openflr 2018


João Cidade is born in Campo Maior, Portugal, in 1990. He graduates from EPAOE – Chapitô (Lisbon) in 2010 with a professional certificate in performing arts – specialised in contemporary dance and aerial acrobatics. In that same year he does an internship with CPBC (Portuguese Contemporary Ballet Company) before he moves […]

OpenFLR Young Talent 2018 – João Cidade



Dunja Jocic is a Serbian/Dutch choreographer. She was born in Belgrade ( ex Yugoslavia) in 1978 to a family of filmmakers. She was a rhythmic gymnastics vice champion and a member of Yugoslav Olympic team. Dunja graduated Rotterdam Dance Academy in 2002 and has danced with distinguished directors and dance companies, […]

Dunja Jocic



URI SHAFIR (1983) is a dancer, choreographer and a performance artist. Graduate of MASPA (kibbutz Ga’aton dance workshop). As a dancer, worked in Ensemble Batsheva Dance Company, and collaborated with Choreographers such as Yasmeen Godder, Niv Sheinfeld & Oren Laor, Dana Ruttenberg, Maya Levy & Anando Mars, Guy Gutman, Dafi Eltabeb and others. Creating independent works since 2009, and has presented them in different platforms such as Curtain Up, Hazira, Macholohet, (IL), L1DanceFest (HU), APAP (USA) Tanec Praha (CZ), Lucky Trimmer (DE), Dance Waves (CY) and more. Uri is a Gaga teacher (Ohad Naharin’s movement language), leading Gaga classes/workshops across the world. Uri is a currently in his MA studies in Choreography under the Master Exerce program in University of Montpellier, France.   urishafir.com

Uri Shafir


Sebastien Perrault began his dance training at the Conservatory of Angers. In 2000, he joined the Young International Ballet of Cannes, Rosella Higthower. In 2001 he joined the Ballet Junior de Genève for two years and performed there Mozart à 2 and Gnossiennes by Thierry Malandain, First Impression by Ruth […]

Sebastien Perrault