Sonya Cullingford is a London-based actor, dancer and musician. She recently filmed a role in Barry Levinson’s Harry Haft, appeared as Wally in BBC2’s Egon Schiele; Dangerous Desires and Satan in Impermanence’s The Ballet of the Nations. She performs regularly with Impermanence Dance Theatre, in Wayne Parsons’ Vestige. She has worked extensively with Will Tuckett, most recently in Elizabeth at the Barbican. She was original cast in Punchdrunk’s The Drowned Man, played ‘Lavinia’ in Titus Andronicus, and has also appeared in Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl and Les Miserables. She is currently performing in London playing ‘Anna’ in Souvenir with Any One Thing. She is represented in London by Eadon Management.

Sonya performed in Protein’s multidisciplinary May Contain Food.

Matthew began his training at Laban, completing his degree with first class honours. He then spent a year at London Contemporary Dance School as a member of EDge, the post graduate dance company, performing work by Trisha Brown, Ben Wright and Kerry Nicholls. After graduating, Matthew went on to work with Bare Bones dance company, Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures, and was a founding member of Ben Wright’s company, Bgroup. He has also worked with Liam Steele and Robert Tannion in their company Stan Won’t Dance, performed in operas at home and abroad, taught classes and workshops, and completed his MA at London Contemporary Dance School.

In 2012 Matthew began working with Luca Silvestrini’s Protein, notably performing in (In)visible Dancing and May Contain Food. In his most recent work with the company, Matthew completed a rural tour of the duet May Contain Food, May Contain You.

Since 2017 he has also toured Night at the Theatre with Casson and Friends, created The Quiet with Glasshouse dance, and taught a series of children’s dance classes in China. He has just completed a tour of Sleuth with Zoie Logic Dance Theatre – an interactive film Noir detective story.

Originally from Manchester, Carl Harrison graduated from London Contemporary Dance School with a 1st Class Honours and was also the co-winner of the Deutsche Bank Pyramid Award for Contemporary Dance.

He has worked with Punchdrunk Theatre Company in London. His previous credits include working with Aletta Collins (Carmen, Salzburg), Maresa Von Stockert (SEASAW), Colin Poole, Katie Green, Darren Ellis, Junk Ensemble, Fitzgerald & Stapleton and Thick & Tight. He first worked with Luca Silvestrini’s Protein in 2014 on their outdoor piece Windows in Progress as part of the Royal Opera House Deloitte Ignite Festival.

Apart from performing, Carl’s other passions are women’s rights and food. Preferably at the same time.

Rachele Rapisardi graduated from CODARTS (NL) and then relocated to London where she joined EDge11. Since leaving EDge Rachele has worked with companies and independent choreographers such as Lost Dog (Ben Duke), Luca Silvestrini’s Protein, ilDance, Clod Ensemble, Gwyn Emberton Dance, Emma Martin Dance, Theo Clinkard, Quang Kien Van, Emanuel Gat, Jorge Crecis, Jose Agudo, James Finnemore, Christopher Evans and Neus Gil Cortes, spanning across the UK, Sweden, Israel and Ireland. Since obtaining her MA in Performing Arts in 2015, Rapisardi has been also developing her freelance career as a teacher, rehearsal director and associate director in particular with Protein Dance.

Work with Luca Silvestrini’s Protein (2014 onwards): As a performer Rachele has been part of Invisible Dancing (2014-2018). As a teacher and co-leader she has been working with professionals and students (from GCSE to MA) as part of Protein’s educational programme for Border Tales in 2017-2018. As an Associate Director in 2018 for the rural touring of ʻMay Contain food, May Contain Youʼ in theatres, community halls and care homes.

She has also been very involved co-leading and delivering community-based projects as part of Protein’s RLRD programme ‘There and Here’ 2015 – performance with refugees and asylum seekers from the Islington Centre in London. ‘XOXO’ (2016) and ‘These is Us’ (2017, 2019) – performances with Pupils in Referral Units (PRU) in South East London and Stockton-on-Tees