MARTA ÁLVAREZ DEL VALLE
EUSKAL HERRIA
Marta Álvarez is actress and puppeteer. She works in the companys La Ressitens and Laenananaranja since its foundation in the 2000, where she produces and distributes shows. From 1999 to 2017 she worked in BAI, Bizkaiko Antzerki Ikastegia (performing arts institute), giving interpretation lessons and directing students’ works. From 2000 to 2017 he works as technical secretariat (administrative and managing tasks). Between 2004 and 2017 she was de coordinator of production for ACT International Festival for Emerging Performin Artists, in Bilbao and Barakaldo. Since 2014 and currently she’s in charge of the technical secretariat in Artekale (Street Arts Association from Basque Country). She’s also working as main actrees in ‘Las muertes de los otros’, by Fer Montoya.
SABINE MOLENAAR
BELGIUM
Sabine Molenaar founded the company Sandman in 2012, based in Brussels, and works cross-disciplinary with performance and film. Sandman produced three physical theatre performances: That’s it (2013), Touch me (2015), Almost Alive (2017) and a short adjusted version of Almost Alive is touring named A Moment (2017). Next to that three experimental short dance films were produced: Wish her ill (2012), That’s it (2013) and Kali (2016). The first solo performance, That’s it, won a major award at the ACT festival in Bilbao (SP), as well as the prize for best female talent at the Theater Aan Zee Festival, in Oostende (BE) and a Special Mention award at BeFestival in Birmingham (UK).
Sabine studied eight years at the pre-eduction at Fontys Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Tilburg and four years at the Modern Theatre Dance at the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten. In Amsterdam she co-founded the dutch company ‘Instant Collective’. After moving to Brussels she worked with ia ‘Peeping Tom’, JOJI inc and Speedbattle Collective.
SUSANNE VISSER
THE NETHERLANDS
Susanne Visser (1989) is a Dutch dramaturg, programmer and theatre researcher. She has worked for ITs Festival and EU projects such as International Young Makers in Action and Theatre Cafe Festival. She is a radio host for the program Theatermakers and creates podcasts. Currently Susanne is working as a junior programmer at De Lawei, one of the biggest theatres of the Netherlands and works she works as a dramaturg for several young theatremakers.