2021 Choreographers
Baptiste Cazaux
Supported by L’Abri
Baptiste Cazaux trained in classical dance in Biarritz, before joining the Ballet Junior de Genève in 2015 under the direction of Sean Wood and Patrice Delay. There he danced in works by Olivier Dubois, Barak Marshall, Roy Assaf, Sharon Eyal and Thomas Hauert. He now presents his work at festivals such as Les Printemps de Sevelin (Lausanne), far° (Nyon), the Pavillon ADC as part of Emergentia, a platform dedicated to emerging choreographic creation, and at La Bâtie. During the 2020-2021 season, he will be an associate artist at L’Abri-Genève. In 2021, he will be dancing in Jan Martens’ latest creation, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones (Festival d’Avignon, Festival de la Bâtie) and Ayelen Parolin’s Weg (Charleroi Danses, Printemps de Sevelin).
He created GIMME A BREAK!!! in September 2023 at La Bâtie – Festival de Genève, for which he benefited from the residencies of the Réseau Grand Luxe.
Georges Maikel
Supported by TROIS C-L
Georges Maikel Pires Monteiro completed his training at the Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg before joining the SEEDs professional integration unit, run by the CobosMika company. In Spain, he has worked with Roberto Olivan, Jorge Jáuregui, Thomas Noone, the CobosMika company and Cie PrÄk. In the Greater Region, he works with a range of choreographers and directors including Bernard Baumgarten, Corps In Situ, Léa Tirabasso, Filament, AWA – As We Are, Hannah Ma, Larisa Faber, Catherine Elsen, Frédérique Colling, Sally Meres, Anne Simon and Elisabeth Schilling. He has also collaborated with singers and musicians such as EDSUN, CHAiLD, Michel Meis, Bartleby Delicate, Magnus & John, Josh Island and Kitshickers, as well as with visual artists Cecillia Tripp, Olivia Bourdeau and Nora Wagner. In the course of his career, Georges Maikel has created fest alongside dancer and choreographer Piera Jovic, the solo !MAKi!? and, in 2020, It Gets Better, a dance video which won him the Dance from Home competition. Today, Georges Maikel is working on his new creation entitled My Cat Is A Unicorn.
Akiko Hasegawa
Supported by POLE SUD – CDCN de Strasbourg
Originally from Japan, Akiko Hasegawa studied at the College of Art Nihon University in Tokyo before moving to France in 1994 to continue her dance training at the CNDC in Angers. She went on to develop her career as a performer with a number of choreographers (Bernardo Montet, Carlotta Ikeda, Christian Bourigault, Suzanne Buirge, Catherine Diverrès, etc.) and also worked with various directors (Anne Théron, Benoît Bradel, Pauline Ringeade, etc.). Alongside her artistic activities, she also runs dance workshops in schools and hospitals. As a teacher, she teaches at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg and in the preparatory class for the competitive drama schools at the Filature de Mulhouse and the TNS. In 2019, she decided to launch her creative career and presented “Les va-et-vient des Musées” in Strasbourg, a duo performance with violinist Aline Zeller to music by Annette Schlüntz. She went on to found her own company, Koko, and began her research into states of the body with the solo Haré Dance. She is continuing this work in her next project, the title of which is still to be announced.
Claire Hurpeau
Supported by the Ballet de l’Opéra national du Rhin – CNN de Mulhouse
A dancer, choreographer and movement teacher from Strasbourg, Claire Hurpeau began studying contemporary dance in 2005. Since then, she has nurtured her contemporary dance practice through contact-improvisation, butô, theatre clowning and somatic techniques. From the outset, she has developed an exploratory relationship with movement, in search of its many possibilities and a body language all her own. After training in dance at the Bewegungs-art school in Freiburg (Germany), she has been developing the activities of the Muutos company in Alsace since 2015. Since 2013, she has performed and collaborated with a number of artists including Sasha Waltz and the Butô choreographer Gyohei Zaïtsu, as well as Mark Tompkins, Alice Laloy and the companies Hors Champ // Fuera de Campo and Dégadézo. In 2020 she began training in infant motor development, as part of Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen’s Body Mind Centering® somatic approach.
Anna Nowicka
Supported by Theater Freiburg
Anna Nowicka is a Berlin-based choreographer who works with dreams and the embodied imagination. She seeks to unfold the body as a resourceful entity, alive, always in motion, capable of being reactive and present. A graduate of the Salzburg Experimental Dance Academy (SEAD), an MA in Choreography at the HfS Ernst-Busch / HZT in Berlin and an MA in Psychology at the University of Warsaw, she wrote her practice-based PhD on embodied consciousness as the foundation of presence at the Polish Film School in Łódź. She is a certified Saphire® teacher from Catherine Shainberg’s Image School. Currently, Anna’s physical practice is supported by the Tanzpraxis grant from the city of Berlin.
Konstantinos Papanikolaou
Soutenu par Onassis – Stegis
Konstantinos Papanikolaou graduated from the Master’s dance program of Paris XIII. He has collaborated internationally with Gerard & Kelly, and Οlivier Marguerit, has taken part in Munich, Lyon, and Birmingham’s Biennales, and has also performed at Centre Pompidou, Paris; Hellerau, Dresden; The Place, London; and Mercat des Flors, Barcelona. In Greece, he has worked, among others, with the choreographers Patricia Apergi, Mariela Nestora, Tzeni Argyriou, Aria Boubaki, ‘Prolet OCD,’ and ‘Stereo Nero.’ Konstantinos has worked as a choreographer in theater plays, collaborating with Argiris Pandazaras, Circe Karali, Eleni Efthimiou, Lilly Meleme, Eleftherios Veniadis et al. In 2020, he choreographed and performed his solo, “Tonight and Every Night,” at the Arc for Dance Festival.
In 2021, he created his filmed lecture-performance “The Diving Horse and Other Mythologies” (commissioned and produced by Onassis Stegi) as part of the Onassis NEW CHOREOGRAPHERS FESTIVAL 8, presented in an on-line premiere at the Onassis YouTube channel in March of the same year.
In March 2022 he will present his latest stage creation as part of the Onassis New Choreographers Festival 9, commissioned and produced by
Cie Tumbleweed
Supported by Grand Studio, Brussels
Angela Rabaglio is an independent dancer and choreographer of Swiss origin living in Brussels. She trained as a dancer at the AHK in Amsterdam (d obtained her Bachelor’s degree in contemporary dance in 2013. She then created her first Solo wind-up birds and polaroids, which she performed at several festivals in Europe. Angela danced for several years with Compagnie Alias, and more recently she has been working with Jasmine Morand and collaborating with various artists as an outside eye. Drawing on different influences in dance and other sources of movement inspiration (martial arts, climbing, yoga, dabké, etc.), she also teaches workshops and classes for young people and adults. She also gives workshops and classes for (semi-)professional dancers, circus students and children.