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Artistic director

Nils O'Swald

Nils O’Swald was born in Germany in 1997 into a family of musicians. At the age of 7 his musical career started with classical piano, drums & percussion. 2007 and 2009 he won the first prize at the competition “Jugend Musiziert” for solo-drums and drum ensemble. Afterwards, trying different instruments such as Cello and Marimbaphone, he also joined several youth orchestras. As percussionist and timpanist, he was part of their concert tours 2013 in France and Spain and 2017 in Romania. Later Nils decided to take lessons for jazz piano and drums to explore jazz and pop music.
From 2018 until 2023 he studied jazz at Hochschule für Künste Bremen, where he also followed up on composition, arranging and directing. In parallel he has been learning performance technique, practicing Alexander Technique and the Feldenkrais method and has been participating in interdisciplinary projects such as the “Beyond Repair“ summer school with Natascha Süder Happelmann at the german pavilion at Venice Biennale 2019 or the multidisciplinary “Neo.Fashion-Orchestra” project at Berlin Fashion Week 2020.
Artistic director

Alexandra Llorens

Alexandra Llorens was born in France in 1991. She studied dance at the CCN of Roubaix, at the University Lille 3, at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Theater at the Conservatory of Avignon and Visual arts at the Sorbonne (Fine arts) and at the Lycée F. Mistral of Avignon (Cinema) . After her graduation at the Folkwang in 2015 she has performed in various projects in Germany, France, Belgium and Israel with Meytal Blanaru, Fang Yun Lo, Samir Akika, Irene K. and Pascal Rambert.
From 2018 till 2022 she was a member of the “Unusual Symptoms cie” (Theater Bremen) where she works with Hodworks, Nuria Guiu Sagarra, Mate Meszaros, Felix Rothenhäusler, Gintersdorfer/Klaßen, Helder Seabra and Faye Driscoll.
Treasurer, Outside Eye

Jordan Gigout

Jordan Gigout, né en France, commence son apprentissage de la danse à la Folkwang Universität der Künste, en Allemagne. Après l'obtention de sa licence, il poursuit un master en composition de danse, se spécialisant dans la notation et l'analyse du mouvement. Tout au long de son parcours académique, Jordan collabore avec des chorégraphes tels que Malou Airaudo, Stephanie Miracle et Evangelos Poulinas, et danse avec le Folkwang Tanzstudio sous la direction de Rodolpho Leoni. Après une brève expérience avec Samir Akika et Unusual Symptoms au Theater Bremen, Jordan rejoint Johannes Wieland et devient membre permanent de l'ensemble au Staatstheater Kassel. Restant étroitement lié à la scène freelance de la NRW, Jordan déménage à Cologne afin de se lancer en tant qu'artiste indépendant. Il collabore depuis avec divers chorégraphes et artistes, dont Céline Bellut, Marlin de Haan, Marie-Lena Kaiser, Carla Jordão et Sebastian Zuber.
Light Design

Dani Miranda

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1990 - Born in Rome Italy

1994 - death of his grandfather, father of his father
1998 - separation of his parents

2021 - death of his grandfather, father of his mother
2093 - His own death

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Arta de Mi, heteronym of Dani Paiva de Miranda (also known as Mundo), is a performer and experimental artist. His work crosses diverse media and ecologies, exploring the transfiguring power of experience. Nowadays her objective is to synthesize the digital and the organic into formless matter.

Arta de Mi investigates the horizontal relationship between matter and energy, denying the separation of matter into form and refraining from a linear sequence of time. This practice leads to questions about the dynamics of power and violence, challenging conventional notions. Employing light design, light installation, performance art (actions and happenings), sound and choreography, they channel an emotional and sensory experience.

Arta is resident Light Designer at Dock11 Berlin and has MA in visual culture at Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid.

Creation support

Alexandra Morales

Alexandra Morales was born in 1976 in Costa Rica. She studied dance at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen and worked as a dancer and assistant with choreographers such as Malou Airaudo, Mark Sieczkarek and Johannes Wieland. From 2001, she worked intensively with the choreographer Samir Akika, with whom she founded the company Unusual Symptoms in 2009. In 2012, Morales moved to Theater Bremen as artistic production manager together with Unusual Symptoms. Here she also worked as a stage and costume designer for productions by Samir Akika, Lola Arias, Máté Mészáros and Helder Seabra, among others. From 2012, she also worked increasingly as a choreographer. She has created her own works in Münster (The Kitchen, 2012) and Bremen (Aymara, 2015), among others. She also worked regularly as a choreographer with director Marco Štorman. She has led numerous workshops in Germany and abroad, most recently focusing on work in contexts of access and disability. Since the 2018/2019 season, she has co-directed the dance department of Theater Bremen with Gregor Runge and the company Unusual Symptoms. Under her co-direction, productions with internationally renowned choreographers such as Faye Driscoll, Adrienn Hód, Máté Mészáros and Núria Guiu Sagarra are created alongside the work of in-house choreographer Samir Akika. Three of the works created since then have received invitations to Tanz plattform Deutschland 2020 and 2024.