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 Magna Cum Laude from Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri.

His own choreographic works have been presented at Movement Research and 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.

In New York he danced with Yvonne Rainer, Lucinda Childs, Dan Wagoner, DANCENOISE, Gus Solomons Jr., Bill T. Jones, Stanley Love, Ton Simons and the Merce Cunningham repertory ensemble. In the Netherlands he worked with Rotterdam Dance Group, Karin Post, Leine Roebana, Giulia Mureddu, Emio Greco | PC and Nicole Beutler. From 2009 – 2015 he performed in and was responsible for the staging of Lucinda Childs iconic works Dance and Available Light. In 2012 he performed as a featured soloist and acted as rehearsal director in the remounting and subsequent 4 year world tour of Robert Wilson and Philip Glass’s opera Einstein on the Beach.

He has been a member of the Dance On Ensemble since its inception in 2015 and became Artistic Director in 2019.

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 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 as a principal dancer in the Martha Graham Dance Company, which she joined in 1987. She received a Bessie Award in 2010 and 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.

Orihara has taught globally – in Japan, Russia, the U.S., the Netherlands, and France – and is on the faculty at the Graham School and The Hartt School. She has set Graham’s works internationally, including for Diana Vashineva’s “Dialogue” and on Wendy Whelan of the New York City Ballet. She co-created Martha Graham technique DVDs (Levels 1 & 2), with a third coming in 2026.

As a choreographer, Orihara’s work has been shown in New York, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, and Japan. Her solo “Searching Dimensions” premiered in 1995, followed by “VOICE” (2001), “Stage” (2008), “Prologue” (2014), and “Shirabyoshi” (2017). Her solo series “RESONANCE-共鳴” (2014, 2017, 2019) presents works by modern dance pioneers alongside new creations.

She is Dance Director for mishmash＊Miki Orihara, movement designer for Jen Silverman’s “Crane Story” and choreographed Anne Bogart’s “Beautiful Lady” (2023). She produced the benefit concert “Dancing for JAPAN” (2014, 2017) and founded the NuVu Festival NYC in 2017.

Her film “Broken Memory” was featured at Dance on Camera Festival in New York (2017). With Stephen Pier, she created the dance films “Conversations” and “Ceci C’est Pas Un Jouet”, filmed by Gene Gort.

She performed in “Peace is…” (2017, 2018) at the United Nations as a part of the Permanent Mission of Japan.

Miki Orihara is member of the Dance On Ensemble since 2019.