Moving a memory

A Norwegian artist based in Copenhagen, Jon R. Skulberg (b. 1985) studied scenography at the Norwegian Theatre Academy and Institute of Dramaturgy, Aarhus University. Currently he works as a stage director, choreographer and scenographer. In 2016 he founded Convoi Exceptionnel, a production company focusing on interdisciplinarity and spatial-somatic relationships within theatre, opera, dance and installation.

Skulberg has been an associated artist and stage director at Hotel Pro Forma, a Danish performance group, on several opera productions. His works have been performed and exhibited in Oslo, Copenhagen, Brussels, Brisbane, Aarhus, Malmö, Gothenburg, Poznan, Riga, Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow and Prague.

Photo: Matthew Pittchford

A locally-based Hong Kong contemporary dance artist, Wayson Poon creates, performs and researches around the world. He integrates Asian philosophies and the essence of “qi” in Taoism into his unique concept of contemporary dance. Extremely delicate in motion, his works induce audiences to travel through poetic dimensions in the experience of "non-duality" – that is awakening people's consciousness of body and mind and providing the possibility of changing fixed ideas . Poon won the Hong Kong Arts Development Award for Young Artist (Dance) in 2016, and received the Asian Cultural Council Fellowship in 2019.

Photo: Eric, Hong Yin Pok

Music-Artistic Director of IZEN / NADA YOGA Sound Therapist. With over 10 years’ experience in sound design for performing arts/ theatre/ dance/ film, Paul Yip is constantly pursuing the aesthetics of sound.  He actively collaborates and improvises with dancers, musicians, directors, artists at festivals worldwide. His specialties include A.I.R. spiritual sound, cinematic soundscape, ambient noise, minimal piano, abstract electronics, DJ-ing and sound therapy.

Lo King-san is a professionally-trained versatile artist specialising in body movement and energy harmonisation. A contemporary dance graduate from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, he later received his Master’s degree from the London Contemporary Dance School, which equipped him with a thorough and profound understanding of movements and expressions. His enthusiasm attracts many great teachers and masters who shared with him ancient Eastern wisdoms and techniques. The opportunity of understanding Qigong and Wing Chun provides inspiration for his choreography and one-of-a-kind self-exploration and discovery techniques.

Photo: Pierre Lippuner

Paul Lee is a certified Feldenkrais Method® practitioner, a Jeremy Krauss Approach (JKA) practitioner and therapist, and was until recently the rehearsal director/ choreographic assistant at Of Curious Nature. He studied with Mei Tsang and Melissa Kong, undertook the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Junior Programme before training at Canada’s National Ballet School and the Rotterdam Dance Academy.  He danced full-time with IT Dansa and GöteborgsOperans Baletten before freelancing.

Lee teaches Feldenkrais® as the main vein of his artistic practice. His aim is to help people and institutions cultivate more in-depth knowledge about themselves, so that they can move better and unleash their hidden potentials.

A Hong Kong-based independent producer, Carrol Ho believes in the power of synergy. After obtaining her Master’s degree in Culture, Policy and Management in London, she has been actively producing  performances for independent artists, coordinating events for festivals in Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Vienna and Edinburgh, touring dance productions in Montreal, London, Tallinn, Yokohama, Beijing, Taiwan and Brisbane, as well as producing dance films, publications and curating new art projects. She is keen on exploring and facilitating potential touring, collaborating and co-producing opportunities locally and internationally.

Lene Bang Henningsen is an associate professor at the Danish National School of Performing Arts in Copenhagen and an independent senior advisor.

During the past 20 years, she has built her expertise as a creative producer through international and national collaborations. She has created development strategies for, among others, Jon R. Skulberg/Convoi Exceptionnel, where the co-production Moving a memory is the result of long-term shared aims and connectedness.

In addition, Bang is among four founding members of the research project C.A.M.P – Creative Agent Manager Producer. She is the author and co-writer of the guide It starts with a conversation, the initiator of the Mentor Room at IETM and a former ISPA Fellow.