate in Theatre and Master in Theatre and Live Arts, they graduated from Cali’s Regional Department of Fine Arts and Bogotá’s National University of Colombia. They’ve received awards and grants from the city of Cali, the region of the Valle del Cauca and Colombia’s Ministry of Culture. They’ve collaborated with artists like Maud Madlyn, Emilio García Wehbi, José Alejandro Restrepo, Andrè Eric Letorneau, amongst others. https://www.andresmonteszuluaga.com

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