Tiran Willemse is an interdisciplinary collaborative artist working in the field of dance, theater, video and performance with Trajal Harrell, Jerome Bel, Ligia Lewis, Wu-Tsang (moved by the motion), Deborah Hay, Eszter Salamon, Meg Stuart and Andros Zins-Browne. Willemse's practice centers on the interrogation of presence and absence in the performance of identity, he endeavors to foster new desires in the imagination through a visceral experience. His work has been presented by Palais de Tokyo Paris, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne Museum Macro Rome, Impulstanz Wien, Santarcangelo Festival Italy, Kunsthaus Baselland, Tanzquartier Wien, Swiss Institute New York and Arsenic Lausanne. Willemse won the swiss performance prize 2023 and lives and works in Zurich.
Davide-Christelle Sanvee (1993, Switzerland / Togo) is a performance artist who focuses on spaces and staging. Investigating invisibility of individuals in public space, she hunts for architectural, behavioural and gestural elements to create scenographies that fully surround her spectators. In order to activate these new spaces Sanvee uses historical, collective memory and performative actions built around political and social realities. After a bachelor's degree in visuals arts at HEAD - Geneva (2016), she obtained her master's degree at the Sandberg Institut in Amsterdam (2019). She is the winner of the Swiss performance Award 2019 with her performance ‘Le ich dans nicht’. In 2022, she joined Rébecca Chaillon's ‘Carte Noire named desire’ as a performer. In 2023, she received the Kiefer Hablitzer Art Prize at the Swiss Arts Awards at Art Basel. That same year, she was awarded a grant from the Leenaards Foundation. In 2025, she received the Swiss Performing Arts Award for her career achievements.
Élie Autin is a multidisciplinary artist who works across several artistic media: choreography, performance and the visual arts. Her first solo, ‘Présage’, premiered at the Arsenic in autumn 2022. In it, her fluid identities play directly off the audience’s gaze. As a performer and dancer, Élie works with a number of artists, including Tamara Alegre, caner teker, Tiran Willemse, Volmir Cordeiro, Marvin Mtoumo, the Ouinch Ouinch collective, Natasza Gerlach and other artists… 2023 she received the price ‘Prix de la relève’ (Fondation vaudoise pour la culture). 2026 for the Swiss Art Awards she wone the price of the Kiefer Hablitzel Göhner Art Prize. As a model and photo model, she regularly performs and poses for various artists and brands, including Dior for DAZED. In parallel, the artist is also developing her visual work, with exhibitions at Circuit (Lausanne), Amore (Basel) Hamlet (Zurich) and La rada (Locarno), WallStreet (Fribourg) MCBA (Lausanne) Like little disaster (Polignano a mare), La Becque (La Tour de Peilz) and other venues.
Ophelia Young (she/her) works as a dancer and dance maker in the performing arts.
She has been studying at Folkwang University of the Arts in Germany and was working in institutions such as Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch and Ballett Basel. For many years she has also been working in freelance project-based collaborations in dance, choreography, dance schools, performing and visual arts and film. She is teaching, performing and creating in different collaborations in Switzerland and abroad.
Ophelia is based in Basel. She was born in New York City (USA) and grew up in Upper Austria.
Elisabeth Mulenga, a Sadler’s Wells Young Associate alumni, is a London-based choreographer and dancer creating provocative, autobiographical work examining themes around grief, dysfunctional intimacy, and hauntology. Influenced by her Pentecostal Christian upbringing, her practice embraces supernaturalism, ritual, and the sensation of constant surveillance. Her recent work, ‘Christ Alone’, premiered at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in 2024 before being restaged at the Royal Opera House in 2025. In 2022, she won the Choreographic Innovation Award at the BBC Young Dancer Grand Final. She has performed solos at venues such as The Roundhouse, The Place Theatre, and Cafe Oto. Elisabeth works across contemporary dance, commercial and performance art contexts. Her performance work for other artists & companies includes: Holly Blakey, Miles Greenberg, Marina Abramović Institute, Alison Goldfrapp , Clod Ensemble, Miley Cyrus x Lost City Immersive, Pepa Ubera, Magnus Westwell, Tiran Willemse, Ryan Heffington, Wolf Alice, Robyn, Yann Tiersen, Sampha, Harry Price, Later with Jools Holland, Boston Gallacher, Dickson MBI, Lewis Walker, Ivan Michael Blackstock and Russell Maliphant.