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Jernej Bizjak is a Slovene dancer, choreographer and pedagogue based in Denmark.
He studied at CODARTS, Rotterdam Dance Academy in The Netherlands. In 2010 he
joined IT Dansa in Barcelona and in 2012 he became a member of Danish Dance Theatre
in Copenhagen.

He is freelancing since 2015 and has participated in various productions and independent
projects with Korzo Theatre, Fors Works, Andersson Dance, Helsingborg City Theatre,
Royal Swedish Opera, Skånes Dansteater, MUOVI-Fabio Liberti etc. Jernej is a member of
artistic collective Institute 0.1 and a co-founder of cultural association DUK47, both
based in Slovenia.

Sara Živkovič Kranjc is a freelance dramaturg, producer and curator working in the fields of contemporary dance, postdramatic theatre and performance art. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Performing Arts Studies at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, focusing on the relation between dramaturgy and potentiality. As a dance dramaturg she worked with choreographers in co/productions of Bora Bora – dans og visuelt teater, Dansehallerne, Skånes Dansteater, LANDERER&COMPANY, MUOVI/Fabio Liberti, Institute 0.1, DUM – Association of Artists, Bunker, Flota/Matjaž Farič, and in artistic residencies at Performing Arts Platform, Dance & Dramaturgy EU Network, Aaben Dans, Riksteatern among others.

In 2016 she co-established Institute for Contemporary Art Practice and Theory 0.1. She is a guest lecturer at Conservatory of Music and Ballet Ljubljana. She is a member of Dramaturgs’ Network (UK) and Association of Theatre Critics and Researchers (SI).

Among Matija Strniša's latest projects is the David Wnendt directed episode A Light Blue Day of the anthology Punishment as well as the 7-part TV-series Glauben (The Allegation) by director Daniel Prochaska, written by best-selling German author Ferdinand von Schirach. Glauben premiered as the sole German entry in the official competition of Cannes International Series Festival 2021 and received multiple awards, among them the Dior Grand Prize. Strniša’s score was nominated in the category Best Music at CANNESERIES.

He also composed the soundtrack for the internationally successful South Korean feature film Beol-sae (House of Hummingbird) which had its world premiere at the Busan International Film Festival 2018, went on to win the KNN Audience Award as well as the NETPAC Award and was premiered in Europe at the 2019 edition of Berlin International Film Festival where it was awarded the Grand Prize in the "Generation 14plus section" as Best Film. Bora Kim's debut premiered in North America at the Tribeca International Film Festival and received multiple awards there, among others as Best International Narrative Feature. Strniša's score for House of Hummingbird was nominated for Best Score at the prestigious 56th Grand Bell Awards in South Korea in early 2020, won the Best Score Award at the 2019 Valencia International Film Festival - Cinema Jove and was released on Lakeshore Records.

Tanja Pađan is a slovenian designer who founded brand KISS THE FUTURE. Tanja studied textile and fashion design in Slovenia, Portugal and Hungary and she has been published in numerous international magazines such as Revs Magazine, Kneon Magazine, C-Heads Magazine, Outsider Magazines and numerous Slovenian publications. Her main inspiration sources are science fiction, urban culture, cinema and experimental video, 1000 page novels and Rococo style.