From 1989 to 1995 Susana Panadés Diaz studied classical and contemporary dance at the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona, before entering the P.A.R.T.S. programme in Brussels, directed by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker. Susana Panades Diaz is Cie Gilles Jobin’s main dance artist. She is an expert in digital motion capture. Member of the Cie Gilles Jobin since 2005, Susana is extremely familiar with the company’s dance style. Her role is to resolve issues related to the optimisation of motion capture from the point of view of the performers. She was lead dance artist ...

Gilles Jobin is a choreographer living and working in Geneva whose productions have been performed all over the world since 1995. Based in London from 1997 to 2004 he created the groundbreaking pieces A+B=X (1997), Braindance (1999), The Moebius Strip (2001) and Under Construction (2002), relying on choreographic language outside of established aesthetic frameworks that included forays into visual arts and live art. In 2003 he created TWO-THOUSAND-AND-THREE for the 22 dancers of the Ballet of the Grand Théâtre de Genève for a performance that “transcends both classical and contemporary dance” (Libération). Since the COVID ...

Olesya Elfimova is a dancer, improviser, and performer and Kinetech Arts communications director. Her background in competitive ballroom expanded into contemporary, floorwork, salsa, and movement theater. Off the dance floor, she likes to work on solving challenges in startups, puppy-watch in Dolores Park, and explore the city and beyond. Since arriving in SF in 2023, Olesya has collaborated with Kinetech Arts and choreographers like Joe Landini, Enrico Labayen, Kat Lin, and Amber Gott.

Bryan Norton is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in German at the Stanford Humanities Center. His research investigates how writers, filmmakers, and activists around the globe seek to address the Gordian knot of environmental crisis, postcolonial upheaval, and technological change. Norton is the co-editor (with Mark Hansen) of a forthcoming volume on Stiegler, Negentropic Orientations, and is completing his first solo monograph, Planetary Idealism: The Technics of Nature in German Romanticism (under contract with Stanford University Press). His recent writings can be found in SubStance, German Quarterly, Theory, Culture and Society, and Journal of Visual Culture.