Native of France, MANUEL VIGNOULLE is an award-winning choreographer and the artistic director of Manuel Vignoulle - M/motions, a project-based company based in New York. 

He studied at The Conservatoire National Supérieur de Danse de Paris and worked as a dancer at Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet (New York) and at Geneva Ballet (Switzerland).

Manuel has been commissioned by Ailey II, Whim W’him, Makers Dance Company, Satellite Collective, 10 Hairy Legs, Ballet Arkansas, Chicago Repertory Ballet, DanceWorks Chicago, Periapsis Music & Dance, Peridance Contemporary Dance Company, Steps Repertoire Ensemble and others.

ecently won the Grand Prize Award at the 20th Anniversary of  McCallum theatre Choreography Festival in November 2017.

http://www.manuelvignoulle.com

RAMON OLLER is a dancer, choreographer and director of contemporary dance company, born in Esparraguera (Barcelona).

In June of 1985 formed the company meters, for which, among others, has created works: Sols to Suns (Aubry and Dietrich, 1988) premiered at the Autumn Festival of Madrid and replacement for the Ballet of the Opera in Essen in 1995, A Tu Vera (1989) premiered in the encounters of contemporary dance from Valencia, lie to me please (1994) which received the national prize of interpretation of the Generalitat of Catalonia, the musical runs, runs, Diva (several, 1998), premiered at the Festival of Peralada.

Some of his creations for companies have been: Good Night Paradise (Rossell, 1994), which earned him the award for the best show of dance of the year by the New York Times, and Tears for Violet (1995) both for the Ballet Hispanico of New York, Pral. 1st. (several, 1994) and Diwano (Roig, 1995) to the Compañía Nacional de Danza, portraits from memory (Rodríguez et al., 1995) for the Andalusian Centre of dance and La Celestina (Bernaola, 1998) for the National Ballet of Spain, directed by Adolfo Marsillach.

MAIYA REDDING Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, her dance training began at The Chicago Multicultural Dance Center under Homer Hans Bryant. She attended and graduated high school from the Chicago Academy for the Arts where she majored in Dance.

Her studies took her to Purchase, NY where she graduated Cum Laude from SUNY Purchase College in the Conservatory of Dance program where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Dance in 2016. While at Purchase Redding had the pleasure of training abroad for a semester at Korean National University of the Arts, in Seoul South Korea. In July 2016,

she received the “Innovative Choreographer Award” from “The Series; Volume 1”, hosted by Ballet, Inc. for her work “Thou Art Loosed”.

In April 2018 she was asked to be a guest choreographer for SUNY Purchase College’s “Spring Festival” and had the honor of working with the freshman class in the Dance Conservatory. Her passion for the art of choreography and dance are evident in her ability to communicate emotions, struggles and triumphs through the beauty of body movement.

GUIDO TUVERI has been in the performing world since 1989. He received awards and nominations for his work that has been performed in diFFERENT parts of the globe.

After a very serious illness he moved  his focus away from purely conceptual and aesthetic dance, to one that was more EMOTIONAL. He created, choreographed and directed 18 full evening performances tailored for different companies around the globe, among which were:

CIA de Cámara, UNA. Heredia,COSTA RICA, SKånes dans Theater. MALMö, Sweden, Balletto di Sardegna.  Cagliari. Italy. Which he also directed artistically from 2008 till 2012.

He WAS RECENTLY PARTOF A new workshop called MOVE2LIVE movement  and dance are true tools that we use to access our subconscious connection with the other to access a higher level of truth in the performance.

KRISTIAN CELLINI graduated as a classical and modern dancer in Rome. Began his twenty year career working as principal dancer with Carla Fracci and George Iancu in “Five Events of Medea” and “Romeo and Juliet”, with Derevjanko, Luciana Savignano, Daniel Ezralow, Micha Van Hoecke, Renato Greco.

Over the last decade, Kristian is called as guest teacher around Europe and in professionals centers such as MAC, IALS, as well as the Boston Ballet, School, George Randolph School, Arts Umbrella in Vancouver, Centre du Marais and Studio Harmonic in Paris, at the Festival “BarcellonaJazz” a Barcellona, Beirut (Liban).

In 2015 he was the guest choreographer and teacher at the “BCB Bangkok City Ballet”.In the same YEAR HE WAS also maitre de ballet at the “ProArteDanza of Roberto Campanella”.

In 2016 he created “Trittico Barocco” for 9 dancers and 2 great dancers such as Giuseppe Picone, now Director of the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and Letizia Giuliani, the First dancer of Teatro Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence.

http://www.kristiancellini.com/

GINO LANDI, WHOSE REAL NAME IS LUIGI GREGORI, WAS BORN IN 1933 ON THE "DAL VERME" THEATER STAGE IN MILAN, Where HIS PARENTS were PERFORMing AT A VARIETY SHOW.

THE INVENTION OF TELEVISION opened new horizons to LANDI who, ENTERING RAI IN 1958, created THE CHOREOGRAPHies OF VERY POPULAR shows, BECOMING ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS CHOREOGRAPHERS on italian TELEVISION AND in the theater industry.

in 1969, landi started A 40-year-long partnership WITH GARINEI AND GIOVANNINI WHO WANTED HIM TO CREATE THE BALLETS OF ALL THEIR SHOWS. SINCE 1970 HE HAS BEEN WORKING WITH THE TRIESTE INTERNATIONAL OPERETTA FESTIVAL, FOR WHICH HE HAS directed, as CHOREOGRAPHER OR as director (or as both)MORE THAN THIRTY PRODUCTIONS.

SINCE 1977 he covered the role as both choreographer and director for rai and and up and coming networks, CREATING MORE THAN SEVENTY TELEVISION PROGRAMS.

http://www.ginolandi.it/