Basile Doganis is a Greek director-screenwriter who grew up in France. During his studies in Philosophy, he spent 3 years in Tokyo where he made a documentary on a Japanese rap band (Kami Hito E – On the Edge) and was 1st AD on Limosin’s documentary Young Yakuza (Cannes 2007). In 2011, after attending the Binger Filmlab (Directors Lab), he directed his first fiction short film, His Brother’s Keeper (Le Gardien de son frère, 20’, 2012) which was selected at the 2012 Angers ‘First Shots’ Film Festival. He followed the screenwriting course (Atelier scénario) of La Fémis in 2013 and directed his second short film Citizen Day (Journée d’appel, 20’, 2014) which was selected in over 50 festivals worldwide. He is finishing a 10-year-long documentary on late dancer Ko Murobushi started in 2006 and is currently in pre-production of his first feature film, Meltem (Elzévir Films).

Katja Centonze is currently Lecturer at Waseda University, Visiting Researcher at the Tsubouchi Shōyō Memorial Theatre Museum and Ph.D. candidate at Trier University. She has been teaching Japanese Literature and Theatre at Ca’Foscari University since 1998, and Japanese Language and Literature at Calabria University since 2005. Her research focuses on the body in Japanese performing arts (especially Hijikata Tatsumi’s butō and contemporary dance) and on the body as represented in Japanese literature. Among her publications she edited Avant-Gardes in Japan. Anniversary of Futurism and Butō: Performing Arts and Cultural Practices between Contemporariness and Tradition (Cafoscarina, Venezia, 2010).

He was born in Mexico City. Entitled as a Bachelor’s degree in philosophy and Master in knowledges about subjectivity and violence by the Colegio de Saberes; He is currently doing doctoral studies in philosophy at the Universidad Iberoamericana. Carries out research on the relationship between the arts and the critical construction of subjectivity, mainly in the dance-centric butoh; to investigate such a form of dance made research stays in Tokyo at the Ko Murobushi’s Archive and the Hijikata’s archive of Keio University also. He is also theatre actor since 15 years ago.

He has published several articles, among them: thus spoke Ko Murobushi and Ritual and violence in Greek tragedy in Murmullos filosóficos magazine, as well as also the book body, cruelty and difference in dance butoh, a philosophical look. Edited by Plaza y Valdez. Also published in the Reflexiones Marginales online magazine article: subject, law and desire, in the psychoanalytic knowledge. It is general director of the scenic laboratory Athanor. He currently works as a teacher in the interdisciplinary seminar on artistic education (SEMINEA), at the Centro Nacional de las Artes (CENART) and is part of the collective Hydra, transfilosofia escénica.

Born in 1981. A guest researcher at The Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum. A researcher at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and currently a visiting researcher at The University of Paris VIII.

Ms. Volij has been self-directing and producing her own work in Argentina since 1999, creating the following full length shows: Sand Flowers, Immovable Bolero, Print of  Foam, Shine-Blood, Tolovethefiregirl, Dream of the Ginkgo, and Cassandra Speaks, the latter  based on the Greek myth of the prophetess cursed with never being believed by anyone. Her work, performed internationally, has been recognized by numerous state grants. She has directed more than a dozen other pieces for various dance companies, and has numerous collaborations with some of Argentina’s critically acclaimed theatre directors. Most recently she directed Isabel Beteta in Mexico and two performances in Quito, Ecuador, Bologna, Italy. She participated of the “Outside 1001”,  organized by Ko&Edge and  Finally, she has organized and co-produced multiple seminaries in Argentina for Ko Murobushi.