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Press release In transit Contemporary Dance Performance “Space is a concept, a mental attitude and more than an immediate perception or recognition of an inhabitable place.” KF Thursday 27th September 2007, 7.30pm At the Alliance Française Auditorium In transit is a contemporary dance performance, which combines and merges very different stage experiences and various mediums to tell a story. In transit creates an intermediate and sensitive place, which occurs between reality and the virtual world. Three performers and one musician, acting, dancing, and also images, words and silence will take you into a journey where you will explore imagination and reality through a new concept of contemporary theatre. Produced by the Alliance Française of Bangkok, this performance will bring a unique opportunity to see on stage an international team of professional performers with more than 20 years stage experience.

Venue: Alliance Française Auditorium Date: Thursday 27th September 2007, 7.30pm Tickets: 250 bahts/ 150 baths students and members RSV. 02 670 4240 – 02 670 4200 Concept, Choreography and Performance: Klaus Fruchtnis – Philippe Saint-Paul – Olivier Vinkler Guest musician: Yukihisa Nakagawa Guest composer: Hayden Woolf For more information: Chalanthorn - 026704231 Public Relations: Kryno Priyajana - 0819047690 Email: [email protected] Official photographer: Pornlert Tantipanitkoon

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Performers Klaus Fruchtnis

Klaus Fruchtnis was born in Colombia in 1978. He has studied visual arts at the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia and continued his education at the École de Beaux Arts of Paris and Rennes, France. Actually, he lives and works between Paris and Bangkok. Klaus Fruchtnis defines himself as an "image-maker”, a particular composition of words which show states of a concrete attitude for the work, and also its imagination, its fancy, which could fit among the pages of Wonderland. His artistic work is related to the word space, and it has been characterized by its itinerary and its way of evolution the last past years. This need to find new places to grow up with his work and the interaction which surrounds it makes it becomes different. The space and its new territories interest him as a thematic space of art development. And to find a neutral space of perception where human beings and space can merge like a matrix. He studied acting and dance, and performed, in many countries such as Colombia, France, Canada, Australia and Thailand. He has studied dance with Yvan Alexandre and L’arriere boutique in France, Olvier Vinkler in Thailand and at the Sydney Dance Company in Australia. He participated in the last production of the Bangkok City Ballet and the Paris Opera National Ballet in Bangkok this year, Don Quixote. Philippe Saint-Paul

Philippe started to dance at 14, when he discovered Tap, jazz and Ballet. He got his professional dance training from Rosella Hightower International School of Dance in Cannes, France, where he studied Ballet, Jazz, modern, pas de deux, folk, therapy, Flamenco and music. After choreographing for dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet for a French movie on the famous dancer Nijinsky, he went on with his dance career which led him to the US, where he worked with noted choreographers as Trisha Brown, Lance Gries, Demetrius Klein among others. At the same time he kept choreographing such noted pieces as “ Anna”, “Rachmaninov Rhapsodie”, “Mozart Requiem” and teaching from young kids to professionals (Alvin Ailey dance company, Ballet Florida, etc…) He also appeared in several musical shows, combining his singing talent with dancing and acting. After 10 years in NY and more than 13 years in the US, he decided to explore new grounds and move to Thailand.

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Olivier Vinkler

Born in France in 1972. Olivier trained in classical ballet from 1981 to 1989. He was then admitted to Rosella Hightower International School of Dance in Cannes, France, where he continued his study of classical ballet, contemporary dance, dance therapy, character dance, jazz and acting. From 1992 to 1994, Olivier performed both classical and contemporary repertories with the International Youth Ballet of Cannes, after which he trained in New York in various dancing techniques (Graham, Brown, Limon, Horton, etc.) Olivier turned professional dancer in 1992 and has since continuously worked with prestigious choreographers and directors such as Andy Degroat, Klaus Michael Gruber, Philippe Genty, Coline Serreau, Alfredo Arias and Laura Scozzy… mixing ballet, contemporary dance, visual theater, mime, musical comedy… Since 2003 he has lived in Bangkok where he has been teaching and choreographing for Sinakarin University, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok City Ballet among others. Yukihisa Nakagawa

Yukihisa Nakagawa was born in Japan in 1970. He began to play Cello in high school when he was 15 years old, then started to study cello with Toshiaki Hayashi after graduated from the University. He studied chamber music with Duo Hayashi too. He succeeded the audition of the Asian Youth Orchestra in 1996 and performed in major Asian cities. He has also been chosen as member of Asian Youth Chamber Orchestra and played in Osaka and Bangkok. He’s been invited to play with the Guam Symphony Society, Nusantara Symphony Orchestra (Indonesia), Ensemble Kobe (Japan) and Bangkok Symphony Orchestra as guest principal cellist. He worked as a musical assistant at The Osaka University of Arts since 1999 until he came to Bangkok. He has participated in master classes in Vienna (Austria) and Les Arcs (France) in 1998 where he studied with Tobias Khune and Christoph Henkel. In 1999, he studied in the master class of Klaus Storck in Hiroshima and also chamber music. Currently he is a member of Bangkok Symphony Orchestra and a teacher at Silpakorn University and Bangkok Symphony Music School (BSS).

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Born in Sydney, Australia, Hayden began music at a young age. After training intensely as a ballet dancer at the Australian Ballet School in Melbourne he decided to follow his true passion and completed a bachelor of music majoring in Composition at the Australian Institute of music. Hayden focuses on dance works, chamber music and songwriting. As well as teaching he is now working on a few large exciting recordings. Images

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