A vast multiplicity of themes running through my life along a long and winding road, leading me from science to arts, from the south of the border
to Norwegian woods, however nonetheless encountering chances with this year’s nomaddanceacademy.

Viktorija is a young Macedonian dancer and performer. She lives, works and studies in Skopje.

Intimacy, Intimidate, Inti Šraj 1. 9. 1980 Ljubljana, Integrate, Intellectual, Intense, Interact, Intercept, Intercourse, Interest, Interpose, Internal, International, Interpreter, Interrogation, Interruption, Interstice.

bi·og·ra·phy: Pronunciation: \bī-ä-grə-fē also bē-\ Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural bi·og·ra·phies
Etymology: Late Greek biographia, from Greek bi- + -graphia -graphy Date: 1683
1 : a usually written history of a person’s life 2 : biographical writings as a whole 3 : an account of the life of something (as an animal, a coin, or a building)

I´m between 19 and 34 years old. I am sitting. There is no chair. I don’ t have legs nor hearing, my arms are not there. I am controlling my breath, following
my thoughts with a movement of the eyes. I am an improviser. The best I can do. It´s better not to start talking about my skills, they could disappear. It could be
really awkward not to know whom you are talking with.

Katelina Kancheva is a Bulgarian freelance performer with a background in directing, acting, visual arts and writing. She has earned her degree at the Department of Theatre Acting (2009) in the New Bulgarian University. She attended a one year class of film and television directing in NATFA (The National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts) (2004) and was awarded a 3 month scholarship specialization in Utrecht School of the ARTS (HKU) (2008). Katelina performed in many independent art projects and she continues her research on the subject of “what is act, dance, theatre and film in every art field“.

Martina Rukavina was born on 2nd August 1987 in Rijeka, Croatia. When she was five years old she attended the rhythmic course under the mentorship of
Tereza Dubrovic. She began her studies in classical ballet at the Ivan Pl. Zajc Theatre in Rijeka, Croatia. After finishing elementary school she was admitted into the
professional High School of Contemporary Dance” Ana Maletic” in Zagreb, Croatia. In 2006 Martina entered a professional program at the Salzburg Experimental
Academy of Dance (SEAD). In 2009 she graduated, successfully completing the professional program of university standard at the Salzburg Experimental Academy
of Dance (SEAD).

Maya was born and lives in Israel. She was educated in the School of Visual Theatre in Jerusalem. Since 2003 she has been working as an independent choreographer and her work has been performed in Israel and abroad. Maya was the artistic director of the dance department in the Hazira Theatre for performance art in Jerusalem between 2007 and 2009. Her new piece KINGFISHER- a duet on a trampoline, premiered in April 2010 in Dresden Tanzwoche, Germany, and will be performed in Israel this September.

Eléonore Richard is a Swiss artist born in 1982. She benefits from two trainings which allow her to practise professionally two professions in equal part: graphic designer and dancer-choreographer. Eléonore develops consequently these two disciplines in an auxiliary, additional way, experiments to the everyday life with the visual strength of the art as much in front of a computer as on a stage. Since 2009 she is the founder and director of her company.

Jana is a choreographer and performer born in Belgrade and living in Montréal. Since the completion of her studies in Contemporary Dance at Concordia University in 2006 she has continued to perform in the works of several local choreographers as well as Transition Opera in London, U.K. Her collaborations with experimental film-maker Csérnak-Risko produced a number of works which continue to be screened at festivals such as Screendance Basel Film Festival and LOIKKA Dance Film Festival.

Kliment Poposki currently lives in Skopje-Macedonia and graduated in Arts – Acting at the Melbourne National Theatre in 2005. His works include dance, stage, film and TV in Australia and Europe.

Krassimira Bakardjieva is an optimistic Bulgarian freelance performer.

Pierre-Yves Diacon studied choreography at the SNDO (Amsterdam). He works professionally as dance-maker and contemporary dancer since 2005. He also practices break-dance in a high level since the middle of the 90’s. In July 2008, he started the Mondes Transversaux dance company based in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.