American dancer, choreographer and pedagogue Annie Hanauer lives and works in London and France. An independent artist, besides teaching and creating her own productions, she regularly collaborates with world renowned artists and companies like Lea Anderson, Wendy Houstoun, Rachid Ouramdane/ CCN2 Grenoble and the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris. From 2008 until 2014 she danced with the London Candoco Dance Company taking part in tours and creative and educational projects all over the world. Hanauer is one of the members of the AnnieVickySarah (AVS) a collective made up of three independent artists and which was founded in 2007 with the aim of developing accessible working practices, she is a member of the Equity Dance Committee which is based in London. Starting out from her own experience as a differently abled woman, she focuses her attention on minorities and on people who are considered “different”. Her choreographic work is aimed at developing a methodology for group performative improvisation and she is engaged in exploring topics like disability, healing and maternity, as well as ideas about utopia and the collective imagination.

Is a Franco-American interdisciplinary scholar and curator. Her research focuses on the intersections between dance and the visual arts (notably, dance in museum spaces and screendance). She is editor in chief of  the French dance research journal Repères, cahier de danse published by La Briqueterie - National Choreographic Development Center and founding co-director of the International Video Dance Festival of Burgundy, an annual screendance platform created in 2009. Since 2016, she has been an invited curator in the dance department of Theatre Freiburg (Germany) and has initiated numerous screendance projects at La Briqueterie (production residency, education & outreach), with Numeridanse.TV, and in collaboration with the Lyon Dance Biennale. In 2015, she co-edited the book Art in Motion: Current Research in Screendance. She regularly writes for Dance Magazine (USA), Dance International (Canada) and Alternatives Théâtrales (Belgium), among other print and electronic publications. Initially trained in dance under Merce Cunningham and Kazuo Ohno (Japan), she holds degrees in dance history and visual studies from La Sorbonne.

Katja Vaghi’s research expertise rests on her theoretical and practical background. A Swiss Italian choreographer, somatic teacher and dance researcher, during her education in modern dance and ballet at Ballet Arts in NYC, she experienced different modern dance techniques (in particular Horton and Limón) together with urban and traditional dances (Hip hop and funk, Bharatanatyam and African dance). Her education was then complemented with a MA in literature and linguistics from Zurich University (English, Italian and Contemporary Norwegian) and a PhD in dance philosophy on the works of Jiří Kylián at the University of Roehampton (UK) under the supervision of Dr Anna Pakes and Dr Gerladine Morris. She has been associated lecturer at the University of Northampton (UK) and at the Rambert School for Ballet and Contemporary Dance, where she still is a visiting lecturer specialized in dance history and philosophy for BA and MA programs. She is now lecturer in dance history, theory,improvisation and composition at DIE ETAGE, school for performing and visual arts in Berlin. She is also visiting lecturer at the University of Roehampton (UK), school of the arts, dance section, and at the University of applied Sciences and Arts in Coburg, where she teaches embodiment and spatial experiences to architects, interior and integrated designers.