The Critics Battle ‘Silent Period’

Anya Kravchenko (b.1985, Berdiansk) is a choreographer, performer, and curator. She studied art theory and history in The Russian University for Humanities (Moscow, 2009–2014), received international danceWEB scholarship (Vienna, 2015) and recently graduated from the MA program in choreography e.x.e.r.c.e (International Choreographic Institute in Montpellier). Since 2015, her choreographic works have been presented in Russia, France, and Switzerland, in which she elaborates new forms of perception and interaction. Kravchenko lives and works in St. Petersburg.

Elena Demyanenko (b. 1976, Moscow) is a performing artist and choreographer. Demyanenko was a recipient of a Jerome Robbins Fellowship for the creation of Disparate Bodies with Joseph Poulson, made and premiered at the Baryshnikov Arts Center (2011). Performed at various venues including the Théâtre National de Chaillot (Paris), Montpellier Danse Festival (France), Dance Umbrella Festival (London, UK), Danscentrum (Stockholm), Festival de Fortaleza (Brazil), Festival Panorama de Dança (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Currently Demyanenko is teaching Dance at Bennington College.

Fernando Belfiore (b.1983, Sao Paolo) is a choreographer and performance artist. In 2012 he graduated from Sao Paolo Public University. Belfiore works explore performance art having the body as his main medium trough the mixture of theater, choreographic questions and visual arts references.  Each work proposes a diverse experience because Belfiore drinks from diverse themes and experiments with modes of creation. Currently based in Amsterdam.

Anna Kozonina (b. Nizhny Novgorod, 1992) is a contemporary dance researcher, journalist, editor, participant of the Proscenium laboratory at the Volga-Vyatka branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Art. Was part of the curatorial team for the contemporary dance choreographers’ residence Ruza-2017. Worked as correspondent for the Open Look and Diversia festivals, edited the online magazine Culture in the City. Writes about dance for Roomfor.ru and the Art Magazine.

Anna Volkland (b.1985, Weimar) is a contemporary dance critic and theorist. Studied Dramaturgy at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig and following this, Dance Studies at the Free University Berlin. 2007 she was co-founder of the initiative Werkstattmacher e.V. to support young experimentally and interdisciplinarily working performing arts artists in Leipzig and received the first Marie Zimmermann Fellowship for junior dramaturgs (2008). In 2009 she wrote her diploma thesis "Theatre without Stage" about special forms of theatre that create uncertain borderlines between fiction and reality. Since 2014 she has been a research assistant at the University of the Arts Berlin.

Charlotte Imbault (b.1985, Paris) is a dance critic. Co-founder and editorial coordinator of watt magazine, she was previously associate editor of the journal Mouvement. Imbault writes for art press and Transfuge and develops radio scripts writing through various sound editing techniques around the idea of ​​criticism in act. She lives and works in Paris.