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Fabio Liberti graduated from Codarts, Rotterdam Dance Academy and has presented his independent works at numerous international venues and festival throughout Europe.
He was commissioned to create pieces for Danish Dance Theatre (Denmark), Dark Circles Contemporary Dance (Texas), Mainfranken Theater Würzburg (Germany), Landesbühnen Sachsen (Germany), EDGE Dance Company (UK), MIR Dance Company Gelsenkirchen (Germany), Northern School of Contemporary Dance (UK) and Landerer&Company (Germany).

His works have received prizes, such as 1st prize and NORRDANS Production Prize at RIDCC-Rotterdam International Duet Choreography Competition 2018 (Holland); 1st prize at Skopje DansLab 2017 (North Macedonia) and 2nd prize at Solo Dance Contest in Gdansk (Poland); 1st prize at Warsaw Zawirowania Dance 2016 (Poland); the Critic Award at Hannover International Choreography Competition 2014 (Germany) and the 3rd prize at CICC-Copenhagen International Choreography
Competition 2013 (Denmark).

Fabio’s works were shown as well at the main Danish Museums: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Charlottenborg Museum and Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art.
In 2020 Fabio funded his own company MUOVI based in Copenhagen and presented his full independent productions ’#ASIFILOOKEDLIKEME’ (2020) and ’As, If I have missed myself’ (2022) and ’What did I just do?’ (2022) supported by Statens Kunstfond, Bora Bora Dans & Visuelt Teater and Dansehallerne (Denmark).

Per-Henrik Mäenpää is an independent, freelance sound artist with 15 years of experience,
moving around in the world of film composing, postproduction and scoring performing arts.
Per-Henrik has to this date scored and sounddesigned for somewhere around 90 projects of
different sizes. Drama, fiction, Documentary, Animation and Contemporary dance. Many of them
have been nominated and won prices like The Emmy award, The Pulitzer Prize, Guldbaggen,
IDA Awards L.A, PrixEuropa and Kristallen.

In parallel with writing the score, Per-Henrik often also works with sound design, Foley and
the Finalmix to make music and sound a strong overall experience. The work is done in his
own studio in Gothenburg, Sweden with a serious collection of old analog instruments and tape machines.

”Sometimes the score is obvious, sometimes it isn’t. Sometimes something that’s actually
sounddesign you might think is music. That’s part of what makes it a cool voyage of discovery”

David Nicolás Abad works with lighting and sound design. He was born in Lanzarote but are currently living and working in Denmark. He studied light and sound design for camera at IMC (Instituto Madrileño de Comunicación) in Madrid and has a degree in Music Education from University of Alcalá de Henares in Madrid. He also studied lighting design at CTE (Centro de Tecnología del Espectáculo) in Madrid and participated in a lighting design workshop with Mauricio Rinaldi in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

He worked with productions such as ’Becoming Chavela’ for Stephanie Trudeau (lighting and video design, US),’What did I just do?’ for MUOVI (lighting design, Denmark/Sweden/Italy), ’Kansas Er Du Død?’ for Familien (lighting design, DK), short film ’Palomitas’ by Mónica Dolado (music composition, SP), ’Anfitriones’ by Inge Martín (lighting design, SP), ’Total International Lokal’ (lighting & video design and music composition, DK/CH),’Of All Its Parts: From Darkness’ for Two Women Machine Show (lighting design, DK).

He has released one EP and one albums as Puntal, ’No border lines’ and ’Obstinato’.

Åsa Gjerstad has a background as a fashion designer with collections in her own name. Her driving force to be part of something bigger has led her to work exclusively with stage costume for the past 15 years. Everything from circus, theatre, opera and dance to pop bands, movies and television. Her costume designs have appeared on stages such as the Finnish National Opera, Den Jyske Opera, the Göteborg Opera and Teater Republique.

She has created costumes for several prize nominated performances for choreographers such as Ben Wright, Pernille Garde, Jacob Stage, Tim Rushton, Marie Brolin-Tani, Roser López Espinosa and Virpi Pakhinen. Alongside her role as a costume designer, Åsa also has a career as a cellist, with among others the band Fullmånen från helvetet (Full Moon From Hell).

Sara Živkovič Kranjc is a freelance dramaturg, producer and curator working in the fields of contemporary dance, postdramatic theatre and performance art. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Performing Arts Studies at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, focusing on the relation between dramaturgy and potentiality. As a dance dramaturg she worked with choreographers in co/productions of Bora Bora – dans og visuelt teater, Dansehallerne, Skånes Dansteater, LANDERER&COMPANY, MUOVI/Fabio Liberti, Institute 0.1, DUM – Association of Artists, Bunker, Flota/Matjaž Farič, and in artistic residencies at Performing Arts Platform, Dance & Dramaturgy EU Network, Aaben Dans, Riksteatern among others.

In 2016 she co-established Institute for Contemporary Art Practice and Theory 0.1. She is a guest lecturer at Conservatory of Music and Ballet Ljubljana. She is a member of Dramaturgs’ Network (UK) and Association of Theatre Critics and Researchers (SI).

Jernej Bizjak is a Slovene dancer, choreographer and pedagogue based in Denmark.
He studied at CODARTS, Rotterdam Dance Academy in The Netherlands. In 2010 he
joined IT Dansa in Barcelona and in 2012 he became a member of Danish Dance Theatre
in Copenhagen.

He is freelancing since 2015 and has participated in various productions and independent
projects with Korzo Theatre, Fors Works, Andersson Dance, Helsingborg City Theatre,
Royal Swedish Opera, Skånes Dansteater, MUOVI-Fabio Liberti etc. Jernej is a member of
artistic collective Institute 0.1 and a co-founder of cultural association DUK47, both
based in Slovenia.