Charlotta Ruth
MOVE function: Project leader, choreography, dancing, workshop leader, video documentation, editing material from process, text material in English and Swedish, applications and reports.
Charlotta Ruth is a curious and ambitious dance artist originally from Luleå in the north of Sweden. She’s looking for ways to use her motion in new contexts and she loves and aims at doing things she hasn’t done before. She’s doing further education in audiovisual art in Brussels, performs with Swedish based choreographers and teaches contemporary dance and improvisation. She has 11 years professional dance experience in Sweden, Denmark and Germany and is employed by Dansalliansen, Sweden.
As a choreographer she has also worked with non-dancers and youth and she participated in several collaboration projects, recently “Femmes en bas” played at Avignon OFF 2007 and her short film “If ever so temporary” made with director Frederik Depickere, Brussels, was voted best of Video dance 2007, Greece.
She’s educated at the Royal Swedish Ballet School, The Performing Group at the University College of Dance, studied Russian at Stockholm University and Herzen University, S:t Petersburg, Pedagogical studies at the University College of Dance and further training through various workshops in acting, voice, body percussion, breaking, dance film and composition. She was a danceWEB scholarship holder at Impulstanz, Vienna 2006 and had a working grant from Konstnärsnämnden, Sweden 2007. Languages: Swedish, English, German and basic Russian.
Tobias Leira
MOVE function: Light and visual design, scenography, participating also as performer, visual video material and video documentation, dvd-design, norweigian translations, co-ordinator Norway, workshop leader.
Tobias Leira is an inventive light designer from Bergen, Norway who as part of light design and scenography also explores visual arts. He constantly looks for new tools to develop his creative vision and wants to give visuality a strong place in stage art.
He has created light design for several theater and dance performances, most recently “My name is Rachel Corrie” at Det Norske Teatret, Oslo directed by Kjersti Horn, light design and scenography for “Femmes en bas”, by Louise Kvarby, Kristina Årling and Charlotta Ruth played at Avignon OFF 2007 and he currently works with “Som Jersusalem” by Nina Wester at Stockholms Stadsteater.
Tobias has a background in making light for concerts and electronica events and also works with VJ:ing.”He’s educated at Dramatiska Institutet, Sweden with a diploma in ”Light Design for theater” and he also studied TV/video/film at Møre Folkhögskola Norway. Languages: Norweigian, Swedish, English, Flash.
Zavoloka
MOVE function: Music composition, sound design, playing live electronics, voice, graphic design for fliers, posters, web and additional prints, ukrainian translations.
Zavoloka (Kateryna Zavoloka) is an internationally respected electronic musician and graphic designer from Kyiv, Ukraine. Zavoloka mainly explores digital synthesiser, sometimes she uses her own recorded songs, separate phrases, words, instruments, etc. One of her big influences is the traditional Ukrainian culture. But nevertheless it’s not about world-music. The aim is to reach interplay between the electronic context and rough unprocessed voices that common people sing with.
She has composed music for several Ukrainian films and continuously tours in Europe: Her album “Plavyna” was Honorary Mentioned with Prix Ars Electronica 2005 (Austria) and she appeared with an interview in the respected music magazine “Wire”. Zavoloka collaborates with many international artists as: musicians – AGF, Germany, Kotra (Ukraine), Mark Clifford (United Kingdom) and videoartists – IrMir (Ukraine), Bianco-Valente (Italy), PDTA (Ukraine) she also participated in “Swizhe”, Swedish-Ukrainian electronic music collaboration project run by the Swedish Institute.
In 2008 Zavoloka received “Gaude Polonia” the grant of the Scholarship Program of the Ministry of Culture Poland in cooperation with National Center of Culture in Warsaw. She is a self learned electronic musician, she has a design education from Kyiv State Institute of Design and Craft Arts and worked many years as a graphic designer. Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, English.
Alexandr Andriashkin
MOVE function: Choreography, dancing, costumes, workshop leader, responsible for daily schedule, russian translations, coordinator Russia.
Alexandr Andriashkin is a dancer/performer and former mathematician from Novosibirsk in Russia with a background also in street-performance and physical theater. He was the Artistic Director of Wampeter Dance Company, Novosibirsk for many years and he’s the Art- Director and one of the founders of PRO-motion which has the main aim to develop and create a platform for contemporary dance in Novosibirsk.
He has danced in several international projects, recently “Meeting people” by Rendall Scott, Netherlands “Ofelia-Офелия” choreography: Martin Forsberg, Sweden and Daria Buzovkina, Russia lead by Sasha Pepelyaev, Russia. He guest choreographs both professionals and youth and teaches contemporary dance, contact improvisation as well as plastic movement to actors.
Alexandr has a diploma of contemporary choreography specialization from Saint-Petersburg institute of culture and he studied modern, jazz, release, contemporary, contact improvisation, deliverance dance, base of classic, capoeira, yoga and acting. Languages: Russian, English.
Johannes Burström
MOVE function: Music composition, sound design, plays double bass + additional instruments also participating as a performer, web-page programming, additional driver on tour in Sweden and Norway, workshop leader.
Johannes Burström is a musician and composer, born in Umeå in northern Sweden, who moves beyond being a musician on stage. He plays improvised music on the double bass and computer. He develops environments for computer music improvisation and performance. He composes for a number of bands as well as music for film, fictitious computer games and dance performances.
Recently he played as Rugar at the Blip Festival, NYC, a music festival focusing on the modern artistic exploration of primitive video game and home computer technology. He has also participated as a musician in Helena Franzén’s dance performance “Act of no reply” and as a composer and dancer with Memory Wax, Malmö Sweden.
Johannes got his education at the Performance program at the Malmö Academy of Music, Musiklinjen at Skurup Folkhögskola, studied Musicology at Gothenburg University and has also studied Game Analysis and Design on University level. Languages: Swedish, English, PHP and a bit of Python.