Javier Arozena developed his artistic practice since 2001 as a performer, creator and teacher in Spanish, European and North American companies and contexts. Member of Dance On Ensemble (Berlin) since 2020, he can be seen in Works In Silence by Lucinda Childs, Fäden by Ivana Müller, Kiss the one we are by HIATUS/Daniel Linehan and Mellowing by Christos Papadopoulos, among others.

Since 2019 he forms and co-directs together with the architect Gino Senesi the creative tandem javier arozena cía. (la compañía) with a repertoire of choreographic works for stages and other performable spaces. Their latest project is porvenir.

Since 2022 he curates Live Arts Public Program POR ASALTO in TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, where he curated the exhibition Este puede ser el lugar, performar el museo (This might be the place, performing the museum) together with Natalia Álvarez Simó in 2023.

Arozena was awarded as Best Performer in Masdanza Festival (2020) and by Barcelona’s Critics Award Edition 2024 as Best Dance Performer for VU.

Alba Barral Fernández was born in Lugo, Spain, in 1979. She trained in contemporary dance at Espazo de Danza Universitario in Santiago de Compostela and later she moved to the Netherlands, where she graduated with a Bachelor in Dance from ArteZ University of the Arts in Arnhem.

During the following years she worked with the companies LeineRoebana and Suzy Blok, both based in Amsterdam. In 2006 she moved to Barcelona and danced with SenzaTempo Teatrodanza (Inés Boza). She has been a member of Thomas Noone Dance (Barcelona) since 2008, dancing works by Thomas Noone, Roni Haver/Guy Weizman, Johannes Wieland and Jo Strömgren (this last one in collaboration with Swedish dance company Norrdans). Since 2012 she has also been part of the project Camaralucida (Barcelona) under the direction of Lautaro Reyes.

She is currently working as rehearsal director for Thomas Noone Dance and as an independent artist with Javier Arozena Cia, Quim Bigas and La Veronal, Marcos Morau, touring with them internationally. Parallel to her dance career, Alba became a certified Gyrotonic trainer in 2016. She has been a member of the Dance On Ensemble since 2022.

Ziv Frenkel, born in 1962 in the Kibbutz Beit-Alfa in Israel, is a dancer and choreographer. From 1988 to 1995, he was a permanent member of the Kibbutz Dance Company under the direction of Yehudit Arnon. He then danced at the Bremen Theater from 1995 to 1999 under Susanne Linke. Between 1999 and 2008, he worked in the Choreografisches Theater Johann Kresnik, initially at the Volksbühne Berlin and later at the Theater Bonn. In 1996, he co-founded the steptext dance project in Bremen.

Since 2008, Frenkel has worked as a freelance artist. His artistic work has been particularly shaped by long-term collaborations with artists from various disciplines. His most important collaborators include choreographers Rosamund Gilmore, Valenti Rocamora i Tora, Yoshiko Waki (Bodytalk Münster), Helge Letonja (steptext dance project Bremen), Julia Keren Turbahn, Angie Hiesl + Roland Kaiser as well as dancer Anne Minetti, composer Stepha Schweiger, sound designer Florian Tippe, artist Christoph Dahlhausen and photographers Axel Largo and Pedro Malinowski. In addition to his dance work, Frenkel has also performed in theater and film. Since 2022, he is a member of the Dance On Ensemble.

Born in Zürich, Switzerland, Anna Herrmann began her dance education in her home town and completed her studies at the School of The Hamburg Ballet.

Cumulating more than 25 years of experience, Anna has danced with various European dance companies, including The Hamburg Ballet, Göteborgs Operan and Nederlands Danstheater; she joined Dance On Ensemble in 2019. Throughout her career she had the privilege to create and collaborate with renowned choreographers such as John Neumeier, Jiří Kylián, Mats Ek, Marco Goecke, Crystal Pite, Sharon Eyal, Hofesh Schechter, Leon/Lightfoot, Stephan Thoss and Christos Papadopoulos, among others.

For the last 10 years, Anna was entrusted with teaching and staging works by Crystal Pite, Jiří Kylián, Marco Goecke and Medhi Walerski for both educational institutions and prestigious dance companies such as Paris Opera Ballet.

Her choreographic practice includes solo work, interdisciplinary collaborations in the field of visual arts, as well as movement direction in the fashion industry. In parallel to her dance career, Anna has recently started studying sound design and composition.

Christine Kono was born in California in the United States in 1946. In 1955 she began to study classical ballet with Igor Schwezoff and Harriet de Rea, followed by scholarships at Ballet Companies in San Francisco and New York. From 1962 to 1971 she worked with George Balanchine, Martha Graham, Kazuko Hirabayashi, Anna Sokolow and Donald McKayle, dancing for the Pennsylvania Ballet Company and Eliot Feld’s American Ballet Company.

Christine Kono arrived in Europe in 1971 and danced at Tanzforum Köln for Kurt Jooss, Christopher Bruce, Glen Tetley and Jochen Ulrich. She graduated in 1981 with a master diploma for teaching dance at the Folkwang University in Essen. She was ballet master for Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal from 1987 to 1994 and for Joachim Schlömer’s companies in Weimar and Basel from 1995 to 1998. She regularly taught The Forsythe Company in Frankfurt and Hellerau from 2007 to 2014.

Christine also often gave classes for the Dance On Ensemble from 2015 to 2018. In 2019 and 2020, she participated as a dancer in the piece, You should have seen me dancing waltz, which was created for the Dance On Ensemble from Rabih Mroué.

Until 2020, she was a frequent guest professor at Ballet Preljocaj, Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, for Hollins University Dance Master’s Summer Program and the Centre National de la Danse, Paris.

Since 1999 she and Dimitris Kraniotis dedicate themselves to researching the foundations of dance and movement, based on the teaching of Jerome Andrews. They share their research with dancers, teachers and choreographers mainly in France. Together, they have created choreographic events which have been presented in France, Germany and Greece.

Emma Lewis, born in 1968, trained at the Arts Educational School and then the Royal Ballet School in London. She began her professional dance career as a classical ballet dancer first in Zaragoza, Spain, and then in Florence, Italy. Rediscovering contemporary dance with a passion she then left classical ballet to devote herself to training in the Graham and Cunningham techniques at the London Contemporary Dance School, after which she joined Cullberg Ballet in Sweden where she stayed for over eight years.

During this time Emma Lewis had the honour of dancing many celebrated works by Mats Ek as well as other renowned choreographers such as Carolyn Carlson, Ohad Naharin, Jíří Kylián, Johan Inger and Philippe Blanchard. After the birth of her second daughter she moved to France where she continued to work with choreographers Joelle Bouvier, Kader Belarbi and most notably Eric Oberdorff of La Compagnie Humaine in Nice, with whom she has created many works over the last 15 years and continues to collaborate with to this day.

Emma Lewis is a certified teacher in classical and contemporary dance techniques as well as the Alan Herdman Pilates method since 20 years. In this area she has the privilege of working with a vast variety of people ranging from professional dancers and non-dancers of all ages enriching her knowledge and experience as a person, dancer and body professional.

Emma joined the Dance On Ensemble in 2018 at the age of 50.