Margherita Dello Sbarba
Margherita (BE/IT) brings to the company her interest and her perspective on feminist ecologies, a constantly growing knowledge on somatic practices, her theatrical experience and her sense of poetry. She has a degree in theatre (CSA-Milano), a bachelor in contemporary dance (Hochschule for Musik und Tanz) and one in cultural studies (Libera Università di Milano). Between 2021 and 2023 Margherita received five research grants from the Fonds Darstellende Künste, Dachverband Tanz, and the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. These opportunities allowed her to develop collaborations and research projects with architects and media artists, learning to create interdisciplinary methods and languages.
In 2023, Margherita created her first short piece, “Shatters,” with institutional support and recognition (from Fonds Darstellende Künste, P.A.R.T.S., Quartier am Hafen, and tanzhaus nrw), and performed at tanzhaus NRW (DE), the AlpsMove Festival (IT), and the Zukunfttanz Festival (DE).
When she moved to Brussels in 2024, Margherita received support from Platform In De Maak and RADAR Mechelen for the creation of the solo piece “to tread the salty deep,” an eco-feminist work inspired by the mythological figure of the Siren. to tread the salty deep has so far been shown as a work in progress at Theater Arsenaal, KVS and STUK.
She received a development grant from the Kunstendecreet for her research project All the walls that made this garden are written in my body (2026/2027) in which she looks at the development of garden architectures linking it to the history of the patriarchal oppression on women’s bodies.
Additionally she has been dancing with various choreographers in Germany like Ceren Oran, Smadar Goshen, Sonia Franken, Julia Riera. Nowadays she is dancing in Belgium with Nyash/Caroline Cornelis in ALTER, a piece for young audience.
Alexandros Anastasiadis “Greco”
Alexandros (BE/GR) infuses his strong physicality, joyful and sparkling energy, his connection to free jazz music and his research on improvisation. Alexandros graduated from SEED Academy of Dance (Austria) and obtained a bachelor degree in physics (Thessaloniki).
Between 2016-2019 Alexandros worked with the collective La Otra Familia, with whom they received the Audience prize in the Madrid Choreographic Contest 2016. In 2022 he created his first solo piece the fall in between receiving support from VGC, RADAR Mechelen, CC De Spil, and CC De Warande, and performing at Theater Arsenaal, CC De Spil, the Top Floor Festival, and Box120 in Brussels, the Athens Video Dance Festival (GR), Akropoditi DanceFest (GR), Dance Laboratory Rhodes (GR), and the Patras Art Festival (GR).
He danced for five years for Ultima Vez and has worked for Alexander Vantournhout and Julyen Hamilton, and he has also worked as a movement assistant and outside eye for dance and theatre productions, most notably by Ultima Vez (BE), Augusto Pedraza(BE), and Jaime Nogueron(MX) and Junior Yusuf (BE/IE).
In addition, he has created dance performances for educational programs (AP Hogeschool,Antwerp, IDA Linz, Thessaloniki State School of Dance, Greece, Fre3 Bodies, Barcelona,) and teaches both through professional workshops in educational platforms and festivals all overEurope, but also through classes for children and communities, e.g. for the Atelier Kids of Ultima Vez and for Platform K.