PARTICIPANTS
Caption CK = Connection Kin, NPM = Network Partner Meeting, TF = Theaterformen, FG = Festival Grant
Michael Kranixfeld – Germany (NPM) from 2009 to 2013 he studied Cultural Studies, Aesthetics & Applied Arts in Hildesheim. He organizes festivals for young theatre makers, including transeuropa 2012. For the young artists program “Schredder” he founded an advisory board with citizens from Hildesheim, that invited to talk about ”cross-cultural imaginations“. Tom Lanoye – Belgium (CK) (b. 1958) is a Flemish writer. He lives and works in Antwerp and Cape Town. He works in various genres, e.g. novel, essay, drama. In 1985, he published his first text ”A Butcher’s Son with Spectacles.“ Further works include, ”The Divine Monster“, ”Black Tears“, ”Spiteful Tongues“ (a trilogy about Belgium and Europe) and ”The third marriage“. He has won numerous awards for his work, including the Gouden Ganzenveer in the Netherlands. Yann Leguay – France (CK) (b. 1981) is a sound designer and lives in Brussels. His works include installations, performances and visual art. He worked with Ula Sickle, Studios Kabako and Tangible Craft in Kinshasa, Amsterdam, Hong Kong and Brussels. Under the label Phonotopy he creates sounds that deal with the issues of materiality, division and tautology and can be heard at live performances or on records. Frie Leysen – Belgium (NPM) (b. 1950) founded the multidisciplinary Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels in 1992 and curated, i.a. the festival Meeting Points 5 in the Arab world in 2007. Leysen was artistic director of Theater der Welt 2010 in Mülheim and Essen and at the festival foreign affairs in Berlin in 2012. In 2014 she is the director of theatre and performing arts at Wiener Festwochen and won the Erasmus Prize 2014.
Faustin Linyekula – Democratic Republic of the Congo (CK, NPM, TF) is a theatre maker and choreographer. His career began in exile, first in Nigeria, later in Europe. In 2001 he returned to the Congo and since then establishes there the ”Studios Kabako“. His artistic work, located between dance and theatre tours worldwide. At Theaterformen he presented ”Pour en finir avec Bérénice“ and, as part of the thematic weekend ”The Presence of Elsewhere - here and now“, the piece ”Le Cargo“ in 2010. http://www.kabako.org/
Sandro Lunin – Switzerland (NPM) was director of the SchlachthausTheater Bern and co-founder of the festival ”Blickfelder - Theater für ein junges Publikum”. He is artistic director of Zurcher Theaterspektakel since 2007. In 2012, he, together with his co-directors lunched the series ”Short Pieces“, in which short solos and duos of young artists from all over the world can be seen.
Humphrey Maleka – South Africa (FG) began his artistic career with street dance forms and Pantsula before he turned to Afro-fusion, flamenco and contemporary dance. Humphreys work focuses on the development of living installations and site-specific, investigative performances.
Dorine Mokha – Democratic Republic of the Congo (FG) Began to dance in Lubumbashi and has been working with Studios Kabako of Faustin Linyekula, as a dancer and choreographer since 2008. In 2013 he assisted Faustin Linyekula in ”Drums and Digging“, and finished his studies in Economics and Social Law at the University of Kisangani in the same year. In 2014 he was granted a fellowship of the Akademie Schloss Solitude.
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