Bigi Paoletti FRITZ Company is a dance-theater company founded in 2020 by Damiano Ottavio Bigi, a dancer and choreographer formerly of the Tanztheater Wuppertal under Pina Bausch, who has worked with Dimitris Papaioannou, among others, and Alessandra Paoletti, an actress, writer, and director active in dance theater and contemporary dance, who has led numerous international projects and collaborated for many years as a guest director with the Istanbul Municipal Theatre. Active together since 2013, when they began their collaboration with Yuvaya Dönmek, Babam için—conceived for the Istanbul Municipal Theatre—they have developed a practice situated at the intersection of dance, theater, and visual arts, interweaving creation, pedagogy, and site-specific practices. Their work explores compositional, dramaturgical, and kinesthetic structures often inspired by scientific models, giving rise to performative universes that inscribe themselves in bodies and expand into space and landscape, redefining the relationship between presence, environment, and perception. Following the premiere of Un Discreto Protagonista (2022), the company has presented its work at major international festivals and theaters in Europe and Asia and is supported by international partners.

Compagnia Ahn Aesoon, founded in 1985 and directed by Ahn Aesoon, blends Korean identity with contemporary sensibilities in a choreographic style that reinterprets Eastern traditions and concepts. Ahn’s work was awarded the 1998 Grand Prix at the Rencontres Chorégraphiques de Bagnolet and is documented in the Oxford Dictionary of Dance and the International Dictionary of Modern Dance. Over more than forty years of activity, she has transformed elements such as shamanism, ritual performance, and kokdu into a contemporary language, and today the company continues to explore choreographic possibilities capable of transcending cultural boundaries.