Regine Thielemans – Belgium/Antwerpen – artistic board member + Project administrator
Breef list of creative activities of Regine – Studied 2 years fulltime theatretraining at ‘De Kleine Academie – Luk De Smet’, Brussels (Lecoq), then danced in 2 projects from the Open Dance Company (improvisation dance) in Oslo (‘Yesterday’ and ‘X-so’). Then 2 years filltime corporeal mime at the Antwerp school for mime and Movement theatre (olv. Jan Ruts), and followed different intens courses related with the work of Decroux, Laban, Butoh, Meyerhold, Stanislavski and Grotowski. Recently she followed course in bodylanguage training (practitioner and Master achieved at Centrum voor Lichaamstaal training with Patrick Wezowski and Kasia Jedrzejczak, Antwerpen).
Lluis Graells, Spain/Reus – artistic board member
Actor, director, professor, and artistic director of COS, the International Festival of Movement and Gestual Theater in Reus, Catalonia. He worked with Pawel Rouba and Andrzej Leparski in mime and Pantomime, mask with Andrzej Leparski, Don Jordan and Roy Bossier, and Commedia dell’Arte with Carlo Boso and Ferruccio Soleri. Actually he’s director of Department of technics of interpretation of Institut del Teatre.
Cèsar Compte Margalef, Spain/Reus – artistic board member
Degree in Communication Sciences from the Autonomous University
Barcelona and Humanities at the UOC. Technical Communication
Municipal Institute of Cultural Action Reus (IMAC) in 2004, occupies
the position of Manager Consortium Bartrina Theater, starting
thus more specific tasks of cultural management.
Since 2007 head of the CAER-Performing Arts Center
Reus, thus grouping the coordination of Fortuny and Bartrina theaters, festivals Trapezi and Cos, and productions
own. During the years 2008 and 2009 has been a board member of the artistic
Festival Terrassa in Motion – TNT.
Nullo Faccini- Denmark/Vordingborg – artistic board member
Nullo Facchini founded Cantabile 2 in 1983 and has been the artistic director ever since. His artistic work has its main focus on the human-specific genre founded by Cantabile 2 and at the centre is always the experience and the unique, the original. Nullo Facchini is the principal of School of Stage Arts, and curator and artistic director of the international theater festival “Waves”, an international forum for experimental theatre and art. Here artists from all over the world meet and show what happens within theatre, performance, dance and visual art today.
Susanne Danig – Denmark/Vordingborg – artistic board member
Degree in literature and modern culture from University of Copenhagen, studies in USA and France and a degree in management and leadership. Worked with theatre publicity, management and international relations since 1991 with several Danish groups among them Kitt Johnson. Employed at the Danish Arts Council as consultant for the smaller theatres. Teachings at the University of Copenhagen and the National Theatre School. Currently working as manager and international coordinator for Cantabile 2 and the Waves festival besides doing consultant work on international strategy making for Danish Theatres. On the board of Danish ITI.
Bartlomiej Ostapczuk – Poland/Warsaw – artistic board member
A mime artist, director of mime and drama theatre, choreographer and mime consultant in drama performances, teacher. He studied mime theatre in Poland, USA and Spain. Since 2005 Artistic Director of the International Mime Art Festival at the Na Woli Theatre in Warsaw. Originator and founder of the Warsaw Mime Centre at the Na Woli Theatre and Mimo Mime Theatre. He performed in Warsaws’s theatres including the Great Theatre-Opera House. He performed in theatres in Japan, Puerto Rico, USA, UK, Germany, China, Lithuania, Russia, France, Israel and South Korea.
Katarzyna Sliwinska – Poland/Warsaw – artistic board member
A mime artist. Since 2005 associated with Mime Studio under the artistic direction of Bartlomiej Ostapczuk. Since 2006 actress of the Mimo Mime Theatre. Participant of many mime theatre courses and projects including The School of Modern Mime in Warsaw, Poland. Member of the Mime Center Foundation. She is also a teacher in Mime Studio in the Warsaw Mime Center.
Marc Crauwels, Belgium/Antwerpen – president artistic board
Formed in mime and visual theater from 1986 to 1989 at the Antwerp Studio for mime and movement theater, circus and acrobatics Brussels circusschool 1989, method acting Ernie Martin and Actors Studio New York. Freelance actor for different theatre and danceproductions, work for movie and tv since 1990. Founder and general director from Flemish Mime Federation 1992-…, International Mime Square Festival 1997-2007, Publisher and editorial Mimejournal for Belgium 1995-2004 European Pinokkio Price 1999-2005, International Crossroadsfestival 2011-…, European Mime Index 2010-…