Jakob Ampe (b. 1980) studied jazz singing and logopaedics. He’s singer of the rock band The Germans. In 2008 their debute album received very favourable reviews in Belgium, with quotes as “the most dangerous rock band from Belgium” (De Standaard) In 2009 The Germans were invited to create a performance for De Nachten in Antwerp which they created together with dancers Pieter Ampe and Eun Lee Kyung Lee. In 2011 Jakob Ampe participated in the performance CHICAGO SONGBOOK by composer Thomas Smetryns. Together with jazz musician Frederik Leroux he’s currently working on a new album with pop songs that will be released in Winter 2011.

From 1990 to 2001 Pieter Ampe (b. 1982) took part in several theatre workshops at the Speeltheater, now known as the Kopergietery. In 2002 – 2003 he studied and the following year he took a theatrical dance course. From 2004 to 2008 he completed his dance studies – which he has begun at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance and at the Arnhem Dance Academy – at Keersmaeker’s school P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels. Since 2008 Pieter Ampe is one of the dancers in THE SONG by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker & Rosas. Since 2009 he is artist-in-residence at CAMPO. Here he created together with Guilherme Garrido the duet STILL STANDING YOU (2010).

Alain Platel (b. 1956) is trained as a remedial educationalist, and is an autodidact director. In 1984 he set up a small group with a number of friends and relatives to work collectively, the later so-called Les ballets C de la B. Long-term collaboration with Arne Sierens. Productions: WOLF (2003) based on Mozart for the Ruhrtriennale; VSPRS (2006); NINE FINGER (2007) with Benjamin Verdonck and Fumiyo Ikeda; PITIÉ! (2008); OUT OF CONTEXT (2010); and GARDENIA (2010).