Nau Ivanow

We are a group of recent creation, we seek teamwork based on the affinity of our individual work and previous alliances in diverse teams, as well as our common ideology that can be summarized in the search for social justice, the work from mutual comprehensions, rigusority and black feminisms. The name comes from the recurrent use, among us, of the word “sister”. We feel twinned by life, by the struggles and by the way we look at life… we are optimists who think that the biggest revolution is working from and with tenderness and love, and that the way we want to work as a group of Afro-descendant women. 

ISKRA production is a theater company based in Tromsø, Northern Norway, officially established in 2024 by two exile artists Prokhor Gusev and Gulnara Iskakova. Artists of ISKRA production are trying to make their theater in new circumstances, in a new cultural field, in a new country, trying to create a space for dialogue to explore identities, roots and a new way of making theater when the world is on fire. ISKRA Production often collaborates with freelance artists to present diverse perspectives. For the “Moving Identities” project, they are partnering with Sámi-Norwegian composer Gøril Nilsen on “I Am a Witness of Your Existence,” which examines the identity of witnesses as a social and cultural phenomenon. 

KAIHO was unofficially founded in 2015 through the creation of the solo “Subdued” by Brandon Lagaert. Since then he has expanded the company and went on to collaborate with various artists. The company does no want to rely on structural funding but rather on commissioned work for various companies, schools and individuals that already have the required funding and audience but are looking for an artistic voice and input that has the ability to create for and with them. Following this logic KAIHO is based around a core team consisting of Brandon Lagaert in the role of artistic director, Sara Angelucci who’s the artistic assistant and Felix Machtelinckx who composes the music and soundscape of the touring performances. The work of KAIHO incorporates theatre, dance, visual imagery, film, plastic arts, lighting, music,… and uses any art form necessary to create artistic work that crosses boundaries and ends up telling a story.

DRIVER is a choreographic project developed by Lara Vejrup Ostan (SLO/DK) in collaboration with Yeong Ran Suh (KOR).

DRIVER materializes and discusses speed as a sensuous, individual, but also common and socio-political experience. It questions who has the agency and ability to influence speed and who has to abide by the speed of others, or alternatively, fall behind. In DRIVER we delve into a universe of truck drivers; escapist wanderlust, tenacious asphalt-romance and idealized loneliness. We speculate about truck drivers – as solitary heroes, perhaps shaped by external forces, as well as a place for us to imagine a different world. The project will (amongst other things) become a choreographic performance, created with and by dancers Johanna Eva Forsehag (SE), Ruth Rebekka Hansen (DK), sound designer Moritz Nahold (AT), light designer Thora Eriksen, scenographer Max Schwidlinski (DE), dramaturg / truck driver Bush Hartshorn (SCT) and co-produced by Dansehallerne (DK).

We are a group of people with different trajectories that coincide in spaces of activism and non-hegemonic art from the corporal and gender dissidences. We are part of a beautiful affective -political- anti-ableist, queer and anti-racist network in Barcelona. We have been working from artivism as a tool for transformation and a response to violences. We find it difficult for our art to move in artistic circuits, since it is only considered worthy of showing in “special circuits”. And that distinction of “special” perpetuates the discrimination of artists with diversity. We investigate the disease, the look of society towards people with functional diversity, vulnerability, sexuality and pleasure. We are Nodual, Elena, Xavi, Izaskun and Àrid: a caravan of centàurides wishing for new horizons.