Who is WE.
Mathilde Gilhet
Founder | Co-Director
A native of France, Mathilde Gilhet danced professionally with the Ballet Junior de Genève (Switzerland), FluxFlow Dance Project (USA), Teatro Nacional Sao Carlos (Portugal), The French Embassy in Portugal, and Quorum Ballet (Portugal).
In addition to her dance career, Mathilde is the Associate Artistic Director of On Board(hers) a dance project presented at the TEDx Talk and the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus (Ohio), and an international judge for recognized dance competitions such as Youth American Grand Prix, Dance World Cup, etc…
As a movement instructor, Mathilde worked with people of all ages and levels as well as all different body abilities and origins in 7 different countries. For the past two years, she worked as the Head of the Contemporary Dance Program at FLUX + FLOW Dance and Movement Center in Columbus, Ohio and was a full time faculty member for Arts Umbrella in Vancouver, Canada.
Mathilde joined in July 2020 TanzLuzern (Switzerland) as a company member and founded in November 2020 the WE Program.
Dario Dinuzzi
Co-Director
Originally from Italy, Dario is a professional performer, choreographer and movement coach. Dario is a former dancer of Aterballetto (Italy), Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal (Canada), Ballet BC (Canada) and TanzLuzern (Switzerland). He has been equally active as a freelancer, performing for various projects in Europe and Canada, growing his expertise in street performing, dance theatre and clowning.
As a choreographer, Dario has been appointed Artist in Residence with Ballet BC (14/16) as well as being commissioned by several major pre-professional dance programs including ArtsUmbrella (Canada). His works have been presented in Italy, Switzerland, USA and Canada.
Passionate movement coach, he taught regularly for Ballet BC, Simon Fraser University (Canada); Ballet Preljocaj, Opera National du Rhin (France); Ballet Basel and TanzLuzern (Switzerland); Ballet Mannheim (Germany); B-Dance (Taiwan); Codarts (Netherlands); SUNY Purchase (USA); NOD (Italy); among others. In 2018, Dario also became a certified GYROTONIC® instructor.
After his first successful experience with TanzLuzern in 2016, Dario joined the company again in 2020. In November 2020, Dario became the Co-Director of the WE Program.
Pritha Kundu
Associate Director
Pritha identifies as an explorer, researcher, and innovator in visual and performing arts and strives to promote a paradigm where one learns to look beyond their genres of training and push the boundaries of their creative instinct. She intends to integrate her interests in science, photography, filmmaking, and movement arts to create socially relevant art that provokes conversations about the societal impact of art and its significance.
Apart from exploring movement styles for the joy of it, Pritha strives to provide a voice to the unheard or otherwise understated aspects of life which nevertheless have significant societal consequences. In the future, she wishes to focus on research to assess and reform pedagogical approaches in sciences and arts with an aim to contribute towards a more equitable and empathetic society. Pritha believes in striving to build a community which provides a safe space where people can find the support to nurture their creative potential without restricting their art/practice to conventionally labelled, compartmentalized genres.
These thoughts are at the core of her movement community, Aramandi to Attitude, which she co-founded in 2019 with a fellow graduate student. In November 2020, Pritha received the WE-Award and since 2021, she is the Associate Director of the WE Program.
and all the participants of the WE-Classes.
The WE Program offers a platform where people from all over the world support and inspire each other. By allowing every participant to support an artistic project each month, WE is a program where its members are co-creators.
In addition, WE gives to everyone the opportunity to offer their ideas and skills (social affairs, technology, economics, research) in order to enhance the multidisciplinary of its community which nourishes, enables and ensures a form of participatory creation.