FLOCK

Alice Klock and Florian Lochner (FLOCK) met while serving as dancers and Choreographic Fellows atHubbard Street Dance Chicago. In 2017 they created FLOCK through which they perform their own work internationally and co-create new choreography for film and stage. Their most recent FLOCK productions include touring shows Familiar and Somewhere Between. As a team they have choreographed for multiple dance companies, universities, and cultural institutions including Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Whim W’Him, Ballet Idaho, Orsolina 28, Seattle Dance Collective, Ballet Arkansas, the Goethe Institut, Adaptations Dance Theater, University of Iowa, Booker T. Washington School for the Performing Arts, the Alonzo King LINES Ballet BFA, and the 92nd Street Y. In all of their work they strive to bring artists and audiences together in environments that are open, dynamic, and based on joy.

JAMES GREGG

Internationally acclaimed choreographer JAMES GREGG has carved a unique path in the world of contemporary dance, infusing his bold, innovative style into every project he undertakes. Gregg embarked on his dance journey at the age of nine, training with esteemed institutions including Ballet Oklahoma, Houston Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet Academy, and The Edge Performing Arts Center in Los Angeles.Gregg's exceptional talent has garnered numerous accolades throughout his career, including the prestigious 2015 Princess Grace Choreography Fellowship Award and first place in Ballet Austin's 2014 New American Talent choreographic competition. His work has graced the stages of some of the world's most esteemed dance companies and institutions, such as Edmonton Ballet, Ballet X Bodytraffic, Whim W'Him, Arts Umbrella, Danceworks Chicago, Dark Circles Contemporary Dance, Cirque du Soleil, and Springboard Danse Project Montreal. Gregg has collaborated with a number of world-renowned choreographers and companies, including  Aszure Barton & Artists, BJM Danse, Rubberband Dance Group, and Bodytraffic. With each new venture, Gregg continues to captivate audiences and redefine the landscape of contemporary dance.

JOHAN INGER

The Swede JOHAN INGER (Stockholm, 1967) joined Nederlands Dans Theater 1 in 1990 and was a high-profile dancer of the company until 2002. His debut as choreographer (1995), also for Nederlands Dans Theater, quickly became promising with immediate recognition for his ballets Dream Play and Walking Mad. He received the Lucas Hoving Production Award in October 2001. Walking Mad was later also awarded the Danza & Danza Award 2005. Johan left Nederlands Dans Theater to take on the artistic leadership of Cullberg Ballet in Stockholm in 2003 where he created numerous works. Since 2008, Johan has worked as a freelance choreographer and creates for many companies around the globe such as GoteborgsOperan, Ballet Basel, Swedish National Ballet, Compania Nacional de Danza, Aterballetto, Lyon Opera Ballet, Les Ballets de Monte Carlo and of course Nederlands Dans Theater, holding the position as Associate Choreographer from 2009 to 2016. Between 2016 and 2022, Johan choreographed (i.a.) his own versions of the narrative pieces Petrushka and Sleeping Beauty (Aurora’s Nap), and full evenings such as Carmen, Peer Gynt and Don Juan. He was honoured in 2016 with the Benois de la Danse Prize for his Carmen (CNDMadrid), the piece One on One (NDT2), and with the Danza & Danza award for his piece Bliss, as well in 2020 for his Don Juan as best Italian production (Aterballetto). In 2022, Johan Inger also became artistic director of Take Off Dance, a training program for pre-professional dancers between the ages of 18 and 24 based in Sevilla.

OHAD NAHARIN

OHAD NAHARIN is a choreographer, the House Choreographer of Batsheva Dance Company, and creator of the Gaga movement language. Born in 1952 in Mizra, Israel, he joined Batsheva Dance Company in 1974 despite having little training. During his first year, guest choreographer Martha Graham invited him to join her own company in New York, where Naharin later made his choreographic debut at the Kazuko Hirabayshi studio in 1980. For the next decade he presented works in New York and abroad, including pieces for Batsheva Dance Company, the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company, and Nederlands Dans Theater. Naharin worked closely with his first wife, Mari Kajiwara, until she died from cancer in 2001. In 1990, Naharin was appointed Artistic Director of Batsheva Dance Company, and in the same year, he established the company’s junior division, Batsheva – the Young Ensemble. He has since created over thirty works for both companies and set pieces on many others. He has also collaborated with musicians including The Tractor’s Revenge, Avi Balleli and Dan Makov, Ivri Lider, and Grischa Lichtenberger. Under the pseudonym Maxim Waratt, he composed, edited, and mixed many of his own soundtracks. Naharin’s work has been featured in several films, including Tomer Heymann’s Out of Focus (2007) and the Heymann Brothers’ Mr. Gaga (2015). In addition to his stagework, Naharin also developed GAGA, the innovative movement research and daily training of Batsheva’s dancers that has spread internationally among both dancers and non-dancers. A citizen of both Israel and the United States, Naharin currently lives in Israel with his wife, dancer and costume designer Eri Nakamura, and their daughter, Noga.