Tim Persent was born in South Africa in 1964. After graduating from Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance in 1986, he initially danced for Second Stride and Rambert Dance Company in London. From 1987 to 1994 he was a permanent member of the Rotterdamse Dansgroup. In the early 1990s he also worked with Ton Simons and the Brenda Daniels Dance Company in New York. In the Netherlands, he continued to perform in works by the choreographers Krisztina de Châtel, Paul Selwyn Norton, Michael Schumacher and Roland Shankula. From 1994 to 2018 he has been a dancer and artistic collaborator with the dance company LeineRoebana in Amsterdam.

Tim Persent received major Dutch arts awards for his dancing, the Silver Dance Prize in 1993, the Golden Swan in 2004 and the Merit Award from the Danish foundation Stichting Dansersfonds ’79 in 2024. To mark his 25th stage anniversary, he curated A Dance Concert at Holland Dance Festival in 2012, with works by Ton Simons, Richard Alston, LeineRoebana, Richard Alston and Ann van den Broeck.

Alongside his dance career, Tim Persent has worked for several cultural institutions in different capacities. He served as Artistic Director of the International Theaterschool Festival from 2005 to 2016 and is on the board of the KunstenDialoog Foundation. He has consulted the Dutch Arts Council and Performing Arts Fund, taught at CODARTS Dance Academy in Rotterdam and is the first certified MUNZ FLOOR and MUNZ BARRE coach in the Netherlands since 2019.

Tim Persent is member of the Dance On Ensemble since 2019 and performs in works by Merce Cunningham, Jan Martens, Christos Papadopoulos and Colette Sadler.

Jone San Martin, born in Donostia/San Sebastian, Spain, in 1966, studied dance with Mentxu Medel at the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona and at Mudra International in Brussels. She was a dancer at the Ballet Nacional de España, at Ulmer Theater, with Jacopo Godani in Brussels and at the Ballet Royal de Wallonie in Charleroi. She joined Ballett Frankfurt in 1992 and was a dancer at The Forsythe Company from 2005 to 2015.

Since 2000, she has choreographed many of her own works. She was a guest at the Avignon Festival in 2004 where she performed the solo “Tourlourou”, created for her by Carlotta Sagna, as part of the ‘Sujets à Vif’ series. In 2006, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Asociación de Profesionales de Danza de Gipuzkoa. Since 2014, she is Associated Artist of Dantzaz Kompainia in Donostia. She curated the Performing Arts Programme for DDSS16 (Donostia/San Sebastian Cultural City in Europe 2016). Jone has been a member of the Dance On Ensemble since 2015.

Currently, her choreographic research focuses on communication, collaborating with non-hearing persons and sign language translators to reveal the powers of physical languages. Her recent works on deafness include “ADITU 1” (San Sebastián), “ADITU 2” (Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern and Palzinstitut für Hören und Kommunikation, Frankenthal), and “sORDA”, a new solo premiered at Matadero Madrid.

Jone San Martin has been a member of the Dance On Ensemble since 2015.

Marco Volta, born in Turin in Italy in 1969, studied dance at “Lo Studio” Dance School Bussoleno, Italy. Since 1994 he has performed for several theaters and independent dance groups in Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Ireland, among them Balletto Teatro di Torino, Tanztheater Wien, Theater Freiburg/Heidelberg, Theater St.Gallen, CoisCéim Dance Theatre, Anna Huber.

Marco is not only a member of the Dance On Ensemble since 2019, but also works currently with Compagnie Prototype Status (Vevey) and in the Basel dance scene for MIR Compagnie, Verein Joachim Schloemer & Friends, del Rio Company, Sol Bilbaio Lucuix.

Marco has always been fascinated by the fusion of different dance styles that have led him to collaborate with flamenco and urban dance artists. As a choreographer he has created several works that have been presented in Seoul, New York, Turin and Basel, among other places.

Aside from his dancing, Marco has a teaching practice at several academies, theatres and training institutions for professional dancers. He is currently Lecturer at the Zurich University of the Arts, Bachelor of Arts in Contemporary Dance. He also works with children and teenagers, for example with the miniMIR Education Dance Program. In 2015 he obtained a Diploma of Advanced Studies in Dance Culture at the University Bern.

Lia Witjes Poole was born in 1979 in Ontario, Canada, and received her formal dance education at Arts Umbrella in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Lia’s professional career began in Toronto, where she joined Desroisiers Dance Theatre. In 2000, she relocated to the Netherlands and quickly made a name for herself as a versatile independent artist. Over the years, she collaborated with well-known choreographers such as Pieter de Ruiter, Jennifer Hanna, Itzik Galili, Omar Rajeh, and Heather Ware, and worked with filmmaker Ivar Hagendoorn on two dance films.

In 2002, Lia became a regular artist with the acclaimed Dutch dance company LeineRoebana, where she performed in a variety of productions. Her work continued to evolve and she later took on teaching roles in contemporary and ballet dance at the Dutch National Ballet Academy, the Amsterdam Academy for Theater and Dance, Codarts, and Arts Umbrella.

In 2019, Lia joined Dance On Ensemble, and has performed in works by choreographers Nicole Beutler, Christos Papadopoulos, Jan Martens, Lucinda Childs, Colette Sadler, Ginevra Panzetti, Enrico Ticcino, and Rabih Mroué.