Keith Hennessy (USA)
the internationally acclaimed artist, is described as a performer, choreographer, teacher, activist, preacher, sex-positive mentor, and master of ceremonies. His searing, radical and award-winning interdisciplinary performances draw on dance, performance art, circus, improvisation, activism and shamanism. His interdisciplinary research engages improvisation, ritual and public action as tools for investigating political realities. Recent awards include a NY Bessie (2009), two Isadora Duncan Awards (2009), the SF Bay Guardian’s Goldie (2007) the Alpert / MacDowell Fellowship in Dance (2005) and residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, and Djerassi. Hennessy directs Zero Performance, and was a member of the collaborative performance companies: Contraband (85-94), CORE (95-98), and Cahin-caha, cirque bâtard (98-02). Recent works include “Delinquent”, a work with young adults investigating juvenile crime and punishment, commissioned by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and “Crotch”, a solo performance developed at L’Arsenic in Lausanne, and presented in New York, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Zagreb, Liverpool, Berlin, Vienna and just recently in Poznań (during Malta 2011 festival). Keith’s teaching includes University of Dance & Circus (Stockholm), ImPulsTanz (Vienna), Touch & Play Festival (Berlin), Ponderosa (Stolzenhagen) and American Dance Festival (Durham). Hennessy is a PhD candidate in Performance Studies at UC Davis.

Jassem Hindi (Lebanon / France)
works with lo-fi electro-acoustic material: diverted machines, amplified objects, contact mics, found tapes, no-fi field recordings, no input mixing board. The sound textures he develops travel from harsh noise to musique concrète, depending on the projects and the collaborators. His main collaborations today are with Baslie Ferriot (Kelvin Zero), Frédéric Le Junter, Jakob Riis and the Lebanese ensemble Moukhtabar and MILL Collective. He works and has worked with musicians-improvisers from Spain, Japan, Portugal, Greece, Sweden, Germany, Lebanon and U.S. as well as with some dancers, photographers and visual artists.