GIURIA MOVING BODIES
Kristina Daurova is an independent filmmaker and visual artist with a background in literature studies and performance, Russian origin and based in Amsterdam. In 2017 she graduated from the Master of Film programme at The Netherlands Film Academy.
Her artistic practice contains work with physical memory, body language and personal archives and memories. Kristina explores different ways, forms and formats of storytelling through the body and movement. She experiments with text, choreography and documentary aspects of cinema. Her films have been presented and awarded at various film festivals: CPH:DOX, Light Moves Festival of Screendance, InShadow, Short to the Point etc.
Kristina works as a film programmer and festival producer and collaborates with film festivals in The Netherlands and abroad. Since 2018 she is an assistant programmer and producer at Cinedans, Amsterdam.
SAMANTHA SHAY
Samantha Shay is a performer, director, and choreographer. As a creative catalyzer and master collaborator, her work challenges traditional boundaries, creates new connections, and dances across the fault lines between disciplines. She is currently a Guest Artist & Researcher at Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, where she began as a Fulbright Scholar in 2021. She is also the Artistic Director of Source Material, an interdisciplinary artist collective she founded in 2014. She recently premiered “Romance” at Cinedans, a new film in response to her research into Pina Bausch. Developed in a close collaboration with an intergenerational ensemble from Tanztheater Wuppertal, “Romance” centers on the company’s first transgender dancer, Naomi Brito, and how her transition was catalyzed by the roles of women in the Bausch repertory. In 2023 Samantha will be a Special Research Fellow at the Yale School of Drama, and is developing a stage work to premier at The Grotowski Institute in 2024.
VICTORIA SENDRA
Victoria Sendra is a NYC-based cinematographer and camera operator, best known for her onstage work in Network on Broadway (dir. Ivo van Hove, feat. Bryan Cranston). Her dance films have screened at Cinedans (Mother Melancholia, dir. Samantha Shay, co-commissioned by Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch – Audience Award 2022 for Best Dance Short), Nowness, Dance Camera West, San Francisco Dance Film Festival, Film at Lincoln Center, and several of her photographs have been printed in the New York Times. Commercial clients include Vogue, Versace, Uniqlo, and the New York Philharmonic. She is currently a producer, cinematographer, and editor with Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and worked previously as a bilingual producer at the Latin American production company Red Creek, for clients including Pepsi, Discovery, and Netflix. Sendra holds a BFA in Film/Video (‘12) from the California Institute of the Arts.