Creative Family
No image is created alone. Each work is the result of a rare alchemy between artists who share the same discipline: performing on a single breath. Dancers, freedivers, composers and craftsmen — these are the talents who dive into the unknown alongside Bastien Soleil.
Ariadna Hafez
Rose Molina Barrios
Born in Chile, Rose began ballet at four and started her professional career at nine with the University of Chile, later moving to Germany at seventeen to study in the world of Pina Bausch. She discovered freediving in Thailand in 2010, and has since woven dance, freediving, yoga and sound into one practice — performing and teaching in cenotes, caverns and oceans around the world, and collaborating with Bastien since the earliest days of his underwater work.
Marion Crampe
Marion Crampe is an internationally renowned performing artist from France, known for her mastery in the disciplines of Pole Dance and Hair Hanging as also freedive dancing, three highly artistic and physically intensive forms of performance art. She is also a certified hypnotherapist and a highly respected dance educator. Her unique creative style is poetic and soulful, dedicated to expressing human emotion and personal narratives through dancing journey. She performs worldwilde, Choreographes for shows such Medusa Underwater ballet, conducts annual international workshops such The first Breath together with Bastien Soleil and artistic intensives, which are widely attended by dancers, artists, and holistic practitioners from around the world.
Dimitrii Staev
A multidisciplinary artist and movement therapist, Russian-born Mitya Staev is now based in Miami, exploring art and holistic science through many mediums. He began with ballroom dancing and classical music as a child, later training at the Russian Academy of Art and Culture's Balletmaster faculty and going on to become a Russian and American Pole Dance Champion and world record holder. His work and workshops have been presented worldwide, and today he focuses on interdisciplinary art, integral and somatic psychology.
Oliver Gregory
Oliver Gregory is a performer and founder of Plug & Play Productions to make space for original entertainment in non-traditional environments: work that blends technical rigour with creative ambition. With over a decade of cruise and cabaret experience, he merges spectacle, underwater artistry and circus innovation to create work that doesn't exist anywhere else. His work champions LGBTQ+ joy and representation with authenticity and flair.
