MARCELO SANTOS
Founder and artistic director of the Stuttgart International Solo Dance Theater Festival.
Marcelo Santos was born in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, where he trained as a ballet dancer at the Instituto Nacional das Escolas de Arte. After graduating, he danced at the Guaíra Theater in Curitiba in southern Brazil until he began his international career as a soloist at the Ulm Theater. He later danced for many years at the Städtische Bühnen Augsburg.
Marcelo Santos is the founder of Teatro-dos-Três, where he has developed and staged numerous pieces as artistic director and choreographer. He has also worked as a guest choreographer in Augsburg, Rudolstadt, Ingolstadt, Berlin, Constance, Stuttgart and Munich.
Marcelo Santo strives to develop and promote contemporary dance, and as a jury member and expert he is a welcome guest at festivals and competitions worldwide.
KATRIN BUCHER TRANTOW
Katrin Bucher Trantow is Chief Curator and Deputy Director of the Kunsthaus Graz.
Her curatorial focus is on interdisciplinary approaches and interfaces between cultural history, art history and the visual arts, for example in the projects Connected. Peter Kogler with… (2019), Glaube Liebe Hoffnung (2018), Landschaft in Bewegung (2015) or Die Vermessung der Welt (2011).
She has also curated exhibitions on the theme of transformation and metamorphosis: Berlinde de Bruyckere, Leibhaftig or the group exhibitions Alina Szapozcnikow, Kateřina Vincourová and Camille Henrot (2016); Cittadellarte, Teilen und Verändern; solo exhibitions with artists such as Constantin Luser (2016); Katharina Grosse (2014); Michael Kienzer (2012); Drago Persic was part of the group exhibition Erzählungen:-35/65+ (co-curated with Katia Huemer 2006). Her contributions to publications have appeared in Camera Austria International and Domus, Parnass, among others.
HENRIQUE PINA
Henrique began his career as a director in 2011 with the short fiction film Tejo, which celebrated its international premiere at the New York City International Film Festival and won two awards in Portugal. In 2012, he began filming contemporary dance at the invitation of choreographer Rui Horta. In 2014, he produced and directed the short film The World Falls Apart (and Still People Fall in Love), which won the award for Best National Feature Film at the Porto International Short Film Festival. He produced and directed the documentary Aires Mateus: Matter in Reverse, with dancer Teresa Alves da Silva, which was shown at 13 international film festivals.
One of his most recent films, Body-Buildings, features choreography by Tânia Carvalho, Vera Mantero, Victor Hugo Pontes, Jonas&Lander, Olga Roriz and Paulo Ribeiro. The film was released in cinemas in 2023, received five awards at international film festivals and was nominated for the Portuguese Academy Award for Best Short Documentary in 2024. The film has been shown at around 30 international film festivals, from California to Seoul.