The Art of Faux Pas Léa Tirabasso

Today we are chatting with René Alejandro Huari Mateus. René is a dance artist from Colombia, she studied chemistry before discovering dance and the power of movement rolling down her spine one day. Encounters brought her to Germany where she trained At the Folkwang School in Essen - before dancing as a guest dancer for Pina Bausch. She then worked as a full time dancer of the the Staatsatheater Kassel, for 3 seasons, she also worked amongst others, with Tino Sehgal during Documenta13.&n...

Seeta Patel is an award-winning choreographer and dancer based in London. She began her training under the guidance of Kiran Ratna in 1990. She has since worked with a range of Bharatanatyam and contemporary dance professionals including (and to name a few) Mavin Khoo or Darshan Singh Bhuller. She has also performed and toured with a number of companies such as DV8 Physical Theatre and Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company amongst others.Seeta is an Associate Artist at Sadlers Wells (London).&...

Breanna O’Mara is a Dance Artist from Detroit (US) and is now based in Vienna. She has worked with Liquid Loft, Staatstheater Kassel, Ballett Baselm, and has danced and toured the wolrd with Tanztheater Wuppertal and Dimitris Papaioannou. She is currently the Contemporary Dance Rehearsal Director at the Paris Opera. Breanna shines bright with passion, enthusiasm, humility and empathy. Distance too.. which I love! Together we talked about being stuck in a curtain for 10 minutes, empa...

Sarah Blanc is an Irish artist based in London. She is simply magnificent: she shines with positivity, passion and enthusiasm. She s also funny as hell. I love that she describes herself as a loud mouth choreographer, performer and host. Sarah is the Artistic Director of Moxie Brawl - a spicy inclusive dance theatre company who makes work that your mum would love (isn’t that best line ever). As a freelance choreographer/movement director she has worked with companies, organisations...

Anne-Mareike Hess is a Luxembourgish dance artist and has been working in the field of contemporary dance for 17 years. Her work has toured extensively and counts amongst others, the piece Warrior which was part of Aerowaves 2020. I personally love Anne-Mareike’s take on life, work and her exquisite sense of humour! Together we talked about being tutu number 26, about the importance of being creative, living fully one impulse to not regret it, not letting the outer world or definiti...

Seke Chimutengwende is a choreographer, performer, movement director and teacher based in London. As a performer, he’s worked with DV8, Lost Dog and Forced Entertainment amongst others. Improvisation is at the centre of Seke’s work.He has been practicing completely improvised performance, using movement and text, since 2006 and has performed over 70 solo improvisations internationally. Together we talked about the need and the luxury of time, the feeling of constantly auditioning as an a...