Ewa Zurakowska, PhD, is a cultural anthropologist, performer, singer, and theatre director. Ewa attended the Gardzienice Centre for Theatre Practices and graduated from the University of Warsaw with an MA degree in Cultural Anthropology. She wrote her doctoral thesis on traditional songs and site-specific theatre at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, where currently teaches performance and ritual at the Anglo-American University. Since 2010 she has been performing as a singer for Korjen, whose music draws inspiration from her ethnomusicological journeys to the Balkans, the Republic of Tuva,Lapland, Eastern Poland, and Ukraine.

Her artistic work explores the connection between space, sound, and body. She performed for the Czech company Divadlo Continuo and for Teatr Novogo Fronta as well as for several other organizations such as Studio Matejka (PL), Budalasultan (Turkey), and Rose Bruford College (UK). She directed the documentary musical performance based on mining folklore and taught at the Milon Mela Centre for Performing Indian Arts. Ewa also works as a coordinator for Polish-Czech cultural partnerships and supports the Gorzanow Castle Foundation in Lower Silesia Poland.

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Olga Lidia Kozłowska est une psychologue clinicienne ainsi qu'une artiste vocale et une chercheuse. Olga est spécialisée dans les traditions vocales slaves et géorgiennes ainsi que dans l'improvisation et le chant communautaire. Elle est la fondatrice d'Authentic Voice et anime des ateliers depuis 2011 en France, en Allemagne, au Royaume-Uni, en République tchèque et en Slovaquie. Elle travaille avec des universités ainsi que des organisations culturelles et non gouvernementales dans sa ville natale de Wroclaw, en Pologne. Olga a dirigé une chorale de polyphonie géorgienne et travaille actuellement à réunir des chants traditionnels polonais et géorgiens avec son Trio Usakhelo.

Adam Koan est éducateur et interprète de danse butoh. Adam a suivi une formation en danse classique et moderne au Hillsborough Community College de Tampa, en Floride, et à l'Université de Floride du Sud. Il a ensuite étudié pendant cinq ans à l'Himalaya Subbody Butoh School à Dharamsala, en Inde, où il est devenu instructeur. Depuis, il a été formé par 41 éducateurs de butoh et a parcouru le monde en jouant, en enseignant et en écrivant sur le butoh. Il a dirigé de nombreux ateliers et stages de butoh allant de 3 semaines à 3 mois dans plus de 15 pays différents. Adam est connu pour son Manuel de Butoh ainsi que pour sa chaîne YouTube Shadowbody. Theokinesis, une pratique de butoh d'inspiration chrétienne, est son dernier projet pédagogique et performatif. 

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Gaiea holds a degree in Sanskrit from the University of Oxford where she was granted a singing scholarship. Combining her love of Sanskrit with an exploration of the voice, she has visited India regularly to study with local teachers. She performs, writes and records songs,and leads regular kirtan, Sanskrit, and meditation workshops in London. Gaiea also studied Music Theatre and qualified as a teacher of the Alexander Technique. She believes that all sound comes from and returns to silence, all movement comes from and returns to rest, and all success comes from the potential that can only be realised once one stops letting the mind rule. Through vibrations made manifest in Sanskrit, the heart opens. Gaiea has recently released a film series documenting her pilgrimage through the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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Swan Alyon, PhD, is a theatre maker and psychotherapist as well as the founder and director of the Institute of Devotional Arts. After studying philosophy and theology in Melbourne, Oxford, and Chicago, Swan worked as a supervisor at the University of Cambridge where wrote their thesis on individual and social transformation. They trained at the Jacques Lecoq school of physical theatre and explored various forms of alternative theatre such as applied theatre, paratheatre, psychomagic, and drama therapy as well as numerous artistic disciplines ranging from ballet and contact improvisation to butoh and polyphonic chants. Swan also holds certificates in tantra yoga, breathwork, and hypnotherapy. They guide individuals and groups and curate seminars, retreats, art residencies in Europe and North America.

Rafael Duarte-Uriza is a researcher and transdisciplinary artist. He empowers people to comprehend that we part of parcel of the interdependent web of nature. Rafael studied Fine Arts at the National University of Colombia where he created the piece “Reciprocal Compression, a refuge for bees” with the support of The Foundation for Colombian Biodiversity. His work focuses on radical interdependence, coexistence, and regeneration to create art installations providing spaces of ecological awareness. His performative practice is also informed by Vipassana meditation and Contact Improvisation. As a researcher in Geobiology and Biohabitability, he is investigating georelations and respiration. His current project is entitled "Breathe deeply, dwell slowly, walk silently”.

Kamil Remes is a musician, conductor, and researcher. Kamil studied guitar at the Conservatory of Pardubice, musicology at MUNI Brno, as well as Persian traditional music and Tar with Ashkan Rahbar in Esfahan. As a researcher,he specializes in the Early Modern Period as well as in non-European ethnomusicology and in anthropology of music. As an active musician he has been involved in many music projects across the genres – alternative music, world music, and early music – where he uses a wide range of historical and ethnic stringed instruments. Kamil is a theorbist and co-founder member of La Bilancetta ensemble, which focuses on Renaissance and Early Baroque music.

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Benedetta Fabbri is a classical violinist, holistic sound practitioner, teacher, and translator. Benedetta holds a master’s degree in Violin and Music Performance from the Giuseppe Verdi State Conservatory, Turin, Italy.Her work revolves around the call to facilitate communication as a form of translation. Communication between her embodied self and the world as well as between languages, people, and nature. As a stage musician, recording artist,and orchestra teacher, she always aims for the commingling of instrument al languages and contemporary music genres.

Benedetta lives part of the year on the small volcanic island of Filicudi (northeast of Sicily) where she focuses both her artistic and personal research on the inner need to connect with the energy of nature through the vibration of her violin – a project called EolieMusica. The performance stands between free improvisation, sound meditation,ritual, and sensory experience.

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Nataraaj (Noé Peyre) is a philosopher, painter, and musician. Nataraaj studied Ancient Greek and Indian Philosophy with a focus on Neoplatonism and Advaita Vedanta at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He weaves diverse traditions – Jewish, Indian, Sufi – into a tapestry of artistic expression. Nataraaj plays the guitar, sitar, sarod, and tabla. His music is a lifelong pursuit of a universal language, a non-dual harmony uniting art, philosophy, and spirituality. Nataraaj worked with the Jamaican spiritual teacher Mooji for a number of years. He currently teaches philosophy by the Lake Leman and paints calligraphy in a dozen languages including Sanskrit, Arabic, Farsi, and Japanese.

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