Kira Kirsch is a movement artist & activist from Berlin/Vienna. Her most recent work ‘species’ is a moving body exposition in collaboration with choreographer Kelly Keenan, which has been presented at festivals in Toronto, Montreal, San Francisco and Europe. In San Francisco Kira can be seen in the works of media & performance artist David Szlasa, visionary Sara Shelton Mann, Avy k. productions, DanceBrigade and a moving image installation tribute to Pina Bausch. She is well known internationally as a primary teacher of Axis Syllabus and the foremost expert in the Bay Area. The Axis Syllabus is a new discipline in movement education science integrating somatics and dynamic movement.
Rajendra Serber makes choreography for stage and screen. He was awarded the DANCE MOViES Commissions for a new dance film which premiered in 2010. This work was developed in residency at San Francisco Film Society’s FilmHouse. Last year he also collaborated on new work which were presented in San Francisco, Berlin and Paris. He has performed for Sara Shelton Mann, Scott Wells and collaborated on choreography for film with Dandelion Dancetheater, and multimedia presentations with The Residents.
Kelly Keenan is a Montreal based dancer, dance-maker and teacher. Originally from Toronto Kelly graduated from LADMMI in 2001. Not long after Kelly moved to Europe to study the Axis Syllabus and work with Frey Faust and Francesca Pedulla. Kelly has since resituated in Montreal. She has been seen in the work of Lynda Gaudreau, k.g. Guttman, Francesca Pedulla, Human Playgorund and is gaining visibility as a dance-maker herself.  Waypoints, a solo created for dancer Johanna Bienaise, was presented in Montreal and at Cite Danse (Grenoble) and Kinetic Studio (Halifax). Her collaboration with Kira Kirsch, Species, was performed at the in Montreal (OFFTA + 303), International Tnaztheater Festival (Graz, Austria) and Dance Matters (Toronto).  Kira and Kelly are already immersed in their next creation ‘On Flying & Crying’  which was workshopped in Montreal Danse’s Choreographic workshop.  She teaches the Axis Syllabus method locally for Studio 303, RQD, Transformation Danse and abroad at Earthdance, The Nomadic College, Studio Hybrid (Brussels) among many others.
Dancers
Ian Smith
Phoenicia Pettyjohn
Rosemary Hannon
Sebastian Grubb
Sierra Helvey
Musicians
Philippe Lauzier
Adam Baltieri