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ABOUT US

Drawn together by movement and creative intuition, we intertwine our expressions to craft a shared language of choreography. Through collaboration, we explore places we might not have reached alone—letting our ideas collide, resonate, and evolve into something neither of us could have imagined on our own.
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Vera Kvarcakova and Jérémy Galdeano have formed a dynamic choreographic duo since 2019. Their creation DOMA was highly successful, being included in the mixed program Parlami d'Amore by Les Grands Ballets Canadiens (Montreal, Canada) in May 2019, and has been selected for prestigious events such as the DAC 2019 Carte Blanche in Montreal and the Noverre-Young Choreographers' Evening at the Stuttgart Ballet. The duo was a finalist in the Hannover International Choreographic Competition 2020 and was invited to HANGARTFEST in Italy. Their work was also selected for the Future Dance Festival 92Y in New York, where they presented DOMA at the Joyce Theater as part of the Martha Graham Company season. Their short film DOMA won Best Dance Video at Rio WebFest 2019 and was honored as Best Dance Short Film at the Queen Palm International Film Festival 2020. Their creation ZABA, created during the 2020 lockdown, was selected for the Festival Interfaccia Digitale. They also co-created Solo pour Trois for the Grands Ballets Canadiens gala. In June 2021, their creation FOMO was presented at the Mannheim National Theatre in Germany and at the Quartiers Danses Festival in Montreal, where it was awarded Best Performance (Prix du meilleur spectacle en salle).

2024       Creation of Doma stories accompanied by BLÍZ, presented at the Leos Janáček International Music Festival in Hukvaldy

                NEBE presented at the Quartiers Danses Festival and the Charlevoix Dance Festival;

 

                Winners of the Creation and Dissemination Award at the CCN-Ballet de l'Opéra du Rhin, and the Dance Professionals Award at the Malandain                               Ballet Biarritz Young Choreographers Competition, Thierry Malandain Foundation for Dance Prize–Académie des beaux-arts

                NEBE created for Les Grands Ballets Canadiens (Montreal, Canada);

2023       BLÍZ created for the National Theatre of Mannheim (Germany)

2022       DOMA presented in Houston and Austin (United States), with the Ishida Dance Company ( le prix du meilleur spectacle en salle)

               

                FOMO presented at the Quartiers Danses Festival in Montreal, awarded the best show

2021        FOMO created for the National Theatre Mannheim;

                DOMA at the Joyce Theater (New York) for the Martha Graham Company season

2020       ZABA, short film selected for the Interfaccia Digitale Festival

                Finalists of the Hanover International Choreographic Competition and guests at HANGARTFEST in Italy

                Choreographers invited to the Noverre Young Choreographers evening at the Stuttgart Ballet

2019        DOMA Best Dance Short Film at the Queen Palm International Film Festival

                Premiere of Solo pour trois, created for the Grands Ballets Canadiens benefit gala

                DOMA wins Best Dance Video at Rio Webfest

 

                DOMA invited for Carte Blanche DAC (Danse à la carte), Montreal

                Premiere of DOMA, added to the repertoire in the Parlami d’amore program of the Grands Ballets Canadiens;

2018        On this path you're sure to get lost, collaboration with Vías, Diana Léon, and Paco Ziel (Mexico City and Montreal).

Vera Kvarcakova
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A native of Ostrava, Czech Republic, after studying at the Janacek National Conservatory. She danced with the National Ballet in Brno, the Ballet of the National Opera of the Rhine and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, where she was a demi soloist, from the September 2019 she is soloist at National Theater Mannheim. She has danced in classical and contemporary repertoire including Ohad Naharin, Jiri Kylian, William Forsythe, Marco Goecke, Johan Inger, Jean Christophe Maillot, Cayetano Soto, Stephan Thoss, Shen Wei, Edward Clug, Ettiene Bechard, Christian Spuck, Anabelle Lopez Ochoa, Cathy Martson, Douglas Lee, Felix Landerer, among many others. She recently collaborated with Swiss dance company Snorkel Rabbit under artistic directors Brian Arias and Alba Castillo.

Vera is also a yoga teacher and certified in dance therapy by Cirque du Soleil and the National Center for Dance Therapy, as well as in Parkinson's disease in movement. She is a ballet and contemporary dance teacher at the ProBallet school Cinthia Labaronne in Basel, Switzerland, and a guest professor at the Janacek Conservatory in Ostrava, Czech Republic.

Jeremy Galdeano

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Born in Nimes, France, he

graduated from the School of Dance in Marseille, and he danced

with the Ballet National de Marseille before joining Les Grands Ballets Canadiens in 2001, where he stayed for 17 years and became the first soloist. His repertoire includes several ballets of Mats Ek, Jiri Kylian, Ohad Naharin, Didy Veldman, Christian Spuck, Jean Christophe Maillot, Shen Wei, Stephan Thoss, Nacho Duato, Stijn Celis, Anabelle Lopez Ochoa, Garreth Smith, Edward Clug, Ettiene Bechard and many others. He has created several pieces for the choreographic workshops of the company.

In 2020, he chose to devote himself fully to choreography and teaching, while also serving as rehearsal director for the Cas Public dance company until 2023. He is now a guest rehearsal director with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens and Ballets Jazz Montréal, as well as a ballet teacher at the École de danse contemporaine de Montréal. He is co-founder and artistic director of the Charlevoix Danse Festival, under the general and artistic direction of Raphaël Bouchard.

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