Karolína Hejnová

She graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts in 2011 as a film and TV producer. For three years, she was member of the Junior Domino Dance Company led by Lenka Ottová, where she danced in choreographies created by Mirka Eliášová, Věra Ondrašíková, Jarek Cemerek etc. She has been working with Ji Eun Lee from 2007; she performed in Object and Particle (2007), Angels and Demons (2008) as well as in Blame me (2009). She dances in all projects of ME-SA dance group and also in a site-specific project Vertical Horizontal created by Andrea Miltnerová. She works as a freelance dancer and producer, working for ALT@RT association, managing the production of ME-SA, cooperating with Tanec Praha Festival and Dance Film Festival, initiating dance and film projects and promoting the contemporary dance in different ways.

Martina Hajdyla Lacová

She graduated from J. L. Bell Conservatory in Banská Bystrica as well as from the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Dance Pedagogy Department. In 2008, she participated in a half-year study programme in Hoger Instituut voor Dans in Antwerp, where she worked with an outstanding Belgian choreographer, Ann van den Broek.

From 2006 she has been working with Marta Poláková (SVK), Mirka Eliášová (CZE), Maya M. Carroll (ISR), Ji-Eun Lee (KOR), Šaŕka Ondrišová (SVK), Helene Weinzierl (AUT), Irina Andreeva (RUS), Rasmus Ölme (SWE). She is a founding member of dance group ME-SA (2008), with which she participated in Ediburgh Fringe Festival, among others.

Since 2009 she has been cooperating with the Slovak theatrical company Debris and the Norwegian choreographer Karen Foss, since 2011 with the Swiss company DA MOTUS! and the Czech dance company VerTeDance. She also works as a guest teacher in dance schools and studios over the Czech Republic and Slovakia. In 2015 she was granted Dance of the Year Award for her performance in SuperNaturals. For the performance in the solo projec L – One of the Seven was Martina Hajdyla Lacová nominated for prestigious czech Thálie Award 2016.

Guests

Andrej Petrovič, Stano Dobák, Lukáš Homola, Peter Šavel, Sebastian Belmar, Jan Komárek, Andrea Miltnerová, Lucia Kašiarová, Tereza Ondrová, Andrea Opavská, Rasmus Ölme, Zuzana Sceránková, Klára Hutečková, Eva Priečková, Barbora Janáková, Jazmína Piktorová, Soňa Ferienčíková, Markéta Jandová, Ekatěrina Plechková and others