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FLORIN FLUERAS (1978) is working and playing with performative behaviors, collaborating with artists like: Antonija Livingstone, Brynjar Bandlien, Marten Spangberg, Tor Lindstrand, Ion Dumitrescu, Jennifer Lacey, DD Dorvillier, Eduard Gabia, Fanni Futterknecht a.o. He worked as author and coauthor in projects like: a brave search of the ultimate reality, where life has no value, dead sometimes has its price, cooperativa performativa, postspectacle trilogy, Sweat, now you see the title, heaven, unu unu, little more real than necessary, process in progress. Presented his work in contexts like: Tanzquartier Wien, DeSingle Antwerp (Bouge B Festival), Impulstanz Viena, Springdance Utrecht, tanz schritt weise festival Graz, etc. He studied choreography at UNATC and psychology at Tg. Mures University. Has worked as a social worker, psychologist, web designer, studied film directing, ex glider pilot in the Romanian Team.

BRYNJAR BANDLIEN (1975) got his education in his native Norway at Staten Balletthøgskole in Oslo, and at Ballettschule der Hamburgische Staatsoper in Germany. In 1995 he joined Nederlands Dans Theater 2 in Den Haag with which he toured Europe, USA and South Africa. After 3 years in NDT 2 he started working as freelance dancer and choreographer with Manuel Pelmus, (Punct Fix) Philipp Gehmacher (Mountains are Mountains), Raimund Hoghe (Tanzgeschichten, Young People, Old Voices and Swan Lake, 4 acts), Vera Mantero (Until The Moment When God Is Destroyed By The Extreme Exercise Of Beauty), Antonia Livingstone and Heather Kravas (a Situation for Dance and No More Village). He presented his piece O in march 2006, and the piece Still in may 2008 at Dansens Hus in Oslo. He is currently working on a long term project named Mobile, with 7 different artists, on 4 different continents to be presented at Dansens Hus in Oslo in november 2010. In june 2008 Bandlien curated Zilele Strimbe (Crooked Days) in the course of 3 weeks at CND, Bucharest in the program Amprenta. He is also giving workshops for children in the Rahova/Uranus neighbourhood in Bucharest in the frame of Ofensiva Generozitatii organized by Maria Draghici and Irina Gadiuta. Since 2004 Bandlien has had his base in Bucharest, Romania.

STERE POPESCU (1920) was born in Galaţi. He got his dance education at the Floria Capsali school in Bucharest, and studied at the same time architecture. In the 40ies he was made first soloist at the Romanian Opera. Popescu published poetry in the magazin Fundaţiilor Regale and he also published texts on dance theory in Luceafărul and Contemporanul. In 1949, following the process of “cultural cleansing” initiated by the comunist party, of which Popescu refused to become a member, he was ousted from the Opera and sentenced to jail. After 1960, when Romanaia had a moment of liberal rule, Popescu was released and given back his position at the Opera. He also worked for the Romanian National Broadcast, and was given the chance to create performances. The director of the Opera, Mihai Brediceanu, concidered him talented and gave him the oportunity to create "Ciocanul fara Stapan" (The Hammer Without a Master) which was premiered in Paris on the 10th of november 1965. It was a scandal. After the premier, Popescu, together with half of the company, defected to the west. The other half of the company was met with severe criticism upon their return to Romania, and after a 'trial of shame' Brediceanu was fired. Popescu moved to London and started to teach at Central School of Art. He created two pieces for the Rambert Company. In march 1968, two days after the premier of his last work, Stere Popescu comitted suicide.

ANTONIJA LIVINGSTONE (1971) grew up in the midst of her family’s itinerant gold mining projects in Northern Canada. She believes in making performances that question her own boundaries and conceptions
of what bodies can do and how they can be seen - to contribute to evolving notions of presence and play with self and other. Her disarming dances continually search out and activate the real within the imaginary, and the imaginary within the real. Her performance practices have included classical ballet, drag-kinging and martial arts. More recently, she teaches to share her approach to making "- a
situation for dancing" and also acts as dramaturge for other performance makers. Internationally, Antonija has collaborated and toured with choreographers Benoit Lachambre, (Confort et Complaissance, Not to Know, Influence) Meg Stuart (Visitors Only, Somewhere in Between, Auf DenTisch) and Vera Mantero (Until the Moment God is Destroyed by the Extreme Exercise of Beauty). She has also worked with colleagues Frans Poelstra, Boris Charmatz, Steve Paxton, Lisa Nelson, Hooman Sharifi, Emil Hrvatin, Mark Tompkins, Jennifer Lacey and Nadia Lauro, amongst others, in a variety of improvised performance contexts. A laureate of the Pepinieres Europeenes desJeunes Artistes 02, her work has been supported through an artistic residency at Les Bains :: Connective Socio-artistic Laboratory, Brussels 99-03 and the Canada Council for the Arts. Since 04, Antonija has toured Canada and Europe with her celebrated solo “the part”, a transformance with the body of Father Christmas. Additionally, she has collaborated with artists Jonathan Inksetter,(son of wood) Antonia Baehr (Cat Calendar) and with Heather Kravas (- a situation for dancing. (K)NO(W) MORE VILLAGE). She lives and works in Montreal, on an island in Sweden and produces her dances in France.