Andonis Foniadakis, aufgewachsen auf Kreta, begann seine Tanzausbildung bei Niki Papadaki, studierte dann an der National School of Dance Athen und erhielt vor seinem Abschluss das renommierte Maria-Callas-Stipendium, mit dem er sein Studium an der Rudra Béjart-Schule in Lausanne fortsetzte. Danach tanzte und choreografierte er weltweit an renommierten Häusern. 2003 gründete er seine eigene Tanzcompagnie «Apotosoma – Andonis Foniadakis» in Lyon.  2012 erhielt er in Italien den Danza Danza Award als bester Choreograf für die Kreation Les Noces beim Ballett Florenz und 2018 von der Critics Union of Music and Theatre in Griechenland den Preis für die beste Choreografie für sein Stück Galaxy. Von 2016 bis 2018 war er Künstlerischer Leiter des Griechischen Nationalballetts.

Martin Gebhardt was a lighting designer and lighting master at John Neumeier’s Hamburg Ballet. From 2002, he worked with Heinz Spoerli and the Zurich Ballet. Ballet productions of both companies took him to renowned theaters in Europe, Asia, and America. At the Zurich Opera House, he created the lighting design for productions by Jürgen Flimm, David Alden, Jan Philipp Gloger, Grischa Asagaroff, Matthias Hartmann, David Pountney, Moshe Leiser/Patrice Caurier, Damiano Michieletto, and Achim Freyer. At the Salzburg Festival, he designed the lighting for La bohème and a new version of Spoerli’s Death and the Maiden. Since the 2012/13 season, Martin Gebhardt has been head of lighting at the Zurich Opera House. Today, he maintains a close collaboration with choreographer Christian Spuck (including Winterreise, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, Messa da Requiem, Anna Karenina, Woyzeck, The Sandman, Leonce and Lena, The Little Match Girl). He was also the lighting designer for choreographers Edward Clug (including Strings, Le Sacre du printemps, and Faust in Zurich), Alexei Ratmansky, Wayne McGregor, Marco Goecke, and Douglas Lee. He collaborated with Christoph Marthaler and Anna Viebrock on Handel’s evening Sale and Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims in Zurich, as well as on Lulu at the Hamburg State Opera, and with Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito at the Geneva Opera for Les Huguenots. In 2023, he designed the lighting for Spuck’s ballet Bovary at the Berlin State Ballet and in 2024 Rossini’s Tancredi at the Bregenz Festival. Additionally, he was the lighting designer for Atonement by Cathy Marston at the Zurich Opera House.