Rosana Ribeiro

Rosana Ribeiro (1989, Lisbon), is a choreographer who works and lives in Salzburg. She has performed for Hofesh Shechter, Jean Abreu, Cie.7273, Companhia Instável, Paulo Ribeiro, São Castro & António Cabrita and more. She has been creating work since 2021 and is currently on her fifth creation. Topics such as roots, ancestry, belonging, nature, culture and history are recurrent in Rosana’s sensibilities and research. Together with Verena Pircher, she founded the association Selva.

Her first creation “Selva”, exploring roots, ancestry and the book “Women who run with the wolves" by Clarissa Pínkola Estés premiered in Salzburg and toured in Austria, Germany, Portugal and Greece. In 2022, Rosana became an associate artist of the tanz_house and premiered a second performance, “Mycelium” - a dystopian world where fungi served as a metaphor for the parasitic and symbiotic relationships found in a society. In 2023, the third piece “Echoes of Resistance” - a solo performed by Jadwiga Mordarska - looked to highlight the many times and ways we might fall in life. This piece has been selected to be performed at the Choreographic Platform Austria in November 2025. In 2024, Rosana researched how belonging to many places might be the basis for opportunity with the creation “A place I ache to go again” (co-produced by Szene Salzburg and Auditório de Espinho). The international team of dancers premiered “A Place“ at Sommerszene Festival in June of the same year.
Apart from her own artistic work, Rosana was the curator of the Festival Jardins Abertos in Lisbon from 2017 - 2021 and of the tanz_house festival in Salzburg in 2024 and 2025.

“I approach my choreographic work from a sensorial place, looking for plural meanings in each narrative and on how these can give the audience the opportunity to make sense of a concept but at the same time create their own experience. I am interested in who the performers are and on how to negotiate their stories, their movement. The dance lies in this interrelation. The concepts that are brought to the studio are discussed and shared with the collaborators. Together, we devise movement and begin a negotiation on how we can all exist in one space. I also look for a gentle and soft approach to the work and to the environment/frame of the process making. The body & its movement are together the primary form of expression."

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Verena Pircher

Dramaturg, Performer

(AT)

Verena holds an MA in movement research from Bruckneruni Linz, as well as a BA in dance performance from Codarts Rotterdam. Between 2015 and 2019 she was dancing with Norrdans (SWE). In 2018 she became a certified Countertechnique teacher and has been sharing workshops across Europe ever since. In 2020 she assisted Anouk van Dijk at Münchner Kammerspiele. Verena also works as a production manager for Sommerszene and Flavourama festival in Salzburg, and is the co-founder of Selva.

Melissa Ugolini

Performer, Rehearsal Assistant

(IT)

Born in Italy in 1989, Melissa currently works as a performer for Anouk Van Dijk and Falk Richter (Münchner Kammerspiele), Laurence Yadi and Nicolas Cantillon (Cie7273) and Peter Svenzon (Art of Spectra). After graduating in 2011 from the Northern School of Contemporary Dance (UK) winning an award for Outstanding Achievement, she started off her career with the Akram Khan Company (2012), the Istanbul State Opera and Ballet Theatre (2013 - 2017) and the Aakash Odedra Company (2016 - 2021). In addition to her performative path, she also works as Rehearsal Director and Choreographer Assistant and shares her practice internationally. In the last few years she has engaged with several multi-disciplinary creative partnerships, including choreographer Rosana Ribeiro (Selva) and several other musicians and colleagues. She is currently based in Berlin.

Jadwiga Mordarska

Performance

(PL)

Jadwiga Maria Mordarska was born in 1997 in Cracow, and began her dance training in Vaganova ballet technique, jazz, modern dance, rhythm, and folk dance at the age of five. In 2016 she received her dance diploma from L’Art De la Dance Academy in Cracow as well as “The Diploma of professional dancer” conferred by the Association of Artists of Polish Scene in Warsaw. She was hired by Ludowy Theater in Cracow and worked with them for four years in three different pieces. In 2016 she began her contemporary dance education at SEAD- Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance working with numerous international teachers and choreographers. Right after graduating from SEAD in 2020, she became a member of TRAK Dance Ensemble Salzburg, performing a duet choreographed by Barnaby Booth and collaborating on various projects. Simultaneously she began teaching contemporary dance as well as BASI^TM Pilates training in order to become a certificated BASI^TM Pilates teacher.

Jin Lee

Performer

(KR)

Jin Lee is a performer and choreographer based in Munich. She graduated from Dongduck Women’s University (KR) in 2026. Afterward, she continued exploring her movement vocabulary in SEAD(AT) from 2017 to 2019. She has worked, among others, with Milla Koistinen, Ceren Oran, Anna Konjetzky, Jasmine Ellis, Eulalia Ayguade Farro, Georges Mailkel, Pilgyun Jeong, Julyen Hamilton and more. She is a co-founder of an art project ZINADA.

Raul Aranha

Performer

(IND)

Raul Aranha is a Berlin based dancer, the journey into the world of art began with breakdancing, but he soon expanded my horizons and pursued studies in contemporary dance. As an artist, he is captivated by the mechanics of various elements, ranging from the human body to music to cooking. Sharing his work through performances, and workshops both in Berlin and around Europe.

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Alina Lugovskaya

Performer

(UKR/RUS)

Alina is a performance artist, based in Linz, Austria. fromUkraine/Russia. She is currently finishing her BA in Performance and Pedagogy at Bruckneruni, Linz. Having worked with Lee Jung In, Editta Braun, Annette Leal Lopez and others, she is currently touring two productions at Joshua Monten Dance (CH).

Tomaž Simatović

Performer

(SL)

Tomaž Simatović is a choreographer, performance artist, and improviser. He graduated in dance performance at SEAD, and gained his MA degree in choreography at ArtEZ Arnhem. As a dancer Tomaž performed with editta braun company, Susan Quinn, Andreja Podrzavnik, Hubert Lepka, Erik Kaiel, Uwe Bertram, and Georg Blaschke. Since 2012 Tomaž collaborates with Mirjam Klebel and composer Matej Bonin. In his autonomous yet collaborative performance practice Tomaž has been developing performative, experimental and interdisciplinary works. His practice has been presented in Europe, USA and Eastern Asia, in the form of performances, lectures, workshops, and writing.

Sara Chéu

Costume Designer

(PT)

Originally from Portugal, her artistic path began by studying at the Circus School Chapitô, followed by a Masters in Performing Arts at the FCSH. When relocating to Brussels, she worked as assistant director for Radouan Mriziga at the Kaaitheater. In 2019 she began her studies in Historical Costumes for Theater and Cinema at EFP in Brussels and has since then designed the costumes for the short films La Protagoniste by Sarah Carlot Jaber and Marianson by Thierry Knauff. Sara has been collaborating with Selva since 2021.

Peter Kastner

Composer & Sound Designer

(AT)

Originally from Klagenfurt, Peter holds a Master's degree from the LA Music Academy. He co-founded the label Bad Owl in Los Angeles where he has produced, played and collaborated with a wide variety of artists. Recently relocated to Vienna, he is a full time member of the band Karmic and I Am Flora Fauna.

Cristovão Cunha

Light Designer

(PT)

Cristovão began his artistic path in 1997 at Teatro da Academia and at Teatro Viriato in Viseu. His has collaborated with a variety of artists such as Madelena Vitorino, Circolando, Paulo Ribeiro, Tânia Carvalho, Filipa Francisco, Romulus Neagu, Leonor Keil, John Mowat, Rosana Ribeiro, Rui Catalão, Miguel Castro Caldas, São Castro and António M Cabrita. He is currently the technical director and lighting designer for Dançando com Diferença, Yola Pinto, Miguel Castro Caldas, Sónia Barbosa, Produções Independentes and Jardins Efémeros. He was also part of the tours as technical staff for Marlene Monteiro Freitas and Jonas&Lander.

Danny Rico

Composer, Musician, Content and Dramaturgy Advisor

(AT)

Daniel is an Austrian pianist, drummer and composer based in Salzburg. In 2012 he graduated from the Klagenfurt Conservatory of Music
with an MA in Jazz and Classical Piano. From 2011 to 2020 he lived and worked in London and Lisbon. Apart from his solo work he has
toured, composed, recorded and performed drums and piano internationally with artists including: Andreya Triana, Derek Trotson, Dani
Siciliano, Ray Warleigh, Stroy, Mathias Krispin Bucher, Ro Bergman, Army of One, et.al. He has also composed the music for various dance productions and plays drums for the “Steaming Satellites”.

Furthermore, he studied Romance languages in Salzburg and works as a copywriter and translator.

Caro Eisl

Graphic Designer

(AT)

Caro Eisl is a freelance Graphic Designer and Art Director. After spending two years in Milan, Italy she came back to her hometown Salzburg, Austria where she founded her design studio „Design Caro“ that is specialized in Corporate, Editorial and Print Design for international brands, institutions and companies. The female led studio develops meaningful brands for sustainable companies and artists with a profound understanding of aesthetics and design.

Heide Tömpe

Light Designer

(AT)

Mag.a Heide Tömpe MA, is an Austrian Lighting Technician/Designer, living in Steyr/ Upper Austria. Since 2000 she is working and cooperating with various cultural institutions and partners in the Performing Arts field such as Salzburger Festspiele, Mozarteum Salzburg, Szene Salzburg, Arge Nonntal, Wiener Festwochen, tanz_house Festival, Dance in Kortijk, Kunstnetzwerk Ohne Titel, Theater Ecce, Odeion Salzburg, Lawine Torrén, Bodhi Project and Museum Arbeitswelt Steyr. She is also a teacher at SEAD Salzburg and Mozarteum Salzburg.

Kate Krachler

Light Designer

(AT)

Katharina "Kate" Krachler, based in Graz, has been working as a freelance lighting designer for over 10 years. She collaborates with various artists, such as Sohn and Granada, on national and international tours & is engaged with various Austrian playhouses and festivals.