Benedetta Reuter completed her dance studies at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen in 1995 and has ever since worked internationally as a freelance dancer, performer and choreographer. Her body of work explores relationships and interactions between dance and the other arts. Often she worked with musicians from the fields of free improvisation, new music and jazz and explores the relationship between sound and body. As a result of intensive practice in improvisation there emerged several interdisciplinary dance and performance projects, such as “The Fold Dance Project” or “Electric Tire-Land” in collaboration with ASEDEVA and the Goethe Institute in Daressalam, Tanzania.

Photo Benedetta Reuter by Hannah Bergus

Meera Varghese is a dancer, choreographer and teacher of the South Indian classical dance form Bharatanatyam. Born and raised in Canada, Meera Varghese has performed as a Bharatanatyam soloist in countless dance productions and festivals in India, Canada, Belgium, Austria, Germany and Switzerland.

Meera Varghese is also a trained opera singer and completed her Masters in Music and Opera Performance at the HMT in Cologne. She has sung in numerous opera productions at theatres in Aachen and Münster, at Bayer Kultur and the Kammeroper Köln. Meera has also played various roles as an actor, dancer and singer in productions of children’s theatre.

Photo Meera Varghese by Stefano Triulzi