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» Yael Flexer is co-artistic director of Flexer & Sandiland. She originally formed the company as Choreographer in Residence at The Place Theatre, London. She has created 13 full-length productions, touring throughout the UK and internationally. Flexer & Sandiland have also been commissioned to create live/digital works for Brighton Festival, Sadler's Wells, South East Dance, and Barbican Centre. The company recently completed research for a new intergenerational work Acting Our Age as well as touring Curiouser for family audiences co-produced with dybwikdans, Norway. The sited smartphone app The Hum (2017) toured to cities across the UK also as part of Without Walls. Disappearing Acts (2016) performed in the UK and internationally alongside the digital installation Weighting (2015). Past touring productions include Weightless (2012-14), The Living Room (2010-2011) and the installations Trip Hazard (2013) and Gravity Shift (2010). Yael leads professional training & commissions in the UK and internationally. She completed her PhD in 2013 and co-directs mapdance, the University of Chichester's postgraduate repertoire touring company.
» Nic Sandiland is a UK-based artist whose work explores new choreographic forms through installation, performance and film. He originally trained as an electronics engineer before studying dance and performance in the late 80s. Over the past 30 years he has made movement-based works focusing on simple pedestrian choreography. He is particularly interested in engaging the everyday movements of the viewer in a choreographic context through digital technology. Recent work has drawn on cinematic techniques, such as slow motion and moving camera mechanisms as ways to elevate the mundane and often overlooked choreography of everyday life. He has made work in London, Europe and South East Asia and has presented at theatres, art galleries, and many unusual venues. His film work has been shown worldwide and on UK TV (Channel 4). His work has been commissioned by the Royal Festival Hall, the Barbican Arts Centre, Sadler's Wells Theatre, and The Brighton Festival. Nic is currently a senior lecturer in fine art at Middlesex University.
