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Lidia Wos is a Polish-Swedish dancer and choreographer based in Malmö. Between 2002 and 2015 she was a part of Skånes Dansteater ensemble. During her career she has been working with everything from classical ballet and contemporary dance theatre to modern conceptual dance, opera, and dramatic theatre.

Her works has been presented on stages in Washington, London, Barcelona, Prag, Rotterdam, Copenhagen, Ramallah, Shanghai and Seuol besides different venues all over Sweden. Based on her own experience as a dancer as well as a choreographer she has developed her own highly personal artistic language. The chorographical craftmanship is essential for her and she put a lot of attention to all parts of the creation. Her performances are always filled with a lot of details, imagination, musicality, humor, and absurd twists.

Jonas Nydesjö has studied composition and arranging at the Malmö Academy of Music, and conducting with Per Ohlsson and Neil Tomson. Jonas' areas of expertise include musicals, symphonic music, cross-genre concerts, dance performances, recordings and children's and youth performances throughout Sweden.

He has conducted the Threepenny Opera at Folkoperan, dance performances and musicals at Malmö Opera, Wermland Opera and Gothenburg Opera (including The Feeling Of Going, Singin In The Rain, Bob Hund Opera, Kärlek Skonar Ingen and Titanic the musical) as well as concerts with most orchestras in Sweden.

Together with Ola Salo, Jonas wrote the rock opera Kult for Swedish Radio. Over the years he has collaborated with artists such as Annika Norlin, Ola Salo, Bob Hund, Håkan Hellström, Mikael Wiehe, Nina Persson, Linnea Henriksson, Lisa Miskovsky, Jakob Hellman, Moto Boy, Tingsek, Rigmor Gustafsson, Refused, Good Harvest and many others.

Ilkka Häikiö works as a lighting designer, video designer and set designer. Since 1996 he has worked on over 100 productions, mainly as a lighting designer and mostly in Sweden, but has also worked in Denmark, Norway and Finland. He has toured with his productions in China, Cuba and India.

Clients include Gothenburg City Theatre, Malmö Opera, Malmö City Theatre, Odense Theatre, Ibsen Theatre and Riksteatern and independent groups such as InSite and Teater Sagohuset. Ilkka is one of three artistic directors in the performing arts group InSite, which works with participatory experiential art.

Ilkka has received a working grant from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee three times, which has given him the opportunity to build his own light and video studio where he can immerse himself in the development of different concepts for different projects.

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