Jerzy Bielski (1984) – director of Futurists, Polish composer, stage director, author of interdisciplinary music theater performances, performer. He creates works at a cross-point between music, theatre, dance, video, sound art, VR and installation, dealing with the current social-civilization related issues. Bielski received a Gold Award at one of the largest Dutch theater festivals, Amsterdam Fringe, for his piece not only FUTURISTS and is a finalist of an international competition Danse Élargie in Seoul, S. Korea, for the music-dance theater piece + – / , 1 = _ ; X%.
His work has been presented at: Dutch National Opera (Amsterdam), Festival de Royaumont (France), Danse Élargie (S. Korea), National Arts Festival (S. Africa), Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow (Poland), Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ (Amsterdam), SPRING festival (Utrecht), Tivoli Vredenburg (Utrecht), Warsaw Autumn (Poland), Café Oto (London), IGNM Bern (Switzerland), Stadsschouwburg Utrecht, Amsterdamse Bostheatre, Theater Kikker, Brakke Grond, Het Huis Utrecht, WORM , BUMA, Orgelpark, Splendor (Netherlands), Theatre Institute Warsaw, etc…
Bielski has created nine performances of music theatre and one 360 (VR) movie/live experience for Futurists, Silbersee, Gaudeamus, Amsterdam Bostheatre, and Orgelpark. As a guest composer he wrote music to another thirteen theatre performances and designed sound sculptures and new instruments to six of them – in the Netherlands, UK and Poland. He wrote music to a few films and radio plays. He is a leader of a 9-piece hyper-prog-rock band Circuit, which received the Emerging Excellence Award for their album “Codes” (London). In 2017-19, Bielski was a stipendant of the Performing Arts Fund NL as the “New Maker” and an artist-in-residence at the Dutch new music foundation Gaudeamus. During this time, he travelled to over a dozen contemporary music and theatre festivals in the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, France and the UK and took a series of individual lessons with Jenifer Walshe, Frances Sanders, Richard Ayres, and Jan Klata.
Jerzy Bielski (born in Białystok, Poland) lives in Amsterdam. He graduated from Middlesex University in London and Conservatorium of Amsterdam.
Tatiana Rosa (1991) – Portuguese audiovisual artist and flautist who focuses on developing multidisciplinary performances. She is currently based in Amsterdam and obtained her master’s degree in Live Electronics at the Conservatory of the same city in 2017. She regularly collaborates with dancers, actors and directors in the development of performances in which she takes on the role of a sound designer, visual artist and/or flautist. In her own creations, she has mainly focused on the development of works in which the musicians play a role in theatrical expressions through the use of movement, voice and electronic extensions. She is a founding member of Trash Panda Collective, Queens of Noise and Ensemble mpmp. As a live electronics artist, she collaborated with Jerzy Bielski on three of his previous productions, Zamenhof Project: Breaking the Codes, No-One Show and NONline Opera.
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Thomas Brand (1981) – Dutch visual artist with experience as a filmmaker, animator and lighting designer. Disciplines that he likes to combine in immersive, interdisciplinary projects. He creates images in which the viewer can literally get lost, using everything his arsenal has to offer.
After completing his studies at the Hogeschool van Utrecht, Thomas started working for various theater and film projects, gaining hands-on experience as a set designer, filmmaker, animator and technician. Worked on location theater projects with the PampaLab foundation, community arts projects with the FORMAAT foundation and immersive performances with his own foundations, Collectief KG and FuseWorks, as well as followed a course in film directing at the Amsterdam Filmshool. This has resulted in a lot of hands-on experience in various roles, giving him the tools to think out of the box and to work and communicate comfortably in many different projects. Thomas likes to take on the challenge and works at the limit of his abilities in order to stretch it a little every time. He has since worked as a lighting designer for various projects on location or in the theater and has worked with Ronald Snijders and Patrick Nederkoorn, among others. Worked on location with Vis-a-Vis and Titia Bouwmeester. Worked with Cat Smits Company on several short puppet/poetry films and video sets. Worked as a video director translating the location theater to live stream. With dance group Movementalists, he made visuals for Theater Terra and Deep Bridge, coaches students in the use of video in Project Brandt! at the Amsterdam School of the Arts, worked as a DOP on various short films, directs his own short films and is working on a series of multi-disciplinary site-specific short films with his project KIEMGROND.
Since 2019, Thomas is a permanent member of the Futurists together with Jerzy Bielski where he worked on Zamenhof Project: Breaking the Codes, No-One Show, and NONline Opera (visuals, dramaturgy, light design, DOP, animation, post production).
Sandra Abouav (1984) – French choreographer, trained in classical dance in Angoulême, she discovered contemporary techniques at the Conservatoire de Poitiers. She graduated from History of Arts and Archaeology (University of Poitiers) and Choreographic Performing Arts in Paris.
In 2010, she founded the company METAtarses with Vincent Cespedes, composer and philosopher. Together, they created several productions and performances. She forged strong links with Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco. In 2015, she invited Alexis Morel, composer and flutist, to play on the musicality and magic that words generate in movement, together they created RIZ COMPLET. As a stagiaire at the Royaumont Foundation for the ” Vocal presence in the choreographic score” programme, she began her research and writing around yawning and its metamorphoses: À BOUCHE QUE VEUX-TU is created in 2017. Continuing her research into the dialogue between voice and movement, and increasingly considering the body as a musical instrument, she is developing a research and composition laboratory in a very short format (videodance with a text automatically translated into English by an AI). Playground and production area, for 3 years she has been producing Parking Dance, a weekly web series conducive to invitations and collaborations. The challenge was the creation of a choreographic, vocal and literary entity.
Her multi-disciplinary pieces call for a great complicity with musical composition, with mechanic worlds and zoomorphic transformations. Her dance invests great physicality and draws its commitment from a dialogue with space where precision and the plastic approach of the body as metamorphosis serve a sensitive, generous purpose on the edge of the absurd. In 2015 Abouav begin a collaboration with composer and performer Jerzy Bielski. Together they created + – / , 1 = ; _ X % in 2016 and Zamenhof Project: Breaking the Codes in 2019.
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Richard Ayres (secretaris/secretary of Futurists Foundation) – born in Cornwall (Great Britain) in 1965. In 1986 he followed Morton Feldman’s classes at the Darmstadt and Dartington summer schools, and after this experience decided to make music a full-time occupation. He studied composition at the University of Huddersfield, and postgraduate composition with Louis Andriessen at the Royal Conservatoire in Den Haag, graduating in 1992. He continues to live in the Netherlands, and teaches composition at the Conservatoire in Amsterdam.
Ayres music has been performed by many of the major European contemporary music ensembles, and numerous orchestras. He collaboraed with the novelist and poet Lavinia Greenlaw on an opera version of Peter Pan which was premiered by Stuttgart Opera in 2013, and received a new production directed by Keith Warner for the Welsh National Opera and the the Komische Oper Berlin.
He recently finished an orchestral piece commissioned by the BBC and the Donaueschingen Musiktage. and is currently working on an evening length “annotated concert” for Bass voice and chamber ensemble commissioned by the London Sinfonietta. and ASKO Ensemble, Amsterdam.
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Gunther Barten (penningmeester/treasurer of Futurists Foundation)– managing director of Rumor festival (Utrecht, Netherlands) for the past 17 years.