Peiqi Emily Liu

Peiqi Emily Liu (she/they) is a dancer, choreographer, and creator born in Shenzhen, China. Growing up practicing various movement forms including Chinese traditional dance, hip-hop, popping, ballet, locking, house, and modern dance, Liu has lived through a wide range of cultures and modalities of movement. Liu’s experiences inspired her to become a multi-disciplinary maker who loves experimenting with intricate concepts rooted in humanity and existential conflicts, blending the real and the surreal through her own applications of imageries, movement pathways, musicality, and physical materials. Pursuing BFA Dance Major at the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance in Los Angeles, California, Liu has performed works by Jiří Kylían, Martha Graham, JA Collective, Shahar Binyamini, Jakevis Thomason, Bret Easterling, and Spenser Theberge. Liu is also a popper and teacher as a member of Wabble Streets Crew Shenzhen.

Alice Klock and Florian Lochner discovered their co-creative magic while serving as dancers and Choreographic Fellows at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. In 2017, they created FLOCK, through which they perform and create new choreography for film and stage. Their international touring shows include evening-length productions Somewhere Between (named one of Chicago Tribune’s top 10 shows of 2023) , The Designer, Quest, and their feature-length film Holy Grail.

As a team, they have choreographed for dance companies and cultural institutions, including Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Charlotte Ballet, Whim W’Him, Orsolina28, Chapman University, the Goethe-Institut, and 92NY, among others.

Every year they create a new production for one of Europe's most storied theater institutions, the Freilichtspiele Schwäbisch Hall in southern Germany, where they are company in residence.

LIANE AUNG - FLOCK DANCER

Born and raised in Southern California, Liane received her Bachelor’s in Fine Arts Degree in Dance Performance at the University of California, Irvine. At UCI, she had the honor to perform and learn legendary works from the late Donald McKayle with UCI’s Etude Ensemble, a pre-professional ensemble geared to experience company life in a collegiate setting. 

As a professional, Liane has had the honor of spending six seasons with Whim W’Him Contemporary Dance Company under the direction of Olivier Wevers in Seattle, WA. With Whim W’Him, Liane has had the opportunity to perform and collaborate in original creations with Joseph Hernandez, Ihsan Rustem, Maurya Kerr, Yin Yue, Flockworks Dance, Miceala Taylor, Mark Caserta, Penny Saunders, Banning Bouldin, Annabelle Lopez-Ochoa, Danielle Agami, Brendan Duggan, Zoe Scofield and Sidra Bell amongst others. In Southern California, five seasons were spent dancing with Backhausdance where Liane performed original works and repertoire under the direction of Artistic Director, Jenny Backhaus.

As a freelance artist Liane has had the pleasure to collaborate and create with Flockworks Dance, Yin Yue Dance Company YYDC, Alejandro Cerrudo, Seattle Dance Collective SDC, Schoen Movement Company, Erica Essner Performance Co-Op, KT Neihoff, Entity Contemporary Dance Company and PARA.MAR Dance Theatre. 

ROBERT RUBAMA - FLOCK DANCER

Robert Rubama is a graduate of George Mason University with a BFA in Dance. They have been able to work with companies such as Agora Dance, Haus of Bambi, Groundworks Dance Theater, PrioreDance, Carolyn Dorfman Dance, LaneCo Arts, Orange Grove Dance, & Peridance Contemporary Dance Company. Robert has also danced for choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo at The Joyce Theater in NYC & The Harris Theater in Chicago. Robert has also been an artist in Residence at The National Building Museum and The Floor on Atlantic. They are the Founder/Artistic Director of Terre Dance Collective, a dog walker/sitter, and a freelance dancer/choreographer. Robert’s choreography has been performed by Jane Franklin Dance, Company E, Colgan High School Dance Company, Cleveland Dance Project, Spark Movement Collective, and Dogwood Dance Project. 

EMILY KRENIK - FLOCK DANCER

Emily Krenik is originally from Los Angeles, California. She is a graduate of the Alonzo King LINES Ballet BFA Program where she had the opportunity to train with and perform works by Maurya Kerr, Flockworks, Robert Moses, Carmen Rozestraten, Amy Seiwert, and more. She was a Movement Fellowship Scholar with LA Contemporary Dance Company and trained many summers with them. She studied in Italy, with DanceItalia, and Orsolina 28 where she worked with Flockworks and Juliano Nunes. Most recently, she performed with Laurie Sefton Creates, in Sefton’s work, “The Mythology of Self.” When not performing, Emily enjoys teaching students and sharing her love of dance with the younger generation.

KUO Chueh-Kai is a Taiwan-based choreographer, performer, and co-founder of Nonly Body. A former dancer with Hung Dance (2018–2024), he has toured extensively across Europe, the Americas, and Asia. His choreographic practice explores the expressive power of the contemporary body, seamlessly merging contemporary dance with circus, acrobatics, floorwork, and martial arts. His solo "Tame" won the Audience Award at MASDANZA in Spain (2023). In 2026, his duet "Towards Equilibrium" was selected as a finalist at RIDCC

DANCER FOR KUO CHUEH-KAI: YUCHI CHEN

Yuchi Chen is a Taiwanese dance artist, educator, and co-founder of Body Beyond (Nonly Body). From 2019 to 2024, Chen was a dancer with MIR Dance Company in Germany, working with choreographers including Jiří Kylián, Giuseppe Spota, Marcos Morau, and Or Marin. Chen’s choreographic work, The Piece on your Seat, was selected for the 2022 SWEAT Hong Kong International Dance Festival Dance Film Screening. In 2024, Chen created Echoes of the Return for the International Young Choreographers’ Camp. Since returning to Taiwan, Chen has continued performing, teaching, and researching movement. Chen created Dynamic Meditation, a practice integrating breath, imagination, and embodied awareness.

Liad Tavori Genossar is a professional dancer, choreographer, and multidisciplinary artist. A graduate of "The Maslool" dance program, she formerly danced with KCDC 2 and Fresco dance company, collaborating with prominent choreographers including Eyal Dadon, Adi Salant, Hillel Kogan, Nimrod Freed, and Dana Sapir among others. Today, Liad is a company dancer with the Lior Tavori Dance Company, performing internationally at prestigious festivals such as New York City Center's Fall for Dance in pieces like "CRUST" and "VIVIAN". She also creates in the fields of photography and fashion. "Intwo", co-created with Gregory Lev, is her debut choreographic work, followed by their new creation, "A PART OF US".

Gregory Lev is an emerging Israeli choreographer, dancer and Teacher. Born in Yekaterinburg, Russia, in 1993, he immigrated to Tiberias, Israel, in 1995. After seven years as a competitive ballroom dancer, he trained in the SADNA Dance Program at Kibbutz Ga’aton (2015). He has performed with Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company (KCDC) and Vertigo Dance Company, and collaborated with artists including Omri Drumlevich, Sharon Friedman, Inbal Pinto, Gill Kerrer, Dana Sapir and others. In 2021-22, he took part in “1|2|3”, the Suzanne Dellal Centre’s annual choreographic development program for emerging Israeli choreographers, directed by Naomi Perlov. took part in master classes and mentoring sessions with Daphnis Kokkinos, A.J. Weissbard, Christian Haring & Andreas Berger (Liquid Loft), Aïda Colmenero Díaz, Susanne Mariacher, Nadia Beugré, Ada Karmi-Melamede and Yael Venezia. During the program he created the solo Called “Innerview” and the duet called “White Noise”.

In 2023, Daphnis Kokkinos, former Artistic Advisor to Pina Bausch, invited Lev to a choreographic research residency in Athens, Greece. Later that year “Innerview” won the Audience Choice first prize at the Krakowski Festival Tanca in Poland. He also participated in the “SoloDuo” Festival in Brooklyn, New York (2025), and performed at the “MoDaFe” Dance Festival in Seoul, South Korea (June 2026).

In late 2025, he began collaborating with emerging choreographer Liad Tavori Genossar. Their duet “Intwo” pre-premiered at the “Menashe Dance Festival”, premiered at the Suzanne Dellal Centre in Tel Aviv, and was invited to “Flock’s” Festival 2026. Lev and Genossar are now in final stages of a new work “APart of Us”, a full-length piece for two, inspired by “Intwo”, will pre-premiere in Jerusalem in mid-November and officially premiere in early 2027.

Ria Girard (she/her, 1995) is a FLINTA* performer and choreographer based in Germany. After completing her training at Arts Umbrella (Vancouver, Canada) in both classical and contemporary dance, Ria has spent over a decade honing her craft professionally across Germany, Italy, and Canada. Full time contracts include Ballet BC (Vancouver, Canada), Staatstheater Augsburg (Germany), and Theater Pforzheim (Germany). Performance highlights include participating in the Venice Biennale. She has also worked as a dancer and choreographer with project based companies, and in non-profit spaces.

The driving force of Ria's artistic practice is a commitment to imagining more just futures, with compassion and playfulness at the forefront of her process.

DANCER FOR RIA GIRARD: TERRA KELL

Terra Kell (she/her, 1994) is a Canadian-Slovak movement artist based in Munich. She holds a BFA in Dance from the University of Arizona and has worked with numerous companies throughout her career, including Visceral Dance Chicago, Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, Luzerner Theater, Staatstheater Augsburg, and TanzKassel. Her performance work has taken her on international tours across Europe, North America, China, Mexico, and Brazil. Terra has danced works by leading contemporary choreographers such as Dunja Jocić, Andonis Foniadakis, Marco Goecke, Ella Rothschild, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Alexander Ekman, and Ohad Naharin, among others.

Terra is fuelled by curiosity, compassion, and collaboration. She continues to explore movement as a tool for connection, innovation, and healing.

DANCER FOR RIA GIRARD: MARTA MAESTRELLI

Marta Maestrelli, born in Italy, began her dance training in ballet and modern dance at Balletto di Verona before expanding into contemporary, improvisation, and Hip-Hop. In 2020, she began an ongoing collaboration as choreographer and dancer with singer Emma Nolde. Since 2021, she has studied at HfMDK Frankfurt on a merit scholarship, performing works by William Forsythe, Regina van Berkel, Nicole Beutler, and Kristian Lever, and engaging in interdisciplinary projects with Co-Op Dance Company and F.I.M. Frankfurt. In 2024, she premiered her own choreography and performed in Ioannis Mandafounis’s JOIN with DFDC. Now freelancing in Frankfurt, she advocates for inclusion, accessibility, and community.

Fay van Baar is a Dutch/British freelance choreographer and performer, based in The Netherlands. She began her professional journey with Nederlands Dans Theater 2 (NDT 2) before advancing to Nederlands Dans Theater 1 (NDT 1). Over her nine-year tenure with NDT, Fay contributed to the creation of more than 20 new works in collaboration with celebrated choreographers. As a choreographer, Fay has created works for stage and film for NDT Dutch Masters Foundation, Scapino Ballet, Mir Tanzgala, Korzo Theater, Of Curious Nature, Rise Dance Festival Seoul, Switch by NDT dancers, Young Talent Project, University of the Arts Barcelona and others.

DANCER FOR FAY VAN BAAR: ÈVE-MARIE

Ève-Marie is a multi-faceted artist from Montreal, Canada. She has danced 3 years with the Nederlands Dans Theater II. Eager to support and facilitate new initiatives and artistic voices, she decided in 2019 to become a freelance artist, allowing her to take part in various productions with the Korzo Theater, Antonin Rioche, Juliano Nunes, Diego Tortelli, Julian Nicosia, Jacopo Godani, Fay van Baar and Imre & Marne van Opstal. On top of maintaining the development of her career as a dancer, she was entrusted with the role of assistant and repetitor for both Alexander Ekman and Juliano Nunes, allowing her to stage pieces on the the Paris Opera Ballet, the Royal Swedish Ballet, Staatsballett Berlin and the Birmingham Royal Ballet. Ève-Marie aspires to keep evolving in becoming a facilitator for movement, communication and initiative in the dance industry.

DANCER FOR FAY VAN BAAR: ELAINE MEIJERINK

Elaine Meijerink is a Dutch freelance dancer and actor. She holds a bachelor's degree from both The Royal Conservatory, The Hague, and Codarts University of the Arts, giving her an extensive range of classical and contemporary styles. Elaine has danced with Scapino Ballet Rotterdam and Introdans. In 2022, she starred as the lead role in a Dutch feature film called Piece of My Heart. In 2025, she danced in WOLF at Korzo Theater, choreographed by Fay van Baar, performing alongside Ève-Marie Dalcourt. Elaine is known for her strong stage presence and versatility in movement styles.

Linus Jansner is a Swedish choreographer, performer and artistic director of Chaotic Kitchen. His interdisciplinary practice combines contemporary dance, breaking, physical theatre, acrobatics and visual composition. His work explores identity, transformation, perception and human relationships through raw physicality and strong theatrical imagery. His projects have been presented internationally across Europe, North and South America, and Asia, including Festival Quartiers Danses, MasDanza and Beru Festival. His artistic development has been shaped through collaborations and mentorship with artists including Anton Lachky, Michèle Anne de Mey, Jos Baker and Paul Blackman.

DANCER FOR LINUS JANSNER: YAMUNA KYAMO HUYGEN

Yamuna Kyamo Huygen is a versatile dancer and choreographer based in Brussels, renowned for her innovative Nova Movando method.
Driven by a passion for constant discovery, Yamuna continually explores the possibilities of movement, blending forms such as hiphop, tutting, tricking, and contemporary dance.
Trained at the Royal Ballet School in Antwerp, Yamuna went on to work with the Opera Ballet of Flanders and choreograph for the Ballet D’Jerri in Jersey, Channel Islands. She is currently a dancer with the Anton Lachky Company and has traveled extensively to train with artists from diverse backgrounds and cultures.

Hiroki Ichinose is a Japanese-American choreographer and creative director from Hawai‘i, based in Europe. His recent works include RED, produced through Orsolina28’s Call for Creation Fellowship with support from CHANEL and Lay Him Quietly, premiered with Riksteatern at its REACT International Theatre Festival. His work has been presented across Sweden, Italy, Japan, and the United States. Named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” in 2016, he received Dancer of the Year at Iceland’s Gríman Awards in 2026. He has also choreographed music videos for Ane Brun. Upcoming creations include new work for Iceland Dance Company and BalletCollective.

DANCER FOR HIROKI ICHINOSE: VIOLA ESMERALDA

Viola Esmeralda was born in Cuneo, Italy. She studied at the ESDC Rosella Hightower, in France. She then continued at Codarts University Rotterdam, with a Jiri Kyliàn foundation scholarship.
During the 2021-2022 season she danced at the Lyon Opera Ballet.
Viola joined GöteborgsOperans Danskompani in July 2022 and since then she has been part of new creations by Alexander Ekman, Sharon Eyal, Hofesh Shechter, Marcos Morau among others..

DANCER FOR HIROKI ICHINOSE: VICTOR KETELSLEGERS

Victor Ketelslegers is a Belgian dancer and actor born in 2002. He trained at the Royal Ballet School of Antwerp before joining Staatstheater Nürnberg Ballet, where he danced as a soloist from 2020–2023. He then joined GöteborgsOperans Danskompani from 2023–2026. Throughout his dance career, Victor has collaborated on new creations and performed works by choreographers including Sharon Eyal, Yoann Bourgeois, Hofesh Shechter, Marcos Morau, Alexander Ekman, and others.

Alongside his career in dance, Victor has also established himself as an actor, most notably as the lead in Lukas Dhont’s feature film Girl. His performance received international recognition, including the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section. His screen work also includes projects for Netflix, as well as a number of short films.

DANCER FOR HIROKI ICHINOSE: IVO MATEUS

Ivo Mateus was born in Oporto, Portugal. After completing his education in BallettSchule Theater Basel he then, with the age of 18, joined Nederlands Dans Theater 2 for three years. Now he is dancing at the GöteborgsOperanDansKompani since 2023. He is a big music enthusiast, sound designer, composer and a dreamer.