Flying Elephant

COMPANY - FLYING ELEPHANT

Florian Entenfellner – Dance and Performance / Concept

Florian Entenfellner is a freelance dancer, performer, and choreographer. He co-directs the company Flying Elephant and creates works at the intersection of dance, theatre, and circus. Currently touring are MIND THE GAP (2025), HAPPY HUNTING (2024), and Survival Kit (Poulinas 2023). Besides, he teaches Partnering at the Folkwang University of the Arts (Physical Theatre Department), as a guest teacher at S.E.A.D. (Salzburg) and works for the PuK program (Young Theatre Wels).

He previously danced at J.E.S. Stuttgart (Simkó 2023), was a member of the Folkwang Dance studio, and was involved in productions at State-theater Hannover (International Dance Festival 2021) and Statetheater Braunschweig (Rotemberg 2020–23).  Freelance work includes: Survival Kit (Poulinas, Berlin, Essen, Sarzana, 2023/24), Beschränkt Beziehungsfähig (Lutz, Wels 2020), Atlas II (Soavi incompany, Cologne, Bochum, Zurich 2019), Tantalus (Kuo Chu-Wu, 2019), Embodied (Mtaki, Kampnagel Hamburg 2018), Rito de Primavera (José Vidal Compañía, Kampnagel 2018), Tiresias (Symsiris, Theatre Lab RADA London 2017), CAGED (Page, London & Oxford 2017/18), There is no Parade (Alleyne Dance 2017).

Education: B.A. Prof. Dance and Musical Theatre – Bird College UK | M.A. Dance Composistion Interpretation – Folkwang UdK | Study “Performance Studies” (M.A.) – university of Hamburg

Lucas Lopes Pereira – Dance and Performance

Lucas Lopes Pereira is a Brazilian dancer, performer, choreographer, teacher, and dramaturg living between Brazil and Germany. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Dance from the Folkwang University of the Arts in Germany. Until 2023, he was a guest dancer with Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch. Since 2012, he has been
working as a professional dancer and developing his own works, which combine various art forms such as physical theatre, photography, music, and visual art.

He has been part of several dance companies in Brazil, including Cia Sansacroma, Mercearia de Ideias, and Taanteatro, as well as in Europe with Cie. <à fleur de peau> (Paris), Pierre Droulers (Brussels), Ceren Oran (Munich), and Samadhyana Company / Folkwang Tanzstudio (Essen). He currently works as a dancer, dramaturg, and assistant director, and develops his own projects such as Mythologies of Resistance (-MOR) and InFesta.

Daphne Patsourakou – Dramaturgy

Daphne Patsourakou is a dramaturg and producer from Athens. Her thesis, Life and Work of Mikhail A. Bulgakov, was the first Greek translation of four of his
one-act plays. She also translated Nikolai Evreinov’s School of the Stars and published in the University Annual Magazine. Shortly afterward, she specialized
in transdisciplinary dramaturgy while studying Contemporary Theatre, Dance, and Dramaturgy.

Projects she has worked on in Greece and across Europe include „Unleash the Beast“ (Athens 2024), „Homeward“ (Athens, London, 2020/2023), Creata
(Prague Quadrennial / Athens 2023), Anthismena Papoutsia (Athens 2018), and Exodus (Athens 2015). As a producer, she has worked in theatre, film, and festivals, including Athens Art Book Fair (Athens 2024), Creata (Athens 2024), Athens Digital Art Festival (Athens 2024), Rave at the Silicon and Mirkhel (Athens
2024), Atitlon (Athens 2023–2024), and Gardens of Love (Athens – Paris 2023).

Education: M.A. Contemporary Theatre, Dance & Dramaturgy – Univer. Utrecht | B.A. Theatre, B.A. Russisch – Nationale u. Kapodistrianic university of Athens | B.A. Acting – Empros Drama School 

Marco Girardin – Composer

Marco Girardin is an Italian composer and multi-instrumentalist specializing in flute. Since 2017, he has been the musical director, composer, and musician of the interdisciplinary group “Samadhyana Company.”

He has composed and performed music for artists such as Nora Schlocker, Rainer Behr, Prof. Rodolpho Leoni, Evangelos Poulinas, Marie-Lena Kaiser, Aaron Samuel Davis, and the Folkwang Tanzstudio company. For the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf, he created the stage music for the productions Muinda, Reigen, Leonce and Lena, and Novecento over the past year.

As a flutist, he has performed as a soloist, in chamber ensembles, and with various orchestras. Marco Girardin studied flute at the Conservatorio Agostino Steyani in Castelfranco Veneto and at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen.