Yui Kawaguchi – Artistic Direction, Dance
Born in Japan. She started learning dance at 6years old. She danced in the companies of H.art.chaos, Kota Yamazaki/Rosy, co and Motoko Hirayama, performing in Japan, the USA and Europe. She choreographed for the opening festival of East Asian Olympics 2001. She worked as choreographer and dancer with the “media drive unit 66b/cell".
Since 2005 she works in Berlin. She performed in the companies of Ismael Ivo, Helena Waldmann, Nico and the Navigators, Michaela Lucenti, Darren Jonston and Tomi Paasonen, among others. Her own pieces have featured at a number of international festivals including New National Theatre Tokyo. In 2006 she received the Jury’s Prize at the Yokohama solo-duo competition. She belongs to the original casts of "Red Bull Flying Bach“, by Christoph Hagel and Flying Steps. The show awarded with “ECHO Klassik Sonderpreis 2010“ and is touring over 35 countries, has fascinated more than 500,000 people. 2010 her solo performance "andropolaroid“ won the Dance Price Cologne.
Since 2008 she is working in collaboration with jazz pianist Aki Takase. 2014 she premiered a piece with Japanese visual artist Yoshimasa Ishibashi, “MatchAtria”, touring in 16 cities in Europa and Asia. Together with Aki Takase, her latest piece „Da Capo“ searches for the fascination of cultural particularity in the personal encounter.

Aki Takase – Musical Diredtion, Piano www.akitakase.com
Born in Osaka she grew up in Tokio. She started learning piano at 3 years old and studied music at Tohogakuen University in Tokio. 1979 she staid several months in the USA. 1981 she performed for the first time at the Berlin Jazzfest in the Philharmonie with her trio. Many concerts and LPs with John Zorn, Lester Bowie, Joe Henderson, Niels Henning Orsted Pedersen.
In the 90’s very successful duos with the singer Maria Joao, and with saxophonist David Murray. Also a trio with Reggie Workman and Rashied Ali, a duo with Alexander von Schlippenbach, and occasional projects with the Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra. From 1997 til 1999 teaching at the Hochschule für Musik „Hanns Eisler“ in Berlin. She got the award Kritikerpreis der Berliner Zeitung. Aki Takase got in 2002 the radio SWR Jazzpreis award. Further projects are the trio "LOK 03" with Alexander von Schlippenbach and DJ Illvibe, a new chamber ensemble "La Planète“ with Louis Sclavis, Dominique Pifarely and Vincent Courtois, duos with Rudi Mahall, Han Bennink, David Murray and Louis Sclavis. She was nominated 8 times for the Deutschen Schallplattenpreis.

Louis Sclavis – Clarinet, Bass clarinet
The French jazz musician performs on clarinet, bass clarinet, and soprano saxophone in a variety of contexts, including jazz and free jazz. He is noted for his creativity and lively sense of humor. Sclavis began his musical education at the Conservatoire de Lyon at age 9, where he studied clarinet. He began performing with the Lyon Workshop, where he met Michel Portal and Bernard Lubat. He then joined the Brotherhood of Breath of Chris McGregor, and later the Henri Texier Quartet. He began his work as a leader in 1985, with his debut album, Clarinettes. In Chine, his second album, the track "Duguesclin" actually became a surprise hit in France, due to its lively, middle-age inspiration. In 2005, he formed a trio with Henri Texier and Aldo Romano, the African Trio, which achieved considerable success, even outside of the French jazz community. In November 2006, at the Festival 'Écouter Voir' in Lyons, Sclavis first met the Quatuor Habanera, with whom he collaborated on their third album, L'engrenage (2007). 1988 Louis Sclavis got the Prix Django Reinhardt, an award fort the best jazzmusician of the year in France. 1990 he got the British Jazz Award and 1996 the Nationalen Music Award from the French Ministry of Culture.

DJ Illvibe – Live DJ / Soundscapes
Vincent von Schlippenbach aka DJ Illvibe was the DJ of the dancehall band Seeed (until 2005) and of the Berlin-based Hip-Hop-band Moabeat. Together with his father Alexander von Schlippenbach and Aki Takase he relased 2005 the LP Lok. 03. He started d-jaying when 15 Jahren in various Hip-Hop-venues. 1999 he joined the band Lychee Lassi. He also performed as Live-DJ with different bands (among others Das Department and nuBox, with whom he was invited in 2005 at the Jazzfestival in Frankfurt am Main). Curretly he works on different music projects in Berlin and as a DJ in Berlin clubs.

Kofie da Vibe – Dance
Kofie da Vibe aka KIDMADDRIPP born in Ghana/ West Africa is a young Hiphop and Krump dancer. He started dance when he was young of age, later on he was inspired of many legends and so started to share his passion internationaly and is also one of the pioneers of Krump in Europe. His crew Badnewz mp and Buckmanz are known as one of the famous groups in the World.
Kofie da Vibe was one of the first German dancers who represented Germany in the Urban dance scene and not to forget his krump carreer as the student of TIGHT EYEZ is now worldwide known in the dance community. He still inspires people with his talent and passion in the Urban dance scene and now has the biggest Krump event in the world, named European Bucksession, which is taking place every year in Germany and people all over the world come and share their passion.