Andrijana Trpković is a PhD student, emerging author, costume designer, and scenographer originally from Belgrade, Serbia. Since 2012, she has worked in Czech and German-speaking theatre and film in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Serbia. She has spent five years working on an artistic and scientific research project entitled Theatre in the Digital Age, focusing on the performativity of avatars, the modification of the present, and the absence of the body at the Faculty of the Arts, Charles University, Prague. Her methods are determined by the combination and, in her own words, the “inseparability” of theory and practice. She lives in Hanover.
Sorour Darabi’s performances are places where the complexity of otherness is exposed. By bringing together personal and collective experiences, Darabi explores intersectionality and the changeability of our identity and bodies in relation to culture and their political context. They may be considered acts of re- sistance – with a radical emphasis on fragility – which subvert convention and expectation not only within dance, but within the wider cultural narrative.
