Expression International Dance Competition Jury is made up of teachers, choreographers, dancers and international dance schools and associations, who will evaluate technique, dance composition, choreography and ability showed on stage, discovering talented dancers.
The list of jurors is being updated…
Artistic Director - DAP Festival Danza in Arte in Pietrasanta International Dance Festival
A renowned figure in the world of contemporary dance, with a career spanning over a decade. She has spent part of her career in New York performing with prestigious dance companies such as the Pearl Lang Dance Theatre and the Martha Graham Dance Company. Adria has performed iconic solo roles in Graham’s repertoire and has received advice from illustrious mentors including Martha Graham herself, Pearl Lang and Yuriko Kikuchi. Her passion for teaching and choreography has led her to collaborate with internationally renowned institutions, including the Dutch National Ballet, the Boston Conservatory, the Royal Dutch Ballet School, and the Accademia Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Her choreographies have been presented in Italy and around the world. In 2017, she founded and directs the DAP Festival “Danza in Arte” in Pietrasanta, an event that highlights the connection between contemporary dance and the visual arts.
Choreographer of the contemporary dance company Oniin Dance Company
After studying at the Teatro Nuovo in Turin, he dances mainly playing solo roles in the temples of Italian and world dance. In 1999 he became a solo dancer of the Compagnia Zappalà Danza taking part in all the prestigious productions of the company, until 2015. He is a choreographer and dancer of the concert/show “Ci sono anch’io” by Claudio Baglioni, on tour with 20 elements in Sicily. He performs in the concerts of the singer Elisa for Musica & Danza. He plays the role of soloist and assistant choreographer in the musicals “Jesus Christ Superstar” and “Evita” by Massimo Romeo Piparo. In 2012 he became first dancer and choreographer, together with Daniela Rapisarda, of the contemporary dance company Oniin Dance Company. He currently works in New York at the Peridance Center and the White Wave Dance Company of Young Soon Kim.
Awarded in 2023 as the choreographic revelation by the French Critics' Union
Amalia has lived and worked in Paris since 2008. Her short "Les Vivaldines," which won the Grand Prix Sobanova in 2021, became a favorite of Mourad Merzouki and Abou Lagraa. In 2022, she created her first feature piece "Affranchies," which premiered in January 2023 at the prestigious Suresnes Cités Danse Festival. Amalia was invited to serve on the judging panel of the world's largest hip-hop choreography competition, World of Dance France, in 2017, and the Seacon Street Challenge in Bangkok in 2018.
In 2015, she founded "Paris Can Dance," a Paris-based entity that promotes hip-hop pedagogy and culture. Through this association, Amalia produces one show per year with over 1,000 spectators, bringing together the best French commercial choreographers of national and international fame.
With his urban but undoubtedly poetic and contemporary style, he communicates with precise gestures, characteristic of the style, through both technical and interior exploration.
An established Choreographer, Dancer & Adjudicator
With a vast experience in all facets of the dance world. He has worked as a dancer on the recently released film 'Wicked'. He has achieved great international success in team competitions winning titles in championships such as HHI, Word Of Dance and Body Rock. He has a wide knowledge of the competition world having judged many competitions and teaching workshops all around Europe and has also worked with global brands such as Huawei, Virgin and Vodafone. He has also featured in music industry with the likes of BTS, performing at the MTV awards and featuring as a dancer in several music videos and concerts.
Choreographer for the Dance Academy of Toronto and for numerous companies. Founder of the Broadway Academy of Dance and organizer of the International Dance Camp Festival in Germany
Andy Lemond began his dance training in 1990 in Ontario at the Universal School of Jazz, continuing his studies at the Broadway Dance Center in New York and Los Angeles. After gaining experience with renowned dance companies such as the Nora Granger Modern Company in Paris and the Tap Luis Dancers in Toronto, he was hired by Jesy Burn as a choreographer for the Dance Academy of Toronto. Today, he is a highly sought-after instructor worldwide and also a trainer of professional dancers. Since 2010, he has organized the prestigious "International Dance Camp Festivals", which take place in cities such as Stuttgart, Munich, Konstanz and Freiburg.
As one of the few professional dancers skilled in multiple styles, Andy is considered a true authority in Funky Jazz, Lyrical Jazz, Hip-Hop and Modern. For over 20 years, he has also participated as a judge in dance competitions around the world.
Artistic Director, Choreographer and Founder of the contemporary dance company Oniin Dance Company
After a multifaceted artistic career, which in addition to dance has embraced singing, acting and directing. From 2012 to 2014 she held the role of Artistic Director of Dance at the Teatro delle Celebrazioni in Bologna (Italy), where she founded the Oniin Dance Company. Oniin's productions and workshops have been appreciated in different parts of the world, from Japan to South Korea, the United States and Europe. The company currently operates in New York at the Peridance Center and collaborates with the White Wave Dance Company of NY. In Italy she mainly deals with higher education, founding the choreographic laboratory Touch Lab in Rome, the Oniin Certificate Program and collaborating with other prestigious artistic realities. Daniela is also a naturopath and author of the book "Una cellula chiama Universo".
Founder and Artistic Director of Dance NOW! Miami
In 1997, he moved to the United States after a very successful career as a dancer and assistant choreographer for popular Italian television and theater productions. As a choreographer, Diego has created over fifty original works, including collaborations with choreographers such as Hannah Baumgarten (USA), Fernando Duarte (Portugal) and Emiliano Candiago (Italy). As Artistic Director of Dance NOW! Miami, Diego has produced and presented original and repertory works by renowned artists such as Tandy Beal, Colleen Farnum, Roberto Salaorni, Chris Rudd, Anthony Velasquez, Jon Lehrer. Since 2012, Diego has been a faculty member at the Joffrey Ballet School Summer Programs and currently serves as a master recruiter and, starting in 2024, Artistic Director of the Joffrey Italy program. Recently, Diego was elected to the board of the Florida Dance Education Association.
Founder and Artistic Director of Peridance Contemporary Dance Company and Peridance Center
A world-renowned choreographer, teacher and dance instructor, his works have been performed by prestigious companies and festivals including Florence Dance Festival and Invito Alla Danza (Italy), Batsheva and Bat-Dor Dance Companies and the Karmiel Dance Festival (Israel), Ailey II and Complexions Contemporary Ballet (NYC), Companhia de Danca de Lisboa (Portugal) and Alberta Ballet (Canada). He is a guest professor/choreographer at Jacob's Pillow Festival, The Ailey School and Marymount Manhattan College. His teaching engagements include Scapino Ballet and Het National Ballet (Holland), Laterna Magica and the National Ballet (Prague), Architanz (Tokyo), The Royal Ballet of Sweden and Balettakademien (Sweden), the National Ballet of China and Kwang-Ju City Ballet Company (Korea).
Rehearsal and production director at the Rambert School
He holds a BA (Hons) from Rambert School and a Post Graduate Diploma from The Place, both UK education programmes. Jason is the Director of Rehearsals and Production at Rambert School. In addition to his teaching commitments, Jason has created works for numerous renowned dance companies, conservatoires and events including Black Box Dance Company, Conny Janssen Danst, FDR, Hamburg Contemporary Company, Balletboyz, SpringBoard, Royal Ballet School, Stella McCartney, De Beers, Area Dance and more. His works have been nominated for Best Choreography in Denmark, Asian Arts Awards and Amnesty International Freedom of Speech Awards, a testament to his creativity and talent. Jason’s unique style of teaching and choreography comes from a fusion of contemporary and hip hop.
Artistic director Rijeka Ballet Company
Maša Kolar was born in Zagreb. Her professional dance career began in 1986 at the Comedy Theatre in Zagreb and continued in 1992 at Semperoper Ballet Dresden, where in 1995 she gained the status of a soloist. In 1998 she joined Thoss TanzKompanie in Kiel and later in Hannover, finishing with Aterballetto in Reggio Emilia. Laterally, she started to choreograph for the Ballet of National Theatre Belgrade, Bitef Dance Company, and National Youth Ballet in Hamburg, for all three Croatian National Ballet Companies (Zagreb, Split, and Rijeka), Osnabrück Dance Company and Cornelia Dance Company. With the season 2017/18, she was appointed artistic director of the Rijeka Ballet Company she is currently acting as choreographer and creative producer on her seventh season.
Director of the Görlitz-Zittau Theater Company
Massimo began his career at the Teatro Comunale in Florence and then danced as a guest with Aterballetto. In Germany he worked permanently at the Augsburg Theater and as a soloist at the Nuremberg Opera and the Theaters of Dortmund and Linz. He performed choreographies by choreographers such as Forsythe, Cullberg, Godani, Miller, and began to create choreographies, obtaining recognition in international competitions. In 2000, he received support from the Nordrhein-Westfalen region for a choreographic master with internships at the Nederlands Dans Theater and other prestigious companies, thus starting his career as a choreographer. He later created for various Theaters in Europe and Germany. He taught contemporary dance in several prestigious institutions such as the Palucca University in Dresden, the University of Seoul in Korea and the Vienna Opera Academy.
Talent Scout, Choreographer, Coach (Cirque du Soleil, Choreography Online, I-Path)
After a long career in dance with Ballet Austin, Boston Ballet and Delta Festival Ballet, as well as work in film and television in Los Angeles (with choreographers such as Twyla Tharp, Joe Layton and directors such as Mark Rydell and James Brooks), Rick Tjia joined Edouard Lock’s La La La Human Steps in Montreal in 1993, where he danced and toured the world for 8 years. Today Rick is a choreographer, coach, competition judge, creative director and casting director. Rick spent nearly 17 years in the casting department of Cirque du Soleil with casting credits that also include Daniel Ezralow, Dragone and Canada’s Got Talent. As the CEO and founder of Choreography Online, the world’s first online choreography marketplace, he continues to push boundaries and offer the dance world innovative ways to evolve and open up avenues for new opportunities.
Choreographer and teacher at Joffrey Ballet School
TRIX is a very talented HipHop Choreographer/Performer with over 12 years dance experience and 10 years of teaching experience. Trix has appeared of Bet’s Hit Show “106 & Park” several times as a champion contestant and also as a Dance Week guest performer. He was also a finalist on “So You Think You Can Dance Season 9”. Trix Has had the pleasure of working and performing at “Walt Disney World” in Orlando Florida, doing multiple performances and parades across all 4 property parks! From the the Theme Parks to the Basketball court, he was asked to choreograph a half time performance for the Orlando Magics Dance Team. Trix is currently a guest faculty member at Broadway Dance Center and Peridance. In addition to those well known schools, he is Also a Choreographer for the Joffrey Ballet Schools HipHop Program and its audition tour recruiting talent from all over the states for the summer intensives!
Director and founder Bavaria Ballet Academy
Principal Dancer of Opera Des Paris and director Company Les Italiens De L'Opera
Director of The place dance studio in Madrid.
Choreographer and Creative Director of "Not Just Hip Hop" London, UK
Director at "Horizons" company, Dance Modern Jazz teacher and Director of professional training of dancers at Millenium Dance Center
Internationally renowned hip hop dancer, teacher and choreographer
Founder and Director of Living Dance; Incite Motion School of Dance Director; RAD teacher , CPD's mentor and ambassador
Famed international Dancer and choreographer and former director of choreographic studies at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris.
Hip Hop Choreographer. Hip Hop Teacher in popular tv show and dance school "Amici", Director of Eschilo1 Dance in Rome
Co-director of Valencia Dancing Forward
Dancer and choreographer, teacher of contemporary dance.
He is part of the artistic duo EZtwins
Director and choreographer of the Company I Funamboli of Paris
Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company
Teacher and choreographer, founder and artistic director of Barcelona Dance Center, BCN CITY BALLET and of Certamen Internacional de Danza Ciutat de Barcelona
Guest dancer in the Black Clubs in Italy and abroad. Teacher and choreographer.
Teacher at Greenwich Conservatory Ballet
Director of Balettakademien Stockholm
Professional dancer and choreographer - RETRO KINGS&QUEENS COMPANY of Dublin
Dancer, choreographer and artistic director of Studio Vibes
Hip Hop teacher and choreographer, founder of the school Streetfunk in Brighton.
Teacher for Real Conservatorio Profesional De Danza Mariemma and teacher for Adams Valencia
Director DANCE WITHOUT LIMIT, Czech Republic.
Director of Prix de Lausanne
Popular dancer on italian TV and in theatres, teacher and founder of the School Kledi Dance.
Choreographer and dancer, she worked on the production of the international video game “Just Dance” by Ubisoft
Choreographer and artistic director of Copenhagen Dance Arts, Copenhagen Contemporary Dance School and affiliated with the Royal Danish Ballet since 2005.
Choreographer of PAN.OPTIKUM, that connect Urban Dance with Theatrical Performance
Danzatrice di fama internazionale e insegnante.
Senior Lecturer in Sports and Exercise Medicine at Queen Mary University of London. Head of the iBSC Sports and Exercise Medicine Program
Dancer, choreographer, director and ballet leader for Notre Dame de Paris
Director of Dance Area di Ginevra.
Choreographer and artistic director of the workshop Tanec Bez Hranic - Praga
Choreographer, video maker and director. Director of Dance at the National Opera in Zagreb
Artistic director MN Dance Company, Slovenia
Professional dancer of HipHop and African dances
Choreographer and artistic director of Copenhagen Dance Arts, Copenhagen Contemporary Dance School and artistic director od Royal Danish Ballet School- Odense
Choreographer and Broadway Dance Center's official italian referent, teacher and talent scout for Dance Theatre USA International.
President of the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science (IADMS)
Artistic director MN Dance Company, Slovenia
Dancer and choreographer, she is the founder and director of Project Breakalign
Rehearsal director Akram Khan Company
Movement Artist, Choreographer and Educator
Director of the Centro Cultural de Belém, Portugal
Scientific director and professor at the Pôle National Supérieur de Danse Rosella Hightower (PNSD) in Cannes.
International teacher and choreographer. Teacher at Ent'artes escola de dança, Portugal.
International modern teacher and choreographer
Choreographer at Balet Nacional de España and Director of Real Conservatorio Profesional de Danza “Mariemma”
Composer, musician and performer
Director of SEAD - Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance
Teacher, examiner and trustee of Russian Ballet Society.
International Director Joffrey Ballet School
Co-director of The Ailey School in New York and a choreographer and consultant for the television series Pose.
In collaboration with A.S.I. Sports promotion agency legally recognized by C.O.N.I. and the Ministry of the Interior and adhering to the SNaQ Qualification System.
Participating in the international dance competition “Expression”, contributes to the achievement of the statutory purposes – the promotion of dance – for schools established as Asd – amateur sports associations.
Florence, Italy
Fortezza da Basso
Viale Filippo Strozzi
c/o Danzainfiera
“Nazioni” Pavillion
IDA International Dance Association
Via Paolo Costa 2, 48121 Ravenna, Italy
