Liam Warren is a choreographer, performer and researcher. Trained at Canada’s National Ballet School, the Alvin Ailey School in New York and Codarts in Rotterdam, he danced for six years with Ballet Preljocaj before developing a transdisciplinary practice that blends performance, site-specific creation and collective research. He explores the body as a space of tension, shaped by power, memory and images, while asserting its ability to move, transform, and reinvent its own contours. He is the co-founder of the RIFT platform and director of the transdisciplinary nomadic festival PLATEAUX. He collaborates regularly with Berlin-based visual artist Young-jun Tak, and is currently taking a master’s degree at the Dutch Art Institute (DAI).
Arthur Eskenazi is an artist, performer and dramaturg. His work criss-crosses different media, oscillating between visual and performing arts and exploring forms of narration, presence, and collaboration. He graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris (2012) and completed the ex.e.r.ce master's programme in dance and performance at the National Choreographic Centre in Montpellier (2015). He contributes to contemporary dance and performance pieces as a dramaturg, scenographer or writer, and has developed alternative research programmes, especially as part of the Parallèle festival (Marseille, 2019–2021). Since 2018, he has been co-director, with Tidiani N’Diaye, of the international BAM festival in Bamako.
Le Refuge Migrant·e·s LGBTQI+ in Marseille, originally created and self-managed by migrants in 2018, was officially registered as an association in 2021. It supports members of the LGBTQI+ community who are either asylum seekers or otherwise facing hardship, informing them of their rights and guiding them towards essential resources relating to administrative paperwork, housing, food, health and employment. A place of welcome, organisation and struggle, Le Refuge acts as a collective mouthpiece advocating for the rights, recognition and dignity of LGBTQI+ exiles.
