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 July 2024 in The Hague, The Netherlands, and on 3 June 2025 in Turin, Italy.
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.
Laurent Meheust
A philosopher by training, Laurent Meheust became involved in the world of culture early on and initially specialised in supporting artists in theatre and contemporary music, before devoting himself fully to dance. In 2008, he joined the choreographer Michel Kelemenis and took part in the construction of KLAP Maison pour la danse (Marseille / France), working to establish its status in local, national and international professional networks. He develops the artistic residencies and the programmes of the annual festivals; He has been a guest lecturer between 2006 and 2019 at the Université de Provence for the Licence and Master's in Cultural Mediation and in the Art and Cultural Heritage programmes. He joined the Board of Directors of EDN in 2018, served as President from 2019 to 2022, and became Co-President in 2022. The same year, he is appointed director of Le Gymnase / CDCN (Roubaix, France), and develops an international project connecting to the residency program and the two annual festivals - Forever Young and Le Grand Bain - in different cities and theatres in the Hauts-de-France region.
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.
Catja Loepfe
Catja Loepfe was born in Zurich, Switzerland. She studied cultural anthropology, with a focus on theatre anthropology. During her studies, she started as a freelance curator for art exhibitions and as the organiser of theatre and dance workshops for the International Theatre Institute. In 1999, she took over the direction of the Rote Fabrik Fabriktheater in Zurich. From 2007 to 2012, she worked at Gessnerallee Zurich, first as dramaturg responsible for the dance program and, in her final year, as interim director. In August 2012, she was appointed as director of ZÜRICH TANZT, a three-day festival of dance and performances in public space. Additionally, she was a member of the artistic board of the Zürcher Theatre Spektakel festival from 2012 to 2014. Catja Loepfe became the artistic director of Tanzhaus Zürich in August 2014.
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 and among other things, in thinking about performative acts as poetic generators, in experimenting with the conventions of theatrical forms, and in 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 (www.alwaysworking.art).
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.
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.
Anand Bhatt
Anand Bhatt is a dance enthusiast and producer from Leicester, UK.
In the early part of his career, Anand was a charity fundraiser in the voluntary sector while moonlighting as a community dance teacher. Trained in the North Indian classical dance form Kathak, with 80s and 90s pop music videos as major dance influences, Anand merged his Bollywood dance school Desi Masti with Aakash’s contemporary practice to create ‘Aakash Odedra Company’. Their first project ‘Rising’ featured commissions by Akram Khan, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Russell Maliphant. Aakash Odedra Company went on to be one of the fastest growing contemporary dance companies of the 2010s in the UK, touring the works to some 40 countries.
At Dance City, Anand became Artistic Director and Chief Executive in 2020. Now based in the North East, he also serves as an independent member of NECP and Newcastle Creates. Anand is a board member of Dance Consortium, People Dancing and IncArts. Anand was awarded a British Empire Medal (BEM) in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list in 2021 for services to Dance and Community.
Anand’s vision is to work with dance as a language without words to build better understanding amongst communities and share culture across the world.
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.
As a result of his work, Derida Dance Center is recognized as a partner in numerous international projects, runs an educational and training program in contemporary dance and works with various social groups.
In January 2014, the European Commission recognised the Derida Dance Center Residency Program as a best practice for European artist exchange, alongside four other programmes. In 2015, the management model of Derida Dance Center was chosen among 240 cases from all over the world and was included as an example of successful cultural entrepreneurship in the postgraduate textbook “International Entrepreneurship in the Arts” (Routledge).
Between 2016 and 2018, Atanas Maev was a member of the Board of Directors of the European platform for contemporary dance Aerowaves—Dance Across Europe. Since 2023, Atanas has managed the “Moving Balkans” regional platform for contemporary dance.
Chiara Organtini
Chiara Organtini is a curator and project creator with a background in Performing arts studies and Aestethic. Since 2022 she is Project Manager of Lavanderia a Vapore.
For 12 years she was part of indisciplinarte an organization 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 Terni international performing arts festival. She was involved in European Cooperation project as Miniatures, Dance moves cities, Now and the in INSITU European platform for creation in public space. She collaborated WpZimmer, a residency space for artistic research and development in Antwerp and since 2019 she joined Santarcangelo Festival specifically working on the cooperation project Art Beyond Participation – BE PART.
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”.