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Irini Tsimpragou was born on Crete in the spring of 1983 and started classic and modern dance studies in Heraklion.
In 2002 she worked with Giannis Margaronis’ Ballet Tan Dance Company and danced in Manos son of Eros in 2003 and Amare in 2004 in Thessaloniki. She has also experimented with dance with sportsmen from the Macedona Club, some of whom have taken part in parallel Olympiads.
On returning to Crete she worked as a coordinator and facilitator on the feature film El Greco by Giannis Smaragdis and danced in the film, choreographed by Konstantinos Rigos. At the same time she gave dance classes at the Arteballet School and attended contact – improvisation seminars taught by Georgia Petrali.
In 2007 she went to Paris to study dance at Studio Harmonic. She took part in the Paris 2008 choreographer's platform along with choreographers Corinne Lancelle and Maxime Iannarelli. She is also specalised in choreography for the deaf and hard of hearing.
In the summer of 2008 she worked with Georgia Petrali on the film 'Wrinkles and Dreams' for Fysalida Dance Company.
Ida Sidenvall was born in Arvika, Sweden in 1985.
She started her dancing in 2002 at Karolinska Läroverket, Örebro. During this years she was allso dancing for the music and dance company "Stigfurpatrullen". They performed with their own pieces several times in "Nya Teatern" and allso toured a lot for dance and culture festivals through Sweden. For example UKD, Stockholm and Arvikafestivalen, Arvika.
In 2004 she was teaching contemporary dance, contact improvisation, jazz and children dance at "The Culture School of Örebro". In 2005 She started her 3 years studies at SEAD "Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance" in Salzburg-Austira.
Connected to her studies she collaboratied and worked with choreografers like Milan Kozanek, Libby Farr, Matej Kejzar, Tugce Tuna, Zona Kozanek, Keren Levi, Martin Sonderkamp and Ana Mac´rae.
2003 She worked for Carl Olof Berg in "This is love, is this", Karlstad-Sweden.
2005 she worked for Ewa Bankowska in the piece "Total luft panorama" Salzburg-Austria.
2005 she led and organized a workshop that ended up with a perfomance. Based on contemporary dance and contact improvisation, Arvika-Sweden.
2006 she work again for Ewa Bankowska in the piece "Pigs can´t fly", Salzburg-Austria.
2008 she was working for Georgia Petrali´s Fysalida dance company in the film "Wrinkles and Dreams", Heraklion-Greece.
Drosia Triantaki was born in Thessaloniki in 1982.
She studied ballet and modern dance at Horotechni in her home town. In 2003 she graduated from the Hellenic Dance School. That was followed by classes with the Scottish Dance Theatre in 2004 and in 2005 she completed her studies and graduated from Folkswang Universitaet, Germany.
She has attended seminars in London at "The Place" and by the Ramber Dance Company.
She has also worked with the dance groups of Giannis Margaronis, Chikako Kaido, Stefan Bringmann, Rodolfo Leoni, Marc Sieczkarek, and Ben J. Riepe. In August – September 2008 she collaborated with Georgia Petrali’s Fysalida Dance Company for an art film dealing with the Agia Triada area of Heraklion, Crete.
Maria Manoura was born in Heraklion, Crete. She studied international trade and commerce at the Western Macedonia Technological Educational Institute in Kastoria. She also teaches English.
Over the last 6 years she has been involved with movement, dance and theatre. She is a founding member of the Kyklos Grafis Theatre Company based in Heraklion, Crete. She has participated in two dance-theatre performances: Tipota (Nothing) in 2004 based on texts taken from Samuel Beckett choreographed by Vera Kountinova and directed by Marina Spanaki, and in 2006, Again and Again based on texts by D. Dimitriadis, with improvised choreography under her guidance and directed by Marina Spanaki. In 2008 she worked with the Fysalida Dance Company on the film 'Wrinkles and Dreams'.
She has attended modern dance courses and seminars in Greece with Georgia Petrali, Konstantinos Michos, Kosmas Kosmopoulos and Corallie Maignant, and in Belgium with Cruise Marta and Karmit Buran.
She has also attended contact-improvisation seminars in Greece taught by Georgia Petrali, Christina Klisiouni and Fernando Montes.
Anastasia Heiladaki was born in Heraklion, Crete. She is a classical and modern dance teacher. She studied at the Rallou Manou Professional Dance School for three years and holds a Vaganova diploma.
She has participated in many seminars in Greece and abroad. Over recent years she has worked closely with cultural associations in Heraklion, Crete. In February 2004 she took part in a professional dance performance with the support of the Municipality of Heraklion. Over the last three years she has been teaching at the gymnastics and dance school, Horokinisis in Heraklion, Crete. In 2008 she worked with the Fysalida Dance Company on the film 'Wrinkles and Dreams'.
Dionysia Galenianou was born in Heraklion of Crete and has done postgraduate studies in the field of Arts Administration and Cultural Policy in London. Within the time period of twenty five years, she has dealt with several kinds of dance schools and has taught classical and contemporary dance.

The last three years she is working as the choreographer of the artistic team "Eather" and has worked as a performer with artists of various media such as photographers, producers of artistic videos, music composers and painters. Finally, in September 2008, she so-operated with the dance group «Fysalida» for the movie «Wrinkles and Dreams» directed by Georgia Petrali.
Website: http://www.myspace.com/galenianou