Company

Dance has always been a significant part of my life. I always find my self asking why I chose this life pattern and I never find a specific answer. The energy that travels in my body finds a sense in rhythm and it express through dense forms of movement. It’s a platonic love, something that never finds an end and instead always find ways to push over limits. I could never represent how much dance varies no matter how many times I change my hair.

Born: Manfredonia, Italy, 2001

Experience:
2022-2023: Theater Plauen Zwickau
2023 - currently: Csokonai Nemzeti Színház Debrecen

Education:
BA Contemporary Dance 2020-2023

Martina Balzamo

I broke down seemingly insurmountable barriers and I was finally able to get to know myself, to experiment, to allow my most intimate feelings to come out. Nowadays dance is my safe place. It is a beautiful and powerful journey in space and time, literally without any limit. It is thanks to Dance that I found out that the world around me is not just black or white, but instead is full of many different colours and shades. This has changed my vision of life. Dancing is a huge privilege and it nourishes my soul.

Fun fact: I was planning to be in the military before I fantasised a life in the arts

Born: Palermo, Italy in 1998

Experience:
2022-2024: Choreography assistant of Etienne Bechàrd, Louis Stiens,Anne Jung, Yoshito Sakuraba, Rome
November 2023: Guest dancer at Mongrove Festival, China
2022-2024: Internship with Spellbound Contemporary Ballet
September 2022: Mauro Astolfi’s choreography assistant in St. Gallen at Tanzkompanie, Switzerland

Education:
2022-2024: “NEXT PROGRAM”, 2019- 2022 Graduated at Dance Arts Faculty, Rome
2015- 2017: Graduated at “Balletto di Roma” Paola Jorio

Chiara Cascino

Art has always been present in my life. For me, dance reflects what opera represents for Wagner: the great total work of art. An extreme form of expression, fusion, and cohesion. An international language that, through its physicality, expresses millions of emotions and feelings. A passion that has become a profession.

Fun fact: You can find me either sending an email or with a glass of wine in my hand (or both).Love the sea and my doggies.

Born: Santa Úrsula, Tenerife, 1993

Experience:
2023-24: PR Evolution Dance Company
2018-2023: ⁠Royal Ballet Fehérvár
2016-2018: Dantzaz Company
2013-2016: ⁠Danza en Superior / Dansup
2010-2013: ⁠Ballets de Tenerife

Education:
2013-2020: Conservatorio Superior de Danza María de Ávila, Madrid
2013-2020: ⁠Centro Internacional de Danza de Tenerife
⁠Escuela de Ballet del Sauzal

Fernando Gabriel Luis

I feel a lot, I think a lot and I move a lot. Dance is the place where all can merge as a whole, where I am not too much or too little. Dance is where my deepest sense of soul can honestly thrive. I want to move an audience so that they can feel freely in their way, question without judgment to themselves and be unlimitedly curious, as much as I am. Pushing what is stablished and inspiring whilst getting inspired. Giving and receiving, conversation, exchange; stryking to find a balance in this unstable present. I aim to find a balance through dance by being fearlessly extreme and simultaneously present in the now.

Born: Altafulla, Spain, 2000

Experience:
2024: Soloist as ‘la Niña’ in Astor Piazzolla-Horacio Ferrer: ‘María de Buenos Aires’, Csokonai Theatre, Hungary
2023-2024: Apprenticeship Csokonai Theatre
2022-2023: Apprenticeship ImPerfect Dancers, Italy
2021: Re-imagination of Rudolf Laban’s ‘Drumstick’ with Alison Curtis-Jones, UK

Education:
2018-2022: BA (Hons) in Contemporary Dance at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, UK

Rut Nache Lopez

Dance is my safe place and my battleground. It is where I cry, where I scream, where I surrender, and where I rise. It is where I allow myself to be imperfect, to be messy, to be unapologetically human. Raw. A letter to dance. An invitation to exist without pretense or fear. It is my act of love. I am here, raw, unprotected, unapologetic, I do not seek empathy, I do not seek comfort. What I seek is presence. I dance not to be seen, but to be felt.

Fun fact: When I was a kid I hated dance. I love McNuggets so much (one time I got sick because I ate 65 McNuggets)

Born: Mexico City, Mexico, 2002

Experience:
March 2024: Csokonai National Theater
Aug 2023-Feb 2024: Cesar Brodermann, Mexico
May-July 2023: La Biennale di Venezia, Italy
August 2022: ICK Dans Amsterdam: Apprentice
May-July 2022: La Biennale di Venezia, Italy
2020-2021: Faze Colectivo de Danza, Mexico

Education:
2022-2023: Take Off Dance Johan Inger Youth Project, Spain
2021-2022: Codarts University for the Arts, The Netherlands
2017-2020: Centro Nacional de Danza Contemporánea
2016-2018: Facultad de Bellas Artes, Mexico

Fernando Perez Hernandez

My mother first enrolled me in dance lessons when I was 3 years old, as she didn’t know how to handle my high energy levels. I guess it stuck with me. Movement has always been my way of speaking. Words have always been difficult for me but with movement I can string together a whole story.

Fun fact: I love to sing and it was my dream to join the circus when I was 10 years old.

Born: Sydney, Australia, 2001

Experience:
Apprenticeship with kibbutz contemporary dance company 2

Education:
2015-2017: Alegria ballet studios
2017-2018: Rudra Bejart ballet Lausanne
2019: Sydney Dance Company pre professional
2021: kibbutz contemporary dance company masa program

Elise Paris Turco

It is very cliché to say that “life is dance”, but I really do believe that. We are a part of a system originating from movements and bodies staying in motion since life’s conception. The cells of our make up never stop moving and or evolving. How beautiful is that? Before we are born, we are moving and after our death we remain in motion. I’m interested in the human experience that binds our flesh and that can be guided into choreography.

Fun fact: I like green and I like trees, a lot.

Born: Mahwah New Jersey, United States, 2000

Experience:
2023: FRESCO Dance Company
Education:
2019-2023: Joffrey Ballet School

Matthew Joseph Retcho

I grew up surrounded by art. It's like it was already part of my dna since before I was born. I consider myself a curious human being on a constant self discovery, trying to slowly understand what tools I can master in order to fully embrace the beauty and mistery of life."

Fun fact: I love cooking, fashion design, photography and cinema. I believe in ghosts and I like taxidermy.

Born: Chieri,Turin, Italy, 1999

Experience:
2016: La Scala Opera "I due Foscari" World premiere
2018/2019 : English National Ballet (Nutcracker-My First Swan Lake-Cinderella)
2019/2023: Fehervari Balett Szinhaz
Since 2023: Csokonai National Theatre

Education:
2013-2014: Teatro Carcano coreographic centre
2014-2016: La Scala Ballet School
2016-2019: English National Ballet School

Valerio Zaffalon

Artisitic Management

Edit Domoszlai

Artisitc Director of Gradient

Hungarian-British Edit Domoszlai enjoyed a 13-year career as a full-time dancer before turning to choreography and leadership. After training in Pécs, she danced with Ballet Pécs for five years, receiving the Hungarian Dancers Association’s Best Female Dancer award in 2014. She then joined Rambert Dance Company in London for nearly 8 years, where she performed works by choreographers includingincluding Wayne McGregor, Sharon Eyal, Merce Cunningham, Hofesh Schechter, Marion Motin, Sidi Larbi Cherkaui, Alexander Whitley, Itzik Galili, Andonis Foniadakis, Lucy Guerin and Christopher Bruce.
From December 2021 till November 2022 she was also a member of the company L-E-V directed by Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar.

Edit has created several short works for Rambert’s choreographic platform, including Angels, selfie-sh, and Competitive Plasticity, the latter of which was selected for the International Choreography Competition in Hannover. She has also choreographed short pieces for graduating students of the Hungarian Dance Academy, and for Dance Arts Faculty in Rome.
In 2022, she was chosen by Wayne McGregor as one of two emerging choreographers to create a new work for the 59th Venice Biennale, where she presented the half-evening piece Liminal as part of the International Dance Festival.
In 2024, she was selected for the Carlos Acosta Choreographic Fellowship in London.

Alongside her artistic career, Edit completed an MA in Education and Technology at the prestigous UCL, served as a Reach Ambassador for Dancers’ Career Development, and also worked in software development.
In 2024 she became Artistic Director of the Csokonai National Theatre Debrecen’s contemporary dance company, founding Gradient Contemporary Ballet Debrecen.

Fernando Gabriel Luis

Rehearsal Director

He was born and raised in Santa Úrsula, Tenerife. He began dancing at the local El Sauzal Ballet School and took a more serious step in 2010 under the supervision of Rosalina Ripoll and Miguel Navarro.
As a professional dancer, he made his debut with the Tenerife Ballet, where he appeared in several lead roles. He then continued his career in Madrid, where he expanded his skills at the María de Ávila Superior Dance Conservatory and worked with choreographers such as Nacho Duato and Tony Fabre.

In 2016, he joined the Dantzaz Company, performing in choreographies by Itzik Galili, Lukas Timulak, Jone San Martin, Christine Hassid, and Paolo Mohovich. Two years later, he moved to Hungary, joining the Székesfehérvár Ballet Theater, where he frequently appeared in lead roles, many of which were choreographed specifically to suit his style. He also had the opportunity to perform in works by Alexander Ekman and Jiri Kylian and began working as a ballet master and assistant choreographer in addition to his dance career.

In 2023, he joined the dance division of the Csokonai National Theater in Debrecen, and since 2024 he is the company's Rehearsal Director.