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Renata Piotrowska-Auffret is a choreographer and a performer at the crossroads of experimental dance, performance art, dramaturgy and theatre.
In her works she contemplates the contemporary world through deriving inspiration from life experiences and theoretical texts from human sciences. She is interested in analysing historical and contemporary body politics and representations as well as in the relations between text and movement. Since 2014 she started a series of private pieces – performances putting at stake female body politics, oscillating between private and public.
She was a „priority artist" in the frame of Aerowaves and received scholarships from Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Art Stations Foundation and Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in Poland, program “Młoda Polska” (2010) and “Stypendium Ministra” (2013).
Piotrowska-Auffret graduated from the master choreographic program ex.e.r.ce. in Montpellier and Theatre Academy in Białystok. She is a member of choreographer’s platform from Warsaw – Center in Motion.

Gabriele Stötzer was born in Emleben, East Germany, in 1953. In the mid-1970s, she studied at a teacher training college in Erfurt, but was exmatriculated for political reasons. Her further opposition activity earned her a one-year prison sentence. After being released, she became involved in art, running a gallery and creating her own works, which included not only photography, film, painting and performance, but also textiles, ceramics, created objects, art books and costumes. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Stötzer co-initiated the first occupation of the Stasi (Ministry for State Security of the GDR) headquarters in Erfurt in order to prevent its files from being destroyed. After the political transformation, she continued her artistic work, participated in exhibitions and published eight books. The artist lives and works in Erfurt, teaching university seminars in Performance and delivering lectures on feminist art and being a contemporary witness. In 2013, she was awarded the Federal Republic of Germany’s Order of Merit for her social and political activities.
Gabriele’s work, like that of many female artists in the former GDR, has only just begun to be discovered in recent years. Her work has been shown in group exhibitions such as: re:act feminism, Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin (2008); Gender Check. Femininity and Masculinity in Eastern Europe, MUMOK – Museum of Modern Art, Vienna (2009), Zachęta – National Gallery of Art (2010), Warsaw; Voices of Dissent: Art on the GDR 1976-1989, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (2016); 100 Ways of Thinking, Kunsthalle, Zurich (2018) and in the solo exhibition Conscious Inability: The Archive of Gabriele Stötzer, GfZK, Leipzig. The artist’s films were presented as part of the Trashing Performance programme, Tate Modern, London (2011) and at the 70. Berlinale – Berlin International Film Festival (2020).

Márta Ladjánszki studied classical ballet, gymnastic apparatus work and jazz- and modern dance in Budapest and in Vienna. In 1996 she was the co-founder of KOMPmÁNIA contemporary dance theatre company where Ladjánszki worked both as performer and co-choreographer. In 2001 she joined the L1 Association and has been acting as its artistic
vice-director ever since. Being a freelance choreographer and dancer in Budapest she keeps on seeking opportunities to present her work in the field of contemporary dance to those who are open to and interested in her works of art and her provision for the human body. Her inspiration comes directly from the body itself and transforms the inner thoughts into visible pieces of information. Ladjánszki firmly believes that we are all different (not only physically) and this makes our lives richer. Therefore she celebrates the body in every piece she creates.

Márta started the so-called 'Series of dance performances with/for Naked Spectators' in 2018 in the partnership with NaVKE (Virtual Association of Naturists) and Bakelit Multi Art Center. In this frame she premiered several works already like: 25/45 / UMARMUNG / UMARMUNG 2.0 Triptychon.

Zsolt Varga is a musician, composer, multiinstrumentalist, sound and movement artist based in Budapest, Hungary and chairman of L1 Association since 2011.

Boglárka Börcsök is a performing artist and choreographer who grew up near the Romanian and Serbian border in the lowlands of South-East Hungary.
She left Hungary 15 years ago to study contemporary dance at Anton Bruckner Privateuniversität in Austria and at P.A.R.T.S. in Belgium. She was working and living in Brussels for 9 years, currently she is based in Berlin and Budapest.
Börcsök worked for several years as an artistic collaborator and performer with Eszter Salamon in her acclaimed MONUMENT series. As a dancer and performer she worked with various artists internationally such as Boris Charmatz, Joachim Koester, Tino Seghal, Kate McIntosh and Ligia Lewis.
Boglárka Börcsök has been collaborating in the field of performing arts with the artist and filmmaker Andreas Bolm since 2017. By using methods of expanded choreography, their work examines how memory and history are expressed in personal gestures and movements, exploring the fine line between documentary and fiction.Their first collaboration, a film titled The Art of Movement, they trace the development of modern dance in Hungary in the first half of the 20th century by portraying three elderly dancers from Budapest. In the following work Figuring Age, a performance installation based on their previous film, they restaged the personal stories, gestures, and movements of the elderly dancers by creating a ghostly encounter. Bolm and Börcsök are currently developing several performance and film projects.