Benedetta Capanna, a choreographer from Rome, draws energy and inspiration from her Mediterranean and Baltic roots and from over twenty years of study of Yoga. Through the exploration of the body in its infinite dynamic possibilities inside the small space created by its own limitations, she wants to embrace the poetry of human fragility, its sacredness and the urgency of its passions. She has received grants and residencies to work on her choreographic projects. Since 2013, she receives the support of MIBACT collaborating with Excursus Cie. She has been a guest in important festivals and events in Europe, USA and Japan.

Elise Knudson is a New York based dance artist and educator. She has authored about thirty long and short works for stages large and small but is now more interested in instant choreography because it supports the way she wants to be in the world.  She holds an MFA in dance from Hollins University and is grateful for the privilege of dancing for Risa Jaroslow for the past decade. Elise has also performed for Koosil-ja/DanceKumiko, Kiori Kawai/Purring Tiger, Noemie LaFrance, Jody Oberfelder and other wonderful people.  Elise teaches and facilitates Contact Improvisation through Movement and developed a seminar on Theory and Practice of Improvisation for the Residential College Seminar Program at Yale University.

A dancer-choreographer from NYC, Jody Sperling is the Artistic Director of Time Lapse Dance. She has created more than 40 works and toured nationally and internationally. In 2014, Sperling participated in a polar science mission to the Arctic as the first choreographer-in-residence aboard a US Coast Guard icebreaker. While there, she danced on sea ice and made the award-winning film Ice Floe. Sperling has forged an innovative dance style inspired by Loie Fuller and is world-renowned for her Fuller expertise. Sperling is the choreographer, creative consultant and coach for the French feature film La Danseuse (2016) inspired by Fuller’s life.

Mei Yamanaka is a dancer and choreographer from Tokyo, Japan. In 2008, she came to New York. Yamanaka has been working with Tiffany Mills Company, Jennifer Archibald. Also she had been worked worked with Mark Dendy, Small Apple Co., Oui Danse, Katy Pyle, and more. Her choreographic work had been presented at Fresh Tracks, Movement Research at Judson Church, Under Expose, GAP Presents | Shared Space, and more in NYC. She was elected as an artist-in-residence at Dance Theater Workshop (now New York Live Arts) Fresh Tracks in 2010-2011 and also at Chez Bushwick in 2014.  meiyamanaka.com