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  • Francesc Nel·lo Deakin (DE/ES/AU) is a dancer and writer currently working as a freelancer in Germany. He studied at the Koninklijke Balletschool van Antwerpen and at the Hamburg Ballet school, after which he joined the young dance company ITDansa in Barcelona. He then became a member of the Hessisches Staatsballett in Wiesbaden and danced there for four years, performing works by choreographers like Sharon Eyal, Imre & Marne van Opstal and Xie Xin. Having now entered the world of freelance work, he is looking to expand into other fields of art such as dance and film criticism, as well as writing fiction. He received a small prize in 2023 for a short story written in Catalan in the “XXVII Certamen Literari Alba Sant Jordi”.

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