Tamara Maksymenko is a professional dancer, choreographer, and teacher of contact improvisation and contemporary dance for 18 years already. She has been teaching many workshops all over the world (Poland, Spain, Israel, Austria, Italy, Greece, Finland, Egypt, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, Morocco, Bulgary, Sweden, Portugal, France, and Turkey). She is the founder of Motion Mode Dance Theatre (MMDT), one of the founders of Motion Mode of Dialogue in Tirol - Association for visual and performative art in Austria, and the creator of many dance projects.
30 years of dance experience (since the early age of 4). She got medical education in body therapy and sociology at Dnipropetrovsk National University and trained at the Physical Theatre in Intragna (Switzerland) with Thomas Mattler.
Now Tamara is a member of the Ukrainian Contemporary Dance Platform Association and she is a member of OFFTANZ Tirol Association (Austria). The founder of "Solo & CI Tirol Festival" and "West meets East".
Lucilla Patrizi is a freelance artist, biologist and pole art trainer living in Innsbruck, Tyrol. In 2021 she graduated from the Faculty of Design and Arts at the Free University of Bolzano, specialising in art. 2017 Degree in Biology at the Free University of Innsbruck. 2016 A. S. C training for belly dance in Rome. Ongoing training and further education as a trainer for pole dance. Active as a freelance artist in Tyrol and South Tyrol with exhibitions, performances, illustration commissions and co-organisation of cultural and artistic projects at provincial level. Since 2023 co-organiser of the annual "Solo and CI Festival in Tyrol". Co-founder of the association "Motion Mode of Dialogue in Tirol - Verein für performative und visuelle Kunst" with Tamara Maksymenko.
Member of the Tiroler Künstler:innenschaft Tirol since 2022.
by Lucilla Patrizi