Marie Chabert (U.K./France) is a performer, choreographer, contact improviser, and teacher whose practice is rooted in collaboration and multidisciplinary exchange, blending dance, text, live music, and audience interaction. Her commissioned works have been presented at Tanzfabrik (Berlin), Camden Fringe and Resolution Festival at The Place (London), the Open Art Festival (Freiburg), Biennale de la Danse Off de Lyon (France), Toplocentrala (Bulgaria), In&Out Festival (Burkina Faso), and the Centro Nacional de la Danza (Mexico), among others. She curates the Monday Contact Improvisation Jam at Mill Co, founded Women’s Touch, and is co-founder of the multidisciplinary collective, The Godet. Chabert holds a BA in Contemporary Dance from the London Contemporary Dance School and an MA from Trinity Laban and Independent Dance. Her work is supported by the Gill Clarke Bursary and the Leverhulme Scholarship. She currently performs in the Royal Opera House’s production of Turandot, choreographed by Kate Flatt.

Joey Chua (Finland/Singapore), she/her, is a choreographer and performer with an international practice spanning Asia, Europe, Africa and the United States. Her work has been presented at major festivals including SiDance, da:ns festival, and Dance Umbrella. Her co-choreographed piece Givers and Takers won first prize at Best of the Regions Dance Festival in Soweto, while Tracing received a Philip Stein Award. As a performer, Chua has worked with Ah Hock and Peng Yu, Odyssey Dance Theatre, Frontier Danceland, and has appeared in the award-winning dance film Smiling Tiger. An Omi alumnus (2008), she has collaborated and performed with EU & a little mistake in London and Tabor (Czech Republic), as well as across Singapore, Hong Kong, and Kuala Lumpur. Chua holds a PhD from the University of Helsinki and contributed to the award-winnings publication, The Psychology of High Performance. Her practice bridges chorerograpghy, performance, and research through collaborative, cross-disciplinary exploration.

Csilla Gesztelyi Nagy (Hungary) is a dancer, choreographer, teacher, and craniosacral therapist who founded and directs Cipolla Collectiva Live Art since 2012. Working at the intersection of art, pedagogy, and healing, the collective integrates movement, music, and somatic practices to explore embodied emotional experience. Nagy trained at the Hungarian Dance Academy and CODARTS Rotterdam. Her long-term collaboration with ARTUS – Gábor Goda Company since 2008 has strongly shaped her collaborative, embodied approach. Cipolla Collectiva has performed at numerous festivals in Budapest and across Europe. In 2022 and 2023, the collective collaborated with the Blinken OSA Archivum (Budapest)—a Cold War library and research center—where Nagy choreographed and performed two interactive works, including The Mystery of the Body. By dissolving boundaries between professional and amateur participants, the collective creates performances, dance films, and somatic workshops that foster intimacy, inclusivity, and shared bodily awareness. Their work demonstrates how movement-based practices can generate personal insight and build community.

Sintija Silina (Latvia) has been part of the contemporary dance scene for over two decades as a choreographer, performer, creative producer, and curator. Her artistic practice as a choreographer is complemented by experience in cultural policy, gained during her tenure at the Ministry of Culture of Latvia, where she contributed to national performing arts initiatives and international representation. In 2024, she joined the Latvian Dance Information Centre as International Coordinator for the Baltic Dance Platform in Riga. The festival HOROS marked her curatorial debut in 2025, exploring the theme “body renaissance” and the body’s position in the digital era. Since 2015, Silina has been a bodyART functional training system instructor delivering seven different modules for dance professionals. Silina has served as an expert for the State Culture Capital Foundation and as a jury member for the Latvian Dance Award. Silina’s most recent choreography was an immersive performance titled My Contract with a Chair.

Ana Paula Ornelas Favela (Mexico) is a multidisciplinary artist from the Sonoran desert whose work has centered on movement research and performance since 2009. As a dancer in Antares Danza Contemporánea, she strengthened her interpretive range, technical precision, and stage presence. Her practice has since expanded into theater, film, directing, and choreography, both independently and in collaboration with artists such as Gabriela Ceceña and José Corral. She embraces a multidisciplinary approach that integrates performance, filmmaking, and community-based artistic work. Her research also focuses on creative collaboration with elders and marginalized communities, reflecting her belief in art as a transformative force that nurtures empathy and dialogue. Her work has been shown in Mexico, the U.S., Canada, Colombia, Chile, Venezuela, France, and Hungary, earning national and international recognition. She also maintains a strong pedagogical presence, teaching contemporary dance and movement practices with a commitment to connection, honesty, and the generative power of the body.

Adam Castañeda (U.S.) is a dancer, choreographer, and arts administrator living in Houston, Texas. He is the Executive and Artistic Director of the Pilot Dance Project, and his programming has been funded by the Mid-America Arts Alliance, City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance, Houston Endowment, Texas Commission on the Arts, EmcArts, the Morales Foundation, HoustonFirst, the Midtown Management District, Bunnies on the Bayou, the Woodlands Arts Council, Harris County Public Health, and Dance Source Houston. Through his nonprofit, he produces a full season of professional modern dance as well as the Texas Latino/a/x Contemporary Dance Festival and Bayou City Dances. Castañeda is a four-time recipient of the Houston Arts Alliance’s Support for Artists and Creative Individuals Grant. Outside of dance, Castañeda is a proud full-time faculty member of Houston Community College’s English department.

Domokos Kovács (Hungary) graduated from the University of Theatre and Film Arts of Budapest (SzFE) in 2017 as a puppeteer. Since then, he has worked as a freelance performer (dancer/puppeteer/actor) and creator (choreographer/director), working with several theaters and independent collectives. Kovács is based in Budapest while working abroad in Holland, Germany, Serbia, and France. In his own work, he experiments with the combination of contemporary dance and puppet theatre, creating a new theatrical form called physical puppet theatre. In 2019 he co-taught with Eszter Gál at SzFE, and has taught at Budapest Circus Arts and Contemporary Arts College since 2015. Kovács is currently working on his doctoral studies at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, where his research is titled The Meeting of Living and Lifeless Figures.

Gabrielle Revlock (U.S.) is a body-based artist whose work is influenced by postmodern dance, experimental theater, conceptual art, and compassionate communication. In 2020, she received a Bessie Award for her interactive performance Nuptial Blitz and the intimate duet SEX TAPE. She has received support from the Independence Foundation, Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Puffin Foundation, New England Foundation for the Arts, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, American Dance Abroad, and the U.S. Department of State. Her work has been presented by New York Live Arts, Gibney, The Flea, JACK, Movement Research at Judson Church, Philadelphia Dance Projects, Center for Performance Research, FringeArts, ODC, Velocity Dance Center, Provincetown Dance Festival, and the American Dance Festival. Internationally, Revlock has toured to Japan, the Netherlands, Singapore, Hungary, Russia, and India. Residencies include Art Omi, Chez Bushwick, The Croft, Catwalk, LiftOff, Cross-Pollination, and Culture Mill in cooperation with the American Dance Festival. As a dancer, she has performed for Jane Comfort, Susan Marshall, Bill Young, Vicky Shick, Susan Rethorst, and Lucinda Childs. She regularly teaches contact improvisation and holds a BA in Art History from Vassar College and an MFA in Dance from Smith College.

Kensaku Shinohara (Japan/U.S.), born in Sapporo and based in Los Angeles, is an immigrant, researcher, and interdisciplinary dance artist. His praxis draws on anthropology, sound exploration, and intimate collaboration, which informs his work as a choreographer and performer. The cultural friction he experienced after immigrating to New York City in 2009 prompted his current research around sexuality, masculinity, rage, boundaries, and being an outsider at home. Through movement and soundscape creation, he investigates the primal forces that move and motivate our lives, while simultaneously challenging social hierarchy, systems of power, and the individual values we each hold true. Described as “intense, weirdly angry and dryly hilarious” (ODC Dance Stories), Shinohara’s highly physical, experimental work has been presented at venues such as JACK (NYC), REDCAT (Los Angeles), Chaillot Théâtre national de la Danse (Paris), and Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian (Lisbon). Shinohara has been supported by New York Foundation for the Arts, Foundation for Contemporary Arts (NYC), CultureHub LA (Los Angeles), and Kunstencentrum BUDA (Belgium), among many others. As a performer, Shinohara has performed with artists such as Ishmael Houston-Jones, Dimitri Chamblas + Kim Gordon, and Will Rawls. He is a founding member of the L.A.-based experimental band Perfect Band.