From the age of twelve she started her apprenticeship of Korean traditional dance, notably at the Korean school of contemporary dance in Seoul. Living alternately in Korea and in New York, she pursues her study of dance and works as a dancer and choreographer. Eun-Me Ahn was given many prizes and awards, notably the Arts Fund Award of Manhattan in 1999 and a scholarship offered by the Arts Fund of New York in 1998 for her choreographic work. Often praised by the press, Eun-Me spends now much of her time in her homeland where she is in charge of the artistic direction of the “Deagu City Dance Company”. In 2002, she made the choreography of the opening ceremony of the World Cup of Football in Deagu, South Korea and was invited in 2001 and 2004 at the Pina Bausch Festival. She collaborates at the production Mucus and Angels.

Katarzyna Gdaniec was born in Poland. From the age of 8 she dedicated herself to artistic gymnastics and won the Artistic Gymnastics European Junior Championships in 1974. Then she started her studies at the National Ballet School in Gdansk, where she graduated. In 1983 she won the 1st prize at the National Dance Competition of Gdansk, which enabled her to participate in the Prix de Lausanne and to obtain a Johnson Foundation Prize. Once her studies in Gdansk completed (baccalaureate), she was offered a scholarship at the Ballet School Princess Grace in Monte-Carlo. In 1985 she entered Maurice Béjart’s Ballet du XXe Siècle and danced with the company as principal dancer until 1991. Katarzyna Gdaniec has been a choreographer since 1987. She created her first piece for a young choreographers workshop of the Ballet du XXe Siècle. From 1992, she entirely devotes herself to the choreography leaving Béjart’s Ballet Lausanne to fund with Marco Cantalupo the Compagnie Linga for who she co signs more than forty choreographies. Several of them received important awards. Some of them, like Concerto, are part of the repertoire of the Opera of Ankara, Firenze and Lisboa.