Biographies

CAROLINE ALVES, based in Berlin, is a dancer, teacher, and choreographer with over 20 years of experience. After high school, she joined the Brazilian state company Cia. de Dança Palácio das Artes for seven years. She also graduated in Psychology (PUC-Minas, Brazil) and developed a research on creative process in dance. Since moving to Berlin in 2013, she has been an active member of Grupo Oito and also part of the performance experiment collective Machine to Become. She premiered her first full-length choreography, TRANSATLANTICA, at English Theatre Berlin in 2022. Since 2016, she has been giving regular contemporary dance classes in Berlin, and she has conducted workshops in various locations across Europe and Brazil. As a teacher, her work is characterized by being highly physical, and informed by floorwork, contact improvisation techniques, somatic practices, improvisation & composition techniques, capoeira and insights from the Get Physical Process - a practice used by Grupo Oito and developed by Ricardo de Paula.

Learn more at www.carolinealves.art

MARTINA GARBELLI started studying dance as a little child and has worked in the field for more than 15 years. After completing her education at SEAD (Salzburg) she worked with different choreographers and companies (Compagnia Aiep, cie. Willy Dorner and Zaches Teatro), touring in various European countries. Since 2012 she is based in Berlin and active in the freelance dance scene as a dancer (a.o. guest by Constanza Macras), performer (for video artist Yvon Cabrowski) and creator (“Liven 2014, - “Althea” 2016). Since 2015 she is part of the dance collective Grupo Oito and has been involved in the artistic and organisational processes of the group. In 2021 she received the DIS-TANZ SOLO grant for her research “Medusas”. In her contemporary dance classes and workshops, she accompanies her students in the exploration of principles of movement. Through different dance and somatic techniques (like floorwork, release technique, contact improvisation, capoeira and and Get Physical Process) and using tools of improvisation and instant composition, her work as a teacher aims to foster self-knowledge and interconnection.

Learn more at www.martinagarbelli.com