KHAOS

Ana F. Melero was born in Seville, Spain. She started to develop her professional career in Leeds, UK, with Phoenix Dance Theatre as an apprentice dancer, performing works by Itzik Galilj, Caroline Finn, and Sharon Watson. There, she works with Möbius Dance, led by Gianluca Vincentini, for two seasons.

Nowadays, Ana is a freelance dance artist based in Madrid, in this years she works with choreographers such as Sol Picó, Isabel Vázquez, Victoria P.Miranda, Saeed Hani, Giovanni Zazzera, Manuela Barrero, and Xián Martínez. She also worked as a dancer for Ópera in Teatro de la Zarzuela and Teatro de la Maestranza.

KHAOS is her second project with Hani Dance. She is also developing her choreographic interest with Colectivo Banquet, touring pieces for nonconventional spaces in different festivals in Spain. She trained in contemporary dance at Conservatorio Profesional de Danza María de Ávila, Madrid, and graduated with MA in Contemporary Choreography from the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds.

Hector Ferrer Fernandez was born in 1993 in Barcelona Spain. He started dancing at the age of 10 pursuing his studies at the Conservatoire of Barcelona “Institut del Teatre”. He moved to Madrid to continue his formation with Victor Ullate and later on moved to Stuttgart to complete his diploma at the Stuttgart Ballet Akademie, the John Cranko Schule.

Since 2013, he has been dancing professionally for different dance institutions such as Opera Ballet van Vlaanderen or Ballet de l’Opéra National du Rhin.

During these years he has been performing works from Pina Bausch, Maurice Béjart, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Edward Clug, Sharon Eyal, Andonis Foniadakis, William Forsythe, Akram Khan, Jîri Kylian, Kurt Joos, Jean Christophe Maillot, Hans van Manen, Ohad Naharin, Crystal Pite among other choreographers as well collaborating and being part of different creations in Belgium, France, Spain, and Germany.

Nowadays he is a freelance dancer based in Belgium working on different projects across Europe

Esther Moreno, born in Spain, is currently based in Berlin as a freelance artist. She describes herself as a thoughtful, and sensitive performer who usually uses improvisation skills to find new nuances in her language. Mover, and contemporary dancer with an urban dance background.

In 2008 she began studying these different disciplines, to some years later complete her contemporary dance education at  "Centro Andaluz de Danza" (CAD), in Seville, Spain.

Esther has 10 years of experience working as a performer and dance teacher. Two years ago, she opened her career to the field of choreography, and music production too.

While still working as a performer, with great interest in different cultures and exchanges and the desire to keep expanding her vision, she is now developing her first choreographic works and projects in this interdisciplinary direction, where movement and music composition became two fundamental pillars for her work. (Recently funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in the NEUSTART KULTUR program, DIS-TANZEN aid program of the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland).

Gabriel Lawton is a contemporary dance artist based in Berlin, Germany. Australian-born, he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Contemporary Dance Performance at The Boston Conservatory in the US before establishing himself in Berlin.

Gabriel has worked on projects throughout Germany and Europe, touring internationally. In particular, he seeks out projects in which his role is as generative as performative and is most interested in work which refuses to be bound by the traditional limits of any single media.

Some of his fondest work in recent years has been with Tomer Zirkilevich, Jasmine Ellis, Johannes Bönig, Yael Cibulski, Sommer Ulrickson, and his ongoing collaboration with Saeed Hani, friend, and director of the Luxembourg and Trier-based Hani Dance.

Alberto Chianello is an Italian dancer who started dancing at the age of 12 until he perfected his training in the equilibrio dinamico ensemble project in Apulia, where he began his career as a dancer, joining the company directed by Roberta Ferrara. 

Over the years he has worked for the Hannover State Opera for the "think big" festival and collaborated with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui for "Cyrano film" and various tours of Italy.