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Brandy Leary
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Brandy Leary creates contemporary performances through the body. Active as a performer, creator, collaborator and curator in the fields of dance and circus, she is the artistic director of Anandam Dancetheatre. Her performance works have been produced and performed in Canada, Europe, India, South Africa and the United States in theatres, urban environments, festivals, museums, art galleries and isolated landscapes.
She has lived between Canada and India for the past eighteen years training, collaborating and creating (both explicitly and implicitly) in the traditional Indian performing languages of Seraikella and Mayurbhanj Chhau (dance), Kalarippayattu (martial art) and Rope Mallakhamb (aerial rope). In Canada she works with western approaches to aerial rope, post contemporary dance/circus practices and psychic/shamanistic explorations to create performances.
Brandy is a founder and Co-Director of Collective Space (an alternative performance and rehearsal venue in Toronto’s west end), founder and Co-Artistic Director of CCAFT (Contemporary Circus Arts Festival of Toronto), developer of Anandam’s Audience In Residence Program and curator/co-producer of the Body Brake series at Theatre Passe Muraille and co curator of the new Contemporaneity series with Soraya Peerbaye.
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Zhone
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Zhone is a Grammy-nominated writer/producer from Maryland, based in LA. He has releases with artists such as Charli XCX (“Talk Talk ft. Troye Sivan”), Troye Sivan (“Rush”), Kesha (“JOYRIDE”), Debbii Dawson (“Happy World”, “Downer”, “Eulogy For Nobody”, etc.), Loreen (“Forever”), INJI (“UNTZ UNTZ”, “Hate Your Guts”), Maude Latour (“Too Slow”, “Cursed Romantics”), METTE (“BET”, “Muscle”) and has worked with a slew of other artists including Kylie Minogue, Demi Lovato, METTE, Kim Petras, Jade Thirlwall, Jessie Ware, Bebe Rexha, Ashnikko, etc. Recent collaborators include Ali Tamposi, Pablo Bowman, Madison Love, Jake Torrey, Lostboy, Sarah Hudson, Leland, Coffee, Castle, Lauren Aquilina, Alex Chapman, etc. Cuts and holds with Damiano, Kylie Minogue, Jax Jones, Alesso, Bebe Rexha, Kesha, Demi Lovato, etc.
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Elitza Gueorguieva
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Elitza Gueorgieva is an author of documentary films, performer, and writer. She was born in Sofia and has been living and working in Paris for the past 15 years. After completing her M.A. in Cinema, she worked as an assistant director and editor for a number of production companies. She also authored a number of documentaries, namely Waiting for, and Every Wall Is a Door (2 Specials Mentions of the jury of Cinéma du réel in Paris).
Elitza Gueorguieva is also a writer. Her first novel "The Cosmonauts Are Just Passing by" was published in September 2016 by the Éditions Verticales (Award SDGL André Dubreuil for first novel). In addition, she has published short texts in different literary magazines (Dyonisies, Jef Klak et Vue sur cour). Elitza is a regular performer of literary texts on different stages and in various forums (le Tarmac, Le Théâtre Ouvert, le Khiasma, le Festival Hors-Limites, la Maison de la poésie in Paris, Paris en toutes lettres, etc).
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Sheryl Ang
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This 23-year-old attractive lass is not one to be belittled as she has an edge over the other contestants in the Star Search 2019 where she emerged as the top 12 finalists. Her modelling experience has trained her well in posing naturally in front of the cameras without fear and most importantly, with poise and confidence. She was also chosen as the campaign girl for established brands. Not only modelling, she also dwells before in theatre and film. She has a good grasp in languages and conversant in Korean too. Equipped with her 3rd language as well as her built confidence and good stage presence, she may be able to communicate and understand scripts better than the others, and hence enter into another character faster and also engage with audience more naturally.
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Diane Rehm
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Diane Rehm (born Diane Aed; September 21,1936) is the host of Diane Rehm: On My Mind podcast, produced at WAMU, which is licensed to American University in Washington, D.C. She also hosts a monthly book club series, Diane Rehm Book Club, at WAMU. Rehm is also the former American public radio talk show host of The Diane Rehm Show, which was distributed nationally and internationally by National Public Radio. The show was also produced at WAMU.
Rehm had announced her plans to retire from hosting the show after the 2016 elections. The final program was recorded and distributed on December 23, 2016. Rehm announced she was going to host a weekly podcast, which she began doing in January 2017.
Rehm is also the co-producer, narrator, and interviewer of When My Time Comes, distributed by PBS stations across the country. Her book by the same name was published in 2020 by Knopf. The Washington Post describes Rehm as a leading voice in the right to die debate.
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Janusz Monarcha
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Janusz Monarcha was born in Poland, studied at the University of Music in Wroclaw and won several singing competitions. He was first engaged at the Wroclaw Opera House. In 1986 he came to the Wiener Kammeroper, one year later Janusz Monarcha was already member of the ensemble of the Volksoper. Guest appearances led him to France, Monte Carlo, Hungary and the USA. Since 1991 he is member of the ensemble of the Wiener Staatsoper and has sung e.g. Fasolt (Das Rheingold), Oberpriester (Hérodiade), König (Aida), Pope (Lady Macbeth von Mzensk), Lord Valton (I puritani), Il Commendatore (Don Giovanni), Albert (La Juive), Daland (Fliegende Holländer), Geronte (Manon Lescaut), Colas (Bastien und Bastienne), Colline, Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Kardinal Alfonso (Gesualdo), Oberpriester (Nabucco), Dorfrichter (Jen˚ufa), Bailli (Werther), Angelotti (Tosca), Reinmar von Zweter (Tannhäuser), Vanuzzi (Schweigsame Frau), Warlaam (Boris Godunow), Mönch (Don Carlo), Rocco (Fidelio), Pistola (Falstaff) and Pfarrer/Dachs (Schlaues Füchslein). http://www.wiener-staatsoper.at/Content.Node/home/kuenstler/saengerinnen/Monarcha.en.php
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Kelley Poling
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Cleveland-born Kelley Poling has transitioned from being one of the top bathing suit and athletic models of the late 90's to working as an actress in film and television. As a model, Kelley worked on campaigns with Hawaiian Tropic, Nike, Yamaha, and Harley Davidson. For a year between her modeling days and her acting career, she was on tour with Madonna.
Kelley is trained in automatic weapons and martial arts techniques specific to film and television.
When not filming, she travels the world as a competitive Classical Fencer and is proficient with foil, small-sword, dueling sword, rapier, and sabre. Poling has been training for more than 20 years in New York with Maestri Jeannette Acosta Martinez and Ray Martinez of the prestigious Martinez Academy of Arms. She also surfs, runs 5k races, and performs Celtic/Scottish music.
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Qing Jiang
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Jiang Qing (19 March 1914 – 14 May 1991), was a Chinese Communist Revolutionary, actress, and major political figure during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976). She was the fourth wife of Mao Zedong, the Chairman of the Communist Party and Paramount leader of China. She used the stage name Lan Ping during her acting career (which ended in 1938), and was known by many other names. She married Mao in Yan'an in November 1938 and served as the inaugural "First Lady" of the People's Republic of China. Jiang Qing was best known for playing a major role in the Cultural Revolution and for forming the radical political alliance known as the "Gang of Four".
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Sean Connery
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Sir Thomas Sean Connery (August 25, 1930 - October 31, 2020) was a Scottish actor and producer who won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (one being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award), and three Golden Globes, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award.
Connery was the first actor to portray the character James Bond in film, starring in seven Bond films (every film from Dr. No to You Only Live Twice, plus Diamonds Are Forever and Never Say Never Again), between 1962 and 1983. In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables. His films also include Marnie (1964), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Highlander (1986), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Dragonheart (1996), The Rock (1996), and Finding Forrester (2000).
Connery was polled in a 2004 The Sunday Herald as "The Greatest Living Scot" and in a 2011 EuroMillions survey as "Scotland's Greatest Living National Treasure". He was voted by People magazine as both the “Sexiest Man Alive" in 1989 and the "Sexiest Man of the Century” in 1999. He received a lifetime achievement award in the United States with a Kennedy Center Honor in 1999. Connery was knighted in the 2000 New Year Honours for services to film drama.
On October 31, 2020, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90.
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Moe Rai
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After finishing his studies at the University of Toronto, and graduating with an honors bachelor in Computer Science and Mathematics, Moe Rai decided to dive into his passion of filmmaking. He graduated with honors in Film Production and quickly gathered a vast experience in TV & Film Production, Marketing, Advertising, Training and Coaching.
Since 2006, Moe had the privilege of working with great Canadian and International talent, taking roles such as Producer, Line Producer and Production Manager for several US and Canadian projects such as feature films, TV Movies, shorts, commercials and new media projects, while working with the industry's key players, leaders and major companies.
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