Satu Herrala & Alexander Roberts
Satu Herrala is a Helsinki-based curator with a background in dance and choreography. She has been the artistic director of Baltic Circle International Theatre Festival since 2015. She graduated as a choreographer from the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki and is currently a part-time doctoral student at Aalto University, working on the question “What is possible in art that is not possible otherwise?” She also works as a regular mentor at Iceland University of the Arts.
DIALOGUE Alexander Roberts is a Reykjavík-based curator and artist. As co-Artistic Director of Reykjavík Dance Festival with Ásgerður G. Gunnarsdóttir since 2014, he co-curates for Every Body’s Spectacular, Teenagers in Reykjavík and A! Performance Festival in Akureyri and is a programme director of the newly formed Performing Arts MFA programme at the Iceland University of the Arts. He works in close artistic collaboration with artists such as Ásrún Magnúsdóttir, Aude Busson, Katrín Gunnarsdóttir, Brogan Davison and Pétur Ármansson as a maker and dramaturg.