Austria – D.ID

Two passions have guided Edith’s professional development: dance and writing.
Already during her dance education at the Laban Centre London, Edith started to work in inclusive, participatory dance projects and has led community dance interventions in various settings in Germany and the UK.
After moving to Vienna, her work has taken a different direction: she became a journalist and in 1989 co-founded a dance magazine, followed by the online magazine www.tanz.at that she continues editing. She also writes for national and international trade magazines and newspapers.
She is holding an M.A. in European Cultural Policy from the University of Warwick that has added a European dimension to her work. She co-authored an international report about cultural policies in 42 European countries, and, in the last 15 years, has co-managed European projects in the area of arts and education.
This area of work is closely related to her interest in creative learning through dance as a process of lifelong learning. During her work as artistic director of the summer school at the festival Bolzano Danza (2006 to 2015), she has widened the programme to include all age groups from 5 to 80 years as well as introduced some special dance projects for young people.
Edith is currently undertaking her PhD studies at Faculty of Music Sociology at the University of Music Vienna. The title of her thesis is: “Migrancy as a Narrative of Contemporary Dance”, a comparative view on the influence of migrant artists and the work with migrant communities on the development of participatory and inclusive practices in the UK and Austria. She is a speaker at international professional conferences.

Croatia – Hipp

Antonio Gabelić lives to write and writes to live (he is a general practice writer, one could say). He has worked as a journalist (both print and digital), he was a screenwriter for many television series, short films and television shows and wrote many theatre plays that were performed at numerous theatres in Croatia. Antonio was educated at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. He participated in many workshops and talent campuses. He won numerous awards for his work. His short film “Travelling” was screened at Cannes film festival (official program). Antonio participated in many international project, such as Migrant bodies.

Italy – CSC

Lara Crippa, born in Padua, spent her early years travelling and dancing. She studied ballet at the Academy Comini following methods Vaganova and Cecchetti, completing her repertoire studies with Elisabetta Terabust and ballet masters Franco De Vita and Raymond Lukens. She also studied Graham technique with Susan Sentler, and went to Vienna to deepen her studies in modern/contemporary technique (Limon, Cunningham, Horton, Flying). At 20 she won a fellowship for the first Professional Dancers Course held in Rovigo and Ferrara, where she studied the Italian contemporary repertoire (M. Bigonzetti, F. Monteverde, V. Sieni). She danced for Dimensione Balletto, Fabula Saltica, Il Posto and Tango Maudit. She started then to teach Ballet, with a Diploma in barre technique at the Academy Teatro alla Scala. At the same time she completed her classical studies and graduated in Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice (2000), followed by a Master degree in Technical Translation after which she worked for four years as Foreign Marketing responsible. Thereafter she had a seven years full-time teaching experience at secondary school, and kept working as technical English translator and interpreter. In Venice she also obtained a diploma in Managing and Promoting Cultural Events, after which she collaborated for two years with the Biennale of Venice, following the promotion of the Dance Academy – directed by Carolyn Carlson – and the UNESCO projects related to Dance/Music/Theatre. Moreover she was responsible for the President’s guests during Biennale Cinema. Since 2010 she has been specializing in Social Media Marketing, teaching web strategies and content creation. She collaborates as dance consultant for different e-zines, besides the creation of the Dance Blog Parole di Danza. She writes for Corriere della Sera | Corriere del Veneto – Sguardi di Danza, ABCDance Blog, and the specialized web magazine Dance&Culture. Among other collaborations: panel in dance competition, further training courses, and critical dance presentations. In November 2016 Micha van Hoecke put on stage her interview: Pensieri dell’Anima (OFFBEAT.lab project).