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After living in South America and the Middle East, he moved to Berlin in 2010. There his work has been published several times in magazines and newspapers such as ND, TAZ, FHZZ, CONTRASTE, Cargo and Chorzeit. He was commissioned the production of “Il Collezionista di Baci” for Modadori Electa and “Die moderne Stadt Berlin-Lichtenberg – Ein Architekturführer” for Berlin Story Verlag. Since 2012 Giovanni Lo Curto has been collaborating with the LUNA PARK initiative, and since March 2019 he has also been the vice-chairman of the non-profit association of the same name. Since 2020, as part of the artistic team of Initiative LUNA PARK, he has been realizing the ECHO project as part of an IMPACT grant from the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe.

Since 2012, as an active member of the artistic collective LUNA PARK, he has been involved in numerous cultural and theatrical productions as a playwright, and as a dance dramaturge, among other roles. Working as a dramaturg, he supports the full realization of the choreographer’s creative vision by asking questions in a self-reflective manner about the concept, the structure of actions, the sociopolitical context of the performance, and other thoughts, as a careful spectator of the rehearsals process. His performative texts have inspired the dramatization of stories in theatrical productions that have been presented in Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Greece.

Since 2005, he has been composing music for contemporary dance and performance practices. He collaborates with “Lemurius Dance Company”, “Griffon Dance Company” and the artistic collective “LUNA PARK”, among others. Many of his works have been presented throughout Europe in theatrical stages and festivals, such as the Onassis Cultural Centre/Stegi and the Athens-Epidaurus Festival. In 2013, he composed the works “Sonic Landscapes # 1” and “Sonic Landscapes # 2”, based on sounds of the Earth’s magnetosphere and the pulsars. In collaboration with the astrophysicist Fiori-Anastasia Metallinou he gave a series of lectures at universities, schools and museums in Athens and Thessaloniki.

From 1990 to 2013 she taught choreography and improvisation, dance history and dance pedagogy at various professional dance schools in Athens. She published numerous articles and papers in Greek and international scientific journals. Her main research interests are dance history, dance phenomenology and critical educational theory. Furthermore, she developed various choreographies for the contemporary dance company Meta-kinesis, sponsored by the Greek Ministry of Culture, Athens Concert Hall and the International Dance Festival of Kalamata, among others. Maria Tsouvala is involved in voluntary work with children and young people, especially with unaccompanied and parentless young refugees, and also with delinquent youth. She has been closely associated with the LUNA PARK initiative since it was founded.

Her texts can be found in the British Library, London, at the London Film Institute and at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Thessaly in Volos, Greece. Video stills and other video projects by Dr. Georgia Touliatou are part of the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, the Dakis Joannou Collection in Athens, the British Library in London, the London Film Institute, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Baltimore, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in Seoul, ZAIM in Yokohama and the Institute for Contemporary Arts, Moscow. Dr. Georgia Touliatou is one of the co-founders of the free artist collective LUNA PARK in Athens and is also involved in many projects of the LUNA PARK initiative in Berlin.

With a special focus on expanded cultural participation, Fee facilitates the realization of our various formats of artistic production and cultural education. In her daily work she pursues the vision of strengthening education, art and civil society as a valuable triad full of potential for a diversity-sensitive reality.

In 2017, Nikoleta Koutitsa founded KN Dance Group together with Karolina Theleriti, whose choreography “This is not what you see” was shown at festivals in Athens, Aigina and Venice. KN Dance Group also produced videos and dance films that were presented at various festivals, such as Athens Video Dance Project, Breaking 8 Festival, at ORK_KOTA in Budapest (Jury Award for Best One-Minute Dance Film 2018), Rollout Festival in Macao and Seyr Festival in Tehran. Her video “Dialogue 3” was screened at Athens Video Dance 2019, “Private Absence” at the festivals Railway Carriage Theater in Athens and Dance Days Chania in Crete. Nikoleta Koutitsa was choreographic assistant in the production of Shakespeare’s “Tragedy of King Richard III”, presented at the Athens and Epidaurus Festival 2019.

Seit 2011 wirkte Aaron Carey-Burrows als Tänzer in zahlreichen klassischen und zeitgenössischen Produktionen verschiedener australischer Produktionshäuser und Kompanien mit, u.a. des Erindale Theatre, des Scott Theatre, des Geoff Gibs Theatre und des Dolphin Theatre, präsentierte auf dem Beijing International Dance Festival 2015 und dem Montpellier Dance Festival 2017. 2018 und 2019 tanzte er u.a. in Robert Solomons Tanztheaterprojekt „Berliner Luftbrücke”, im Deutschen Theater in „Zeiten des Aufruhrs” und in mehreren Produktionen der Deutschen Oper Berlin. Aaron kreiert zudem seine eigenen Arbeiten, darunter Projekte für die Tanja Liedtke Stiftung und das Impermanence Dance Theater.

Aaron ist ein hoch physischer, vielseitiger und ausdrucksstarker Tänzer, ein energetischer Performer und sensibler Partner. Er verfügt über solide Grundlagen in Ballett und zeitgenössischer Technik, sowie in Improvisation, Kontaktimprovisation, zeitgenössische Bodenarbeit, zeitgenössische Akrobatik und trainiert darüber hinaus Jiu-Jitsu, Breakdance und funktionelle Fitness.

Also, her choreographic works are: Long For Revival (2017) that was presented at Studio Kinitiras art Residency and In The Cannon’s Mouth (2018) that was presented both at 3rd Zante Dance Festival and at ASKT Theater Athens. At the same time, for the past ten years, she is working as a Dance teacher for private dance schools, dance societies and public Artistic Highschools working with children, adolescents and adults. Her co operation with students provided the greatly needed and enhanced kinetic vocabulary that apart from establishing new ways of communicating knowledge, led to a play that was created by both Maria and her high school students and was presented at Megaron Mousikis in Athens for the 2018-2019 academic year.

As a set and costume designer for theater plays and operas, he creates sceneries and theatrical situations for entire seasons, as for example for the Kammerspiele in Munich or the Maxim Gorki Theater. For many years, his stenographic design includes works in schools and theaters. He also works for the Goethe-Institut in Berlin, the Berlin Academy of Arts, the Venice Biennale of Architecture, and the city of Nuremberg in the occasion of its candidacy for the title of European Capital of Culture 2025. As a set designer he collaborates with the artistic collective LUNA PARK since 2013.

He is also active as a curator of exhibitions and art projects in the context of cultural education. Another focus of his work is the artistic design of surfaces and objects in public spaces with mosaics and sculptures. Tuna Arkun studied painting and graphic arts at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe and for a few months as part of an exchange program at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Bratislava, Slovakia. As a master student, he graduated with a diploma.