Aleksi Aubry-Carlson initiates to electric and acoustic guitar at age 11, with Ehat Musa among others. In 2002, he takes classes from David Lampel then Jean-Michel Bardez (Paris’ Conservatoires) in classical harmony until he gets his diploma. In parallel he perfects himself in improvisation, organ and follows an orchestration training with Henri-Claude Fantapié.

Composer above all, he has worked for United Colors of Benetton in Fabrica, their multimedia centre (Venice). He creates music for dance pieces for Carolyn Carlson, Alessandra Ferrarri and Alberto Casarotto. Since 2006, he regularly composes for internet medias, commercials, short films, animation films, mapping projections and video games. In 2015 he creates the music of an English full-length movie

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 Working since 1998 in the field of performing arts, he first works as a console operator and light manager in the fields of music performances and private events. He collaborates for bands as 13 à table, Marcel et son orchestre (French song), Birdy Nam Nam (electronic music), The Aikiu, Beatles Celebration (The Beatles’ tribute band), and more recently, Mat Bastard.

Guillaume starts to work with Carolyn Carlson in 2007, at first as a light manager on tour for the pieces Hidden, Inanna and Present Memory. Very soon the choreographer notices his sensitivity and poetry and asks him to design the lights of her “Short Stories” Immersion, Wind Woman, All that falls, Density 21.5 and Burning, then of her creation for young audiences, Seeds. He is also light assistant for Rémi Nicolas on the pieces Dialogue with Rothko and Crossroads to Synchronicity.

Since 2014, he is the Technical manager of Carolyn Carlson Company.

Sara Orselli starts her dance studies at Dance Gallery under the direction of Valentina Romito and Rita Petrone, then from 1999 to 2002 she studies at Isola Danza, the academy of Biennale de Venise then directed by Carolyn Carlson. She dances in Parabola, 1999, Light Bringers, 2000, J. Beuys Song 2001.

In 2003, she moves to Paris and becomes part of Juha Marsalo’s company in Prologue d’une Scène d’amour, Perle and Parfum. In parallel, she has been assisting Carolyn Carlson for years: Wash the Flowers in Luzern (2005), Les Rêves de Karabine Klaxon (2006), and more recently Woman in a room (2013) and Pneuma (2014) for the Bordeaux Opera.

Sara Orselli regularly dances in Carolyn Carlson’s pieces: Inanna, Water born, eau, Present Memory, Mundus Imaginalis, Mandala, we were horses, Synchronicity and Now.

Olivier Mulin starts his career in 1998 working for Jean Paul Gaultier and carries on as a free-lance designer (René Derhy, Kenzo Jean's, Sonia Rykiel, Missoni…). 

In 2005, his career branches off into styling for press magazines such as WAD, West-East, Modzik, Blend, Glint, OOB, Sport&Style and mostly Standard Magazine, of which he is now Fashion Editor in Chief.

Meanwhile, he participates also in the organization of prestige events (Samsung, Volcom, Marks&Spencer, Luxotica/Mikli, Swarovski…) and works on celebrities’ looks like Julia Faure and La Cantadora, or rock bands like The Dø, TwinTwin, YaltaClub or Ibeyi.

From 2006 to 2013, he works as Artistic Director for Paul&Joe menswear and on lookbooks for Paul&JoeSister and womenswear, Cache-Cache, Émile Lafaurie or Lucien Wang and collaborates with the young designer Arnaud Lazérat.

For the performing arts he designs the costumes of three pieces by the choreographer Juha  Marsalo, and in 2014, he takes part in the creation of «Haunted By Wars» by Eszter Salamon, in tandem with the artist Vava Dudu ; for the theatre, he works with Vincent Thomasset, Anne Rebeschini, Lucie Berelowitsch, and Nathalie Broizat.

Gilles Nicolas studies and practices engraving and lithography under the direction of the painter and engraver Mathéos Florakis in Berlin, then in Geneviève Couteau’s studio in Clisson. He takes part in several exhibitions in Paris’ Grand Palais, Nantes and Bruxelles. At the request of Dick Annegarn, he illustrates a dozen of his songs. 

He permanently uses sketching, drawing, painting and sculpting and specializes in conception and fabrication of « dioramas ». He also makes animal sculpture and bronze and participates in museum projects for example for the Centre Georges Pompidou (« L’univers de Borgès », « Ombre et lumière »), the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie and the national Natural History Museum of Paris. 

In 2006 he works for the first time with Carolyn Carlson on the piece for young audience « Les rêves de Karabine Klaxon » and since 2007 he teaches scenography in ENSATT school (National School of Arts and Techniques for Theatre).

 Of  Japanese origin, Chinatsu Kosakatani trains herself first in the  Yamamouchi Ballet School of Osaka and then in the Stedelijk Institut  voor Ballet in Anvers (Belgium). She works for the Oldenburgisches  Staatstheater (Germany), and at the Danza prospettiva di Vittorio Biagi  company in Rome. She dances for Maryse Delente, Jean-Claude Gallotta,  Itzik Galili, Ohad Naharin, Jean Guizerix, Rui Horta and Michel  Kelemenis after having joined the North Ballet in Roubaix in 1998.

Under  the direction of Carolyn Carlson, she dances in Inanna, Down by the  river, Full Moon, Water Born, Li, Hidden, Eau, Present memory, Mundus  Imaginalis and We were horses. In 2010, she creates her first piece  Ahimsa and, in 2011, Roubaix Choreographic National Center gives her the  creation of a choreography for a territory-based project called  dansewindows jazz. She is part of the program to support younger  talents, Red Brick #B, with a third choreography, Something like.

In 2013, she dances for Caterina Sagna in Bal en Chine, in 2014 she takes over a part in Olivier Dubois’s creation Revolution and  she creates with Clément Dazin (La Main de l’Homme Cy) the duet R2JE in  Avignon Festival. She dances also with hip-hop choreographer Brahim  Bouchelaghem in Tracks (since 2014) and Usure (2019) and with Akoma névé cy in Metamorphose (2018).

Takeo  Ishii is native from Japan. Skillful and unclassifiable dancer aged 30,  his multiple experiences led him to master contemporary and contact  dance, modern jazz, butô, sabar as well as hip hop from his trips and  trainings in Senegal, the United States, Holland, Japan and France.

Settled  in France since 2012, he has collaborated with several French and  foreign artists: David Zambrano, Monika Gintersdorfer, Brahim  Bouchelaghem, Kadir Amigo Memis, Juha Marsalo... He was finalist for the  international dance competition Juste Debout in the category  "experimental" representing Japan (organised in Paris Bercy).

 Alexis  Ochin discovers the Jacques Lecoq movement at the international School  of Theater Lassâad in Brussels. He practices there dramatic mime, white  pantomime, and masked acting in commedia dell'arte and as a clown. In  parallel, he trains with dancers and choreographers Christina Crasto,  Thérèse Dutheil, A.T. De Keersmaeker, Peter Goss, and Carolyn Carlson.

He  works as a dancer, comedian, mime, puppeteer for the companies  Lafeuille d'automne, Chicos Mambo and Mano Labo. In 2011, he performs  and dances with Corinne and Gilles Benizio (aka Shirley et Dino) in the  burlesque ballet La belle dormant, accompanied by the philarmonic orchestra of Brussels. He also works as manipulator and comedian for the visual poetry act La statue à deux têtes by Jérôme Murat at the Lido de Paris.

In 2014, he is a performer for the Pietragalla-Derouault company in the creation Les Chaises?, a poetic-absurd duo inspired by Eugène Ionesco. Since autumn 2014, he has been dancing in Tutu at Théâtre Bobino.

Yacine Aït Kaci, aka YAK, created the figure of ELYX in 2011, a little drawned guy who casts a tender, funny, poetic and off-the-wall eye on reality.

Elyx travels around the world, safe and warm in a little booklet which opens once in a while on a moment, a situation. Using social networks as main media, Elyx has become a sort of digital personality, sharing the everyday life of his creator and community.  

Then he has become a virtual UN ambassador, accompanying most of the International Days and has produced an illustrated version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.