The board presides over, administers and represents the EDN association for a minimum of 2 years and a maximum of 8 years. It is formed by a minimum of 3 members: the President, the Secretary, and the Treasurer. At most 11 board members can be appointed.
The current board was elected by the General Assembly on 3 June 2025 in Turin, Italy and on 16 June 2026 in Hamburg, Germany. Page is to be updated.
Louise Costelloe
Louise is currently Programme Producer at Dance Ireland, where she works with the Dance Ireland team and membership to create opportunities for dance artists and the art form of dance to flourish.
A graduate of the MA in Modern Drama at University College Dublin, Louise Costelloe has a background in dance as a performer, teacher and choreographer and has previously held positions as Dance Artist in Residence for Dumfries and Galloway County Council, Scotland (2006 – 2008), Dancer in Residence for South Dublin County Council (2008 – 2011) and Dance Artist in Residence for RUA RED Arts Centre (2010– 2011); Public Programme Manager for South East Dance, UK (2012-2014), Creative Learning Producer at Dance Umbrella Festival, UK (2014 – 2017) and Manager of the Grainstore Youth Arts Centre (2017 – 2019), Dublin.
Her work in arts and dance management encompasses engagement with young people and communities, artist development, and programming performances and participatory experiences in dance. She is interested in dance dramaturgy, socially engaged practice and choreographic thinking.
Chiara Organtini
Chiara Organtini is the managing and artistic director of Lavanderia a Vapore. With a background in Performing arts studies and Aesthetics, she works as a curator, dramaturg, and project initiator, with a passion for experimenting with traditional genres and challenging existing formats.
For 12 years, she was part of indisciplinarte, an organisation that supports arts as an agent for urban change: she contributed to the development of CAOS Centro Arti Opificio Siri, a 6,000 sqm multidisciplinary space based in a former factory in the post-industrial city of Terni and to the curation of the Terni international performing arts festival. She was involved in European Cooperation projects such as Miniatures, Dance Moves Cities, Now and the INSITU European platform for creation in public space. She collaborated with WpZimmer, a residency space for artistic research and development in Antwerp, and since 2019 has been part of Santarcangelo Festival, specifically working on the cooperation project Art Beyond Participation – BE PART.
She believes in the power of dance to configure socio-political otherwises, expand imaginaries, and explore new body postures: in this frame, she supports artistic development, festival programming, and special projects aimed at creating intersectional spaces through dance.
Bertha Bermúdez
Bertha Bermúdez is co-director of Dantzaz - Dantzagunea, where she coordinates international development projects, artistic residencies, and the documentation of creative processes by Basque artists.
Following a rich career as a dancer across a diverse landscape of European choreographers, Bertha now co-leads Dantzaz’s programs alongside Adriana Pous. Their work focuses on creating sustainable working conditions for dance artists, with particular attention to dancer professionalisation, mediation strategies, and artist mentoring in both structural and creative development.
Bertha has advised on the creation of the Navarre Music and Performing Arts Archive and supports the development of dance curricula at various European institutions.
In addition to her work at Dantzaz, Bertha has created several transdisciplinary, interactive installations exploring movement-based interaction. She is a member of the MoVA research group and has published on dance documentation in Mind the Dance (2018) and Dance Data, Cognition, and Multimodal Communication (2022). She recently completed a PhD on Dance Documentation Network.
Mathis Junet
Mathis studied at IEP – Sciences Po in Aix-en-Provence (FR) where he specialised in international cultural projects management and sponsorship. He started working at La Criée – Théâtre National de Marseille (FR) as production assistant. Then he joined TROIS C-L – Centre de Création Chorégraphique Luxembourgeois in 2016. He was in charge of the international programmes: residencies exchanges, networking and partnerships. In 2019, Mathis was appointed Administrative Director of TROIS C-L. Since then he’s working, along with the team, toward the restructuration of the centre for the coming years. TROIS C-L is also a founding member of the Réseau Grand Luxe and a partner in the Aerowaves platform.
Pedro Barreiro
Pedro Barreiro is an artist who has developed several works as a director, performer, scenic maker, dramaturg, producer, programmer and curator. He has been interested, in recent years, among other things, in thinking about performative acts as poetic generators, experimenting with the conventions of theatrical forms, and developing strategies for dismantling hegemonic systems in contemporary art. Since 2020, he has been continuously creating and presenting the performance titled an artist is always working.
Pedro was the artistic director of Teatro Sá da Bandeira, in Santarém (2015-2017) and collaborated with Teatro Praga as programmer of Rua das Gaivotas 6 (2019-2022). He is an associated artist of Cão Solteiro, since 2020. Currently he is the artistic director of O Espaço do Tempo.
Maja Hriešik
Maja Hriešik is a dramaturg, curator and cultural worker born in Serbia, based in Slovakia, with a background in dramaturgy, directing and aesthetics. Her work oscillates between theory and practice, art and management. She is invested in models of self-organising and horizontally run bodies in the arts, resulting in the co-founding of the professional umbrella organisation Slovak Contemporary Dance – PLAST, of which she is currently the president of the board and programme manager. She is also internationally active as a freelance production dramaturge, regularly collaborating with dance houses and educational institutions as a mentor or coach in the field of dance dramaturgy (Anghiari dancehub/IT, Budapest circus art and contemporary dance college/HU, Duncan Conservatory, HAMU/CZ...). Occasionally, she works as a film dramaturg and stage director.
She has been busy with the questions of effort, economies, and ecologies of investment as well as regeneration. She initiated several projects dedicated to writing about dance as well as research on cultural peripheries and centres. She is curious about the possibility of bringing dance art closer to natural sciences and diverse ways of art engagement in tackling the environmental crisis (recently in the frame of the European project Nature of Us and Performative Symposium). She published a book of essays On Corporeal Dramaturgies in Contemporary Dance (2013), and is currently working on a publication titled Doing Dance Dramaturgy. She co-curated a European research project Micro and Macro Dramaturgies in Dance (alongside Katalin Trencsényi, Guy Cools, Anne-Marije Van Den Bersselaar, Alexis Vassiliou) from 2019 to 2022.
Atanas Maev
Atanas Maev studied "Management in the Performing Arts and Industries" at NATFA in Sofia and Economics in Bulgaria and Germany, and has been a cultural manager since 2002. He is a co-founder of the first centre for contemporary dance in Bulgaria - Derida Dance Center, as well as Derida Dance Company and Derida Stage. Derida Dance Center is recognised as a partner in numerous international projects, runs an educational and training program in contemporary dance and works with various social groups.
Between 2016 and 2018, Atanas Maev served on the Board of the European platform for contemporary dance, Aerowaves—Dance Across Europe. Since 2023, he has managed the “Moving Balkans” regional platform for contemporary dance.
He is also Vice-Chair of the Bulgarian Association “Independent Cultural Sector,” which brings together organisations and professionals from various artistic fields working on a project-based basis outside state and municipal institutions.
Eddie Nixon
Eddie Nixon is The Artistic Director of The Place in London.
Eddie took his first class at 5 years old and spent many years dancing at Swindon Dance. As a child he appeared in The Sound of Music and Bugsy Malone in London’s West End. After gaining a degree in Chemistry at Bristol University, he reversed direction and studied for a BA and MA at London Contemporary Dance School.
For 12 years he performed for a wide range of dance companies including New Adventures, The Featherstonehaughs, Protein Dance, DV8 Physical Theatre and Rosemary Lee.
In 2004 Eddie was awarded a Fellowship from The Clore Leadership Programme. He worked as Associate Director of The Place from 2005 and later became Theatre Director. He was appointed to the role of Artistic Director in 2018.
He is also Co-Artistic Director of PECDA choreography competition in Bangalore, India.
Eddie is the Co-Chair of Pavilion Dance SouthWest, a board member of the European Dance Development Network and the UK representative for Aerowaves.
Pauline Patoux
Biljana Tanurovska Kjulavkovski
Biljana Tanurovska–Kjulavkovski is a cultural worker, curator, writer and researcher at the intersection of dance, theatre and visual arts performance. She is co-founder of Nomad Dance Academy platform (NDA), Kino Kultura (KK) - project space, and co-founder and program director of NGO Lokomotiva, Skopje.
Currently, she works on the Archive of Dance and Performance in North Macedonia as part of the NAM project (Non)Aligned Movements; she was co-director of the open course “Curatorial Practices in Context” at Stockholm University of Arts 2022 and is co-mentor of the Critical Practice (Made in Yu) program (ongoing). She co-curated several exhibitions, co-curates a festival program for dance at MOT festival in Skopje and diverse programs related to performative arts. She researches and works on programs related to feminist and environmental practices and performance, working conditions, processes and cultural policies. She teaches and is the author and editor of texts, journals and the book “Modeling Art and Cultural Institutions”. She holds a BA in Art history and Archaeology, an MSc in Interculturalism, Cultural Management and Cultural Policy from the University of Arts in Belgrade, and a PhD from the Faculty of Drama Arts in Belgrade for which she won the ENCATC International Research Award. In 2021 she received the AICA Macedonia “Ladislav Barishic” Award for the research “Political Performance as Extended Field in Macedonia in the 90s”.