Collaborators
Gemma Shrubb
Dancer, Choreographer, Dance teacher (UK)
Gemma began her training at The Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Leeds, with a BA Diploma into further Education. Continuing to a BA Hons Degree at The London contemporary Dance School. She then studied for her Postgraduate Diploma as part of Edge Dance Company, touring works nationally and internationally for choreographers including Hofesh Shechter, James Cousins, Helena Franzen and Danish Dans Theatre. Gemma’s professional experience has included works for Akram Khan, James Wilton, Fuora Dance Project, Willi Dormer and Co_Motion Dance as well as smaller scale projects for local theatres, Companies, galleries, film and photography artists. Since 2012 she is in the position of Dancer and Rehearsal Director for Ceyda Tanc Dance Company. Touring with the company nationally and throughout Turkey the companies ethos works with fusing Contemporary Dance and Traditional Turkish Folk Dance.
Throughout her performing and creative experiences Gemma has utilised her skills to bring her work and knowledge into a variety of artistic activities including dance teaching for professional as well as sharing her knowledge in local and out of area communities, health and social educational settings.
Gemmas teaching is characterised by her interest of Turkish Folk Dance, primarily the male roles within this traditional form, and the fusion of that with contemporary dance and improvisation, forming rhythms, patterns, almost ritualistic steps and breath within movement, as a way to approach human connections.
These interests of investigation in dance and movement research were the basis which brought the motivation to co-create in 2018 THE SPACE IN BETWEEN _DUO_ collaboration with Anna Katalin Németh Berlin based Hungarian dancer and choreographer as well as the piece VORTEX, premiered in ADA Studios, Berlin spring 2019.
Her credits also include photographic, Art and Film projects for Pete Inkpen, Roarke Pearce and Charana Jayasuriya. Specialised and Music Films for Billy Cowie, Slow Club, High Hazels, Grey Matter, Della Lupa and Pigeon Detectives.
Oliver Pinchbeck
........ UK)
Oli began juggling at the age of 18 as a way of entertaining himself while travelling. While studying for his degree in Chinese in Beijing, he was lucky enough to discover the Milun School of Traditional Kungfu where he undertook the study of Zhang style Taiji and Milun Five Elements Qigong.
After six years of ‘casual’ training through university and while living in Beijing, Edinburgh and London, Oli began to understand that his addiction to juggling and movement was more than just a hobby. He took the decision to quit his job in digital advertising and make a career in street performance.
Over the course of the next six years, he travelled extensively throughout Europe and further afield,
working both officially at festivals and large-scale performance events, and unofficially on the
streets of cities and towns in Italy, France, UK, Spain, Germany, China, Malaysia, Cambodia
and many more.
Three years ago, he moved to Berlin to start a training and development space for performing art - Katapult (www.katapult.berlin), helping to encourage others to begin with artistic careers as well as catering for the professional development of artists.
As a multi-linguist and a manager/group leader, Oli believes that communication is one of the most important attributes of human behaviour, and focuses his research on the sensitivity of understanding of verbal and non-verbal communication. This interest brought him to the research of THE SPACE IN BETWEEN and started to collaborate with Anna Katalin Nemeth in the production of Lives In Between,Wroclaw in the spring 2019.
Louis Volkmann
Louis is a photographer and filmmaker. He studied Photography at Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig and Academy of Fine Arts Wroclaw 2004-2010. His works are dealing with architecture, human traces in space, portraits of places, people and buildings, for example the former main post office in Leipzig, where his short film "Post" was shown in official selection of Leipzig International Documentary Film Festival 2015. He exhibits photography since 2003 and had residencies in Germany and France. Louis also worked in the Museum of Contemporary Art Kraków as a guest guide.
Louis started to collaborate with Anna Katalin Nemeth - THE SPACE IN BETWEEN - in 2019 in the production Lives In Between, Wroclaw.
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Jakub Olejnik
Jakub, - a double bass and bass player - Art Director Bass & Beat Festival is a graduate of Wroclaw Musical Academy with majors in classic (2002) and jazz (2008). Jakub defines his musical soundscape as diverse and versatile. His "sound" is built on excellent technique and rich musical know-how and is best described as eloquent.
Olejnik had his on stage debut in 1999 at a legendary Wroclaw jazz club "Rura". He began professional music carrier as a student in the band O.K.E.J., which won numerous awards at various jazz competitions. He has performed on musical festivals in most European countries.
Since 2004 he has been teaching double bass and bass guitar. In 2012, during the World Bass Festival he taught double bass jazz class alongside such notables as Thomas Martin, Catalin Rotaru and François Rabbath.
(Now, his musical activity focuses on conducting his own quartet and trio, he is co-starring in bands: Ferja, The 5th Season and Cafe Tango. He also collaborates with Capitol Music Theatre in Wroclaw, Polish Theatre in Wroclaw and the National Forum of Music.)
At present Jakub Olejnik is in the course of carrying out a doctoral degree at the Wroclaw Musical Academy, simultaneously working on new material for his solo album.
Jakub started to collaborate with Anna Katalin Nemeth - THE SPACE IN BETWEEN - in 2019 in the production of Lives In Between, Wroclaw.
Dariusz Dżugan (Ju Ghan)
Dariusz - musician, double bass player, music producer, performer, cultural animator, traveler. In his work he combines elements of jazz, electronics, clastic and experimental music. Currently member of groups: Mombe, Moon Hoax, Gift & The Moonbemas, Sewa Kaffo, Panna Adrianna Styrcz, Astetic Quartet.
Darek started to collaborate with Anna Katalin Nemeth - THE SPACE IN BETWEEN - in 2019 in the production of Lives In Between, Wroclaw.
Dasha Lavrennikov
Born in Moscow, dancer, choreographer, teacher, and researcher of movement and living arts. She has a degree in contemporary dance in the United States, a Master in Performing Arts between Denmark and France, and a PhD in (UFRJ) in Brazil.
She has worked as a performer and choreographer in various projects and spaces in theaters, alternative rooms, museums, galleries between Europe, Latin America, the United States, Russia and India with artists such as Lucas Condró, Cia Flesh - Inma Marin, Colectivo La Majara, Khosro Adibi , Manuela Nogales, Manuel Cañadas, Parnab Mujerjee, Benoit Lechambre, David Dorfman, Richard Colton and collaborating as an artist, teacher and international curator at the MESA Institute, an experimental platform for research, curation and artistic creation with a nucleus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Between the years 2013-2017, she lived in Rio de Janeiro, where she was an artist-in-residence at the Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum (MAC), she co-founded the Entre Serras Artistic Residence Project (2015-2021), as well as Icó created Project. She currently lives in Barcelona where she continues with her research and artistic creation in collaboration with various artists, and taught at the Institute of Arts in Sitges. She has collaborated as a teacher in the Master in Performing Practices and Visual Culture in Madrid, ISLO Finland, the Franche Compte University, and the Manufacture-Zoo assisting Cecilia Colacrai. She is co-founder of the dance and live arts collective DuqLav Dance, as well as the Artistic-Pedagogical Project SOMA & Play with Felix Arjuna.
Sandra Barroso Mancera
Dancer, performer, artistic director, scientist and flamenco dancer, she has a degree in Contemporary Dance and Interpretation and Keepmoving Method. An entrepreneur eager for a change, she investigates in Creation Laboratories and Projects that encourage the search for new ways of creating. She is part of the Cia Ancorae Danza, a project that investigates and proposes the revision around the gesture and the danced sound in a scenic format from flamenco and other root dances. She is a dancer / Interpreter in the Flamenco Research project through the language of the poet Joan Brossa and working in the Flamenco Empirical Laboratory with Juan Carlos Lérida at the Institut del Teatre. On the one hand, she collaborated with different contemporary and flamenco entities to create their performing arts spaces and on the other, investigating other corporeal and rhythmic systems as the birth of a new language pattern.