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Katarzyna Gdaniec

studied at Vaganova Academy in Saint Petersburg, at the National School of Dance of Gdansk and the Académie de Marika Besobrasova. In 1983 she won the Prix de Lausanne and in 1985 she joined the Balletto of the XX Siècle in Brussels where, during eight year times, she performed the most important roles of Maurice Béjart’s repertory: Le marteau sans maître, Light, Wien, Wien, nur du Allein, Malraux, Le baiser, Souvenirs de Leningrad, Ring um den Ring and Le Sacre du Printemps. In 1987 she started creating her own choreographies, presenting various creations in the Young Choreographers department of the Ballet of the XX Siècle. Then, she left the Béjart Ballet Lausanne and since 1992 she has been fully dedicated to choreography, founding with Marco Cantalupo the Compagnie Linga, for which she has already created over 45 works.

Marco Cantalupo

after studying circus techniques for a short period of time, he entered the dance school of Teatro alla Scala in Milan, graduating afterwards at the Hamburg Opera. He danced for the Hamburg Opera then, as a soloist, in Staatstheater Gelsenkirchen, at the National Ballet of Portugal, at Deutsche Oper Berlin, at Ballet of Stadttheater in Bern and at Béjart Ballet Lausanne. In the same years he has worked with choreographers like John Neumeier, Gigi Caciuleanu, Daniel Ezralow, Peter Schaufus, Maurice Béjart. In 1989 he started creating choreographies for independent companies in Italy, before founding Compagnie Linga with Katarzyna Gdaniec. Teacher of contemporary dance in Lausanne and at Bachelor Contemporary Dance in Zurich, he is a member of the board of experts CFC (Swiss State exam for dancers and performers), and on the panel of many public competitions in Switzerland and Europe. Since 2004 he’s been teaching movement to actors and in 2014 he founded the theatrical collective Lies in Alexandria (Egypt).