Femart 2022 - Femart Festival

FEMART 10th Edition

FROM REVOLUTION TO EVOLUTION

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The feminist evolution cycle continues. This year it is broader and more accomplished. Local and international artists, activists and feminists meet again at the first Feminist Festival in Kosovo and the largest in the region, FemArt.

FemArt 10, for ten days in a row, June 14-23, 2022, comes to unveil the ability of women artists, to meet, inspire and find peace. We gather to celebrate a decade of recognizing and honoring the courage of women artists, their creative power, their commitment to equality and justice through theater performances, flamenco ballet, contemporary dance, conferences, exhibitions and presentations from Kosovo, Albania, Serbia, Austria, Portugal, Spain, Israel, Reunion Island, Italy and France.

Participating Artists and Activists

Kosovo

Zana Hoxha - Founder and executive director of Artpolis and FemArt Festival

Zana Hoxha (born 1981) is a professional theater director, founder and executive director of the Artpolis - Art and Community Center, an organization that promotes art and diversity through social dialogue and community integration. She has created more than 20 theatrical performances which have been presented in the largest theaters in Kosovo, in the Balkan region (Albania, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Croatia), and has also presented her work as an artist/activist/trainer in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.
Zana was the Director of the Theater Department at the SKENA UP festival during 2004-2011, the Artistic Director of the Professional Theater during 2011-2014, and also the Founder and Director of the ARTPOLIS Organization and the largest feminist festival in the Balkans of artists and activists, FEMART.
She is also selected as IVLP Aluminum (International Program for Foreign Visitors to the United States of America) and winner of many awards for her contribution as a director in Kosovo and the region. Combining art and activism, she uses theater as an advocacy tool for social rights that focuses on raising awareness of gender-based violence, human rights, and diversity.
She is proud to be part of the board of the Kosovo Women's Network, a lecturer and trainer specializing in Forum Theater and a supporter in the empowerment and emancipation of women activists.

Albana Piperku – Alto (Prishtina) has graduated in music from the Academy of Arts in Prishtina, and for the past two decades works as a piano teacher and pedagogue. She is also member of the Philharmonic of Kosovo Choir.

Arstina Kadiu – Mezzo-soprano (Prishtina) has graduated in music from the Academy of Arts in Prishtina. She has a long experience as a music teacher, and is also member of the Philharmonic of Kosovo Choir.

Diellza Sylejmani – Mezzo-soprano (Prishtina) has a master degree in solo singing (Canto) and graduated from the Academy of Arts in Skopje (Macedonia). Mrs.Sylejmani is a senior official at the Department of Culture and a soloist of the Philharmonic of Kosovo.

Elida Kryeziu – Soprano (Prishtina) has a master degree in solo singing (Canto) and graduated from the Academy of Arts in Tirana (Albania). Mrs. Kryeziu is member of the Philharmonic of Kosovo Choir.

Italy

Valentina Medda

Valentina Medda is an interdisciplinary artist from Sardinia who currently lives and works in Bologna.
Her artistic practice unfolds between image, performance and site-specific interventions, inquiring the relationship between the public and the private, body and architecture, city and social belonging.
Her work has been exhibited in different national and international contexts, from Bologna, Milan, Cagliari to Paris, New York, Beirut, Brussels and Amsterdam.
More recently, with her project Cities by Night Across Borders, the result of the partnership built with Orlando Festival (IT), Rosendal Teater (NO) and Femart Festival, (XZ) she has been selected as one of the 19 winners of the European grant for performing art, “Perform Europe”.

Kosovo

Shqipe Malushi - poet, author, activist

Shqipe Malushi is a writer, poet, performer, public speaker, gender counselor, an empowerment trainer and leadership trainer, using storytelling to raise awareness, build leadership, and build peace through intercultural issues. Originally from Kosovo, she moved by transforming from an immigrant into a world citizen. She now lives and works in Kosovo contributing to the literary and artistic scene.
Her stories have been published internationally and her publications include a book of poetry "Land of Ghosts" poetry in English, "For You", poetry in Albanian; and the "Gift of the Prophets," in English; "The Secret of Dreams" and "Beyond the walls of the forgotten earth, Albanian mythological tales as told by her grandmother!" as well as "World of Blue Dreams" and "Midnight Journey" poems in English, and so forth.
Her work for women's empowerment has expanded across borders, strengthening relations in Afghanistan, Lebanon, Iraq, India, Kosovo, Albania, and the United States. She is involved in humanitarian causes, overcoming racial, cultural, and religious differences. She motivates, inspires, and influences a positive change through her performances and lectures. Shqipe Malushi's lectures are inspiring and move the audience towards success. Her stories focus on the power of love and the incredible potential of realizing dreams.

ISRAEL

Miriam Engel

Miriam Engel was born in 1983 in Jerusalem. Israeli choreographer is the granddaughter of pioneer dance artist Dora Mushanova, an avant-garde dance innovator in Germany and Bulgaria. From the age of 20, awarded Sharett, America-Israel Cultural Foundation prize for professional dancers.
Miriam Engel has been choreographing dance works since 2008, and in 2011 she founded Angela Dance Co. Jerusalem, a professional dance company performing and touring in Israel and around the world, and ‘Dance Space Jerusalem’, an NGO, a culture and education organization maintaining professional programs and projects of dance, community, body and performance art. She is the Artistic Director and Curator of ‘Mazya Dance’ Festival, Jerusalem, and House Choreographer and leading actress of Mikro Theater Company, Jerusalem.
Miriam is invited around the world as a guest artist to choreograph, perform, lecture, and teach her repertoire and unique techniques. She has been touring in Shanghai, Sofia, Milan, Johannesburg, Minsk, Duisburg, Cork, Ireland, Kigali, and Rwanda. Engel stands out as a multidisciplinary artist and an active cultural entrepreneur.

Kosovo

Ilir Bokshi

Ilir Bokshi was born in Gjakova in 1966. He graduated from the Faculty of Film and Theater with a degree in Theater Directing in Bucharest.
For three decades of his artistic career Bokshi has realized dozens of theatrical performances in: Romania, Kosovo, Albania, and Northern Macedonia, in some of the most important theaters in the country and the region, such as: National Theater of Kosovo, National Theater of Albania, National Theater Krajova, Albanian Theater in Skopje, Oda Theater, Dodona Theater, City Theaters of Gjakova, Tetovo, Prizren, Gjilan, Mitrovica, Podujeva, and Korca, etc.

Some of his performances are: "Flight over the cuckoo's nest", "Antigona", "Twelfth Night", "Oedipus the King", "Hello, Hello", "Glass Management", "Try Sam again", "Farm of Animals "," Delivery to Spokan "," The Beautiful Queen of Lenan "," The Cherry Orchard "," My Father Loved Adolf "," Hollyshit "," Frankenstein "," The Giants "," A Midsummer Night's Dream ", "Die laughing" etc.

His artistic engagement extends to film, documentaries and music videos. Has made 8 episodes of the series "Modern Family", 5 episodes of the series "Inside Justice", and over 220 episodes of the series "Our Cafe", on Radio Television of Kosovo - Pristina, 120 episodes of the series "O sa mirë .." in Digitalb, Albania. He is currently the director of the sitcom "Çka ka shpija" (120 episodes and still going on).

Albania

“KËMBËGJATET” - Juxhina Madhi & Sabina Troshku

Juxhina Madhi
Juxhina Madhi 29 years old, mother of a 3-year-old girl named Amber. She started at the age of 7 with acrobatics, and by the age 15 she became a professional acrobat in the National Circus. Graduated at the University of Sports in the field of Physical Education. Over the years she has been persistent and tireless in the profession of acrobatics. It is worth mentioning the fact that the passion for this profession has made her forget the danger and dare to perform and entertain people.

Sabina Troshku
Sabina Troshku, born in Tirana in 1995. Since 2003 Troshku was part of the circus initially as a student, and later in 2010 she was employed as a professional acrobat in the Albanian National Circus. The same year, together with Fiqiri Luli, she was the winner of the show “Albania Got Talent”. In 2013 she participated in the festival “Modial du Cirque De Demain” in Paris, France. She is a graduate of the University of Sports in Tirana “Movement Sciences” and a master teacher of physical education and health.

Reunion Islands

Christine Salem

Christine Salem is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She was born on December 20, 1971 in Saint-Denis, Reunion Island. She started singing at the age of eight, and as a teenager, she learned to play the guitar.
Christine Salem founded the group Salem Tradition in 1997. It became one of the leading bands in Reunion Island. Their first album, “Waliwa”, was recorded live in 2001.
Her first album as a solo artist was “Lanbousir”, released in 2010. It featured two percussionists, David Abrousse and Harry Perigone. Whereas in 2021, she released her fourth album, titled Mersi.
The song topics include odes to ancestors, celebrating women and addressing violence against women, joy, spirituality, and kindness.

France, Kosovo

Ben Dida

Ben Dida is an Agronomist holding an MSc in Natural Resources and Environment from the University of Life Science in Prague, Czech Republic. He is also a Certified Global External Auditor regarding agriculture standardization and is certified as a Consultant for Agriculture and Rural Development from the Ministry of Agriculture of Kosovo. Dida is experienced in consultancy regarding environmental projects, berries value chains, agriculture farmer assurance and creating cooperation between businesses and farmers.
He has extensive experience in different private and public sector engagements, where he gained most of his practical skills in different kinds of fields. Currently, he is the founder of Hybrid Agro, a consultancy business dealing with the implementation of food quality and safety standards, supporting farmers in accessing a different kind of financial funds, and training in career orientation for new agronomists.

France, Kosovo

Marie Grovel

Marie Grovel is an Agronomist holding a MSc in agricultural development from the french Engineering School ISTOM. She worked for 3 years in Cambodia for different agricultural and environmental protection projects. She has also been teaching sustainable development, climate change and management of environmental risk to master students.

Kosovo

Kushtrim Koliqi

Kushtrim Koliqi (1984) Human rights activist, theater and film director. Born in Pristina, Kosovo, where he also finished elementary and secondary school. He studied theater directing at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Prishtina, where he also finished the Master’s degree. He finished his doctoral studies at the South East University, Faculty of Languages, Cultures and Communications, North Macedonia.
His most successful performances are: “For old times” (Kushtrim Koliqi), "Underground man" (Hristo Boytchev), "Open Couple" (Dario Fo), "Closer" (Patrick Marber), "After Ms. Julie" (Patrick Marber), “The Merchant of Venice” (Associate Director, William Shakespeare), “Caligula” (Albert Camus), “I am my own wife” (Doug Wright), “La Rrem” (Arian Krasniqi), “Stifler” (Doruntina Basha), “Father and father” (Jeton Neziraj), and so forth. As a director, he is known for avant-garde, brave, provocative, creative, politically/socially engaged, and innovative approaches.
He also took some important awards, among which is the Annual Award for Directing and Best Performance in Kosovo for the year of 2013. He was a board member of the National Theater. He is member of the Executive Board of Kosovo Association of Theater Artists, he is board member of City Theater Dodona, artistic director of Intent New Theater, co-founder and organizer of “Mirëdita, dobar dan!” Festival, and since 2003 is Executive Director of Integra NGO. He has realized the long cycle of narrative documentary films "People and memories talk" with stories of civilian victims of the war in Kosovo and throughout the region of ex-Yugoslavia which were broadcasted in 6 countries. He is also a publisher of different books, monographs, researches, articles, and so on.

Kosovo

Gordana Toskic

Gordana Toskic was born on September 9, 1973. Until 1999, she lived in Prishtina. She graduated from the Faculty of Science, biology department. She has worked as a teacher in two primary schools.
For many years she has volunteered in various organizations, including: Peace Corps Kosovo, and Hands + Hands.
For two years, she worked as the director of the Municipal Department for Education, Culture, Youth and Sports. Toskic has been an active participant in the Istanbul Convention and is the initiator of "in a spoon" catering.

Germany, Albania

Gentian Doda

Gentian Doda was born in Tirana (AL). He started his career as a dancer at the National Opera and Ballet Theater of Albania, followed by the State Opera and Ballet Theater of Azerbaijan, Teatro Arena di Verona, Balletto di Parma, Compañia Víctor Ullate and Compañia Nacional de Danza (CND) under the direction of Nacho Duato.

In 2011, Gentian Doda was awarded the First Choreographic Awards in Copenhagen and Hannover, as well as the Scapino Production Prize. Since then, he has created world premieres for the New York Choreographic Institute, Scapino Ballet, Dirección Nacional de Danza and Santo Domingo, etc. He has also participated in many collaborations and independent projects shown in Germany, USA, Israel, Spain, Italy, Albania, Denmark, China, among others. In August 2014, he was offered the position of the First Ballet Master at the Staatsballett Berlin, where he remained for four years.
During this time, he created his premiere ‘Die Letzte Reise’ and the solo ‘Kjaj’ for the Prado Museum and Conde Duque in Madrid. He also created two new works for the Staatsballett Nürenberg and Gärtnerplatztheater, ‘This Silence’ for the Juilliard School in New York and ‘Was bleibt’ with the Staatsballett Berlin, and he recreated one of his pieces for the Teatro Massimo di Palermo dance company. He is the founder and choreographer of 'was bleibt kollektiv', a group of Albanian and international artists with whom he has collaborated for his premieres ‘Vals i këputun’/‘Broken waltz’ and ‘Vegime të heshtuna’/‘Silent mirages’ (Tirana, 2021), as well as for the video installation ‘Gjurmë’/‘Trails’ (Tirana-Durrës, 2021).

Germany, Albania

Çezar Aliaj

Çezar Aliaj, based in Spain, teaches analysis, harmony, electronics and contemporary music laboratory at the Conservatorio Superior de Salamanca. His music has been played in Spain and abroad by various quartets and orchestras. He has been composing music for dance productions and he is currently engaged in creations with ‘was bleibt kollektiv | Gentian Doda’.

Germany, Albania

Rosella Pellicciotti

Rosella Pellicciotti, based in Albania, works as a dancer/performer and movement director with dance, theater and visual artists. Active in the contemporary dance scene since 2014 as part of the Albanian Dance Theater Company, she is currently one of the artists and co-producer of ‘was bleibt kollektiv | Gentian Doda’.

Germany, Albania

Elton Cefa

Elton Cefa, based in Albania, is a dancer at the National Folk Dances Ensemble and in independent contemporary dance projects. He has also collaborated as assistant choreographer and as movement director in various theater productions.
He got the Albania's Best Dancer Award in 2009 and in 2011, and he is currently involved in creations with ‘was bleibt kollektiv | Gentian Doda’.

Serbia

Katarina Ranković a.k.a. Lady K

Katarina Ranković a.k.a. Lady K is a pianist and an interdisciplinary artist who, through her original music and other artwork, connects forms of theater, performing and concert. She composed music for theaters in Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia. HNK Osijek, NG Maribor and Boško Buha in Belgrade, to name a few. She is active in cooperation with other artists as well, noticeably in her collaboration with Belgrade drag queen Dekadenca, through their unique cabaret show DIVAS NIGHT. At the moment, she is finalizing her PhD studies at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad.

Serbia

Markiza de Sada

Markiza de Sada is a drag alter ego of Vladimir Bjeličić, an independent curator/performer. Throughout a decade of her presence, she has written dozens of texts, including a radio drama, hosted numerous public events, and even did a major fashion multi-brand campaign. Markiza is a founding member of Ephemeral Confessions collective, co-creator of the Queer Respirator project, and an often collaborator to her peer Dekadenca with whom she organizes an influential Belgrade-based show, The Last Chance.

Serbia

Dekadenca

Andrej Ostroški, the man behind the queen, is a graphic designer and an independent artist from Belgrade, but as Dekadenca they are a cabaret drag performer who has been pioneering the contemporary Balkan drag scene for the past ten years. They are a founding member of art collectives such as "Efemerne Konfesije" and "Dragoslavia".

Kosovo

Nuhi Gashi

Nuhi Gashi was born on September 23rd, 1972 in Prishtina. His great desire for sports, especially Martial Arts, pushed him to study at the University of Physical Culture and Sports. Nuhiu worked in creating and promoting Taekwondo, this special art massification, educating and increasing the quality of students and teams in local and international competitions.
He also trained in many other martial arts like: Kick Box, Carate, Aikido, Jiu Jitsu, Hapkido, Wing Tchun, Self Defense, MMA etc. And he has trained at least 15 trainers in martial arts until now.
In 2008 after a period of many years, Nuhiu founded the Academy of Martial Arts in “Prishtina” to teach other forms of martial arts besides Taekwondo; hence, his students learn many other skills.
He is the sole Albanian, in and out of Kosovo, who has the right of certifying students of the new generation locally and internationally. These certificates come from the main office of World Taekwondo Center in South Korea.
He is also author of a book on Taekwondo in Albanian language and he is writing a second book. He lives and works in Prishtina.

PORTUGAL

Pedro Alves

Pedro Alves – born in Sintra, in 1979. Co-founder and co-artistic director of Teatromosca, where he is an actor, director, and producer. Graduated in Performing Arts and has a Master's degree in Theatre Studies from the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Lisbon.
He attended training courses in the area of cultural management, production, staging, project management, and human resources and sociocultural animation, among others. He attended actor training courses directed by João de Mello Alvim, João Miguel Rodrigues and Adolfo Simón.
As an actor, he participated in shows with texts by Eric Bogosian, Eça Leal, Sófocles, Stig Dagerman, Lorca, Fernando Sousa, Jean Genet, Oscar Wilde, among others, at the Sintra Theater Company, Dante - Madrid Theater Company, Teatro TapaFuros, Teatromosca, Teatro Focus etc.
He worked with the choreographers Carla Sampaio, Daniel Cardoso, and Célia Alturas. He was Director of the Lisbon's Faculty of Pharmacy's Theatre Group. He collaborated with Quorum Ballet in several shows as a playwright and artistic director. In Teatromosca, he directed, among others, the shows “Dog Art”, “Kip”, “The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol”, “Europa”, “Tróia”, “Moby-Dick”, “The Sound and the Fury”, “Fahrenheit 451”, “Kif-Kif”, the “Ways of Seeing: _ _ _” project, "Lord of the Flies", "Ned Kelly", etc.

PORTUGAL

Joana Cotrim

Joana Cotrim – Actress. She obtained a master's degree in directing from the Real Institute of Theater and in Cinema and Sound in Brussels with a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation from 2015 to 2017.
She got her acting degree from the Lisbon Theater and Film School in 2012. She has a Bachelor's degree from ISPA in the field of clinical psychology. She was an actress at the D. Maria II National Theater from 2011 to 2015, integrating the permanent artistic cast from 2012 to 2015. Joana founded in 2013, with Pedro Sousa Loureiro, the group "OS PATO BRAVO", with whom she won a prize with the show "Monuments" in 2016. The group develops theatrical and site-specific projects.
Seeking the dissociation and anachronism between forms and contents, Joana is the creator and author of the following productions: "My Beauty TV Project", "Prelude to Helena", "Permanent Finit", "The Revolution" and "Ticket to Heaven". She recently founded "The Club", and has been working in partnership with Rita Morais and Ana Sampaio e Maia, co-creator of "Night and Day", a project that toured in Antwerp and Brussels. Joana has worked as an actress in cinema and television. She also develops solo creations in galleries, theaters and informal space. These creations are autobiographical, varying between fiction and reality, based on the experience acquired in dance when she studied at The National Conservatory Dance School, and in theater.

Kosovo

Jeton Neziraj

Jeton Neziraj is a playwright, director, and founder of Multimedia Center. He was the Artistic Director of the National Theater of Kosovo. He has written over 20 plays that have been staged (over 50 productions), translated, and published in more than 15 languages. As a playwright, he has worked with theaters and companies, including Volksbühne Berlin, La MaMa in New York, Piccolo Teatro di Milano, Volkstheater Vienna, Vidy Theater in Lausanne, National Theater of Kosovo, City Garage Theater in Los Angeles, National Theater of Montenegro, Turkish National Theater, etc. His plays have won numerous awards and have been screened at theater festivals across Europe.
"The performances [of Jeton Neziraj] are raucous, irreverent, and absurdist. They invoke Ibsen, Molière and Kafka," the Guardian wrote of his work. The German theater magazine Theater der Zeit and the German Radio Deutschlandfunk Kultur have described him as the "Kafka of the Balkans", while the Los Angeles Times called him "a world-class playwright who challenges our complacency at every turn". He is the winner of the Europe Culture Award 2020.

Kosovo

Erson Zymberi

Erson Zymberi (1983) is a director. He was born in Gjilan. He finished his elementary and high school in his homeland. He did his studies in theater directing (2006) at the University of Arts in the faculty of Prishtina. Also, he acquired his Masters degree in experimental theater program (2014), under the direction of professor Bekim Lumi. As a student he appeared with his play “the Tunnel” (at the Dodona Theater, 2005, Prishtina) in the Festival “Skena Up”, and was awarded as the best director of the festival.
Among the plays he directed are: “Kumbara” (The Godfather)- (2007, Gilan Theater); “Sex, rrena dhe pata t’egra” (Sex, Lies, and Wild Ducks) (2008, Gilan), “Gjithçka 1.5” (Everything 1.5) ( 2008, Oda Theater), “Rekuiem” (requiem) (2010, Gjilan), “Pacienti i Dr. Frojdit” (Dr. Freud's Patient) (2012, Gjilan), “Koloneli Zog” (Colonel Zog) ( 2014, Professional Theater of Gjakova), “Ufot” (UFOs) (2015, Gjilan), “Gishti” (The Finger) ( 2015, Kosovo National Theater ), “Ana dhe Zefi” (Ana & Zef) (2018, Kosovo National Theater), “UN Inspektori” (UN Inspector) (2019, Theater “Adriana” – Ferizaj,) “Të vdekurit mbajnë zi për Atdheun” (Dead Mourn the Fatherland) ( 2021, Kosovo National Theater ), “Bobi Vatson bie nga kati i nëntë por nuk vdes plotësisht”, (Bobby Watson falls from 9th Floor but Doesn’t Die Completely) (2021, Dodona Theatre) “Burrnesha” (Sworn Virgin) (Multimedia Center, 2022) etc.
He was also Artistic Director of the Gjilan Theater (2008); later on he was a president managing council of the Gjilan Theater (2014). He was also a co-founder and the president of the Public Theater Association of the cities in Kosovo. During the period 2018-2022 he led the theater of Gjilan as a general director of this institution.

(OTM)

Katie Kheriji-Watts

Katie Kheriji-Watts is an arts worker and a culture journalist based in Paris. Raised in California, she’s spent the last fifteen years working internationally across the visual and performing arts, design, and education. She is the creator and host of Points of Entry, a podcast about reimagining cultural organizations in a rapidly changing world. Currently, she is also Head of Research and Publications at On the Move, a network for international cooperation dedicated to the mobility of artists and culture professionals.

Germany, Albania

Fjorald Doci

Fjorald Doci, based in Albania, works in independent contemporary dance projects, performing and curating movements. He has been dancing at home and touring internationally, as part of the Albanian Dance Theater Company since 2014. He is currently collaborating with ‘was bleibt kollektiv | Gentian Doda’.

Portugal

Carolina Figueiredo

Carolina Figueiredo completed the acting course at the Cascais Professional School of Theatre (2012-2015), where she worked with Beatriz Batarda, Carlos Avilez, Miguel Graça, Carlos Carranca, Ana Ester Neves, Nicolau Antunes and Luís Barros.
She graduated in Theatre at the University of Évora where she was a student of Alexandre Pieroni Calado, Ana Tamen, Beatriz Cantinho, José Alberto Ferreira, João Cáceres, Telma João Santos and Christine Zurbach. On a professional level, she worked with Carlos Avilez and Carlos Carranca. She has collaborated on 18th century animations with Sons & Ecos. Currently, she is a resident actress in Teatromosca and is co-director of the young theater company "Efémero” where she works as an actress and director.

Portugal

Leonor Cabral

Leonor Cabral born in Lisbon in 1983, she has a degree in Theater – Actor Training from the Lisbon Theater and Film School and a master's degree in Theater Studies from the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Lisbon. She completed her training with A. Gutkin, Antonio Fava (Italy), New Actors Workshop (NY), Ávila Costa, John Mowat, Nuno Pino Custódio, among others. In 2015, she participated in the XXIV edition of the European theater project École des Maîtres, directed by Ivica Buljan. She did the artistic direction of the project "Intendente's Barber".
She created the theatrical projects "When the lights go out", "If I climbed as well as I drink, I'd be on the air a long time ago" and "Ex-Simbol". In 2014/2015, she directed Lisbon's Faculty of Psychology's theater group. She assisted in the staging of the shows "1974" and "Danton's Death", directed by Miguel Seabra and Jorge Silva Melo, respectively. She created the following performative visits to exhibitions: "Surreal(isms)", exhibition “From Surrealism”, at the Millennium gallery (2017); "Forbidden to shut up posters!" Performative visit to the exhibition “Honey, I reorganized the collection... by artist”, at Culturgest (2015) and "Other ways of seeing" (directed by Tiago Cadete).

Serbia

Dijana Milošević

Dijana Milošević is an award-winning theater director, activist, writer and lecturer. She co-founded DAH Theater and has been its leading director for over thirty years.

She was the Artistic Director for theater festivals, was the president of the Association of the Independent Theaters and president or member of several boards. Being involved with several peace building initiatives and collaborating with feminists - activists’ groups she also serves as a member of the Transitional Board at IMPACT - a network of arts and conflict transformation.

She has directed theater shows with her company and toured them nationally and internationally, as well as directed the work with other companies all over the world. She is a well-known lecturer and has taught at prestigious Universities, writes articles and essays about theater. She is the recipient of prestigious fellowships (Fulbright, Arts Link).

Spain

Flamenco Ballet “Luxuria”

David Gutiérrez Molina, born in Barcelona in 1994, holds his roots in both Extremadura and Andalusia. Gutiérrez Molina began his flamenco journey at only four-years-old at the ‘Casa de Andalusia’ in Catalonia. He then went on to perform with various companies, where he became a soloist and was awarded best Flamenco solo dancer at the Gibraltar Stage Dance Festival in 2011.

Gutiérrez Molina formed the Barcelona Flamenco Ballet in 2017. The company’s first show, ‘Flamenco Reborn’ premiered on 9th of June 2017 at the Sala Barts in Barcelona, achieving great success.

Gutiérrez Molina was nominated for a Max Award as Best Male Performer and Best Choreographer for ‘Flamenco Reborn’, as well as being awarded the Performing Arts Prize by the Andalusian Federation of Communities in Catalonia. He was also awarded honorary artist of Foshan Grand Theater (China) as well as receiving the Crown Prize from the Government of Catalonia recognizing his great efforts in promoting flamenco worldwide.

As the Director and Choreographer of Barcelona Flamenco Ballet, Gutiérrez Molina has become one of the current leading references in modern Flamenco. Barcelona Flamenco Ballet is not just a dance performance – but a work of art.

Paula Sánchez Reyes, one of the current young Flamenco talents, became part of the Barcelona Flamenco Ballet in 2017 with the show “Flamenco Reborn” eventually becoming a solo dancer, and finally assuming the role of co-director in 2020.
She is a dancer and co-director in the performance "Luxuria".

Albania

Enisa Hysa

Enisa Hysa was born on April 11, 1999 in Tirana. She follows her Master's studies at the University of Arts, Faculty of Performing Arts. In the last 2 years she has been part of several theatrical and film productions such as "Birthday Anniversary" (National Theater); "Voiceless" (National Experimental Theater) "Hello I am Mephisto" (National Experimental Theater); "Backyard Games" (Multidisciplinary Arts); "Kapterr Behari" (Metropolitan Theater); "The Rise and Fall of Comrade Zylo" (feature film); "One of us" (feature film); "Elena" (short film).

Albania

Klaudja Piroli

Klaudja Piroli has completed her studies at the Faculty of Performing Arts in Tirana, the branch of Theater Directing. Author and director of the monodramas "Empty" and "Nothing" shown in alternative spaces. Both of the first two shows were independent and her initiative. She brought back the monodrama "Bosh" in collaboration with the LGBT Alliance, with which she recently had another collaboration with the play "Who Am I". Another important collaboration for which she has a special consideration is the performance "Nameless", in collaboration with Memo Albania, which talks about what happened to the women and children in the concentration camp in Tepelena, which were narrated on a hot summer evening on the terrace of the National Theater building and at the Tek Bunker premises. She also assisted in the play "Hello I am Mephisto" directed by Dino Mustafic and wrote two small parts for this play. Recently, in collaboration with the National Experimental Theater, Kujtim Spahivogli performed the play "Voiceless" written by Amy Nostbakken and Norah Sadava.

Albania

Vlera Pylla

Vlera Pylla was born on June 14, 1994 in Gjakova, Kosovo. She completed her higher studies at the University of Arts, Faculty of Performing Arts for acting.
Some of her performances in Theater are: "Pornografhy" by Simons Stephens, the role Nameless, directed by Fatos Berisha, "Ana in Tropic" by Nilo Cruz, the role Konqita, directed by Elmaze Nura, "+18" by David Mamet, and Arian Krasniqi, the roles the wife and the whore, directed by Qendrim Rijani, "Allo Allo" by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft, the role of Helga Gerard, directed by Ilir Bokshi, "Too much noise for nothing" by William Shakespeare, the role of Beatrice, directed by Zana Hoxha, "Cherry Orchard" by Anton Chekhov, the role of Avdotja Fyodorovna-Dunjasha, directed by Ilir Bokshi, “The Diary of Anne Frank ”, the role of Margot Frank, directed by Drita Begolli, etc.

Kosovo

Learta Lila

Born and raised in a family with a passion for art, Learta Lila known as “Lilac”, began to take her first steps towards music by listening to different types of music genres. That has been a major component in
her artistic development as a DJ, as she first fell in love with electronic
music back in 2014.
She began her music career as a young 21-year-old back in 2017, gradually grew up in front of an audience and now Lilac has estab-lished herself as a professional DJ in house music with deep and groove-laden house, organic and afro sounds. What characterizes
Learta is her positive energy and her way of bringing harmonic mel-odies to the crowd.
Ever since, she has been playing in many music events, bars, clubs and festivals in Kosovo, Albania and Macedonia.

Program

FESTIVAL OPENING

20:00

National Theater of Kosovo - Foyer

PREMIERE Performance "Haunted Land” / Kosovo

Author: Shqipe Malushi Director: Zana Hoxha Dramaturgy: Shpëtim Selmani Choreographer: Robert Nuha Actors/Actresses: Donikë Ahmeti, Kushtrim Qerimi, Kaltrinë Zeneli, Edlir Gashi, Qendresa Kajtazi, Mikel Markaj, Zhaneta Xhemajli Soloists: Donika Rushiti, Etrit Nura, Urta Haziraj, Shaban Behramaj Dancers: Altina Binaku, Qendrim Makolli, Erza Grajqevci, Patriot Osmani Costumes: Arbnor Brahimi Video production: Florian Canga Assistant and organizer: Elira Lluka Scenography: Arben Shala Tonist: Arben Aliu Lighting Technician: Sherif Sahiti and Mursel Bekteshi

20:00 - 21:30

National Theater of Kosovo

COCTAIL AND AFTER PARTY - Music: Lilac

21:30 - 22:15

Hall of the National Theater of Kosovo, Prishtina

Stilt-Walking Performance “Këmbëgjatet” / Albania

Performers: Juxhina Madhi & Sabina Troshku

12:00 - 13:00

“Skenderbeg” Square, Pristina

“Këmbëgjatet” Acrobatics & Fire Performance / Albania

Performers: Juxhina Madhi and Sabina Troshku

20:00 - 20:45

National Theater of Kosovo

Concert by Christine Salem, Fête de la Musique / Reunion Islands / France

Singer & kayamb player: Christine Salem Percussion: Jacky Malbrouck Guitar: Seb Martel Percussion: Anne Laure Bourget Violin: Frédéric Norel

21:00 - 22:30

Oda Theater

“Cities by Night”

By Valentina Medda / Italy

21:00 - 22:30

Walks/Prishtina streets’ exploration (Closed event) - Pristina

Climate Fresk Workshop / France, Kosovo

Facilitators: Marie Grovel and Ben Dida

10:00 - 13:00

Small stage in National Theatre of Kosovo

Theatre Performance “Father and Father”/ Kosovo

Author: Jeton Neziraj Director: Kushtrim Koliqi Actors/ Actresses: Ilire Vinca, Bujar Ahmeti and Kosovare Krasniqi Music: Adhurim Grezda Costumes: Njomëza Luci Scenography: Mentor U. Berisha Lights: Skender Latifi Assistant Director: Kaltërim Balaj Video: Leart Rama Design: Florian Mehmeti

21:00 - 22:15

“Emin Gjiku” Ethnological Museum, Pristina

“Cities by Night”

By Valentina Medda / Italy

21:00 - 22:30

Walks/Prishtina streets’ exploration (Closed event) - Pristina

Training "Education of young women on feminism" / Kosovo

Trainer: Nevenka Rikalo & Gordana Toskic

10:00 - 14:00

CEC – Civic Energy Center, Gracanica

Performance “Vals i këputun” (Broken Waltz) / Germany, Albania

Director & Choreography: Gentian Doda Original music: Çezar Aliaj Performers: Rosella Pellicciotti, Fjorald Doci, Elton Cefa, Gentian Doda Costumes, and light design: Gentian Doda Manager: Fabrice Edelmann Production: ‘was bleibt kollektiv | Gentian Doda’

20:00 - 20:45

National Theater of Kosovo

"On the Verge of a Breakdown"

By Dekadenca and Markiza de Sada / Serbia

21:00 - 21:30

Dodona Theater

“Divas Night”

By Dekadenca and Lady K / Serbia

21:30 - 22:30

National Theater of Kosovo

“Cities by Night”

By Valentina Medda / Italy

21:00 - 22:30

Walks/Prishtina streets’ exploration (Closed event) - Pristina

Theater Performance “Husbands” / Portugal

Creation and Theater Direction: Pedro Alves Actresses: Leonor Cabral, Joana Cotrim and Carolina Figueiredo Video-director: Ricardo Reis Light and sound design: Karlos Arroja Scenography: Pedro Silva Costume design: Helena Guerreiro Head of Production: Inês Oliveira Assistant director: Milene Fialho Executive Production and Photography: Catarina Lobo Production: teatromosca

20:00 - 22:00

National Theater of Kosovo

“Cities by Night”

By Valentina Medda / Italy

21:00 - 22:30

Collections of data from walks/Prishtina streets’ exploration (Closed event) - Pristina

“Cities by Night”

By Valentina Medda / Italy

12:00 - 13:00

Maps Preparation (Rehearsals) (Closed Event) - Pristina

LECTURE & PERFORMANCE “25 GLASSES OF WINE” BY DAH THEATER / SERBIA

Text and concept: Dijana Miloševid Dramaturgy: Dubravka Kneževid Translation from Serbian to English: Donka Torov Music: Nebojša Ignjatovid and “Secondhanders”

20:00 - 21:00

House of Culture, Gusterica (Gracanica)

Theater Performance “Burrneshat” (Sworn Virgins) by Qendra Multimedia and Oda Theatre / Kosovo

Author: Jeton Neziraj Theater Director: Erson Zymberi Choreography: Gjergj Prevazi Music: Trimor Dhomi Set design: Bekim Korça Costumes: Yllka Brada Actors/Actresses: Tringa Hasani, Semira Latifi and Kushtrim Qerimi

20:00 – 21:30

Oda Theater

CONFERENCE & PUBLICATION OF THE REPORT "GENDER AND POWER RELATIONS" - #METOO IN THE ARTS: FROM CALL-OUTS TO STRUCTURAL CHANGE / BY IETM (INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR CONTEMPORARY PERFORMING ARTS), ON THE MOVE – OTM, AND FACE – FRESH ARTS COALITION EUROPE / PART OF THE ERASMUS+ SHIFT PROJECT

Authors: Marta Keil (IETM) Katie Kheriji-Watts (OTM)

11:00 - 14:30

National Library of Kosovo

“Cities by Night”

By Valentina Medda / Italy

12:00 - 13:00

Maps Preparation (Rehearsals) (Closed Event) - Pristina

Master class

By Miriam Engel - Angela Dance Co. / Israel

16:00 - 18:30

National Theater of Kosovo

Theater Performance & Discussion “Conundrum of Revolution” by Dah Theater / Serbia

Director: Dijana Milošević Dramaturgy: Duca Knezheviq The authors, whose text was used in the play: Bertold Brecht, Noam Chomsky, Camilo Cienfuegos, Fanya Kaplan, Daniil Kharms, Rosa Luxemburg, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Ulrike Meinhof, Adam Mickiewicz, Sergey Nechayev, Pablo Neruda, Herbert Read, Gerhard Actors/Actresses: Evgenija Eškina Kovačević, Ivana Milenović Popović, Ivana Milovanović and Ivan Nikolić

20:00 – 21:30

Oda Theater

Master class

By Miriam Engel - Angela Dance Co. / Israel

10:00 - 13:30

National Theater of Kosovo

“Cities by Night”

By Valentina Medda / Italy

17:30 - 20:00

Dodona Theatre

Theater Performance “Voiceless” by National Experimental Theater "Kujtim Spahivogli" / Albania

Authors: Amy Nostbakken & Norah Sadava Director: Klaudia Piroli Actresses: Vlera Pylla and Enisa Hysa

20:00 - 21:00

National Theatre of Kosovo

Self-defense Demonstration “Çikat e Sjellshme” (Polite Girls) / Kosovo

Trainer: Nuhi Gashi

18:00 - 19:00

“Skenderbeg” Square, Pristina

Performance “Stop the War”

By Miriam Engel / Israel

20:00 - 20:45

National Theater of Kosovo

“Cities by Night”

By Valentina Medda / Italy

21:00 - 22:30

Leaded walks with publik (Open Event) - Pristina

PREMIERE PERFORMANCE “DEATH HOUR” / KOSOVO, ALBANIA

Theater Director: Ilir Bokshi Playwriters: Ulpianë Maloku, Agnesa Meholli Costumes: Vesa Kraja Actors/Actresses: Albulena Kryeziu, Kushtrim Sheremeti, Adrian Morina and Arben Derhemi Composer: Memli Kelmendi

20:30 – 21:30

Prishtina Prison Museum

“Cities by Night”

Valentina Medda / Italy

21:00-22:30

Leaded walks with publik (Open Event) - Pristina

FESTIVAL CLOSING SPECIAL: PRESENTATION Flamenco Ballet “Luxuria”/ Spain

Guitar: Jordi Centeno Alfaro Drums: Alberto Garrido Lopez Saxophone: Rafael Palomares Soriano Singer: Joel Luque Muñoz Dancer / director: Paula Sánchez Reyes Dancer / director: David Gutiérrez Molina Dancers: Alicia Reyes Gambin Andrea Amaya Berge, Maria Bardolet Garcia, Alba Soto Díaz and Estefanía Victoria Maiz Rubio

21:30 – 23:00

National Theater of Kosovo

Promo – Femart 10

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