Sônia Lopes Soares is a director, choreographer and performer. She has recently been researching dance as a vehicle to discuss and reflect man’s experiences in the world. In her works, together with Cia Viga, she seeks a collaborative process of creation, involving different artists and languages. Sonia explores the body as a reservoir of emotions, desires and memories, and how these experiences can be turned into communication.
Sônia was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and began her career as a ballerina at the Teatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro (Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro). Between 1997 and 2003, she was the director and one of the performers for the group FAR-15, which she founded with choreographer Sandro Borelli in São Paulo.
In 2003, Sonia founded Viga Espaço Cênico, a cultural center in São Paulo, which she still directs with her partner Arnolfo Pimenta. Two years later, Sonia founded her own dance company, Cia Viga.

sonialopessoares.org

Michelle Boulé is a choreographer, performer, teacher and Certified BodyTalk practitioner based in New York.  Her work has been shown at American Realness, ISSUE Project Room (Emerging Artist Commission), Mount Tremper Arts Festival, Dance and Process at The Kitchen, Movement Research at Judson Church, Center for Performance Research, Catch Performance Series, Food for Thought at Danspace Project, and at Gertrudes iealis teatris in Latvia. She is currently continuing work on a trio commissioned by Danspace Project that will premiere in April 2015. Her collaborative duo with composer/cellist Okkyung Lee was most recently featured as the closing set for (((send + receive))) festival in Winnipeg, Canada, and has also been shown at The Stone and as part of ISSUE Project Room’s 10th Anniversary Season in 2013.

michelleboule.com

Ori Flomin is an independent choreographer, dancer, dance and yoga instructor and a Shiatsu therapist based in New York City.

At an early age, he danced in his parents living room and created performances to the music of West Side Story and Tchaikovsky for family and friends. He then studied jazz, ballet and contemporary dance in his native Israel. After finishing military service he appeared in the musical Peter Pan, his first job as a dancer. He then moved to New York City at age 22 to become a professional dancer.

He spent his first years in New York attending classes and auditioning. An audition in February 1991 led to his joining the Stephen Petronio Dance Company, where he was a featured dancer for eight years. Later, in 2005, he rejoined the company as assistant to the artistic director.

Over the years Flomin also had the pleasure of dancing in works by Maria Hassabi, Neil Greenberg, Molissa Fenely, Tim Feldman, Michael Clark and Kevin Wynn, among others.

www.oriflomin.com