Company members

• EMILIO H. DÍAZ ABREGÚ
  

  EMILIO H. DÍAZ ABREGÚ

  Artistic direction / Dramaturgy / Sett design / Light design / Performer

  Studied theatre at the National University of Córdoba and soon started working in the theatre lighting field. This allowed him to collaborate with theatre directors such as Eugenio Barba, Diego Aramburo, Diqui James and Philipp Stölzl. In 2005 his second work as a director and playwright, Estocolmo, La Primavera de los Llorones won the Young Creators Fund Award from the Culture Ministry of Cordoba. Since then he has participated in more than 100 theatrical productions as director, playwright, performer, light, set designer and rigger. In 2010 he directed Slaughter by Sergio Blanco, which received wide recognition. At the end of 2010 the Culture Ministry of Spain awarded him a scholarship for Advanced Studies at the Centro de Tecnologías del Espectáculo. In 2011 he founded the ROTES VELO Kompanie with the need to bring artists from different fields together. He develops and explores innovative ways to blur the boundaries of dance, music and theatre. Since then the company has put on over 100 performances and creates one or two new productions every year. In 2016 the company was awarded "for the development and realisation of new, ambitious and high-quality projects" by the city of St. Gallen. At the end of 2012 he started working for the Argentinian theatre company Fuerza Bruta joining both national and international tours (Argentina 2012, China 2013, Korea 2013, 300 Tour China 2014). In 2015 he started working with the UK company Wired Aerial Theatre. This collaboration opened the doors to new exiting opportunities, such us Peter Pan at the Open Air Theatre in Regents Park London, and his participation as Head Rigger and Production Manager for the show As the World Tipped. Currently his work is divided between developing his own projects with the ROTES VELO Kompanie and his involvement in big scale productions such as the operas Carmen and Rigolleto produced by the Bregenzer Festspiele (Austria).

  PRODUCTIONS
  CINEMA DER RISS DIE TRAUMMASCHINE KINDERAUGEN TERRA INCOGNITA REVOLUTION DADA EINDE STUNDE AUF ERDEN ICH BIN... PUNK? PIT STOP or the lollipop man UPPERCUT ALBERTO, der Mann der geht
• EXEQUIEL BARRERAS
  

  EXEQUIEL BARRERAS

  Artistic director / Choreographer / Performer

  Was born in Cordoba/Argentina in 1984 and received his first dance and theatre lessons there. In 2001 the Julio Bocca and Chet Walker Foundation awarded him with a scholarship and one year later he became a member of the Ballet Contemporáneo del Teatro San Martín in Buenos Aires where he danced for 7 years. Since 2005 he has been working on his own pieces, which have been shown in Argentina, Germany, Switzerland, Poland and the USA. He works in Europe since 2009. After one season as a dancer at the Landestheater Coburg, he joined the Dance Company of the Theater St. Gallen, where he was engaged as a dancer, and temporarily as assistant to the company, from 2010 to 2014 under the direction of Marco Santi and from 2014 to 2017 under the direction of Beate Vollack. From 2017-22 he was the choreographic assistant and movement dramaturge of the Dance Company Konzert Theater Bern alongside Estefania Miranda and later Isabelle Bischof. There he worked with world-renowned choreographers such as Sharon Eyal, Jo Strømgren, Eduard Clug, Cathy Marston, Bryan Arias, Ihsan Rustem, Felix Landerer among others. In 2011 he founded the ROTES VELO Kompanie with the need to bring artists from different fields together. He develops and explores innovative ways to blur the boundaries of dance, music and theatre. Since then the company has put on over 100 performances and creates one or two new productions every year. In 2016 the company was awarded "for the development and realisation of new, ambitious and high-quality projects" by the city of St. Gallen. As artistic director and choreographer in Switzerland he collaborates and creates for productions in the independent scene and at theatres such as Theater St. Gallen, Theater Chur, Konzert Theater Bern and Luzerner Theater among others.

  PRODUCTIONS
  KUNST IM HOF CINEMA DIE TRAUMMASCHINE KINDERAUGEN TERRA INCOGNITA REVOLUTION DADA EINDE STUNDE AUF ERDEN CHUR TANZT Nordwärts ALLES GUETI ICH BIN... PUNK? SuperwoMen CHIMERA PIT STOP or the lollipop man CITY DANCE WALK PLOP! UPPERCUT TANZ IM ALTER – Dokufilm ALBERTO, der Mann der geht
• FLAVIA SOMALVICO
  

  FLAVIA SOMALVICO

  Costume design / Setting

  was born in Chur in 1988. After the preparatory design course in Aarau, she completed an apprenticeship as a theatre painter at the Theater St.Gallen. Through an assistant position with the costume designer Filippia Elísdóttir in the costume painting department at the Theater St.Gallen, she was able to gain important experience. Afterwards she got a job in the painting hall of the Theater Bern and Theater Zürich. In 2011 she worked for the first time with Exequiel Barreras for his dance piece "thirty-three", followed by a collaboration with ROTES VELO for many productions. http://flaviasomalvico.blogspot.com

  PRODUCTIONS
  REVOLUTION DADA EINDE STUNDE AUF ERDEN ICH BIN... PUNK? PIT STOP or the lollipop man UPPERCUT ALBERTO, der Mann der geht
• JACK WIDDOWSON
  

  JACK WIDDOWSON

  Performer

  was born in Bath in 1992 and completed his education in 2011 at Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. From 2011 to 2013 he completed a Masters course at the London Contemporary Dance School parallel to his engagement with Bern Ballet. Afterwards he danced for one year at the Staatstheater Darmstadt and from 2014-2016 at the Theater St. Gallen. He now works as a freelance dancer throughout Europe. He enjoys working as a teachers assistant and rehearsal director when the opportunities arise and has just begun training to become a Pilates Instructor. He performed in following productions of ROTES VELO company: Alles Gueti, Pit Stop or the Lollipop Man, Ich bin ... Punk?, Revolution DADA and co-directed the production Kinderaugen in 2021. http://jackwiddowson.com

  PRODUCTIONS
  DIE TRAUMMASCHINE KINDERAUGEN TERRA INCOGNITA REVOLUTION DADA ALLES GUETI ICH BIN... PUNK? PIT STOP or the lollipop man
• JACQUES ERLANGER
  

  JACQUES ERLANGER

  Production manager

  Born in 1965 in St.Gallen/Switzerland. He is a sociologist and merchant. He lives in St.Gallen and is engaged in various cultural projects. He has been head of Visarte.Ost (administration of the association of artists of Eastern Switzerland). He co-developed the Sitterwerk St.Gallen and co-initiated the hotel-restaurant Militärkantine St.Gallen (historical Hotel 2017) and had a formative influence on its organisation and design. Since 2016 he produced several theatre shows as a freelance cultural manager. He supervises exhibitions, compiles websites and organises the funding of cultural projects. He counsels creatives of all kind and helps to start off projects from the very beginning. https://www.jacques-erlanger.ch

  PRODUCTIONS
  CINEMA DER RISS DIE TRAUMMASCHINE KINDERAUGEN TERRA INCOGNITA REVOLUTION DADA EINDE STUNDE AUF ERDEN
• Liselotte Hunziker-Kraessig
  

  Liselotte Hunziker-Kraessig

  Production management

  Liselotte Hunziker-Kraessig lives in St.Gallen. She is a cultural mediator, businesswoman and longtime employee in an advertising agency in St. Gallen in the areas of conception, text and personnel management. Since 2018 she is part of the team of Jacques Erlanger as production management assistant. https://www.jacques-erlanger.ch

  PRODUCTIONS
  DER RISS DIE TRAUMMASCHINE KINDERAUGEN TERRA INCOGNITA REVOLUTION DADA
• Marie Delprat
  

  Marie Delprat

  Performer / Musical direction

  is a native of Bordeaux/France. She is a musician who morphs into many artistic roles. Although Marie has extensive training in baroque recorder performance, her practice can be split between two halves: early music and new music theater. Instead of creating a dichotomy out of the two worlds, Marie’s aesthetic involves the combination and lifelong adhesion of both. Marie has a Bachelor in Classical Music Studies from the Hochschule der Künste Bern, under the direction of Michael Form (2015), with a pre-college study under the direction of Pierre Boragno in Versailles. She also holds a Master in Composition and Theory in Théâtre Musical from the Hochschule der Künste Bern (2017), and a Master in Pedagogy (2019). Marie is a founding member of two ensembles based in Switzerland: Ensemble Aabat, which is an ensemble oriented towards new creations of new music theater collaborations, and Ling’Ring Lights, which is an early music ensemble naturally tuned towards the art of eighteenth century music transcription. Through projects like her Master degree creation RAGE (2017, performed at the Il Divertimento Festival, IT 2018) and HOME (2018, Musikfestival Bern CH), Marie works not only as performer/flutist, but also curator and collaborator. In ongoing projects with the dance company Rotes Velo (Revolution Dada), and dancer Olive Lopez (ENRAGED–a continuation project of RAGE), Marie is focused on developing dialogues between dance and music–body and instrument–Peatzold recorder and electronics. Her musical work as a composer and musician, is to develop a further relationship between the synthesis of the Peatzold recorder and electronics and can be seen through projects with guitarist Rubin Mattia Santorsa (Label Kairos recording 2017). Marie holds above all her practical work as an example and reflection in her teaching practice. Incorporating new music theater into pedagogy is a passion that Marie relays not only to her private recorder students, but to any beginning instrumentalist or musician. https://delpratmarie.com

  PRODUCTIONS
  REVOLUTION DADA
• PETR NEDBAL
  

  PETR NEDBAL

  Performer

  was born in 1992 in the Czech Republic and danced from early on at the conservatory Duncan Center in Prague. He completed his studies at the conservatory with the CiS (Certified Specialist). Already at that time he was invited to the Pillole Festival in Milan with his own piece. In 2013, he was accepted by the Jose Limon Institute in New York, where he gained his first extended experience as a professional dancer abroad. He then studied at the Art Academy in the Netherlands and graduated as a dancer and choreographer with a bachelor's degree. As a representative of the Czech Republic, he traveled to China and to the East European Summer Dance Camp, where he represented his country in a dance-like manner from traditional to contemporary dance. In the season 2017-18 he was a stagiaire at the Tanzkompagnie Konzert Theater Bern. Lively in Bern, he works as a freelance dancer with choreographers such as Marcel Leemann, Joshua Monten Dance Company and for the ROTES VELO Kompanie.

  PRODUCTIONS
  TERRA INCOGNITA REVOLUTION DADA PIT STOP or the lollipop man
• Viva Foster
  

  Viva Foster

  Performer

  was born in England and grew up in Dunedin, New Zealand. At sixteen she moved to Australia to study at the National Theatre Ballet School in Melbourne. Once completing her studies she performed with Chunky Move for their site specific work It Sounds Silly, and undertook placements with Australian Dance Theatre (Adelaide) and Stephanie Lake. Since returning to the U.K., Viva has completed her Masters in Dance Performance at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and was a member of Transitions Dance Company, touring works by Charles Linehan, Oded Ronen and Cristian Duarte throughout the U.K. and Europe. Most recently she has been working as an aerial performer, specialising in vertical wall and bungee-assisted dance with Wired Aerial Theatre and as a stunt performer in Carmen (Bregenzer Festspiele).

  PRODUCTIONS
  DIE TRAUMMASCHINE TERRA INCOGNITA REVOLUTION DADA
• YANNICK BADIER
  

  YANNICK BADIER

  Performer / singer

  was born in Marseille/France in 1981 and received his dance training at the Conservatoire de Danse in Avignon. He received his first engagement at the Graz Opera. This was followed by the Metros Company in Barcelona, and a period in Berlin where he worked as a freelance dancer. In 2008 and 2009 he participated in the coaching project for choreographers Siwic in Zurich under the direction of Jochen Heckmann and Philippe Saire. From 2009 to 2012 he was a member of the dance company at the Theater St. Gallen. During this time he began his vocal training, among others with Scot Weir (ZhdK Zurich). Yannick left St.Gallen in 2012 and moved to Basel, where he continued his career as a classical singer and dancer. He is currently receiving vocal advice from Heidi Brunner and can be heard on opera stages (Avenches Opéra, Free Opera Company Zurich, Opéra de Fribourg, Schlosstheater Schönnbrunn in Vienna, Opéra Eclaté/FR...) and in sacred music concerts (Ensemble Orlando, Vokalensemble Voce Basel...), as a chorist as well as a soloist. Yannick likes to go beyond the scope of the theatre stage with performances he did in the Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Lokremise St Gallen, Kunstverein Freiburg/DE, Fondation Beyeler Basel... Yannick has appeared in works by choreographers such as Darrel Toulon, Francesca Harper, Gideon Oberzanek, Tamas Topolansky, Ramon Oller, Joshua Monten, Vanessa Lopez, Marco Santi, Andrea Boll, Jossi Berg/Oded Graf, Patricia Rotondaro, Marcel Leemann, Zaida Ballesteros, Exequiel Barreras, Jitti Chompee, and others.

  PRODUCTIONS
  TERRA INCOGNITA REVOLUTION DADA PIT STOP or the lollipop man CITY DANCE WALK UPPERCUT ALBERTO, der Mann der geht