Erna Ómarsdóttir
Erna graduated from PARTS in Belgium in 1998. Since then she has worked
as a dancer with various companies and choreographers including Troubleyn
/ Jan Fabre, creating and dancing various works. Since 2002 she has
worked with Les Ballet C dela B and Sidi Larbi Cherkoui, creating
and performing Foi. During the same period Erna has actively pursued
her own work.
Her most recent projects include IBM 1401 (a users manual) created
in cooperation with the musician composer Johann Johannson, Poni a
collective initiated by Frank Pay, a dance/concert performance installation.
Erna has performed her own work and that of others all over the world
in recent years and been invited to some of the most renowned festivals
and venues. She was announced Best young dancer by Ballet International
in 2002 and in 2003 the Best dancer and a young choreographer to watch.
Damien Jalet
Damien Jalet is french and belgian. He followed first
studies of theatre at the I.N.S.A.S. (national institute of the performing
arts, Brussels), but directed himself soon after his studies exclusively
towards contemporary dance which he studies in Belgium and in New
- York. He started his choreographic career with Wim Vandekeybus on
the show "the day of heaven and hell" (1998) and danced
with choreographers like Ted Stoffer and Christine De Smedt. In
2000 he began an intense collaboration with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui as
his artistic partner within the company "les ballets C de la
B". They created "rien de rien" (2000), "Foi"(2003),"
Tempus Fugit "(2004), "d'avant" 82005) presented in
various countries. In 2005 he created a short movie ,"the unclear
age", co-directed with Erna Omarsdottir and the movie makers
Dumspiro . He also assisted Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui for the creation
of the piece "in Memoriam" for "les ballets de Monte-Carlo"and
"Loin" for the ballet of the "grand theatre de Geneve".
Damien jalet studied also ethnomusicology and polyphonic singing with
Giovanna Marini, Christine Leboutte, Nando Acquaviva and Nicole Casalongua
a.o.
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