Jeanine Durning is a performer, maker and teacher of dance. She's originally from upstate NY and has been based in NYC since the late 80’s. Jeanine has been creating both solo and group performance on a project basis with a core group of collaborators since 1998. She has received grants and awards for her choreography from various foundations including the Alpert Award and the New York Foundation for the Arts and has received numerous commissions from independent performers, repertory companies and universities, to create original work. Jeanine first worked with Deborah Hay on O,O in 2006 and then again in 2008/09 on If I Sing to You. Her adaptation of the solo No Time to Fly for William Forsythe's Motion Bank is her third project with Deborah. Jeanine's work as a facilitator of movement and creative practices has been an integral part of her ongoing inquiry of the body, performance and daily life. Within the past two years, she has been guest teacher at SNDO (Amsterdam), SODA (Berlin), and adjunct faculty at Tisch School of the Arts/NYU (NY). Jeanine recently received a Masters in Choreography from Amsterdam School of the Arts (AmCh). Durning’s current research focuses on fundamental questions of how body, thought and language align and collide, which has recently manifested as a solo performance called inging.

Juliette Mapp is a dancer, teacher and choreographer based in New York City. She has presented her work throughout New York City since 2001. She has performed in the work of many other choreographers, most notably John Jasperse, Vicky Shick and Deborah Hay. Juliette has taught throughout the world and is currently on the faculty of The New School in New York City. Juliette was a guest curator at Danspace Project where she programmed the "Back to New York City" platform. Juliette received two Bessie's, one for dancing (2002) and one for choreography (2008).

Ros Warby is one of Australia's leading dancer/choreographers. She has been creating and performing solo dance since 1990. Her award winning works have been presented in Australia, Europe and the USA at numerous festivals and venues including The 2010 Venice Biennale, London’s Dance Umbrella, Royal Opera House, London, Melbourne International Arts Festivals, Adelaide Festival, and DTW, New York. Warby has also performed with numerous companies and artists including Lucy Guerin Inc, the Deborah Hay Dance Company, Russell Dumas’ Dance Exchange and Danceworks. Recognised for her unique performance work in all these contexts Warby has received the Robert Helpmann Award for Best Female Dancer 2007, Greenroom Awards for Best female performer (2000 & 2007) and best Solo performer in 2001, an Australia Council Fellowship (2002 – 2004), and the 2007 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award. The creation of her work has benefited from the rapport she has nurtured with her long standing creative team, designer Margie Medlin and composer Helen Mountfort, who have been pivotal in the development of Warby’s dances over the past decade. Together, through Warbys recent critically acclaimed works, Solos, Swift and Monumental, they have created environments for the solo dancer to exist, creating an elaborate interplay between the elements of dance, film, sound and light, and crafting a dialogue between these forms, where they coexist in a manner rarely achieved in multi-disciplinary work. In 2006 Warby was commissioned by ABC television to make a cinematic version of Swift with Medlin. Warby is currently in development on a new trio work, Tower Suites, due to premiere in March 2012. Warby began her long association with Deborah Hay in 1996. She has performed and toured several solo adaptations of Hay’s choreography including Fire, Music, and The Pitcher, as well as several ensemble works, including The Match, and If I Sing to You. She continues to work with Hay assisting on and performing in selected projects, including her current involvement in Hay’s work with the Forsythe Company’s Motion Bank Project (a solo adaptation of No Time To Fly and the trio, As Holy Sites Go). Born in Sydney in 1967, Warby finished her classical training in Europe with Marika Besobrasova, Monte Carlo, Central School of Ballet, London, and the Royal Danish Ballet School. Between 1993 and 1996 she studied with Eva Karczag and Lisa Nelson, and became a certified Alexander teacher in 2000. But it has been her experience and practice of Deborah Hay’s choreography that has had the most bold and stimulating effect on her performance and choreographic work over the past decade. www.roswarby.com

Jason Byrne is the Artistic Director of Loose Canon Theatre Company, founded in Dublin, Ireland in 1996. Loose Canon is not married to any one particular aesthetic. Each new work necessitates the discovery of an equally original aesthetic. What remains constant is a vision of theatre as something volatile and beautiful, which destroys itself even in the act of discovering and communicating its meaning. For Loose Canon, Jason has directed Julius Caesar, The Revenger’s Tragedy, Measure For Measure, The Duchess of Malfi (3 adaptations), The Spanish Tragedy, Coriolanus (for which he received a Sunday Times “Spirit of Life” award), The White Devil, Hamlet, In The Dark Air Of A Closed Room (a wordless montage suggested by the paintings of Carravagio) Macbeth (winner of Best Production Dublin Fringe Festival) Hedda Gabler, Medea Material Landscape With Argonauts (Heiner Müller), Fragments Of A Dead Performance, H or When Hamlet dreamt of becoming Electra, The Maids (Genet), Phaedra’s Love by Sarah Kane (Winner of Best production Irish Times Theatre Awards) Anatomy Of A Seagull (after Chekov) and A Midsummer’s Night Dream? As a freelance director Jason has directed, Living Quarters, A Month In The Country (Brian Friel), Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, and The Comedy Of Errors at the Abbey Theatre. Not I, Piece of Monologue, What Where, (Samuel Beckett), Wedding Day At The Cro-Magnons (Wajdi Mouawad) for Bedrock Productions. Cosan Dearg (A dance performance) for Corp Feasa. A Whistle In The Dark (Tom Murphy) and Festen for the Company Theatre, Toronto, Canada.

Ella Clarke is an independent choreographer and performer. Her choreographies include A Midsummers Night Dream?, 2008 Irish Times Theatre Award Best Production winner Phaedra’s Love and Anatomy of a Seagull for Loose Canon Theatre Company,Only an Apple, Comedy of Errors, Big Love,Romeo & Juliet and Woman and Scarecrow for The Abbey Theatre, Wedding Day of the Cro-Magnons for Bedrock, Macbeth, Shutter andTitus Andronicus for Siren Productions,Adaptation of a Meeting and Behindtheeyeliesbone for Myriad Dance Company, Don Gregorio and Transformations for Wexford Festival Opera and Sweeney Todd for The Gate Theatre.Her work as a performer includes productions for Genesis Collective, CoisCéim Dance Theatre, Ciotóg Dance Company, Dance Theatre of Ireland, 2nd Nature (Vienna), Scottish Dance Theatre, Rex Levitates Dance Co, Siren Productions and The Abbey Theatre. Most recently she performed the award winning production Macschinenhalle#1 by Christine Gaigg / Philipp Harnoncourt / Bernhard Lang / Winfried Ritsch for the opening of Steirischer Herbst 2010. She has adapted and performed four of eminent experimental choreographer Deborah Hay’s solo works and is currently producing Ireland’s first Hay trio A Lost Opera with Genesis Collective.Ella is lecturer in dance at DIT Conservatory of Music anDrama since 2002 and is co-director of Genesis Project; a practise-based project for radicalisation in the art form of dance and body-based art, with centres of practice in Dublin, Philadelphia, Brooklyn and L.A.

Cindy Cummings is a dance artist (performer/choreographer/tutor) based in Dublin. Her fascination with and love of movement has its roots in athletics and community dance as a child that led to a more formalized dance and theatre training in the US (Oregon, Washington & NYC). Rescued from a career in musical theatre by Joint Forces Dance Co (Karen Nelson & Alito Alessi), she discovered Improvisation and the joys of artistic collaborations; she has been studying, performing and teaching improvisation while creating live performance work with various artistic collaborators around the world ever since. In 1988 she began creating solo performances and two years later, found herself in Ireland. She has since continued to create work that is engaged in Serious Play, experimenting with the ground between what is considered improvisation and choreography. This fertile landscape has been richly developed in her 10 years of collaborative work with composer & media artist Todd Winkler (Brown University) using the Very Nervous System: a camera based interactive system allowing the performer to be composer, video artist and dancer simultaneously. Since 2002, much of her work has been influenced by US choreographer Deborah Hay with whom she has participated in 2 Solo Performance Commissioning Projects ('Beauty' 2002; 'The Ridge' 2004). She performed a new adaptation of 'Beauty' as part of 'House of Crossed Destinies' in Dublin and London (2010). Cummings is a founding member of the Genesis Project Dublin: an artist-led practice model, performance collective and commissioning body (since 2004) directed by Julie Lockett and Ella Clarke. At present, her preoccupations are with identifying stillness and dancing the recent discovery that only 4% of the known universe is made up of matter based 'reality'; the remaining 96% is dark matter & dark energy

Julie Lockett is an independent dance artist based in Co. Tipperary. She holds a BA (Hons) in Dance Performance from Middlesex University, UK. Her choreographic work has been performed nationwide and been variously supported by the Arts Council, Dublin Fringe Festival and Project Arts Centre. Her adaptations of Deborah Hay’s solo works The Other Side of O and The Ridge have been presented in the ESB Dublin Fringe Festival, Dublin Dance Festival and nationally and she premiered her adaptation of I’ll Crane for You as part of House of Crossed Destinies, directed by Jason Byrne.