"Dance is always a temporary drawing, it disappears when the movement ends. So the drawing can be written over, or rewritten at any time. Each performance has to be drawn again the next evening."
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, performer-choreographer of Play

“Cherkaoui is . . . one of the bright young stars of contemporary European dance. He has . . . consistently blurred the boundaries between dance, theater, and music; juxtaposed movement styles; and tackled political, spiritual, and existential themes.”
Susan Josephs, The Los Angeles Times

Shantala Shivalingappa (performer/choreographer) Born in Madras, India, and brought up in Paris, Shivalingappa is a child of East and West. She was raised in a world filled with dance and music, made apparent to her by her mother, dancer Savitry Nair. Driven by a deep desire to bring Kuchipudi to western audiences, she has performed internationally, garnering widespread praise and admiration. She has had the privilege of working with some of the greatest artists of our times: Maurice Béjart (1789 . . . et nous), Peter Brook (for whom she played Miranda in The Tempest and Ophelia in Hamlet), Bartabas (Chimère), Pina Bausch (O Dido, Néfès, Bamboo Blues, and Sacre du Printemps), Ushio Amagatsu (Ibuki). Today, Shantala shares her time between touring, expanding her choreographic work in the Kuchipudi style, and collaborating with various artists in the exploration of dance, music, and theater.

Patrizia Bovi (musician) was born in Assisi, and began studying music and vocal practice at a very early age. In 1984, she founded Ensemble Micrologus, a group that focuses on the study and interpretation of medieval music. In 1990, she became part of Quartetto Giovanna Marini, and in 1995 she collaborated with Ensemble Organum by Marcle Pères. She has made several award-winning recordings with Micrologus for Quadrivium and Opus 111. In 2007 she directed the musical project for Myth, an international production by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. Bovi developed a teaching method for medieval chant with rapport to traditional music; she now teaches medieval singing at the new Centro Studi Europeo di Musica Medievale Adolfo Broegg in Italy.

Jon Filip (musician) is 26-years-old, Norwegian, but Philippine by origin. He studied at The School of Contemporary Dance and The National Academy of the Arts in Norway. In 2006 he was choreographer and artist in the new circus project, PuuPääT, in Switzerland. After graduation he worked with the Norwegian choreographer Ina Christel Johannesen, Iceland Dance Company, and Carte Blanche before becoming a part of the Eastman Company.

Tsubasa Hori (musician) was born in 1976 in Nagano, Japan. After graduating high school, she set out into the world as a rock drummer. In 1996 she entered the Kodo apprenticeship program and was accepted as a full member in 1999. She has performed more than 1000 times in more than twenty countries. Onstage, in addition to playing taiko, percussion, and koto, Tsubasa also sings. Offstage, she composes original music and arranges traditional and contemporary pieces. In 2007, within Kodo, Hori created a women’s unit, Cocon, and is the artistic director. She has performed at Carnegie Hall, Berlin Philharmonic Hall, and the Nobel Peace Prize 100th Anniversary concert. She has performed with Paul McCartney, Mickey Hart, Zakir Hussain, Airto Moreira, Blof, Olodum, and Yosuke Yamashita.

Gabriele Miracle (musician) Since 1998, Miracle has been a permanent member of Ensemble Micrologus; with them he has participated in projects featuring Quartetto Vocale di Giovanna Marini, Lina Sastri, Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, Daniele Sepe, and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. As a session musician, he has collaborated with artists from all over Europe, including Stagione Armonica di Padova, Orchestra della Cappella della Pietà dei Turchini, Skip Sempé, Pino De Vittorio, Antichi Strumenti, L’Arpeggiata, and Angelo Branduardi. As a composer, he writes theater music scores: in 2008 he was one of the composers for La Vedova Scaltra by Italian director Lina Wertmuller. Other collaborations include projects with Orchestra Sinfonica di Perugia, Orchestra di Sassari, Solisti Aquilani, Orchestra Verdi di Milano, Tetraktis Percussioni, and Quadrivium Percussione-Ricerca.

Olga Wojciechowska (musician) Wojciechowaska graduated from the Poznan Music Academy (Poland) in 2005. Since that time she has collaborated with many musicians involved in a wide range of musical genres. She has worked with the Stor Quartet to record a piece for Andrew Keeling’s Reclaiming Eros, and has participated in the orchestral version of Beam Machine by David Jackson. She has collaborated and performed with SNU at the Festival of Modern Music in Ceret, France, and with Ricardo Odriozola at the Avegarde Festival in Bergen, Norway. She has performed with the Sutra project with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Szymon Brzoska. Currently, she is playing with Accidental Form and Baltic Neopolis Orchestra, who perform her electroacoustic pieces. She plays acoustic and electric violin in styles ranging from nu-jazz to ambient to experimental.