ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

Company Prototype Status

Jasmine Morand (Choreographer & Artistic Director)

Jasmine Morand established her company Prototype Status in Vevey, Switzerland in 2003. In 2004, she won first prize for her production of Marvin from the SSA (Swiss Society of Authors). In the same year, she was selected for the SIWIC, international master class for young choreographers in Zurich. In 2008, her dance work Aquarium was supported by the new project Dramaturgy for Dance by the SSA.

Her work has since been presented throughout Europe in Germany, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland and Denmark.

Jasmine was trained at the Ballet School of Genevieve Chaussat in Geneva and passed her exams at the Academy Princess Grace of Monaco. Between 1996 and 2000, she worked at the National Ballet of Nancy and Lorraine, at the Opera of Zurich and at the National Opera of Ljubljana. In 2000, she received a two years grant from the Pierino Ambrosoli Foundation to the Rotterdam Modern Dance Academy and started developing her own choreographic work.

Beside the choreographic work, Jasmine Morand performs currently in the Butoh Ensemble of Minako Seki in Berlin.

David Nicolas Russo (Dancer)

David joined the John Cranko Ballet Academy in Stuttgart in Germany and graduated two years later under the Vaganova Teacher Pjotr A. Pestov. Between 1998 and 2005, he was a soloist at the State Theater Saarbruecken and at the Ballet Theater Munich, directed by the British choreographer Philip Taylor. In 2005 he was guest choreographer at the Birgit Keil Foundation at the Ballet Academy of the University for Music and Performing Arts of Mannheim, Germany. In 2006 he was a guest soloist with the Italian ballet company Teatro Nuovo Torino for the premiere of A Midsummer Night Dream, by the American choreographer Robert North, in which he danced the role of Puck.

In 2007 he choreographed a new piece for the Ballet Philippines in the CCP of Manila and contributed to the local Foundation, the Quezon City Performing Arts Development Foundation, in a teaching project for underprivileged children.

David has performed the solo piece Marvin in Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, Denmark and Germany. In addition to his wokr as an artist, David is often a guest ballet and modern dance teacher with several European dance schools.

Piia Maria (Costume & Set Designer)

Piia Maria has been working from 2001 as a set and costume designer with several European choreographers and directors in the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland.

She has won several prices for her installations such as the Den Haag Sculptuur award in 2002 and GAF award in 2003. In 2006 she got a state supported two year subsidy to explore developing her work. Her work has been exhibited in different galleries, museums and art festivals in Holland and Finland. In 2007 she had a big solo exhibition in Cristus Triumfator Church in The Hague.

Enrique Gonzalez Müller (Music Mix & Live Sound Interaction)

Enrique Gonzalez Müller was born in Caracas, Venezuela. In 1995 he moved to Boston, Massachusetts and attended Berklee College of Music. After graduating with two majors in Music Production/Engineering and Music Synthesis, he moved to San Francisco, California where he began a long relationship with the world renowned recording studio The Plant as an audio engineer working with artists like The Dave Matthews Band, Kronos Quartet and Joe Satriani to name a few. Gonzalez Müller currently produces bands in the United States, Italy and Venezuela as well as working as front of house mixer for touring bands and dance productions in Europe.

Juan Felipe Waller (Composer)

Juan Felipe Waller Vigil was born and brought up in Mexico City in a mixture of cultures from his Dutch father and Mexican mother. After studying for some years at the Academie des Arts Plastiques in Paris, he continued his musical education in Mexico at the Music Study and Investigation Centre (CIEM). Since 1994 he has been studying at the Rotterdam Conservatory with Klaas de Vries and Peter-Jan Wagemans. He has been a participant in masterclasses by L. Berio, J. Tiensuu, M. Stachowski, P. Bujarski, F. Donatoni and G. Brophy. In some of his works such as El Culto for four singers and large ensemble and En el Allure del Frenesi there is an evident influence of Mexican instrumentation, colour and style, whilst in other pieces as Jeu de Dames, and Eye Masking the musical source emerges from a darker and psychological inspiration. In both cases surrealism plays an important role.

Pablo Reche (Composer)

Pablo Reche is currently one of the best Argentinian avant-garde sound artists. He has played live in the principal scene of Argentine and many countries and events (Sónar Festival 2000, Observatori Festival 2004, Mutek 2005, LEM Festival 2005, etc) and his music has been released on labels all around the world (Gracia Territori Sonor, Testinground, Fragil Discos, etc). His work has been defined as a good example of noise, isolationism and post-industrial sound. Close to white noise, Reche builds structurated ambiences whole of distorted sounds, filtered textures and manipulated sounds taken from field recordings.