Beyond the Bund wants to present an all-new dance installation “POP”, with four of the most popular dancers in Shanghai!

 

POP
the pop-up dance installation
that pops the bubbles around us.
Are you ready to POP?

 

 

Fania Grigoriou
Born in Greece, Fania studied at the State School of Dance in Athens. She joined the National Theatre of Northern Greece before moving to London in 2009, where she worked with companies like Punchdrunk, Protein Dance, The Royal Opera House, Satore Studio, and Yorke Dance Project. She was filmed in The Mummy, How to Talk to Girls at Parties, Les Miserables, and Anna Karenina, and she recently passed the intermediate level of qualification in Stage Combat (APC) with excellence.

 

 

CHRIS JÄGER
Chris is a contemporary dancer and choreographer from Germany. As part of the 2014-15 season cast of Inbal Pinto & Avshalom Pollak Dance Company, he toured the company's repertoire through Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. His own choreographic work has been accepted to the finals of internationally renowned competitions and festivals. In 2012 he joined Staatstheater Tanz Braunschweig, where he worked with choreographers like Yossi Berg and Oded Graf, Annabelle Bonnery, Antje Pfundner, Jan Pusch, and Katrin Hall. Chris studied contemporary dance at the BA Tanz program at HfMDK Frankfurt am Main. Before that he held a singing scholarship at Musikschule Kassel e.V. and worked in several projects with Johannes Wieland at Staatstheater Kassel.

 

 

Garth Johnson
A graduate of the Juilliard School in New York City, Garth is Art strives to lead an artistically fulfilled life. He has performed all over Europe and the USA with companies such as Punchdrunk International, DV8 Physical Theatre, and MADBOOTS DANCE, to name a few. He is currently working on a musical debut.

 

Ingrid Kapteyn
Since graduating from Juilliard in 2013, Ingrid has performed with Punchdrunk, Brian Brooks Moving Company, The Metropolitan Opera, Wally Cardona, and Danielle Russo Performance Project. She was an actor in Martha Clarke and Alfred Uhry's Angel Reapers at The Signature Theatre in 2016, and she has taught internationally including with FRESH Dance Intensive, at Princeton and Bucknell Universities, and at the Nord Anglia International Schools in Shanghai. In January 2014 she cofounded HEWMAN, a NYC-based collective that creates performance installations for nontraditional venues. Ingrid first collaborated with Beyond the Bund to produce CAMPFIRE this past June.

Created and Performed by Austin Goodwin, Fania Grigoriou, Chris Jäger, Garth Johnson, and Ingrid Kapteyn.

 

Produced by Beyond the Bund team