Daniela Lucato started playing theatre in Padua (Italy).
After her degree in Philosophy she moved to Rome, Wellington and Berlin where she worked as an actress for films/theater performances. In 2013 she wrote and directed the theatre piece “Call Me Reality” that participated to several theatre festivals.
The Birthday (2014), her first short film written/directed in mandarin/english language, has been officially selected from 22 international festivals (among these Micgenero, Frameline, ShanghaiPride where the film was also nominated for the best cinematography).
When I dance (2016) is her first Feature documentary. She is now working at the post-production of the film For the time being (2018) and writing the script of her first feature Alice still has a dream.
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Filmography:
2017: For The Time Being
2017: The Wheel Short Film
2016:When I dance Feature Documentary
2014: The Birthday Short Film
Filmmaker
Author
Sara Fortuna studied philosophy, linguistics, semiotics, and history of linguistic ideas in Rome, Palermo, Cosenza, and Berlin. She taught philosophy of language at Sapienza Università di Roma from 2002 to 2006 and is now associate professor at the Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi in Rome. She was research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Freie Universität Berlin in 2007-08 and at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin in the Collegium for the Advanced Study of Picture Act and Embodiment in Summer 2015. She has worked on discourses of physiognomy, perception, theories of the origin and evolution of language in eighteen -century german philosophy, on Dante, Vico,Kant, Hegel, Wittgenstein as well as on aesthetics, feminist theories and films.
Dancer
Roberta Ricci grew up in Messina ( Italy ) , where she started dancing ballet technique and modern dance at “Centro Sperimentale Progetto Danza”. She graduated in Contemporary dance and Performative arts at ” Movimento Danza” of Naples ( IT), and attended the professional course for contemporary dance Modem Atelier run by Compagnia Zappalà. She worked with Cadmium compagnie ( Paris,FR) ; Movimento Danza ( Naples, IT), RAI ( Radio Televisone Italiana). She created various choreographies and performances around Europe collaborating with directors and composers. She regulary works as a freelance dancer and teacher of Contemporary Dance. She is member and Co/founder of "ROW Project" and of collective Ensemble “One third” in Berlin. Currently she is working with REVOLVEr Dance Theater in Berlin and for with CONNECTING FINGERS Company in Berlin (she performed for Connecting Fingers, When I dance and The Wheel).
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Dancer
Performer, choreographer, dance teacher and pilates trainer.
Nicola begins the study of modern and contemporary dance at the National Institute of Dance's Promotion "Movimento Danza"in Naples directed by Gabriella Stazio.
In 2005 he post-graduated in the Professional Stage Dance course "Performing Arts Group", directed by Gabriella Stazio, where he studied modern and contemporary technique, contact improvisation,
ballet, contemporary ballet, pilates, stretching and strengthening, history ofballet and dance, music theory, original choreographies and the Company's repertory.
In 2016 he started his collaboration as a dancer for CONNECTING FINGERS Company (he performed for Connecting Fingers, When I dance and The Wheel).
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Composer
David Travers was born in Newcastle, England prior to living in Eindhoven in the Netherlands and Berlin, Germany. Having played in numerous bands, he started Sunshine Dirge Records in 2004, releasing experimental sounds to much acclaim for a number of years. When he arrived in Berlin he founded GMC Berlin - the artist community which brought together artists from across the globe to the spiritual home of Berlin for a series of successful events over 4 years.
Musically under the Practitioner guise he has played at many notorious clubs across Berlin, including Suicide Circus and Panke alongside residencies at the legendary Kunsthaus Tacheles, Normal and Repeat. He has collaborated with John Peel favourite Lianne Hall and released remixes for Maximo Park with compilation appearances next to Mark Archer (Altern 8) and many more.
Recently he has been holed up with a studio full of bizarre instruments, writing soundtracks such as Call Me Reality, Connecting Fingers and When I dance.
Jacopo Pantaleoni has spent 15 years in the VFX industry, from building the lighting pipeline for the animated feature film Valiant to contributing key rendering technology for the Oscar winning special effects in Avatar, working side by side with some of the greatest masters of lighting and visuals.
After spending a lifetime helping to visualize things that do not exist, he's now off to new endeavors in photography and cinematography to explore the twilight zone between the real and the imaginary.
