⭐️ Polina is a dancer, performer and teacher, born and raised in St. Petersburg, and currently based in Pamplona, Spain.

Her artistic journey began at the age of seven with a local dance collective. Over the years, she delved into urban dance styles like House and Waacking, which eventually inspired her to explore contemporary dance and performance practices. Driven by her passion for movement, art, and culture, Polina has attended numerous educational dance events across Russia and Europe, learning from leading masters of contemporary dance and physical theater.

In 2012, Polina co-founded the Waacking Sharing dance festivals, bringing together artists and audiences to celebrate this unique dance style. Since 2015, she has been a co-founder and dancer in the "Naprimer" dance company, alongside Elizaveta Nekrasova, focusing on the intersection of urban and contemporary dance disciplines.

Polina has been a student at La Faktoria Dance Center (2019, 2023–2025), continuously honing her skills. Since 2019, she has also been performing with Dinamo Danza, a company directed by Carmen Larraz in Navarra, Spain.

Connect with Polina:
IG: @pollisha

📚Book she recommends you to read:
-Anton Chekhov “Rothschild's violin"
-Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt “Monsieur Ibrahim And The Flowers of the Qu'ran”

⭐️ Melina Koulia is a dance and visual artist, from Greece. Fascinated by the power of human imagination, she is expressing herself through movement improvisation, drawing and designing. She has diversified her artistic approach to discover new ways to look at the world and create.

She holds a bachelor degree from Faculty of Applied Arts and Visual Communication. Part of her formation took place at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Porto. She also studied dance between Greece and Portugal.
Currently, she is curating dance workshop and open stage improvisation events in her city, Athens. She is also making work independently as a freelancer performer and visual artist, involved in different artistic projects internationally.

Connect with Melina:
IG: @melina.koulia
@athens_intensive
@somatica.athens

📚A book she recommends you to read: "The Resistance '' -by Ernesto R. Sábato- .

⭐️ Chiara Corbetta is currently based in Paris and works as a dancer, performer and co-creator with the companies of Sarah Balzinger, Thibaut Eiferman, Christian et François Ben Aim
Ben Aim, and e Bok o Bok for their new creations.
Ella recently played the lead role in an Orange commercial directed by Sebastian Edwards and choreographed by Lenka Vagnerova, and in the music video Troll by the band SKALD directed by Sylvie Bessou.
She is a teacher of Body Expression at the Laboratoire de l'Acteur (a pro Acting School), where she is also part of the theater course.

She is a certified Yin and Vyniasa yoga.
She began dancing at a young age, joining the National Ballet Academy of
Rome in 2010, she completed her studies in London in 2016 with a BA Honoursin Dance at Kingston University.

She began working as a freelance dancer and performer for Rosie Kay Dance Company , Levantes Dance Theatre, David Massingham, Joumana Mourad and Jason Piper.
She then moved to Kaunas, Lithuania, where she joined the Aura Dance Theatre Company for two years under the direction of Birute Letukaite, where she performs internationally
and collaborates with guest choreographers such as Gil Kerer, Yoshiko Waki (Bodytalk), Bea Debrabant and Vangelis Legakis.

⭐️ Felipe Fizkal holds a Bachelor of Arts with a mention in dance from the University of Chile.

He is the director of various interdisciplinary projects from 2010 to date, noted productions include "Redimir" 2015, “Extinction" 2017, and "The Hunger Warriors" 2018, among many others.

In 2018 he finished his professional training in Art Factory International Bologna, Italy.

Later in 2018 he began working as a freelance dancer in Germany, where he has worked with various directors such as Kenan Dinkelmann, Golde Grunske, Lina Gomez, Sasa Queliz, Animi Motus, Lily Pohlmann and Babak Rahmed.

Currently he is returning to his path as a choreographer. Felipe is preparing to study in the next cohort of the Master of Choreography Program of HZT Berlin from 2022-2024.

👉 felipefizkal.com

👉 IG:@felipefizkal

📚Book he recommends to read: Anatomy of Movement by Blandine Calais-Germain

Animal Totem: Martín pescador 🦜

⭐️ Aina Lanas is a dancer, choreographer and movement director based in Barcelona.

She has been training in urban dance, ballet and contemporary dance and she graduated in photography at the IDEP school in Barcelona.Interested in improvisation, choreography and specifically in scenic creation, she has worked as a performer and co-creator in companies such as Kulbik, Cirque du Soleil or In Motus, touring internationally with many of their shows.She directs her own company: Cia Aina Lanas, from which she has directed different pieces such as her last project “Desasosiego” for which she received three international awards for 'Best Choreography', 'Best Short Film' and 'Grand Award' at the Homescreen Festival in San Diego.

She has been invited to different festivals in Spain, Portugal, Germany or Netherlands.

She also teaches Urban Dance at the Instituto del Teatro in Barcelona and works also for the music industry, TV, and advertising as a dancer and movement director.

If you want to know more about Aina and her work:

👉 IG: ainalanas

👉https://ainalanas.com/

📚Book she recommends people read: Capitalismo y CuerpoArtists

Animal Totem: Colibri 🦜

⭐️ Aina Lanas is a dancer, choreographer and movement director based in Barcelona.

She has been training in urban dance, ballet and contemporary dance and she graduated in photography at the IDEP school in Barcelona.Interested in improvisation, choreography and specifically in scenic creation, she has worked as a performer and co-creator in companies such as Kulbik, Cirque du Soleil or In Motus, touring internationally with many of their shows.She directs her own company: Cia Aina Lanas, from which she has directed different pieces such as her last project “Desasosiego” for which she received three international awards for 'Best Choreography', 'Best Short Film' and 'Grand Award' at the Homescreen Festival in San Diego.

She has been invited to different festivals in Spain, Portugal, Germany or Netherlands.

She also teaches Urban Dance at the Instituto del Teatro in Barcelona and works also for the music industry, TV, and advertising as a dancer and movement director.

If you want to know more about Aina and her work:

👉 IG: ainalanas

👉https://ainalanas.com/

📚Book she recommends people read: Capitalismo y CuerpoArtists

Aina recommends you to check out :

-Si Los Martes Fueran Viernes

-La Cerda

-Los Informalls

-Guillem Jiménez

-Raquel Gualtero

-Varó d’Evel

-La Veronal

-Marlene Monteiro

-Crystal Pite

-Parris Goebel

-Stromae

-Lianne La Havas

-Childish Gambino

Animal Totem: Colibri 🦜

⭐️ Campbell Caspary is a German actor, born in 1994 in Berlin. He’s working on screen and on stage. In his teens, he explored breakdancing, contemporary dance techniques, martial arts and voice development.
In his work, he tries to let all those elements come together and impact each other.

Besides working in acting and dancing, he is interested in music, permaculture, nature and hunting.

Have a look at his work here:👉 https://hansenmanagement.de/artist/campbell-caspary

📚Books he recommends people to read:
The Story Of My Life by Giacomo Casanova and American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

🎨 Artists he likes:
Carl Spitzweg
Wilhelm Busch
Jean fouquet
Rubens
Hieronymus Bosch
Lucas Cranach
Pieter Brueghel the older
jan Brueghel the older
Matania fortunino
Jean leon Gerome
Adolph menzel
Caravaggio
Rembrandt
Hans Holbein 2nd
Carl Blechen
Nicola verlato
Henry raeburn
Theodor von piloty
Gabriel von Max
Hiroshige
Hokusai
Egon schiele
Horst Janssen
John singer sargent
Alberto burri
Rico Lebrun
Bidstrup
Lovis Corinth
Jacob jordaens
Goya
Gustave dore
Anders Zorn
Frank frazetta
Moebius
Sorolla
José segrelles
Maximilien luce
Camille corot
Hans bellmer
Max Ernst
Wols
Walt morton
Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes
Ivan bilibin
Julien Bastien lepage
Franklin booth
Henri Rivière
Hercules seghers
Hammershøi
Gustave courbet
Rodin Skulptur
Antoine d' agata
Jacques Lartique
Degas

Favourite animal: 🐆 Jaguar