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  2. Meet the Twenty23 artists!

Meet the Twenty23 artists!

16 November 2022

The 2023 line-up includes works from 16 countries and showcases an exciting and diverse selection of emerging dance makers working across Europe.

The selection process took place at Mattatoio in Rome (Italy) during Romaeuropa Festival, hosted by Francesca Manica from   27 – 30 October. Aerowaves partners and dance professionals gathered in person to discuss hundreds of submitted works on video.

The Aerowaves Twenty23 artists are:

  • Ioanna Paraskevopoulou with MOS, Greece
  • Olga Dukhovnaya with Swan Lake solo, France
  • Eva Recacha with Because I Can, UK
  • BRABA plataform with Atlas da Boca (Atlas of the Mouth), Portugal
  • Loraine Dambermont with Toujours de 3/4 face!, Belgium
  • Boglárka Börcsök & Andreas Bolm with Figuring Age, Germany/Hungary
  • Sebastian Abarbanell with HOME, Germany
  • United Fall | Emma Martin with Birdboy, Ireland
  • Leïla Ka with To cut loose, France
  • Camilla Monga & Emanuele Maniscalco with In the Moment, Italy
  • Structure-Couple with Believe, France
  • Lovísa Ósk Gunnarsdóttir with When the Bleeding Stops, Iceland
  • Ching-Ying Chien with Vulture, UK
  • Mélissa Guex with Rapunzel, Switzerland
  • Dominik Więcek with Café Müller, Poland
  • Deyan Georgiev with Wired, Bulgaria
  • Joachim Maudet – Company Les Vagues with W̶E̶L̶COME, France
  • Laura Cemin & Bianca Hisse with How the Land Lies, Finland & Norway
  • Tamara Gvozdenovic & Kangding Ray with METRONOMIJA, Serbia
  • Jean-Baptiste Baele with Nabinam, Norway

The Twenty23 artists will present their work at the Spring Forward Festival from 27 – 29 April 2023 in Dublin (Ireland). Save the date!

We are delighted to welcome the newly selected artists and wish to extend our thanks to all the applicants for submitting their works.

Keep an eye on our social media channels over the next few months to find out more about the choreographers.

'MOS' by Ioanna Paraskevopoulou (Greece) © Pinelopi Gerasimou
'Swan Lake solo' by Olga Dukhovnaya (France) © Doriane Rio
'Because I Can' by Eva Recacha (UK) © Camilla Greenwell
'Atlas da Boca (Atlas of the Mouth)' by BRABA plataform (Portugal) © Rui Soares
'Toujours de 3/4 face!’ by Loraine Dambermont (Belgium) © Hichem Dahes
'Figuring Age' by Boglárka Börcsök & Andreas Bolm (Germany/Hungary) © Andreas Bolm
'HOME' by Sebastian Abarbanell (Germany) © Sara Herrlander
'Birdboy' by United Fall | Emma Martin (Ireland) © Luca Trufarelli
'To cut loose' by Leïla Ka (France) © Martin Argyroglo
'In the Moment' by Camilla Monga & Emanuele Maniscalco (Italy) © Maria Albergati
'Believe' by Structure-Couple (France) © Jean Gros-Abadie
'When the Bleeding Stops' by Lovísa Ósk Gunnarsdóttir (Iceland) © Owen Fiene
'Vulture' by Ching-Ying Chien (UK) © Chia-Yeh Lee
'Rapunzel' by Mélissa Guex (Switzerland) © Julie Folly
‘Café Müller’ by Dominik Więcek (Poland) © Piotr Jaruga
'Wired' by Deyan Georgiev (Bulgaria) © Nikolay Raychev
‘W̶E̶L̶COME’ by Joachim Maudet - Company Les Vagues (France) © FestivalParallèle_M.Vendassi&C.Tonnerre
'How the Land Lies' by Laura Cemin & Bianca Hisse (Finland & Norway) © Sofie Isaksson
'METRONOMIJA' by Tamara Gvozdenovic & Kangding Ray (Serbia) © Nemanja Maras
'Nabinam' by Jean-Baptiste Baele (Norway) © David Jacobs

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