CHOREGRAPHER

Serena Malacco

After training in classical and contemporary dance in Milan and Brussels, she began her career as a performer in 2014. She danced for various artists, including Cindy Van Acker, Cie Les Gens d’Uterpan, Romeo Castellucci, Ariella Vidach, Fabio Liberti, and performed at renowned festivals and institutions such as La Monnaie in Brussels, Bolzano Danza, Opéra de Lille, and Venice Biennale Danza.
In 2019, Serena embarked on her choreographic career with her first piece, All Around Me. She won the second prize at the Rencontres Chorégraphiques d’Annecy and was a finalist in the Rotterdam International Duet Choreography Competition.
In 2020, she founded the Jukebox Contemporary Dance Company in Paris, aiming to connect her literary and artistic studies with dance practice. Her artistic approach, described as anthropocentric choreography by critics, seeks to narrate lives through the language of movement. The emotions that move (from the Latin “ex-moveo”) and touch human beings are indeed the choreographer’s focus, along with the personality and uniqueness of each performer. Her work has garnered support from French and Italian institutions, including Danse Dense, La Ménagerie de Verre in Paris, L’Avant Seine/Théâtre de Colombes, La Briqueterie CDCN du Val-de-Marne, Micadanses, Maison Populaire, Escales Danse network, Versiliadanza, MPAA Paris, Cantiere Florida Theatre in Florence.
In 2021, she created JUKEBOX, an interactive piece for nine dancers where the audience actively participates through a mobile application. She also collaborated with the director Mitch Hooper for Macbeth at L’Epée de Bois Theater in Paris and created choreographies for Andromaque, directed by Anne Coutureau at Théâtre de Suresnes Jean Vilar.
The 2022/2023 season is filled with projects and collaborations. Serena dedicates herself to the tour of the JUKEBOX show in France, Italy, and Thailand. She starts her new piece Screaming for 12 dancers. She leads a cultural action residency project in schools in Villeparisis with the support of DRAC Île-de-France, DAC Villeparisis, and local educational institutions. In 2023, she collaborates with internationally acclaimed theater and film artist, costume designer Franca Squarciapino, creating the performances From Past to Future N.1 and N.2 as part of the Aspettando il Museo events.
In 2024, supported by La Maison des Métallos, she focuses on the research and writing of the Plot in Motion trilogy, including the pieces: Screaming, Couples and Us. She coordinates a workshops project at the International School of Bangkok and directs the cultural action residency project in schools in Villeparisis for the second consecutive year, thanks to the renewal of the grant from DRAC Île-de-France.
COLLABORATORS

ATTILIO MARASCO

He started his career as stage photographer at Petit Montparnasse theatre in Paris in 1992.
In 2005 he began his collaboration with Piccolo Teatro of Milan where he worked with Luca Ronconi, Lluís Pasqual, Peter Brook, Bob Wilson.
His photos have been exhibited in Milan, New York and Tokyo for the Vogue’s Fashion’s Night Out.
He worked as art and paintings photographer for Fondazione Lucio Fontana in Milan and for private collections such as Giustiniani/Falck collection in Venice.
His last project Labor was exhibited at Università Cattolica in Milan and curated by Ezio Frigerio and in Paris at The Gallery La Moulinette.
He lives and works in Paris. Les parisiens is his new project, street portraits with a folding 4×5 camera.

ALICE RAFFAELLI

She has also studied with Michele Abbondanza and Antonella Bertoni, Anton Lachky, Renate Graziadei, David Miko and Eduardo Torroja.
In 2013 she joined the Enzo Cosimi Company and also worked with Cristina Rizzo, Luca Veggetti, Francesco Marilungo and Irene Russolillo.
Since 2015 she has been a collaborator with the theatre company The Baby Walk. In 2018 she was shortlisted for the Ubu prize in Italy as best performer under 35.
Currently she works as a freelance dancer and actress for various companies.
PERFORMERS

LAZARE HUET

He next worked with Yuval Pick, most notably on the piece “Score” and the trio “PlayBach.” Then, he worked with Carolyn Carlson for her piece “We Were Horses,” created in partnership with Bartabas.
From 2011 to 2015 Lazare worked at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Rillieux-la-Pape and as a member of Yuval Pick’s permanent company. Today he continues to work at the CCNR, teaching Yuval Pick’s technique (Practice), as well as the choreographer’s repertoire.
Lazare then collaborated with Philippe Saire in Lausanne for the pieces “Cut” et “Vacuum,” as well as with Joshua Monten in Bern for his “Concert dans le Goût Théâtral.” Most recently, he danced in Cindy van Acker and Romeo Castelucci’s “La Flûte Enchantée” at the Lille Opera; and “Unstern” by Moritz Ostruschnjak.
Lazare dances in the most recent works by Jennifer Dubreuil-Houthemann (Compagnie CAD Plateforme) and Serena Malacco (Cie JUKEBOX). In the autumn of 2020 he joined Cie Maguy Marin for the remake of “May B.”

MARION DECHANTELOUP

She started her professional career with the Gens d’Uterpan (Uchronie, Piece in 7 pieces) and with Hela Fattoumi and Eric Lamoureux (CCN de Belfort) for a replacement role in Masculines.
Being strongly attracted by performance, she performed with Sarath Amarasingam for Beauvais Museum Night (2015), with Perrine Vali for La danse du Tutuguri (2016), and Le coeur du son by Maguelone Vidal and Fabrice Ramalingom (2016) for the Paris Nuit Blanche.
In 2016, she began a collaboration with Christian Ubl on the creation Stil, then the play for youth audience H&G (2017), and with Daniel Larrieu for Litteral.
She worked in particular with Romeo Castellucci on Democracy in America (2017) and Camille Cau on “Provided that tomorrow we each wake up at our own pace,” a piece to be performed in public space (2018).
Her collaboration with Daniel Larrieu continued with the re-creation of Romance en Stuc in 2019 and also with Christian Ubl with La Cinquième Saison in 2020.
Loving to mix all universes and gestures, in 2020 she began a creation with the company Arcosm by Thomas Guerry, for the piece Hôtel Bellevue.
Her attraction to Italy led her to work with Serena Malacco for Jukebox in 2021.

SARA TAN

After receiving her Bachelor’s degree in Dance from the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point (UWSP) in the United States of America, she went on to attend the contemporary dance school in Brussels- Performing Arts Research and Training Studios (P.A.R.T.S).
She then worked with the French company, Kubilai Khan Investigations for several years, and has also been in the works of Eszter Salamon, Thierry de Mey, David Drouard, Anne-Linn Akselen (Human Works), Isabella Soupart and t.r.a.n.s.i.t.c.a.p.e.
She now continues to work with Michele Noiret and David Hernandez on their future creations.

CSABA VARGA

First he studied in Budapest Contemporary Dance School (2007-2009) then in Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (2009-2010). After finishing SEAD he continued his education in Paris, learning hip hop, house and popping at Juste Debout School and parkour from Yamakasi founders at ADD Academy.
From 2008 he had been working as a freelancer with choreographers such as Réka Szabó, Attila Kun, Zsuzsa Rózsavölgyi, Tamás Bakó, Márta Ladjánszki, Máté Mészáros, László Fülöp Eleonore Valére-Lackhy (FR/BE), Frank Micheletti (Kubilai Khan Investigations) (FR), Kaori Ito (Ballet C de la B (JP/BE), Hiroaki Umeda (JP), Anton Lachky (SK/BE) and Guy Nader & Maria Campos (LB, ES). Currently he is touring with Amber by HODWORKS, with You are the Flow by Collective Dope & Flying Bodies and with pieces on repertory by Compagnie Linga (CH).
He is teaching since 2013. In his class he analyzes the technical connections and similarities of movement in dance and in sports and researches their logical correlations.

LOUIS-CLÉMENT DA COSTA

He created Play at Théâtre de L’Usine with Speedbattles Collective, and also Les Speedbattles and the dance prozine The Dancing Plague. In 2015 he joined the Requin-Baleine team and decided to explore choreographic and visual research underwater.
Recently he danced in MONUMENT 0.4 LORES & PRAXES (a ritual of transformation) and in MONUMENT 0.6: LANDING (a ritual of empathy) by Eszter Salamon.
With POL he created Axis Mundi at Théâtre du Galpon for Antigel Festival in February 2016. With Anthony Teston, physicist and poet, he took part in How do we save the time at Timelab in Ghent.
He conceived an installation with a soundtrack for Le seuil des chutes exposition at Contemporary Art Centre in Lacoux.
In June 2017 he was invited to create Tzikong with Chu Pak Hima at Hong-Kong Art Centre in partnership with Les Halles de Schaerbeek. He assisted Franck Chartier (Peeping Tom) during the creation The lost room and The hidden floor for Nederlands Dans Theatre 1 and took part in a Baloji’s movie.
Louis-Clément is creating a new pièce: Volutes, the first part of a trilogy based on beauty, violence and love.

SHERWOOD CHEN


AMBRE DUBAND

Throughout her curriculum, she worked with such choreographers as Shlomi Tuizer and Edmond Russo, Cédric Andrieux, Frédéric Cellé, Sandrine Maisonneuve, and Sylvie Giron.
In the summer 2014, she graduated and obtained her Diplôme National Supérieur et Professionnel de danseuse contemporaine (State Diploma of Contemporary Dance).
She then started to collaborate with a variety of choreographers, such as Sylvie Giron, Davy Brun, Jérémy Tran, Dai jian… With the latter, in 2017, she took part in the creation of MO at the National Center for Performing Arts of Beijing.
In 2018, she became a member of LA PRESQUE COMPAGNIE, with whom she works for two creations (Ce que nous dansons, personne ne peut le prendre ; and Jusqu’au soir) as well as working on several in situ performances.
She met Serena Malacco in 2020 and started working with her, taking over a role in her last performance: JUKEBOX.

ALEXANDER DE VRIES

At the age of 17, he danced for Thai choreographer Jitti Chompee and his company 18 Monkeys Dance Theatre, preparing him for his admission to Codarts University in 2014. It was here that Alex began to experiment with his own style and approach to dance, which has always been important to him, even when it went against school conventions. Interning at TanzMainz Company in Germany in his final year of education, he began working with Guy Nader and Maria Campos, Rui Horta, Rosalba Torres Guerrero and Koen Augustijnen. Following this internship, he began to travel to Asia and Europe, freelancing and continuing work with Guy Nader and Maria Campos as well as other artists such as Fernando Torya and Kenan Dinkelman.
Personal creation and collaborations where developed with his collective, A Priori, prompting various residencies and performances in Rotterdam, Berlin, and Bangkok. As a mover, he finds inspiration in all physical and verbal interaction, focusing on movement efficiency and core human principals in communication.

ALICE PAN

In 2019 she performed works by Trisha Brown and Alessandro Sciarroni during the 13th Festival di Danza Contemporanea della Biennale di Venezia under the artistic direction of Marie Chouinard.
Between 2019 and 2021 Alice worked with Italian choreographer Daniele Ninarello and DEOS Danse Ensemble – Opera Studio, an Italian dance company directed by Giovanni Di Cicco, on several projects.
She later moved to London to pursue her master’s degree in contemporary dance at the London Contemporary Dance School (The Place), which she completed in 2022.
She then returned to Germany to join the dance company of Staatstheater Pforzheim, where she worked as a guest dancer during the 2021/2022 season.
In addition to her dance pathway, Alice obtained a bachelor’s degree in Performance Studies (DAMS) from the University of Bologna.

ELIA PANGARO

He started his professional career as a dancer at 16 dancing in INC innprogress_collective of Afshin Varjavandi . Since then he started freelancing as a performer with many choreographers, directors and in theaters such as: Michele Merola, Stefano Poda, Giuseppe Tornatore, Teatro Regio di Torino, Opera Royal De Wallonie, Paolo Rosini, Vangelis Legakis, Jose Agudo and others. In 2019 he founded MITS Collective with Alexander De Vries and he started creating and co- creating performances around the world. Some of his works are: “Anatomy of a Living Body”, lecture-performance co-created with the psychiatrist Maurizio Venezi for VID Art/Science in Bologna, Italy. “MÊME-BRAIN”, 50 minutes piece co-choreographed with the members of MITS Collective for ISB in Bangkok, Thailand. “spiegarsi/spje’garsi”, piece produced by UNITY SPACE (Hong Kong) and supported by MOVES (Mexico), presented in Guatemala and Mexico. “AMOEBA”, solo produced by UNITY SPACE (HK) and supported by Invernadero Danza (MX) presented in Oaxaca, Mexico. He is currently working as a freelance performer and choreographer, creating inclusive, iterdisciplinary works with different collaborators.

MANON FALGOUX

In 2019 she benefits from the J.K.R scholarship and participates at Lion’s Jaw Festival in Boston where she performs a first draft of her solo “Morning Routine”. She developed a strong taste for improvisation and instant composition and trained with Julyen Hamilton, Meg Stuart, Mark Tompkins, Judith Sanchez Ruiz, Kirstie Simson and Pascale Gille.
In 2021 she created Brutasse, her own company, and works as a performer for Nach and Karine Vaysette and continue her collaboration with Pascale Gille within the group L’Ensemble.

ANA LUISA NOVAIS

After attending the Setúbal Contemporary Dance School, in 2012 Ana danced for the Portuguese Contemporary Dance Company (CPBC)in Lisbon.
In 2016 she graduated from the Superior School of Dance in Lisbon and obtained her bachelor’s degree at the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien in Austria, as an Erasmus student. Between 2016 and 2017 she further developed her dance education at the Art Factory International – Dance Start Up VII- in Bologna, under the artistic direction of Brigel Gjoka.
Between 2017 and 2018 she worked as a dancer and artistic assistant at CSC – Centro per la Scena Contemporanea di Bassano del Grappa (Italy), joined the Dance Makers Collective and danced at Teatro Regio in Turin.
She currently works as a freelance dancer on different artistic projects.

STEFANO BELTRAME

He has been living in Milan since 2012, where he studied hip-hop, house, and most of all, breakdance.
He has performed for the Verona Arena in “La Grande Bellezza“, in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, for the National Theatre of Monaco, and in Arena Fregrea Napoli hosted by Roberto Bolle.
In 2017 he joined the Bandits Crew, one of the oldest break dancing crews in Italy, with whom he has travelled throughout Europe, competing in battles.
In 2019 he won the prestigious breakdancing championship, the Red Bull BC One Italy.
In November 2019 he will represent Italy at the World Final of the Red Bull BC One in Mumbai, India.

GABRIEL BOURDAT

Gabriel pratique dès son plus jeune âge danse puis cirque, théâtre et musique.
Il étudie d’abord l’audiovisuel et travaille dans la publicité et le cinéma, avant de reprendre, à 21 ans, une formation de danseur-interprète à Lyon.
Puis, en 2021, il obtient une bourse d’étude à Descalzinha Danza à Madrid où il s’enrichit d’une grande diversité d’intervenants, aborde la recherche chorégraphique et de création.
De retour en France en 2022, il s’installe à Paris. Après plusieurs créations personnelles, il fonde un collectif pluridisciplinaire comprenant une dizaine d’artistes: The Intruders Collective.
Il réalise et chorégraphie son premier court métrage nommé suzanne et dirige artistiquement diverses commandes.
Aujourd’hui il travaille pour différentes compagnies et productions audiovisuel.
Gabriel puise son inspiration dans sa pluridisciplinarité et dans le mélange des langages.
DRAMATURG

CATERINA PICCIONE

She holds a PhD in co-tutorship with the department of the Arts du Spectacle of the Université François Rabelais of Tours.
She is a member of the Centro di Ricerca Interdisciplinare di Storia delle Idee (CRISI), of the Centro Europeo di Ricerca di Storia e Teoria dell’Immagine (ICONE) and of the Editorial Committee of the Giornale Critico di Storia delle Idee.
As a translator from French to Italian, she edited the translation and the afterword of F. Jullien’s Alterità (Mimesis, Milano 2018), as well as the introductory essay, translation and Italian edition of the pièce Montesquieu in Marseille by LS. Mercier (Inschibboleth, Roma 2019). She is also the author of the monograph Autoritratto senza organi. Scrittura e corpo-teatro di Antonin Artaud (Guida, Napoli 2020). Her current research activity intertwines history of ideas and contemporary aesthetics, with particular attention to the relationship between the processes of subjectivation and the notions of character, mask, and otherness.
COMPOSER

LOUIS FONTAINE

LIGHT DESIGNER

MARVIN VAN DEN BERG

From 2006-2010 he studied theatre lighting, then started to work for the Theater Rotterdam Schouwburg, attracted by its internationally-oriented programming.
There, as a lighting technician, he started to develop a particular interest in light design for dance.
In addition to his work for the theatre, as a freelancer for his own company Lichtvanzuid he works as a light designer, operator, and technician.
He first encountered the work of Serena Malacco at the 2019 Rotterdam International Duet Choreography Competition and he started a collaboration as light designer with Cie Jukebox for the piece All Around Me.
PRODUCTION

CAPUCINE GOIN

ADMINISTRATION

CORALINE KNOFF
