Ty Boomershine, was born in the USA in 1968 and studied dance at the Fort Hayes School for the Performing Arts in Columbus, Ohio, completing his studies with a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri.

In New York he danced for Yvonne Rainer, Dan Wagoner, DANCENOISE, Gus Solomons Jr., Bill T. Jones, Ton Simons, Merce Cunningham repertory ensemble, and Lucinda Childs.  In the Netherlands he worked with Rotterdam Dance Group, Karin Post, LeineRoebana, Giulia Mureddu, Emio Greco | PC, and Nicole Beutler.  In 2009 he restaged and performed in Lucinda Childs’ iconic works Dance and Available Light, and in 2012 he performed as a featured soloist in the remounting and subsequent 4 year world tour of Robert Wilson and Philip Glass’s opera Einstein on the Beach.

He has been presenting his own choreographic works since 1993, at Movement Research and at Danspace Project in New York, as well as at OT301 and the Holland Festival in Amsterdam. Since 2007 he has acted as Lucinda Childs artistic assistant staging her works and assisting her on various projects around the world. He worked as rehearsal director and tour manager for Nicole Beutler / nbprojects and for Pere Faura. At ICKamsterdam, he undertook curatorial and organisational tasks as well as rehearsal management.

Ty has taught workshops and technique class at professional companies, universities, and open studios throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States.

Ty Boomershine has been a member of the Dance On Ensemble since 2015 and is its Artistic Director since 2019.

Javier García Arozena was born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife in Spain. He trained in contemporary dance at the Andalusian Dance Center in Seville and later graduated from the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona. He has worked for Ramón Oller’s company Metros and Thomas Noone Dance, both in Barcelona, dancing repertoire by Thomas Noone, Roni Haver & Guy Weizman and Johannes Wieland, as well as in “Sunday again” by Jo Strömgren in a co-production with Norrdans in Sweden. He has also danced with Cámaralúcida in Barcelona and is currently a guest dancer with Lava Compañía de Danza in Tenerife.

In 2010, Javier García Arozena joined the PostClassical Ensemble in Washington D.C. as a principal soloist for the production “El corregidor y la molinera”. He has worked as Ramón Oller’s assistant for productions with the Ballet Hispánico de New York, the Ballet des jeunes d’Europe in Marseille, the Ballet de Andalucía in Seville and the Dance Conservatory in Prague. As a teacher for contemporary dance he has worked at the Corella Dance Academy in Barcelona and currently teaches at Teatro Victoria in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and at the diversity collective Asociación Psicoarte / Cía Enbe Danza.

In December 2019, he presented two creations for the Canarios Dentro y Fuera Dance Festival, “Schwanengesang” and “Las Ellas”. His artistic practice investigates and articulates scenic codes and choreographic tools for unconventional spaces. The action “Zeitgeist”, for example, is the result of an artistic residency at TEA Tenerife, within the La Cresta programme.

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 moved to the Netherlands, where she graduated with a bachelor in dance fom 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/Carles Mallol). 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 La Veronal, Marcos Morau, with whom she tours internationally.
Parallel to her dance career, Alba became a certified Gyrotonic trainer in 2016.

Born in Beit-Alfa, Israel, in 1962, Ziv Frenkel was a member of the Kibbutz Dance Company under the artistic direction of Yehudit Arnon from 1988 to 1995. He then joined the ensemble of the Bremer Tanztheater under Susanne Linke, where he remained until 1999. From 1999-2008 he was part of Johann Kresnik’s ‘choreographic theatre’ at the Volksbühne Berlin and the Theater Bonn. In 1996, he co-founded steptext dance project in Bremen. He has been a collaborator of the choreographer and director Rosamund Gilmore since 2010, working with her on projects including Wagner’s Ring Cycle at the Leipzig Opera. Ziv Frenkel also creates his own choreographic works. Of particular importance for his artistic approach are his longstanding collaborations with artists from various disciplines. Collaborators include the chorographers Valenti Rocamora i Tora, Yoshiko Waki (bodytalk Munster), Helge Letonja (steptext dance project Bremen), Julia Keren Turbhn, the dancer Anne Minetti, the composer Stepha Schweiger, sound designer Florian Tippe, the directors Sebastian Bauer, Anselm Dalferth, the artist Christoph Dahlhausen and the photographers Axel Largo and Pedro Malinowski.

Born in 1979 in Zürich, Anna Herrmann began her dance education in her home town until being awarded full scholarship from Migros-Kulturprozent which allowed her to complete her studies at the School of the Hamburg Ballett. In 1998, upon graduation, she was invited to join The Hamburg Ballet where she danced for the first 3 years of her professional career.

Anna has been a company member of Niedersächsische Staatsoper Hannover, Göteborgs Operan, Staatstheater Wiesbaden and later of the Nederlands Dans Theater where she performed from 2009 until 2016. Throughout her career, Anna had the privilege to create and collaborate with renowned choreographers, such as John Neumeier, Jiří  Kylián, Mats Ek, Stephan Thoss, Crystal Pite, Leon/Lightfoot, Marco Goecke, Johan Inger, Franck Chartier, Sharon Eyal, Medhi Walerski among others.

Since 2015 Anna is exploring her own choreographic voice and has served as guest teacher at The Royal Conservatoire Den Haag and Arts Umbrella Vancouver. Based in the Netherlands, she is currently working as a freelance dance artist.

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, New York and Chicago. 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 197I 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 regularly taught The Forsythe Company in Frankfurt and Hellerau from 2007 to 2014.

Since 1999 she and Dimitris Kraniotis have been dedicated to researching the foundations of dance and movement, based on the teaching of Jerome Andrews. With Dimitris, she has created choreographic events that were presented in France, Germany and Greece.

She is currently guest professor at Ballet Preljocaj, Company Amala Dianor, Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, Hollins University Dance Master’s Summer Program and the Centre National de la Danse Paris.

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 created many works over the last 10 years and continues to collaborate with to this day.

Emma Lewis is also a certified teacher in classical and contemporary dance techniques as well as the Alan Herdman Pilates method since 15 years.  In this area she has the privilege of working with a vast variety of people ranging from professional dancers, school children, non-dancers and Parkinson sufferers, enriching her knowledge and experience as a person, dancer and body professional.

Gesine Moog was born in Germany in 1976 and received her Bachelor of Arts at Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts 1997. After graduating she danced for several German companies, including the Frankfurter Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Staatstheater Mainz, Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Saarländisches Staatstheater Saarbruecken and Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz Munich. In 2004 Gesine was named a “dancer to watch” by the leading European magazine tanz.

In 2007 she went to Sweden, where Riksteatern and Batsheva Dance Company toured Ohad Naharin’s Kamuyot to schools. She was awarded the Riksteatern’s award for “Dancer of the year 2007” for her outstanding performance and dedication.

Since 2008 Gesine Moog has been a member of Cullberg Ballet, touring in Sweden and internationally. Throughout her career in Germany and Sweden she has performed a rich repertoire of multifaceted styles and pieces. Her experience spans classical and neoclassical ballet, modern and contemporary dance, body mind centring and many more. She has worked with, among others, Mats Eck, Ana Laguna, Ben van Cauwenbergh, Jiří Kylián, Crystal Pite, Johan Inger, Alexander Ekman, Gaetano Soto, Carolyn Carlson, Edouard Lock, Robert Cohan, Antony Rizzi, Benoit Lachambre, Eszter Salamon, Deborah Hay, Jefta van Dinther and Ian Kaler.

Since 2001 she has also created her own choreographic and creative works such as paintings, crafting with wood and performative installations.

Omagbitse Omagbemi received her BFA in dance at Montclair State University. In 2012 she was awarded a Bessie for Sustained Achievement in Performance. She has performed nationally and internationally with the Punchdrunk production “Sleep No More” in New York City and Shanghai as well as in works by Kat Válastur, Joanna Kotze, Yvonne Rainer, Neil Greenberg, Vicky Shick, Maria Hassabi, Heather Kravas, Jon Kinzel,  Deborah Hay, Ralph Lemon, Wally Cardona, David Gordon, Jeremy Nelson, Keely Garfield, Irish Modern Dance Theater, Walter Dundervill, David Thomson, Anna Sperber,  Bill Young, Pearson/Widrig Dance, Urban Bush Women, Shapiro & Smith, Gerald Casel, Barbara Mahler, Christopher Williams, Sean Curran and Kevin Wynn.

Miki Orihara, born in 1960, is best known for her work as a principal dancer in the Martha Graham Dance Company, for which she earned a Bessie Award in 2010. She has performed on Broadway in The King and I and with Elisa Monte, PierGroupDance, Lotuslotus, Rioult Dance, Twyla Tharp, Martha Clarke, Anne Bogart (SITI Company), and Robert Wilson. She has presented her own choreography in New York, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, and in Japan.

Her teaching credentials include numerous workshops in Japan, at Art International in Moscow, and at Peridance, the Ailey School, New York University, Florida State University, Henny Jurriëns Stichting (Holland), Les Etés de la Danse in Paris, and New National Theater Ballet School.  She is on the faculty of the Graham School and The Hartt School (University of Hartford). She has set Martha Graham’s work all over the world, including for Diana Vashineva’s Dialogue and on Wendy Whelan of the New York City Ballet.

As a choreographer, Miki Orihara premiered her solo work Searching Dimensions in New York in 1995, followed among others byVOICE, a piece for eight women, for M’Deux Ballet in Nagoya, Japan (2001), Stage (2008), Prologue (2014) and Shirabyoshi (2017). In 2018 she released the first Martha Graham technique DVD, collaborating with Dance Spotlight and the Martha Graham Center.  A second DVD for intermediate level is in development.  Her film Broken Memory was featured at Dance on Camera Festival in New York in 2017. Miki Orihara was featured in the Inaugural performance of Peace is… at the United Nations as a part of the Permanent Mission of Japan in April 2017 and August 2018.