Featured artist: Performing arts

Karolin Poska’s first solo performance “Thank you, you are welcome, THANK YOU, you are welcome, thank you” was presented both in Estonia and internationally. Her work "Fibers of Restrictions or Cooperation with Restrictions?" staged in the Alexela Concert Hall brought her the Young Artist Award. According to the jury, the performance was very personal and powerful, featuring a soul-touching and empowering discussion between the spectator and the performer who are distanced from each other.

The next year she added to her background a degree in Pedagogy of Spanish Dance and Flamenco from the María de Ávila Superior Dance Conservatory where she studied with legendary Spanish dancers. An impressive performer, Marta’s talent has numerous expressions. She teaches at the Villa de Móstoles Cultural Center and at the Factory Ballet school, works with María Pagés Cía, with the José Porcel Flamenco Ballet, with David Coria Cía and Mercedes de Córdoba Cía, and is a visiting artist in many theatres and festivals round the world.

Ana Isabel Castro’s dance is informed by stories and her memory and imagination. We do not know if the events she relates are real or belong to someone else’s story, since they fall between myth and reality, between lies and truth. Marengo, Napoleon Bonaparte’s famous horse, is a baroque allegory of her elegant private world. The performance mixed classic and baroque, lyrical and contemporary, visible and invisible, ingenuity and provocation, history and memory and a variety of interpretations.

Her debut on professional stage was as early as in her university years in Vazkresia Viharova’s Amarantos. Next followed a series of contemporary, innovative, own and improvisational projects, some of them touring Europe and Asia with the pantomime and slapstick group of Zhar Theatre, and joint performances and workshops with artists from across the world.

Born on December 6, 1988, in Sarcelles, a suburb of Paris to a family of Caribbean descendants with seventeen children, they shot to fame in 2008 as finalists on the TV show ‘Incroyable Talent’, the French version of ‘Got Talent’. In 2010, a US breakthrough came when a video of their World of Dance performance in San Diego went viral, earning more than 50 million views to date. Shortly after, they went from dancing on the streets of Paris to sharing a stage with Beyoncé as the only male dancers on ‘The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour.’