David Williams: teacher, researcher and performance maker. He has been Professor  for theatre at Dartington College of Arts in Devon, and currently at the Royal Holloway University of London. David Williams’ main focus of research is contemporary performance theory and practice, in particular in relation to processes of generation and composition in devised work. He is interested in intersections between contemporary philosophy and critical practices, and contemporary performance in an expanded field of practice. He has written widely about contemporary performance in books and journals internationally, including „Performance Research‟, „The Drama Review‟, „New Theatre Quarterly‟, „Contemporary Theatre Review‟, „Writings on Dance‟ (Australia) and „Frakcija‟ (Croatia). Much of his recent research relates to animals and performance, particularly horses, birds and dogs. As a director, dramaturg, writer or performer he has collaborated on performance projects in Europe and Australia with Lone Twin, Pete Brooks‟ Insomniac Theatre, Forced Entertainment, Deer Park, Chrissie Parrott, Barry Laing and ExTC, and choreographers Emilyn Claid, Jane Mason, Chrissie Parrot, Katja Wolf, and recently with Malgven Gerbes and David Brandstaetter. David Williams has been dramaturgic adviser for the pieces “Rencontres” and “Notebook”.

Julien Crépieux (1979) is a visual artist. He lives and works in Paris. He graduated from the fine art school of Montpellier (DNSEP - Diplôme National Supérieur d’Expression Plastique). His work: videos, documentaries, films and installations have been presented in Paris at: Palais de Tokyo, Vidéo Club #1, La Vitrine, Galerie 220 jours, La Promesse de l’Écran. In Montpellier at: Les Chantiers Boîte Noire, Vasistas Galerie, Galerie Aperto. In Bordeaux at the musée d'Art contemporain, in Marseille at the espaceculture. And internationally in Naples at the Biennale des Jeunes Créateurs de la Méditerrannée, and in Geneva at the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain. Julien Crépieux collaborates with Malgven Gerbes and David Brandstätter since 2005. He made the scenography and video for the piece “I don’t Remember what time it was…”, the video for the piece “Notebook”, and the documentary “Eulogy to the Shade”.

Christoph Engelke born 1968 in Freiburg/Breisgau, works in the film and broadcast industry since 1989. After a professional education as a radio sound assistant (SRT Nürnberg) and some years at RIAS Berlin radio station he studied Sound Engineering at the HFF Potsdam-Babelsberg. He worked in various fields of film and TV sound production, sound design and education.
From 2001 to 2006 he worked as an Artistic Research Assistant and teacher at HFF Babelsberg, in 2007 he was Chief Researcher for Sound Design at the Korean German Institute of Technology in Seoul, South Korea. Recently he lives and works as a freelance Sound Designer in Berlin. For s h i f t s Christoph did the sound of "notebook" and takes pictures of different productions such as "counting", rencontres", "eulogy to the shade" and "notebook".

Hiroaki Kanai is born in Osaka, Japan in 1982. Graduated from the fashion department of the Hogeschool voor Kunsten Arnhem in the Netherlands in 2006. Internship during his study at Haider Ackermann(Feb.-Oct.2004) for two seasons of collection(05 S/S, 05-6 A/W). In July, 2006, he attended ‘ITS#FIVE’, an international fashion design contest in Trieste, Italy as a finalist. After graduation he was invited to present his collection for InFashion project of Asia-Pacific-Weeks in Berlin in September, 2007. He now works as a fashion designer and collaborates with creators intermediately based in Berlin.

Marie Spiller: After her studies in modern litterature, some time of taking pictures, some time of climbing in the valley of the Mt Blanc; Marie Spiller is starting, with the choreographic  project Counting, her first video documentary. An other film is also  in process: it will be about the work of an American writer and a travel across the West of the United States his writtings would have triggered.

Mary O’Donnell (Fulkerson), BFA, MFA, University of Illinois, Urbana, and fellow of Dartington College of Arts, teaches Release and choreography.  She choreographs, particularly using open-form strategies. Her solo and group works have been performed in twenty-one countries.  She is the author of the concepts “Responsible Anarchy” and  “Ethical Reformation” which she has promoted through performance as  both, concepts and aesthetic positions describing our time.  She wrote the book “Release, Seven Zones of Comprehension Coming from the Practice of Dance”, and “a Release manual of images for individual study”.Mary teaches Release and Choreography at the undergraduate and graduate levels at colleges and universities, and through workshops in studios and theatres worldwide.  Through these subjects a person’s perceptions, concepts, human narratives and conditions  meet with physical possibilities, to create realities of communication.