Alex Beech (performer / media and communications advisor)

Alex joined Lapsus Corpi as a performer in 2004. Since then she has also designed publicity material for the group’s productions and has advised on managerial and communications issues. As a performer she has worked with small professional dance companies, such as XS Dance Company, Disco Sisters and prang, in live performance, site specific work and film, and has performed at The Place, at the Greenwich and Docklands International Festival, and at the Big in Falkirk Festival in Scotland. Alex studied dance at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds and at Laban in London, and holds a BA (Hons) Degree in English from Bretton Hall, Leeds University. She has also been working in marketing, promotion, design, brand and new media at Laban, and is currently a Digital Media Developer, responsible for developing web and e-media strategies for Trinity Laban. Recently she lectured in brand management at Birbeck College, presented at the Arts Marketing Association’s Annual Conference 2006, and published a paper in JAM, the Arts Marketing Association’s Journal.

Christian Kipp (photographer)

Christian has been collaborating with Lapsus Corpi as a photographer since 2006. He divides his work between landscape and dance photography, and finds a rich mix of parallels and contrasts between the two, which he has explored in recent projects and exhibitions at Laban, Clarence Mews, Northampton University and movingartsbase. Most recently he has been accepted for the London Independent Photography Annual Exhibition with two of his nature photographs to be held at the Cotton’s Atrium in London Bridge.

Priska Lüthi (performer / photographer)

Priska joined Lapsus Corpi in 2004 and has performed in many of the group’s productions until today. A performer and teacher of Gyrotonic and Gyrokinesis based in Switzerland, she has worked with Kirstie Simson and Angela Woodhouse amongst others. She is a member of Spazio Variabile, an international group researching in the field of improvisation in performance, and has also occasionally performed at The Foundry in Islington in improvisation performances directed by Andrew Downes. Priska trained in dance at Laban where she completed the Professional Diploma Course (PDDS) and then gained a BA (Hons) in Dance Theatre. She is interested in the meaning of the performing body and her own research is focused on how art and life reflect and inform each other.

Pano Masti (performer)

Pano joined Lapsus Corpi in 2005 and has performed in all of our group productions since then. Currently he also leads warm-up classes for the group, and is involved in Lapsus Corpi’s educational and participatory activities. He lives in London, where he works as a performer on stage and film, and writes fiction. Amongst other productions, he has performed in the show Please Kill Me for the group PROSPECTA in Athens, in The Full Monteverdi for I Fagiolini in the UK and the USA, and in The Third Chair, a feature film by Marc-Henri Ellegard. He trained as an actor with Earl Hyman in the HB Studio, New York, with Jenny Backman in RADA, London, and with Oskaras Korsunovas at the National Theatre, Athens. Recently Pano has also taken part in film series for the BBC, and is currently completing an MA in Creative Writing at the Hallam Univerisity of Sheffield.

Eri Papacharalambous (performer)

Eri joined Lapsus Corpi in 2004 and has performed in many of the group’s productions since then. As a performer she has collaborated with choreographers Abigail Cook, Louise Dixon, Carrie Muller, Lalitaraja and Sonia Rodriguez in London, and with several Greek and foreign choreographers in Athens, including Michalis Nalmbantis, Valia Aleksandratou, Martin Lawrence and Wim Vandekeybus. A graduate of the State School of Dance, Athens, Greece, Eri is also interested in teaching contemporary dance and has successfully run her own contemporary dance classes for beginners in Expressions Studios, Highgate.

Neil Paris (performer)

Neil joined Lapsus Corpi in 2006. He has performed in two of our group productions since then, has taken part in research activities, and has also led warm-up classes for the group. Born in Norwich, England, Neil was a cabinetmaker for ten years before training in theatre at Dartington College of Arts and in dance at the Laban Centre, London. He has been a member of Fabulous Beast since 2003 performing in Giselle, The Bull, The Flowerbed and James Son Of James. He has also worked with Darkin Ensemble and has performed in The Rake’s Progress at the Royal Opera House and at The Trasna Festival for KCAT in Kilkenny. As a workshop and project leader, Neil works in educational, community and professional settings. From December 2008 to March 2009 he will be Artist in Residence at Áras Éanna on Inis Oírr in Ireland.

Elena Prapidi (performer)

Elena joined Lapsus Corpi in 2005 and has performed in all of our group works since then. She danced for Chet Walker from Jacobs Pillow, in a project commissioned by the Hellenic American Union, and performed in the Opening Ceremony for the Paraolympic Games Athens 2004, choreographed by Apostolia Papadamaki. A graduate of the Professional Dance School of Niki Kontaksaki, she was also a member of the Niki Kontaksaki Dance Company, and has participated in workshops led by Gill Clarke, Kirstie Simson and Christian Burns, Daniel Lommel, Wim Vandekeybus, Yvonne Ribar-Mantafounis, Anouk Van Dijk, the Trisha Brown Dance Company and the Siobhan Davies Dance Company. Elena has participated in a research project led by Jonothan Burrows and Matteo Fargion and in a photography project with Nick White, and has taught dance and movement classes in Athens and in London, including RAD ballet at The Finchley Ballet School. Most recently she collaborated with the dance companies Quasi Stellar and Smack in Greece.

Francesca Recchia (writer / researcher)

Francesca first collaborated as a writer with Lapsus Corpi in 2006. She is a researcher and lecturer currently teaching in universities such as TU in Delft, Bocconi in Milan, and Ca’ Foscari in Venice. Her work intersects the fields of Postcolonial, Visual and Urban Studies with a particular attention to the geo-political dimension of cultural process. She deals with questions of representation, ethics, migrations and urban transformation. Francesca has been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College of London, and holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from the Oriental Institute in Naples and an MA in Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths College, University of London. She was part of the Documenta11_Education Project in Documenta11, Kassel 2002, has lectured internationally, and collaborates with the interdisciplinary research groups Multiplicity and Stalker/Osservatorio Nomade. She contributes to journals and magazines such as Abitare, Domus, and Africa e Mediterraneo.