2025-2026 Choreographers
Ludovico Paladini
Supported by L’Abri – Genève
Born in Rome in 1998, Ludovico Paladini graduated in 2020 from La Manufacture in Lausanne, Switzerland.
In 2021, Ludovico joined Maria La Ribot’s company, with whom he created and performed La Bola (2021) and DIEstinguished (2022), and he presented his own creation Ombregraphie (2023) at the ADC in Geneva.
Since 2020, he has been collaborating with choreographer Olivia Grandville as both creator and performer.
In 2020, he created Tales of FreeDoom at the Teatro delle Muse in Ancona, which was restaged at the INTEATRO festival in Polverigi in 2021 and in Pesaro in December 2021.
In 2022, he co-wrote with Riccardo Saraceni a film version of the aforementioned performance.
In the same month, he was in residency at the Oriente Occidente studios in Rovereto for the project Leftovers, a project he has continued at the Microcosmi Festival in Avacelli (2022), at the KM de Danse in La Rochelle (2024), and at the Fête de la Danse in Geneva (2024).
Since September 2023, he has been an associate artist at L’Abri in Geneva.
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Catarina Barbosa
Supported by TROIS C-L in Luxembourg
Catarina Barbosa is originally from Portugal. She joined the Portuguese National Conservatory in Lisbon in 2009. She completed her professional training abroad at the Ballet Junior de Genève, until 2014. She had the opportunity to work on pieces by Stjin Celis, Roy Assaf, Gustavo Ramirez, Lucinda Childs, and others. During her last year with Ballet Junior, Catarina also joined Compagnie Gilles Jobin (CH) and took part in the creation “Quantum” in July 2013, which toured internationally.
Based in Luxembourg since 2016, she works for her company AWA As We Are, of which she is Co-founder and Artistic Director with Baptiste Hilbert, and also works as a freelance artist. She collaborates with various choreographers including Benvindo da Fonseca (PT), Arthur Pita (UK) and Léa Tirabasso (LU/UK) and others. Léa Tirabasso’s piece The Ephemeral Life of an Octopusgave her the chance to perform in one of the Last twentypieces in the renowned Aerowaves competition.
Catarina is now leading the artistic part of the company creating the trio MARY’S DAUGHTERS, opening in May 2025, and a solo estranha forma, opening in November 2025.
Marie Cambois
Supported by POLE SUD – CDCN de Strasbourg
As a performer and project leader, Marie Cambois enjoys multidisciplinary forms where each person works with their own medium within a shared creative process, whether improvised or composed. Her main focus is the relationship between dance and music, and she has collaborated with numerous musicians for over twenty years. Today, her research is divided between different areas: dialogue with sound and light, and the coexistence of sensitive materials and theatrical performance within the same projects. Initially a trainer for the State Diploma in Contemporary Dance Teaching (1996-2004) and artistic director of the Mille Failles company (2000-2008), Marie Cambois now develops her choreographic work and mediation activities within La distillerie collective. Although she now works almost exclusively as a choreographer, she still occasionally joins projects led by other artists as a movement consultant or improvisational dancer.
Leslie Mannès
Supported by Grand Studio in Brussels
Leslie Mannès is a graduate of P.A.R.T.S (Brussels – 1st cycle), SEAD (Salzburg) and the Master in Performing Arts – ULB (Brussels). She performed for Cie Mossoux-Bonté, Ayelen Parolin, Maxence Rey, Ingrid von Wantoch Rekowski and film directors Patricia Gelise and Nicolas Deschuyteneer.
Leslie Mannès has been developing her choreographic work since 2005. Her creations take place mainly on stage, but also explore other relationships with audiences in participatory settings. Using dance and movement as vectors of energy and emancipation, Leslie Mannès aims to propose experiences that pay attention to the link in order to reintegrate people into society, to reinvent the way in which relationships are forged between and with audiences. She imagines these scenic experiences as welcoming devices designed to encourage encounters and the emergence of new shared imaginations.
Her last creation SOUS LE VOLCAN (2024) invites a group of five dancers to seek out new forms of cooperation. Her research into new folklores is reflected in participatory in-situ creations like SPRING-FIRE or the OMENS at Charleroi’s CARNAVAL in collaboration with Charleroi-danse and L’Eden.
Leslie Mannès is a partner artist of Théâtre Varia from 2024 to 2028 and is structurally supported by the Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles – service de la danse, through a contract-program from 2024 to 2028.
Wura Moraes
Supported by CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva
Wura Moraes is a Portuguese-Brazilian dancer who has been developing her choreographic work across the Atlantic. She graduated from Faculdade Angel Vianna (Brazil) and trained at École des Sables (Senegal), EDIT (Burkina Faso), and FAICC (Portugal).
As a performer, she has had the opportunity to work with Emmanuelle Huynh, Joana Lopes, Loke Wolf, Gil Mac, Dori Nigro, Charles Cardin-Bourbeau, Calixto Neto, Mónica de Miranda, Vânia Doutel Vaz, Bod Wilson trio and Ana Rita Xavier. In a co-production with the DDD — Festival Dias da Dança, she created solo piece HENDA I XALA, and now REVERBERAÇÕES, both as part of her major-project Confluências (Confluences), in homage of her father Mário Calixto (1960-1997) and Miltércio Santos (1963-2024), both dancers and choreographers.
Jonas Frey
Supported by Theater Freiburg
Jonas Frey is a Germany-based choreographer, dancer, and dance educator with roots in Hip Hop and breaking. After studying at ArtEZ School of Dance and completing an MA in Choreography at Codarts/Fontys, he creates works at the intersection of club- and streetdance and contemporary choreography.
His practice is shaped by co-creation, encouraging all collaborators to become co-authors in the process. Jonas’ works are presented in his home base of Mannheim as well as nationally and internationally. Together with Julie Pécard, he directs the Junior Company at EinTanzHaus and co-directs Mpower Urban, a platform for choreographic development in club- and streetstyles. In 2025–26 he is a resident artist at Theater Freiburg within the Reseau Grand Luxe.
Efthimiοs Moschopoulos
Supported by Onassis Stegi, Athens
Born in Kefalonia in 1992, Efthimios Moschopoulos is a Greek dancer currently based in Athens. He studied dance at the Greek National School of Dance (KSOT, 2014) and philosophy, pedagogy, and psychology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2010).
Ηe has been performing and creating as a dance artist since 2017 in Greece and internationally. He has collaborated, among others, with Ginevra Panzetti & Enrico Ticconi, Euripides Laskaridis, Christos Papadopoulos, Armin Hokmi, Romeo Castellucci, Sofia Mavragani, Artemis Lampiri, Pierre Bal-Blanc, Cally Spooner, Xenia Koghilaki, and Andonis Foniadakis in productions presented both in Greece and abroad. He has performed in several festivals, including Julidans Festival (the Netherlands), Lyon Dance Biennale (France), Tanz im August / Tanzfabrik (Germany), Festival TransAmériques (Canada), International Festival of Buenos Aires (Argentina), Romaeuropa Festival (Italy), Dublin Dance Festival (Ireland), and Athens and Epidaurus Festival (Greece).
He has presented his work in the New Choreographers Festival 8 at Onassis Stegi (collaborative piece “Besuch,” 2021) and has worked as stage movement director for several theater productions. In 2020, he was awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS.
Efthimios Moschopoulos is an Onassis AiR Fellow for 2024/25 through the Dramaturgy Fellowship and for 2025/26 in the context of Grand Luxe Network.
Maureen Nass
Supported by Ballet de l’Opéra national du Rhin
After training in visual arts at the Haute École des Arts du Rhin and studying philosophy, Maureen joined Coline, a professional dancer-interpreter training program, and graduated in 2020. She subsequently worked with choreographers Joanne Leighton (WLDN), Caroline Grosjean (Pièces Détachées), and Vincent Dupuy (Atlas), becoming a regular performer both on stage and in site-specific contexts. She has also contributed to projects involving somatic and choreographic practice with Linda Hayford (CCNRB), architect Ricardo Suanez, and in hypnotic transmission alongside Catherine Contour. Additionally, she continues her training in Body-Mind Centering.
She regularly participates in multidisciplinary performative events combining dance, photography, video, and art-science research, while developing her own work at the intersection of these disciplines through the project MAY.