Cathy Streeter

About the dancers  

Tania studied dance at the Conservatorium of Luxembourg, at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance and at LABAN (London), where she worked with Athina Vahla and Kirsty Simpson and danced with EDge08 - London Contemporary Dance School /The Place - working with Rachel Krische, Filip Van Huffel, Rosemary Butcher, Jonathan Lunn, Rosemary Lee and Gabriela Tropie.   She danced with Zephyr in Zanussi in London, was active within an international dance collective called Explorer and was involved in diverse projects as part of the cultural year 2007 in Luxembourg.   Since 2003 she has been creating and performing her own work.   In 2010 she was in residency at the Firking Crane in Ireland for a dance film by Géraldine Vessière and a choreography by Elodie Escarmelle and danced within the project “Circadian” by choreographer Annick Pütz and composer Camille Kerger, performeded in Luxembourg and in Shanghai. She is currently living in Bruxelles, pursuing her love of the art of dance .

Jade was born and raised in Hong Kong, was awarded a scholarship to train in the Gifted Young Dancers Programme as part of Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. She then continued her training at London Contemporary Dance School (LCDS) obtaining a B.A. Hons degree and Postgraduate Diploma in contemporary dance.  Jade has worked with choreographers such as Jan de Schynkel, Marc Brew, Darren Johnston (Array) and Hanna Gilgren. She joined Tavaziva Dance upon graduation as an apprentice and toured Heart of Darkness and Wild Dog.  Jade is currently working and teaching on a freelance basis in London.

Nathalie contributed to the works of several young choreographers, of Tiens, voilà encore autre chose in Palestine, of Malou Airaudo and Renegade Theatre in Germany, Compagnie Mille Failles in France. Her interest for dance improvisation brought her to the Soundpainting and she practises this language with the group Universal Palette!. In 2010, she begins a collaboration with the Compagnie Eponyme, the Compagnie Nadja and the Compagnie Nadine Beaulieu.

Ammar has an international dance training, beginining in Tunis where he was born, with the Sybel ballet theatre and the Russian school of ballet and classical dance in Tunis. He then attended the National Dance Center of Borj Bakouche in Arianam and went on to the Caracalla Dance Academy in Lebanon. In 2008 he joined the hip hop Studio Harmonic in France and in 2009 the Centre for Research and choreography, Paris. He was guest choreographer at the British Dance Edition 2010 in Birmingham in 2010 and performs both in France and Tunisia with his own choreographed work and that of Imed Jemaa, Najib Khalffalah and Kamel Ouali.

Stephanie gained a Highly Commended Teaching qualification with the National Dance Company and a 1st class BA Hons Degree in Performing Arts, and completed an apprenticeship with Loop Dance Company.  Between 2008-2010 she worked for the Theatre Company Reward Projects, and has performed in many corporate plays with them, as well as for Frontline Roleplay as an actor. Stephanie has choreographed for Festivals such as Hidden Passages Festival , Canterbury Festival and Ramsgate Arts Festival, Ashford Art and Architecture Festival and the Herne Bay Festival and was the head choreographer for the opening of the Kent School Games in 2010. She has worked with Royal Opera House Creative Partnerships as a Creative Practitioner and South East Dance Agency as a Moving Voices Co-ordinator mentoring young people in dance. After performing as a dancer/actor in Peter Pan for Scandalous Productions over Christmas 2010, Stephanie was cast as ‘Eve’ in the UK National Spring Touring Production of DrumChasers which will be touring the UK again in Autumn 2011. Over the summer Stephanie has been the co-ordinating and performing at the Twenty20 Cricket games for the Kent Spitfires and will be working with JimJam Arts performing interactive theatre.  She is looking forward to taking a postgraduate physical theatre course with Jasmin Vardimon Company at the Royal Holloway University London from September 2011.