Trained at the Brazilian Dance Conservatory in Rio de Janeiro, Juliano Nunes (b.1990) furthered his studies at the Mannheim University of Music and Performing Arts in Germany with a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts. Joining Companies such as Royal Ballet of Flanders, Leipzig Opera Ballet, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, and Stuttgart Gauthier Dance. He has gone on to receive critical acclaim for his own choreography and has created pieces for the Royal Ballet in London, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Nederlands Dans Theatre 2, Acosta Danza, Philadelphia Ballet, Mariinsky Theatre, Ballet Zürich Opera House, Ballet Jazz de Montreal, Staatstheater Hannover, Ballet west, Origen Festival Cultural, Teatro San Carlo and Creates for a new Netflix series “Tiny Pretty Things”. Juliano is the resident choreographer with the Philadelphia Ballet.

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Ève-Marie is a multi-faceted artist from Montreal, Canada. She has danced for 3 years with the world renowned Nederlands Dans Theater II. Eager to support and facilitate new initiatives and artistic voices, she decided in 2019 to become a freelance artist. She has since worked multiple times with the Korzo Theater, Klever Dance, Diego Tortelli, Antonin Rioche, and Juliano Nunes. She is also known to perform in galas around the world with her dance partner and best friend Toon Lobach. On top of maintaining the development of her career as a dancer, she was entrusted with the role of assistant and repetitor for both Alexander Ekman and Juliano Nunes, allowing her to stage pieces on the Paris Opera Ballet, the Royal Swedish Ballet, Staatsballett Berlin and the Birmingham Royal ballet. Ève-Marie aspires to keep evolving in becoming a facilitator for movement, communication, and initiative in the dance industry.

Christie Partelow, born and raised in New York, is currently a freelance performing artist based in the Netherlands, previously with Netherlands Dans Theatre. In addition to performing, Christie choreographs for stage and film, creates installation work, and is sharing her spoken word through creations. Prior she was a featured dancer of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, she toured internationally with ‘West Side Story’ as Anybodys, was a member of Complexions Contemporary Ballet and an apprentice for North Carolina Dance Theatre and Chautauqua Ballet. Ms. Partelow teaches classical ballet as well as contemporary, improvisation and choreographic workshops for professional dance companies and training programs, as well as privately. She is also a Mat and Machinery Pilates instructor and has served as Artistic Partner at a multi disciplinary artistic space called De Studio Rotterdam.

Born and raised in Amsterdam, Toon trained at the Academy for Theatre & Dance in Amsterdam. After seeing Nederlands Dans Theater in 2013 he made it his goal to join the company and after some years of hard work he got the opportunity to join NDT2 in 2016. He started as an apprentice and continued to dance with the company for three years afterwards and danced works by Paul Lightfoot & Sol Leon, Marco Goecke, Hans van Manen, Juliano Nunes and many others. After a total of four years in the company he realised that what you want isn't always what you need and it was time to continue his dance career on a different path. He decided to start as a freelancer in 2020 to have more freedom, gain different experiences and meet new people and has since regained his deep-rooted love for dance. Since then he has continued working with various renowned choreographers and his partner in crime Eve-Marie Dalcourt.