An international jury made up of artists of the highest caliber and professionalism.

After a career as a dancer, in particular in the company of Viola Farber, teacher and choreographer, Didier Deschamps held the following positions: 1982-1984 director of studies at the CNDC (National Center of Contemporary Dance of Anger), 1985-1990 director of the choreographic studies at the CNSMDP (National Conservatory of Music and Dance of Lyon), 1990-2000 Inspector General and Delegate for Dance at the Ministry of Culture, 2000-2011 general director of the CCN-Ballet de Lorraine, 2011-2021 President and CEO by Chaillot-théâtre national de la danse, 2022-2027 Artistic Director of the Biennale Danza Cannes-Côte d’Azur.

She has been working as a cultural worker since 1997. From 1996 to 2001 he was at the Garda Festival as a production assistant first and as Production Director for the last two years. From 1998 to 2000 she directed the “Summer Dance” Festival in Verona at the Giusti Garden, a festival dedicated to contemporary dance, the first of its kind in the city of Verona. Since 1995 she has known Mauro Astolfi with whom she immediately shares the Spellbound production project, joining her at the helm of the company that has immediately started towards a process of intense internationalization and which in 2022 was accredited by the Ministry of Culture as the National Production Center of Dance.
In 2002 the European dance Alliance project was born, an agency for teachers and choreographers and an activity laboratory for schools. In 2007 she created “Contemporaneo a Roma” Platform for new choreographers, a new stage for young authors. Since 2011 she has been the agent for Italy of Shirley Esseboom and since 2016 of Emanuel Gat Dance, curator of the dance season for the Teatro Biblioteca Quarticciolo in Rome since 2016, of which she assumes the co-direction together with Giorgio Andriani and Antonino Pirillo from 2020; she also produced in 2017 the InMovimento project for Teatro Eliseo in Rome and is Artistic Director of the “Fuori Programma” International Festival in Rome. Engaged for years on the level of cultural policies, she is President of Aidap within Federvivo Agis and member of the Permanent Table of Dance at the Ministry of Culture.

Born in 1983 in France, after training at the National School of Marseille and the National Conservatory of Toulouse, she worked with Ballet National de Marseille and Ballet du Capitole in Toulouse. Between 2006 and 2009 she collaborated with Nederlands Dans Theater II in the Netherlands, with Sidra Bell in New York and with Hiroaki Umeda in Berlin. She began her collaboration with Compagnia Zappalà Danza in 2011 as a dancer, participating since then in all of the company’s productions to date. In 2017, she participated in Marina Mascarell’s project Three Times Rebel. She is Roberto Zappalà’s assistant and a MoDem teacher, a language of Compagnia Zappalà Danza. In recent years she started her own choreographic journey, she also made the creation Siamo in 2018 for CZD2

Stefano Tomassini teaches choreographic and dance studies at the Iuav University of Venice (I). In 2008-2009 he was Fulbright-Schuman Research Scholar (NYC); in 2010 Scholar-in-Residence at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Archive (Lee, Mass.) and in 2011, Associate Research Scholar at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University (NYC). Since 2021 he has been an honorary member of the Associazione Danzare Cecchetti ANCEC Italy. In 2018 he published the monograph Tempo ferme. Dance and performance to the test of the impossible (Scalpendi) and, more recently, with the same publisher, Tempo perduto. Dance and choreography of standing still. He is a dance critic for Theater and Critics. For the three-year period 2021-2023 he is part of the MiC dance advisory commission.

Michele Di Stefano, choreographer and founder of the mk group, has received numerous awards for his work (Premio Ubu 2019 and Premio Danza&Danza 2018 for Bermudas, Premio Speciale Danza&Danza 2020 for Eden, Premio Speciale Ubu 2021 for choreographing the Radio India project) and choreographic commissions from Aterballetto, Korean National Contemporary Dance Company, Nuovo Balletto di Toscana, and the Ballet de Lorraine for a new creation in 2023. He was a consultant for dance programming (GRANDI PIANURE 2018-22) at Teatro di Roma, co-curator with Francesca Corona of the Giacimenta project for Matera 2019 and creator of the performance cycles TROPICI (Angelo Mai Rome) and BUFFALO (Palazzo delle Esposizioni, MACRO Roma and Museo Nazionale Romano). In 2018, he curated the outdoor section (Outdoor) of the BolzanoDanza-Tanz Bozen Festival.
Alongside the circuiting of performances, he has an intense activity of meetings, workshops and experimental proposals, including the Platform of Balinese Dance at the Santarcangelo Festival (2014 and 2015), projects for the 2013-14-15 BiennaleDanza and BiennaleTeatro 2019, a constant dialogue with the Scuola Paolo Grassi in Milan, the Anghiari Dance Hub, training and research workshops for the Scuola del Teatro Stabile in Turin, the ISIA bei Urbino and for the IUAV University .
In 2014 he received the Silver Lion for Innovation in Dance at the Venice Biennale and in 2018 the Nico Garrone Prize.
He is an associate artist at the Milan Triennale for the three-year period 2022-24.

He was born in Noventa Vicentina in 1986. From 2008 to 2017 he was curator of the seasons of the Spazio Bixio Theater in Vicenza and coordinator of territorial cultural projects, with particular reference to contemporary dance. In 2017 he permanently joined the team of the Municipal Theater Foundation of Vicenza, with the role of assistant to the artistic direction for the contemporary dance seasons, for the off section of Danza in Rete Festival and for the contemporary circus season. He is the creator of audience development and engagement projects, artistic and organizational curator of the projects of Artistic Residences-Artists in the Territories, while following the communication for the Municipal Theater of Vicenza, for the Cycle of Classical Shows at the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza and for Vicenza Jazz. . He is part of the critical observatories for the promotion of young dance and performing arts talents, dealing with scouting, mapping and monitoring of emerging companies / artists.

Laura Pulin graduated from the National Academy of Classical Ballet in Rome. She is a choreographer, a director and ballet teacher. Pulin founded the vocational training ballet school Spazio Danza in 1987 and in 1998 Officina Danza Company. In 2007 NU.D.I. – New Indipendent Dance – was born. It was a cultural reality whose mission was the production and promotion of contemporary dance and experimental theatre. After years of creations, art and performances, nowadays she conducts contemporary dance workshops in Belle Arti Academy of Brera, Milan. In 2008 she received Vignale Danza Prize.

Independent artist, he boasts numerous collaborations in the field of performance, training and in the organization and promotion of projects for institutions and companies.
He perfected himself with numerous artists and attended the Paolo Grassi Civic School of Theater – dance theater section in 2009.
She combines the activity of a contemporary dancer / performer with collaboration with international artists linked to transversal languages ​​from the visual arts, to poetry and photography.
Since 2019 he has been assistant to the artistic direction for the Festival and the International Perspective Danza Teatro Prize.

Graduated from Ca ‘Foscari University of Venice in Artistic and Performing Techniques and Economics and Management of Arts and Cultural Activities, she collaborated with the Ceremonial Office and the Dance Music and Theater Office of the Venice Biennale as production assistant . She has worked in the organization of events in the corporate, congress and cultural fields, and since 2016 she has been involved in the planning and coordination of special projects for Arteven Multisciplinary Theater Circuit.