mk is a formation based in Rome focused on choreography and performance. Since 1999 it has been engaged by distinctive international festivals for new dance and theatre. The group has developed over the years an inquiry into the ambiguity of bodily states and their alterations, through different formats and collaborations. Currently interested in building prototypes of temporary habitats, with Fronterizo (Bologna) and SUB (Milan) in 2015 it opens a season centered on environmental projects, with interlocking and overlapping collaborations, also declined in formats such as Piattaforma della danza balinese (Santarcangelo) and Tropici (Rome). Recently mk received commissions from Dance Biennale in Venice, Korean National Contemporary Dance Company and Aterballetto. In 2014, Michele Di Stefano is awarded  with the Silver Lion for innovation in dance at the 9th International Festival of Contemporary Dance in Venice.

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Luca Trevisani is one of the young Italian artists who came to prominence at the international level. In addition to awards and exhibitions in major art centers and museums, he has published The effort Took its tools (Argobooks 2008), Luca Trevisani (Silvana Editoriale 2009), The Art of Folding for young and old (Cura 2012) and Water Ikebana (Humboldt Books 2014). Glaucocamaleo (2013), presented at the Roma film festival, it’s his first feature film. His research ranges between sculpture and video, and cross border disciplines such as performing arts, graphics, design, experimental cinema or architecture. In his installations the historic features of the sculpture are questioned and even subverted. The instability is a characteristic of his work, a developmental status magnetic and mutant that expands and contracts without stopping the boundaries between each element of the work and the environment, which now becomes irradiated, now undisputed.

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Franco Farinelli taught geography for years in Geneva, Los Angeles (UCLA), Berkeley, and in Paris at the Sorbonne and the Ecole Normale Supérieure. He is currently professor and director of the Department of Philosophy and Communication at the University of Bologna, and President of the Italian Geographers Association. Among his books: Pour une théorie générale de la géographie (Dip. Geografia Ginevra 1988); I segni del mondo. Discorso geografico ed immagine cartografica in età moderna (La Nuova Italia 1992); Geografia. Un'introduzione ai modelli del mondo (Einaudi 2003), La Crisi della ragione cartografica (Einaudi 2009).

Roberta Mosca, choreographer, dancer, performer, studied and worked at the School of Dance Teatro alla Scala Milan, John Skull Schule Stuttgart, Vienna State Opera, Leipzig Opera, Aterballetto, Maggio Fiorentino, and danced for many years with the Frankfurt Ballet and the Forsythe Company. Recently she has also collaborated as a free-lance with dance groups including MAMAZA, mk, espz and choreographers as Laurent Chetouane. In 2003 she created in collaboration with Cora Bos Kroese Biarteca an interdisciplinary festival at Valle Cervo (BI), which in 2014 reached its XI edition.

Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch is a composer and a performer working on new electro–acoustic sounds. He composed music for live performances, albums, installations, theater, dance and received commissions from institutions such as Groupe de Recherche Musical (GRM), Biennale di Venezia, Opera of Gothenburg, Ballet National de Marseille, Santarcangelo Festival, Roma Europa, Ater Balletto. He performed worldwide in Europe, Japan, Indonesia, USA. Besides the collaboration with mk and other artists, he makes research at Ircam/Centre Pompidou in Paris, where he currently  lives and works. Since 2004 he is also a lecturer in multimedia composition at Franche-Comté University in France, and teaches at the conservatory of Montbeliard, France.

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