SPECIAL EDITION

Andreja Rauch Podrzavnik, Slovenia, choreographer, performer, improviser, a teacher and the author of numerous stage, research and educational projects, has graduated with an MA from the London Contemporary Dance School in 1999. Understanding dance as a mode of behaviour, Andreja has been researching the topicality and relevance of the structures and formats she uses in her work, parallel to examining how to think about and practice art in a given context. Her projects are often collaborative and include different  artists from various fields;  musicians, actors, designers, photographers and, of course, dancers. She also choreographs and directs commisioned work for companies, theatres  and schools and teaches contemporary dance technique, improvisation and composition.
For her work, she received many awards, among them also two awards for the project Special Edition in 2021 (Ksenija Hribar Award and Župančič Award  - by the City of Ljubljana)

Christa Stöffelbauer (AT) is a dancer, performer, dance facilitator based in Vienna andproduces dance performances in collaboration with artists from different disciplines. She studied contemporary stage dance at Sozo Visions in Motion in Kassel, completed a movement pedagogy degree (IGRC)^® and a BA in social work at the FH Campus Vienna. In her artistic work she researches themes of being human and approaches that seek the connection between the body, dance and socio-political issues. For several years she has been working with Instant Composition in the context of dance performance works in theatre spaces and site-specific works in urban spaces. In Kassel she worked with choreographers such as Antje Pfundtner, Maya M. Carroll, Aura Antikainen, Deborah Manavi, Heike Wrede, Gabriela Branco, Jianan Qu and Stella Zannou. She has danced in works that have been shared at Gallus Theater Frankfurt, Kulturhaus Dock 4 Kassel, documenta Halle, Kasseler Dokfest, Das LOT Vienna, Kultursommer Vienna, Ljubljana City Museum, IMMEDIATUS BIENNALE Brno and the Festival international des arts de la rue in Marrakech among others.

Milan Tomášik (SK/SLO) is a choreographer, performer, dancer, artistic director and teacher working internationally in the field of dance and performing arts. Milan has performed professionally for twenty years, collaborating with diverse artists across Europe. He is co-founder of the Les SlovaKs dance collective with whom he created and performed critically-acclaimed works internationally. His choreographic experience includes commissioned works for companies, theatres and schools, trilogy of resounding performances Hunting Season, Silver Blue and Fight Bright (Milan Tomášik & Co) and outstanding solo performances Within, Off-beat, Solo 2016 and Arms That Never Knew Me. He delivered a commission work Treatise for Krakow Dance Theatre in Poland. Milan was an associated artists of Scenario Pubblico in Catania (IT, 2018-2020) and an artistic curator of Out of the Toolbox workshop festival in Ghent, (BE, 2022). Milan is regularly invited as a guest teacher around the world to deliver his signature workshop Poetic Body. He was a recipient of the Dance Web Scholarship at ImpulsTanz Festival (AT), was awarded the Prize of the City Prievidza (SK) and received an award for the solo performance Off-beat at international festival Cortoindanza in Cagliari, Sardinia (IT).

Sylvia Bruckner lives and works in Vienna, Austria. Initially self-taught, she later studied jazz piano under Fritz Pauer at the Vienna Conservatory and earned a second diploma in classical piano from the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna in 1998. Her approach to various instruments (including zither, accordion, and piano) is bold and innovative, utilizing the instruments' full range to explore new harmonic structures and sound clusters, freeing tonality from traditional constraints. Known for her impulsiveness, intensity, and love for extreme contrasts, Bruckner avoids clichés and well-worn sounds, seeking fresh, expressive possibilities. Over the years, she has collaborated with musicians like Martin Siewert, Tony Buck, Nicole Mitchell, Hamid Drake, Joe Fonda, Joëlle Léandre, Didi Kern, John Butcher, Raymond Strid, Thomas Berghammer, Susanna Gartmayer, Vinicius Cajado, Jakob Gnigler, Willi Kellers, and many others. She performed at festivals such as Konfrontationen Nickelsdorf, Limmitationes, V:NM Graz, Jazz Fair Zagreb, (Ne)poslušno Ljubljana, and the Jazz Fest Wien, where her powerful style consistently resonates with audiences and fellow artists alike

Yoram Rosilio is an active musician in the fields of jazz, contemporary, improvised and traditional musics. Mainly double bass player, he is also a musician who plays the oud, the gumbri, the lotar, and many other string or percussion instruments. Since 2008, he stands as a leader and composer for the post-free-bop-sefaradik group « Tikkun », and also for the International Paris based Unshaped Orchestra  “The Anti RubBer brAiN fAct0ry”. Moreover, he is regularly invited to collaborate to inter-disciplinary researches including dance, performance, painting, theatre, sculpture, visual arts… Since 2017, he organises the « SPIME », a yearly Festival : Sound Paris International Meeting. In 2018, he founded the artistic Network « S.H.A.R.E » (European network for creative music and improvised arts) and, with the Parisian collective and Label « Le Fondeur de Son & LFDS Records », did create the database « Improvisers without borders » that bring together more than 600 artists from all over European the field of Improvisation. Super pro-active and invested, he regularly organizes artistic events where the challenge, the meeting, the requirement and the pleasure are all invited.