MAXINE FLASHER-DÜZGÜNEŞ
CO-DIRECTOR

Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş is a hybrid poet & dance artist from Northern California engaging with the intersections of choreography, film, and poetic language, and how they serve as common threads for understanding embodied healing. After earning her BFA in Dance from NYU Tisch, she was awarded the US-UK Fulbright Award in Dance (Alternate) where she pursued an MA in Dance Philosophy from University of Roehampton, London. Since serving as a resident artist at Djerassi Resident Artist Program, she has been invited to live and create artistic work at Center at Eagle Hill, Surel’s Place, Tofte Lake Center, and Manship Artists Residency, and has presented her film and performance work in festivals all over the United States as well as Chile, Mexico, Canada, South Korea, Hungary, Denmark, and the United Kingdom.

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HAMILTON GUILLÉN
ART DIRECTOR‍ ‍ ‍

Hamilton Guillén is a multidisciplinary art director from California working on urban art projects and site-specific performances.  Whether designing for stage or film, he believes cross-pollination between disciplines is vital for bold, imagistic designs.  His creative process integrates a holistic approach synthesizing visual research, dramaturgy, politics, and pop culture. Hamilton’s film work was presented internationally at World Stage Design 2022 in Calgary, Canada as part of the ‘Scenofest’ program. scene r-eco-ver is a feature-length multimedia choreographic film interpreting the climate catastrophes of Northern California resulting from linear, human processes that override cyclical, natural processes.  He studied performance design at the University of Leeds (UK) and theater studies at UC Berkeley. 

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PAULA RIOFRÍO
CO-DIRECTOR

Paula Riofrío is an Ecuadorian-born interdisciplinary artist, writer, and translator whose practice dissolves boundaries between sound, movement, and language. Drawing from somatic exploration and experimental methodologies, she creates performances, films, and compositions that interrogate the body's relationship to space, memory, and cultural displacement. Trained in Dance Philosophy (MA, University of Roehampton) and Sound Arts (Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso), Paula has presented work at Café OTO, The Vortex, and Siobhan Davies Studios, collaborating with artists including Rhodri Davies and Annie Pui Ling Lok. Her writing appears in Dance Art Journal and Dance Context, while her translations span award-winning documentary films and literary publications through Poetry Translation Centre.

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