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ESTHER M. SIDDIQUiE

Esther M. Siddiquie is an artist working through performance, family archives, writings and technology. Her works have been shared at the New Lab in Brooklyn, IAC, Tanzhaus NRW, German Consulate General in New York, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Dance Umbrella Festival, The Place and Sadler’s Wells. She is a guest artist with Gracef**l Collective, Charlotte Triebus and part of the collectives B.EEF and Always Otherwise. She holds an MFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and works as an Artistic Associate at the School of Dance at University of the Arts Philadelphia where she curates the Uarts Love Café conversations a space for future dreamings and actions.
www.esthermanonsiddiquie.de
Photo by Nitsan Margaliot

João Maio

João Maio is a contemporary dance artist and creative producer based in Leeds, West Yorkshire. In 2009, he enrolled on the 3-year professional contemporary performer course in Balleteatro Professional School, Porto. Following this, João moved to England to further develop his artistic practice at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance (NSCD), where he graduated with a First Class Honours Degree in 2015.
Whilst training at NSCD, João was invited to work with Carlos Pons Guerra’s DeNada Dance Theatre, playing the soloist role of the Virgin Mary in “O Maria”. Following this, he worked with Rosie Kay Dance Company in several projects (including the 2017 and 2018 U.K. tours of “MK Ultra”); Lizzie J Klotz in “This is a show about lying” and Gracefool Collective, as rehearsal director/tour manager on the tour of “This is not a wedding”. After completing the MA in Dance & Creative Enterprise at NSCD (2018), João began to work as a Creative Producer independently and for Leeds-based community development organisation Open Source Arts. João continues to develop his interest in furthering his understanding of the national artistic ecology and enhancing it, also being the independent board member at Leeds Dance Partnership.
www.joaomaio-dance.com
Photo by Aldona Lis

REBECCA HOLMBERG

Rebecca Holmberg is a founding member of Gracefool Collective, co-creating and touring, amongst other works, This Really Is Too Much and This Is Not A Wedding. She completed a year of Swedish folk dance before graduating from NSCD. In 2012 she was involved in a project with Dance United, YorkshireDance and Leeds Youth Offending Service to give young people with no previous dance experience a chance to create and perform.
She has workedwith choreographers such as Danielle Dietz, David Nondorff, Andrea Buckley and Douglas Thorpe. Rebecca taught dance at the Circus in Performance course at Greentop Circus in Sheffield and has worked for ArtFelt, deliveringperformances in hospitals for young people. She co-runs a summer camp in Sweden for young people aged 10-14 where they develop skills in music, dance and theatre through a production at the local community theatre.

SOFIA EDSTRAND

Sofia Edstrand is a founding member of Gracefool Collective, co-creating and touring, amongst other works, This Really Is Too Much and This Is Not A Wedding. She has worked with professional choreographers such as Danielle Dietz, Douglas Thorpe and Simon Birch and for Balbir Singh Dance Company, performing in ‘Synchronised,’ a piece mixing Contemporary Dance, Classical Indian Dance and Synchronised Swimming.
She has also worked with and performed in different children performance with companies such as Freedom Studios, Adept and Dance United. Sofia regularly returns to her home country of Sweden to teach a wide range of dance styles at Kulturskolan Örnsköldsvik and Nolaskolan. Sofia also holds a gold medal from the Swedish Championships in Rhythmical Gymnastics. She has recently undertaken an advanced maths course at Stockholm University.

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