DENISA MUSILOVA is a performer and choreographer creating live, introspective, movement-based experiences in which psychological struggles are given physical form.  Her original works have been co-produced and presented at the Tank, Dixon Place, Next@Graham, NY Butoh Festival, Movement Research, Czech Center, Triskelion Arts, 92nd Street Y, LATEA Theater, Triskelion Arts, La MaMa, SOAK Festival, Venuše ve Švehlovce Theater and Theater Akropolis Prague. 

She choreographed Swing Heil directed by Iveta Ditte Jurčová; the musical Branicky zazrak, directed by Academy award-winning director Jan Sverak; Quixote, directed by Mark DeChiazza for Peak Performances at Montclair State University; and Amy Beth Kristen’s Savior, which premiered at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Musilova was commissioned to present a new work for Susan Marshall's 2018 Prototypes ,and performed at Robert Wilson’s Watermill Gala in 2019.

Currently, Musilova works as a guest choreographer for the Horacke Theater Jihlava, where she has staged multiple plays, working with prominent theater directors including Dodo Gombar, Michal Zetel, and Rastislav Ballek. In the Czech Republic, Musilova danced in the production of Viva La Mama at the National Theater in Prague, as well as collaborated on new choreographies for DEKKADANCERS, Theater Bila Holubice, and Tantehorse. 

MARK DeCHIAZZA is a director whose multifaceted practice includes filmmaking, choreography, scenic and media design, and installation. His work has been presented in national and international venues including Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lincoln Center, John F. Kennedy Center of the Arts, Guthrie Theater, Singapore International Festival of Arts, Prototype Festival, Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, The Momentary, and Walton Arts Center.

His large-scale outdoor works include Look Around (2019) a co-creation with composer Shara Nova, that featured the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and over 600 additional performers from over 30 local groups, and direction and design of John Luther Adams’ Sila (2016) for Lincoln Center Festival and Mostly Mozart. Past projects include: Ocean Body, a 4-screen film and music installation he co-created with performers Helga Davis and Shara Nova, Dan Trueman’s Olagón, with singer Iarla Ó Lionáird and Eighth Blackbird ensemble; Quixote, a music-theater epic with composer Amy Beth Kirsten; Orpheus Unsung, a music-dance work with Steven Mackey; My Lai, an opera by Jonathan Berger with Kronos Quartet and Rinde Eckert.

TOM RYCHETSKY is a Czech choreographer, dancer and a stage manager.  He choreographed a dance-theater piece “Clockwork Orange” for the South Bohemian Theater Ballet (with Ondřej Vinklát), which was nominated for the best dance work of 2021; “Branický zázrak”, a musical by Academy Award winner Jan Sverak (with D. Musilova) and “iMucha”, an international multimedia show that premiered in May 2022 at O2 Universum Prague with subsequent tour to Expo 2020 in Dubai. Past projects include movement direction for theater productions, such as Swing Heil! (Poton Theater), Cabaret Winton (Svandovo Theater), Barber Shop (Horacke Theater Jihlava), collaboration with the music band Tata Bojs and DEKKADANCERS on staging the “Big Bang” Concert, as well as creating multiple choreographies for professional dance companies (DEKKADANCERS, National Theater Prague, Prague Chamber Ballet, Cirk La Putyka, White Dove Theater, Bohemia Ballet). Rychetsky is a recipient of a 2005 Critics  Award for the best choreography and one of the founders of DEKKADANCERS. As a dancer he was a member of the Prague National Ballet (2003-2014) and Prague Chamber Ballet (2000-2003).

VIVIENNE PANKRATOVA is from Brooklyn, NY where she attends 5th grade at P.S. 261. She started dancing at age five, first studying tap and later, classical ballet. At age seven, Vivienne enrolled in Ballet Academy East’s pre-professional program where she has studied for the past four years. Vivienne has had the opportunity to dance in children’s roles at the Metropolitan Opera, and was featured in the the audio-video collaboration for Spiel, one of the seven ensemble movements in composer Andy Akiho's Grammy-nominated “Seven Pillars,” created for Sand Box Percussion and directed by Mark DeChiazza. In addition to dancing and performing Vivienne loves playing outdoors, as well as reading, writing and solving math problems. 

ALES KAUER is an artist, poet, musician and a graphic designer. He is an organizer of cultural events, avant-garde music projects, and a literary-musical festival “Kvílení.” His poems, texts, and music reviews has been regularly published in print media (A2, Host, Tvar, Weles, Glosolalia, Prostor, Artikl and Deník Referendum) and a selection of his poems was printed by the Kniha Zlín publishing house in 2011. Kauer’s work have been translated into English (Natálie Nera), Spanish (Emilio Paz), Polish (Jaroslaw Pastuszak), Ukrainian (Krystyna Kuznietsová), Slovenian (Taťjana Jamnik), Hungarian (Csehy Zoltán) and brought out in several foreign literary magazines and anthologies. As a founder of the publishing house Adolescent, he produced many poetry collections, such as VNĚ/MNĚ (2014) and HappyEND (2020). On Bandcamp you can hear cycles of poems set to music "Heron" (Ivan Martin Jirous), ERTH (Olina Stehlíková), Imaginists (Sergej Jesenin), Understanding (Václav Havel), Good night, I announced the blow (Martin Jelínek).