CRISTINA CASTRILLO
Over four decades of dedication to professional theatre: from the foundation, in the seventies, of Libre Teatro Libre, one of the most famous Latin American companies in Argentina to the birth of the "Teatro delle Radici" in Switzerland in 1980.
The versality of her work (as an actress, a teacher and a director) has led her to put into practice the fundamental aspects of her approach, first on herself and then with numerous actors, the fundamental aspects of her approach to theater.
She created about thirty performances and held performances and workshops for actors in 38 countries, from Europe to Latin America, Asia, Africa to the Middle East and Australia. She founded and directed the “Theatre Lab School for Theatrical training and Research (1990), which annually calls actors from different backgrounds and cultures. She edited the book Attore-Autore (Actor-Author), I Sentieri dell’Acqua (The Path of the Water), Trilogia dell’assenza (Trilogy of absence), Voci peregrine containing almost all the texts of the performances created and in 2015 Tracce.
In 2014 she received the Swiss Theater Award, awarded by the Federal Office of Culture.
DEBRA MCCALL
MA, Dance, University of Oregon (1977), CMA (Certified Movement Analyst in Laban Movement Analysis, 1984), further study in dance/movement therapy.
Professional affiliations:
Vice Chair of the Board and Director of Research, Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies, Government Affairs Liaison, National Dance Education Organization, former President, Congress on Research in Dance.
Karen Bradley collaborates with the Association for Cultural Heritage and the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies to digitize, re-analyze and disseminate Choreometrics materials and will continue her work with Dr. Jose Contreras-Vidal's team at the University of Houston in order to determine brainwave patterns for particular qualities of expressive movement. He is also part of the steering group for a Canadian government grant entitled "Moving Stories: Digital Tools for Movement, Meaning and Interaction". The project is a partnership between the Laban / Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies in New York, the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC and the eDream Center at the University of Illinois.
ROSA MARIA GOVONI
dott.ssa Rosa Maria Govoni, Psychologist, Psychotherapist registered with the E.R. 388, Dance Movement Therapist / New York Medical College) and Mills College CA; BC-DMT all’ADTA, USA, Training in Authentic Movement with Janet Adler.
Former Director of the Department of Dance Movement Therapy (Arttherapy Italiana), now Co-Director of the Expressive Psychotherapy Institute, Ati, Bologna.
Dance Movement Psychotherapy guest teacher at Bilgi University, Istanbul, A.M. guest Teacher Jung Institute and Summer Intensive International Program Jung Institute Kusnacht Zurich, Switzerland, Dance Movement Psychotherapy teacher at “Inspirees Institute of Creative Arts Therapy” Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, China, at the “Institute of Practical Psychology and Psychoanalysis” IPP&P Moscow, Russia.
NUNZIA TIRELLI
- Practical Choreologist, “Specialist diploma in Choreological Studies” contemporary principles and practice of Rudolf Laban’s work at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London.
- Dance-movement therapist (Art Therapy Italiana Bologna).
- CMA (Certified Movement Analysis), issued by the LIMS, New York.
Between 1978-1990 she studied and worked as a dancer with choreographers who have traced the history of modern and contem-porary dance. 1990-2002 she travels and works extensively with Teatro delle Radici absorbing the methodology of its founder Cristina Castrillo, as a dancer, actress and assistant. Since 2002, she researched and studied the art of movement in its perfor-mative, somatic and deep aspects, she also practices the discipline of Authentic Movement, an exploration of the uncon-scious through movement. Since 2013 she promotes and organizes the LABAN EVENT in Monte Verità, Ascona Switzerland. One of the winners of the Swiss Dance Award 2014 “dance as cultural heritage” with the project "The Dancing Drumstick and Ishtar's Journey into Hades”. 2018 Member of the Jury Swiss Dance Award Federal Office of Culture.
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FABIO MERLINI
Fabio Merlini, born in Minusio, Regional Director of the Federal University Institute for “ Formazione Professionale”, has taught philosophy of culture and epistemology of the humanities at the University of Lausanne and other universities. Since 2010 he presided over the Eranos Foundation and for the publisher Rosenberg & Sellier of Turin he directs the series I Saggi di Eranos. Merlini has also co-directed, at the Husserl Archives of the École normale supérieure in Paris, the Groupe de Recherche sur l'Ontologie de l'Histoire, whose seminar works have been published in 3 volumes by the publisher Vrin (1998, 2001, 2004). He is also co-author of the Cahier de l'Herne dedicated to Nietzsche on the 100th anniversary of his death (2000), and with J. Derrida, P. Ricoeur, M. Crépon and others he is co-author of the volume La Philosophie au risque de la promesse (2004). His most recent publications include l'époque de la performance insignifiante. Réflexions sur la vie désorientée (2011), Schizotopies. Essai sur l'espace de la mobilisation (2013), L'architettura inefficiente (with Luigi Snozzi, 2014), Ubicumque. Essai sur l'espace de la mobilisation (2015) and Catastrophes of immediacy (with Silvano Tagliagambe, 2016).
