Digital Programme: Peeping Tom's Triptych

Gabriela Carrizo 
Choreographer and director
Gabriela Carrizo was ten years old when she started dancing at a multidisciplinary school that had, at the time, the only group of contemporary dance for children and teenagers. Under Norma Raimondi’s direction, the school went on to become Córdoba’s University Ballet, where she danced for a couple of years, and created her first choreographies.

Since the age of 19 she has worked with Caroline Marcadé, Les Ballets C de la B (La Tristeza Complice and Iets op Bach), Koen Augustijnen (Portrait intérieur) and Needcompany (Images of Affection). She has continued to work on her own choreographies, and these years saw the production of a solo piece, E tutto sará d’ombra e di caline, and Bartime, a collaboration with Einat Tuchman and Lisi Estaras. She also created the choreography for the opera Wolf by Les Ballets C de la B. She plays a leading role in Fien Troch’s film, Kid and in 2013 she created the short piece The missing door for the Nederlands Dans Theater – NDT 1 in The Hague. In 2015, Gabriela Carrizo created The Land, a collaboration with the Munich Residenztheater. More recently, she worked with Franck Chartier on 31 rue Vandenbranden, an adaptation with Le Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon of Peeping Tom’s original. The piece opened the prestigious Biennale de la Danse de Lyon in 2018. In 2022, she directed La Ruta, her second short piece for Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT 1). 

Gabriela Carrizo has been the artistic director of Peeping Tom with Franck Chartier since they co-founded the company in 2000.

Franck Chartier
Choreographer and director
Franck Chartier began dancing when he was eleven, and studied classical ballet at Rosella Hightower in Cannes from the age of 15. From 1986-89, he was a part of Maurice Béjart’s Ballet du 20ème Siècle, before working with Angelin Preljocaj, dancing in Le spectre de la rose at the Opéra de Paris. He moved to Brussels in 1994 to perform in Rosas’ production Kinok, duos with Ine Wichterich and Anne Mouselet, and productions by Needcompany (Tres) and Les Ballets C de la B (La Tristeza Complice, Iets op Bach and Wolf). In 2013, he created 33 rue Vandenbranden for the Göteborg Opera, based on Peeping Tom’s 32 rue Vandenbranden, and he developed the choreography for the opera Marouf, Savetier du Caire by Jerôme Deschamps at the Opéra Comique de Paris. For Nederlands Dans Theater, he directed The lost room, for which he received the prestigious Dutch prize Swan Most Impressive Dance Production 2016. The world premiere in 2017 of The hidden floor marked his second collaboration with the Dutch company. More recently, he worked with Gabriela Carrizo on 31 rue Vandenbranden, an adaptation with Le Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon of Peeping Tom’s original. The piece opened the prestigious Biennale de la Danse de Lyon in 2018. He also directed the opera Dido & Aeneas for the Grand Théâtre de Genève, and created the duet Oiwa for the Ballet National de Marseille.

Franck Chartier has been the artistic director of Peeping Tom with Gabriela Carrizo since they co-founded the company in 2000.

Konan Dayot
Performer
Konan Dayot joined Peeping Tom in 2020 to perform in Triptych: The missing door, The lost room and The hidden floor. He trained in jazz drums, classical percussion and contemporary dance at the Conservatoire de Nantes, completed an exchange programme at The Juilliard School and earned degrees from the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris and the Centre National de la Danse. He has worked with artists including Boris Charmatz, Thierry Smits, Olivia Granville, Helge Letonja, Ashley Chen, John Scott and Thomas Lebrun, among others. He is a percussionist in the Trio Dayot and works with the atelier Terre et Son, where he collects and plays udus. He has collaborated intensively, both within dance and in music, sometimes both, on works in conventional spaces, national theatres, and in the Louvre museum and Tate Modern; as well as more informal spaces, such as the submarine base of Saint-Nazaire, the scaffolded cathedral of l’Aquila or the burning intensity of the Sahara Desert. 

Fons Dhossche
Performer
Fons Dhossche joined Peeping Tom in 2020 to perform in Triptych: The missing door, The lost room and The hidden floor. As a child, he took acting classes in the Kopergietery, a theatre for children and teenagers in Ghent. From 2008-2016, he worked with the Berlin-based theatre collective Gob Squad. In 2017 he graduated from MUDA in Ghent, a high school for contemporary dance. and in 2021, he completed his Bachelor in Modern Theater Dance (MTD) in Amsterdam.

Lauren Langlois
Performer
Lauren Langlois  joined Peeping Tom in 2020 to perform in Triptych: The missing door, The lost room and The hidden floor, and is currently in the cast of Peeping Tom’s new creation which will premiere in September 2023. She studied classical ballet at the Marie Walton-Mahon Dance Academy in Sydney before training in contemporary dance at the New Zealand School of Dance. Lauren Langlois began her professional career with the Australian Dance Theatre from 2008-2010, performing and touring in two of the company’s major works, G and Be Your Self. In 2011, she joined Sydney Dance Company under Artistic Director Rafael Bonachela, performing in LANDforms, 6 Breaths, We Unfold and The Land of Yes and The Land of No, before relocating to Melbourne to join Chunky Move to collaborate with Antony Hamilton on Keep Everything, for which she has been nominated for Helpmann, Green Room and Australian Dance awards. Other collaborations include work with Anouk van Dijk, performing in An Act of Now, 247 Days, Complexity of Belonging (2015 Green Room Award for Best Female Dancer) and LUCID; as well as with Force Majeure, Lucy Guerin Inc, Stephanie Lake Company, Prue Lang, Chamber Made and Ross McCormack. She was the recipient of the prestigious 2017 Tanja Liedtke Fellowship and has since been commissioned to choreograph works for the New Zealand School of Dance, Footnote New Zealand Dance Company, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Chunky Move and Sydney Dance Company. In 2016, she became a certified Countertechnique teacher and enjoys teaching students and professional dancers in Australia and overseas.

Panos Malactos
Performer
At the age of 17, Panos Malactos studied musical theatre with a scholarship (Dance and Drama Award) at the Bird College, continuing his training with a BA in Ballet and Contemporary Dance at the Rambert School. After graduating he moved to Israel to work with Fresco Dance Company, performing works by Michael Getman and Yoram Karmi, and spent time with Inbal Dance Theatre working with the choreographers Mor Shani and Noa Shadur. He has also worked with KENZO Paris, Compagnie Tabea Martin in Switzerland, Liliana Barros in Germany, Jason Mabana Dance in the UK, Emma Evelein Dance in the Netherlands), X-it Dance Theatre by Fotis Nikolaou in Cyprus/Greece, and Milena Ugren Koulas and Asomates Dynamis Dance Company in Cyprus. In 2019 he performed in Deca Dance by Ohad Naharin and a new creation Ballroom by Shahar Binyamin, in a collaboration between the Festspielhaus St. Pölten in Austria and Batsheva Dance Company. He collaborated with the director Elias Adam as a performer and choreographer in We Are In The Army Now, Kivotos Channel, Father Help Us and Eyolf Machine. Panos Malactos is also currently touring his solos SADBOI and Hire Me, Please.

Alejandro Moya
Performer
Alejandro Moya joined Peeping Tom in 2020 to perform in Triptych: The missing door, The lost room and The hidden floor. At the age of 10, he began to break dance and has since been invited to dance in different parts of the world, receiving awards in the United States, Switzerland, UK, South Korea and China, among others. Since 2006, his crew, Fusion Rockers, has won many events and represented Spain in international competitions.

He joined Dani Pannullo Dancetheatre in 2009 and has since performed around the world in Desordances_5, Uirapurú, Soul Pait, Bird of Fire, Alma Malabar and Avalanche. In 2010 he began studying contemporary dance at the Royal Professional Conservatory of Dance Mariemma in Madrid, training in classical dance, Graham, release, improvisation, yoga, music and other disciplines. With Sharon Fridman Projects in Mouvement, he has performed in a number of productions including Caída Libre (as dancer) and the duet Hasta Donde (as interpreter). He has worked with the Company KORSIA since 2015, including in the piece Cul de Sac, and with Company Antonio Ruz in 2018 in the piece presente. As a teacher he has given dance workshops in countries including Germany, Italy, Israel and Singapore.

Fanny Sage
Performer
Fanny Sage joined Peeping Tom in 2020 to perform in Triptych: The missing door, The lost room and The hidden floor. She trained as a dancer at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon, earning a degree. She works across genres, including promotional work as a choreographer and dancer for Chanel, Cartier, Hermès, KENZO, Nina Ricci, Vogue, Valentino, Lancôme, Gucci, Bulgari, Swarovski, and in video clips for Stromae,

Placebo, Elton John, Angèle, Malik Djoudi; and as a performer and choreographer for dance companies including Cie d’Abou Lagraa, La Baraka, cie Maryse Delente and cie Paul les oiseaux. She recently created a solo with La Compagnie Sans Lettres, a duo with the company Art Track and a female duo with the company LAC. Her latest creation is a solo, AMA, inspired by Japanese philosophy. She enjoys a combination of dance and acting, in short films for the Opéra de Paris or in feature films, such as La Danseuse (as a double for Lily Rose Depp). TV includes Vernon, a series by Cathy Verney for Canal+ .

Eliana Stragapede
Performer
Carmela Eliana Stragapede joined Peeping Tom in 2020 to perform in Triptych: The missing door, The lost room and The hidden floor. Her training began in private schools, and in 2011, she joined the Junior Dance Company under the direction of Sara Accettura, the first youth company in the south of Italy, with which she performed works by Osnat Kelner, Kerry Nicholls, Yoshua Cienfuegos and others. Her training continued at Codarts University of the Arts in Rotterdam, working with Club Guy & Roni, Lukas Timulak, Jiří Kylián, Raphael Bonachela and others, including internship work with Marina Mascarell and Club Guy & Roni/Poetic Disasters Club. Upon graduating in 2018, she joined the Tanzmainz Ensemble at Staatstheater Mainz for two seasons, working with Roy Assaf, Club Guy & Roni, Victor Quijada, Felix Berner and Pierre Rigal.

Wan-Lun Yu
Performer
Wan-Lun Yu  joined Peeping Tom in 2020 to perform in Triptych: The missing door, The lost room and The hidden floor. She graduated from the Taipei National University of the Arts in 2013, where she studied ballet, contemporary dance, Chinese folk dance, tai chi, contact improvisation, and Chinese martial arts. Since then, she has performed and collaborated with various choreographers, directors, filmmakers, and visual artists, including Hsiao-Mei Ho, Yen-Cheng Liu, Ming-Chen Li, Chien-Ming Chang (Hofesh Shechter Company), Kuan-Hsiang Liu, Chien-Ju Chia, Hiroaki Umeda, Gerard & Kelly, Jos Baker and Mylène Benoit. She also works as a process assistant and facilitator, assisting Kuan-Hsiang Liu’s work Superbeing for Cloud Gate 2 (TW) and Thinkers’ Studio (TPE) on an online residency platform Connect with SEA (Gender Issue): Residency in the CLOUD in 2021. As a maker, Wan-Lun Yu’s first project was a collaboration with Belgian audiovisual artist Joeri Verbesselt on the short film titled Retreat, which was selected for Copenhagen’s CPH: DOX film festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, The New York Science Fiction Film Festival, The European Philip K Dick Film Festival and, Breedbeeld short film festival. A second project, Tableau Vivant involved two site-specific installation performances foam, slaver, froth, sperm and Find the Apple. This collaboration has received financial support from the Taiwan National Culture and Arts Foundation and the Flemish Government.