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BLAS PAYRI
Festival Director / Filmmaker
Blas's interests include Music Perception; Sound Design; Film Music; Screen-dance; Music and Sound Technology; Music and Sonic Art Composition
Acreditación a Catedrático de Universidad (ANECA) 3 sexenios (tramos de investigación) active (CNEAI)
Professor (Profesor Titular de Universidad)
Assistant Professor (Profesor Contratado Doctor)
DCADHA, Dept. of Audiovisual Communication,
Universitat Politécnica de València (Spain) www.upv.es
Teaching activities: Music Perception and Experimental Design (Master’s in Music); Sound
Design, Music and Sound Effects for Film, Analysis of Sound in Film (Master’s in Digital Postproduction)
Former teaching: Film Parameters Analysis, Radio Production, Fiction Products Making, Creative Sound Design (Degree in Audiovisual Communication)
Technical Consultant
Akamai Technologies (Madrid Headquarters) www.akamai.com
Consulting, design and implementation of content delivery network solutions for major companies.
Team coordination and training.
Post-doctoral Visiting Researcher
VoiceLab, UCLA, University of California at Los Angeles (USA) Voice timbre analysis-by-modification (glottic models)
Lecturer
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Fontenay (France) Teaching activities: Computational Corpus Linguistics
Teaching Assistant (part-time)
Institut Universitaire de Technologie, Université Paris-Sud (France) Information Technology Project Development, Algorithms and Programming
GUILLAUME LEMOINE
Dancer / Performer
he works with several choreographers in France and Europe, including Claude Brumachon, Fabio Liberti, Armelle Cornillon and Estelle Bézombes. His strong taste for improvisation and instant composition techniques combine the diversity of contemporary writing potentials, to the foundations of Jazz culture. He began in 2025 a personal project around the notion of ecstasy, thus re-summoning the questions raised by modern dance artists while facing a disunited humanity that loses sight of its relationship to nature and being.
EIMEAR BYRNE
Dancer / Filmmaker
graduated from Bath Spa University with a BA Hons in Dance, (2009) and has a First Class Honours Masters in Contemporary Dance Performance from the University of Limerick (2016). She is part of the The Live Archive Exhibition, which will tour nationally to Dublin, Limerick and Cork this year. She is a Contemporary Dance Tutor on the full time dance course at the Bray Institute of Further Education and also teaches Intermediate Contemporary Dance classes and summer intensives at The Center for Dance at Dance Theatre of Ireland. As a performer she has danced for many Irish and international dance companies; she also creates her own dance for film works.
JASMINE MORAND
Choreographer / Filmmaker
Born in 1977 in Zurich, Jasmine Morand completed her classical training in Geneva and at the Princess Grace Academy in Monaco, after winning first prize at the Swiss National Competition for classical dance in Solothurn and modern dance in Nyon. She began her dancing career at the National Ballet of Nancy and Lorraine, before joining the Zurich Opera under the direction of Heinz Spoerli and the National Ballet of Slovenia. In 2000, she began training in contemporary dance in Codarts, Rotterdam, where she began to develop her choreographic work. On returning to Switzerland, she founded the company Prototype Status.
ERICA BORGES
Dancer / Choreographer / Filmmaker
Artistic Director, Dance Teacher and Choreographer, is the founder of Laois Dance Platform, showcasing national & international dance works. She is co-director of Lisbon Dance Platform in collaboration with Amalgama Dance Company (Lisbon), and was nominated in 2018 by Dance UK for ‘Inspirational Community Dance Practitioner Award’. Her dance pieces, films and visual works have toured to France and Portugal. Since 2018 she has been collaborating with Amalgama Dance Company developing the festival that she established in Ireland, to expand the vision to Lisbon, Portugal.
RAFAEL MOLINA
Dancer / Academic
Trained at the Conservatoire National de Région of Saint-Etienne, Rafael Molino studied classical and contemporary dance there and worked with companies in residence, including the Ballet Malandain. At the Saint-Chamond National Dance Competition, he was awarded 1st accessit in 1998 and the gold medal in 1999, jury under the direction of Alain Davesne of the Paris Opera. A Sciences Po Paris graduate with a research master's degree in political theory in 2011, he was awarded the prestigious Fulbright scholarship from the US government in 2012 to study the Graham technique in his New York cradle. In 2013, he joined the young ballet of the Martha Graham school (Graham 2) and danced the repertoire. Back in France, Rafael continued his career as an interpreter and worked as an assistant choreographer for the IFunamboli Company. He regularly teaches the Graham technique at the Harmonic studio and at the Rick Odums Training Institute in Paris. In 2017, he founded Graham for Europe, an organization based in Paris that promotes the teaching of the Graham technique, connecting European professionals through master classes, meetings, conferences and exchanges with New York.
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