MEET THE TEAM

Alice bonazzi |CO- CREATOR AND DIRECTOR OF DAMAEDANCE

Originally from Italy, Alice graduated from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance with a First-Class Honours degree. During her time at Laban, Alice worked with Alison Curtis-Jones, Zoi Dimitriou, Fernanda Prata, Maciej Kuzminski (amongst others) and she performed in works by Maxine Doyle and Matthew Bourne. In 2017, she joined Company Chameleon as an apprentice dancer, and she has been collaborating with them since as Associate Artist. Alice performed and toured nationally works by Company Chameleon, Rosie Kay Dance Company, MOTUS, Mercurial Dance and Kapow- Dance Circus Theatre. In 2018 Alice co-founded DAMAEDANCE, a collaboration with dance artist Sara Marques.

Sara Marques | CO- CREATOR AND DIRECTOR OF DAMAEDANCE

Sara Marques began her contact with Contemporary Dance at the Balleteatro Professional School in Porto, where she concluded her course in 2014. She then joined Northern School of Contemporary Dance (Leeds), where she graduated in 2017 with a First class BPA (Hons) degree. During her time in Leeds, she had the opportunity of performing with Kassichana O.- Jameson in the contemporary finals of BBC Young Dancers 2015, worked with Gracefool Collective, Hannes Langolf (DV8) and Kerry Nicholl among others. In 2017, Sara started working as an apprentice dancer with Company Chameleon through NSCD’s Postgraduate Apprenticeship Scheme. In 2018, Sara had the opportunity to perform in a number of site-specific, outdoor and indoor settings nationally and internationally, representing Company Chameleon as Associate Artists in Germany and Sweden, worked with Jamaal Burmark “Extendeplay" and Company K.

Callum Holt | Producer

Callum Holt is an independent producer based in Leeds but working nationally across the UK. He predominantly works in dance though is passionate about all live performance, and specialises in supporting artists in developing themselves and delivering their projects.

Collaborators

Fernanda Prata | Choreographic Mentor for (After) PARTY

Fernanda Prata is an interdisciplinary artist working across Theatre and Dance for over 20 years. She has worked in collaboration with many UK and Brazilian companies such as Protein, Jasmin Vardimon, Vincent Dance Theatre, Sarah Crow, Stan Won’t Dance and Quasar. Her main and longest collaboration has been with Punchdrunk, working as Assistant Director and performer for over 14 years involved in the productions Sleep no More, The Drowned Man, Masque of red death and Faust. Currently Fernanda is a Lecturer at NSCD in performance, choreography and contextual studies for their Undergraduate and post-graduate programmes. She is also the MA Course Leader on their Dance and Creative Enterprise course.Selected Choreographic works includes ‘Kroppen Min’ for Stavanger University, ‘Nos’ commissioned by Horniman Museum and Gardens, ‘Midsummers Night Dream’ for Karamel Club Theatre in London, ‘An Open Book’ commissioned by NSCD, ‘I will do all that I can’ commissioned by London Contemporary Dance School, ‘The Drowned Man’ for Punchdrunk Company, ‘‘No Contact’ commissioned by The Place. Fernanda received a PhD scholarship at De Montfort University and currently researching title as The Dancer Training Within an Integrative Approach: A Transpractice Methodology Towards the UK Dance Conservatoire. She is investigating on how to offer a methodology for Contemporary Dancers with an integrative approach and ways that this methodology could offer potential for creating work.