Jana Korb is an artist, aerialist, and cultural scientist. She creates and produces aerial theatre and narrative circus, mainly produc- ing performances in public spaces. Jana Korb’s personal style is largely influenced by Czech experimental theatre and its strong tradition of object theatre. As a creator and researcher, she is searching for a circus of the future. Her artistic research leads her to special, forgotten women. She is artistic director of the Luftar- tistik Festspiele Berlin (Aerial Arts Festival Berlin), co-founder of RAW cultural space (Berlin), and now the first chair of the German Association for Theatre in Public Spaces. She lives and works as part of the collective Korb+Stiefel in Berlin Lichtenberg.

Julia Filippo, born in Italy, is an actress, musician and teacher. Passionate about languages and cultural exchange, Julia attended performance and directing workshops, studying the Lecoq method and different techniques of physical training, vocal training and dance. She has been actress in several productions of small and large formats in Italy and Europe, touring in Europe, Middle East, India, Central and South America, Malaysia, Japan and Singapore, with companies such as Hidden Theatre, Living Theater and Pontedera Teatro, among others. As a teacher, she develops her activities in communities, with children with disabilities, grandparents, prisoners, and professional artists in different regions of the world. In 2010 she founded her own company in association with artists from Colombia and Portugal. She is a lover of travel, languages and cultures.

Else Marie Laukvik was born in 1944 in Oslo, Norway. Together with Eugenio Barba, she was one of the founders of Odin Teatret. In 1966, Else Marie followed the group to Holstebro, Denmark. Her experiences as an actor are published in The Actor’s Way, edited by Erik Exe Christoffersen. At the same time as she was performing with Odin Teatret, Else Marie worked as director for Teatret Marquez (Denmark), Munin Teatret (Denmark), Teatro Actores Alidos (Italy), Rogo Teatro (Italy), Associazione Culturale Teatro dell’Albero (Italy), Kabaret Wagon (Denmark), Mia & Max (UK). As an actress Else Marie has also collaborated with Teatro Tascabile di Bergamo (Italy) in 1996.

ITÍNERA THEATRE COMPANY is an independent organisation based on diversity. It was created in 2009 in Denmark, and in 2010 established its headquarters in Bogotá, Colombia. In 2013 it opened an office in Barcelona, Spain. Its first performance, metaMORPHEOsis was created in 2010 and 2011, directed by Else Marie Laukvik. In 2012 the company toured in South America. Meanwhile, Itínera also organised theatre workshops. In 2014, Itìnera worked on Knots - Rules to Be Happily Unhappy, directed by Else Marie Laukvik, and presented at Festival of Women for Peace in 2015 and Teatro Casa de Artistas in Bogotá, Colombia. A recent project is the construction of a theatre in Mazunte, Mexico, a self-sustaining eco-construction based on the technique developed by the Earthship Biotecture Academy (USA). A self sustainable project that articulates artistic and environmental practises requires a physical space that doesn’t disturb the natural resources and that allows these goals to take shape in the life of our community.

Marta Jalowska is a performer, curator, educator, activist, feminist, actress, co-founder and member of the feminist group TERAZ POLIŻ. Graduate of H. & J. Machulski Actors School and Institute of Polish Culture (Section for Theatre and Performance) at Warsaw University. Author of “Interwał Pokoju” (2019) (Peace Interval), collective performance made with citizens of Poznan coming from excluded groups such as LGBTQ+ community, migrants, youth from Centre for Education Development. Since 2021 she is a part of the Polish-German-Turkish educational and research project KASSIA. Her activist work is mostly devoted to LGBTQ+ adn BIPOC societies in Poland.

Dorota Glac is an actress, performer, graphic designer, activist, theatre instructor, Master of Arts in graphic design and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź. She lives and works mainly in Warsaw, collaborated with other NGOs as Komuna Warszawa, public institutions as Nowy Teatr, Dramatic Theatre, Powszechny Theatre, Theatre Institute, Museum of Warsaw and festivals as Korczak Festival, among others. Since 2009 she is co-founder and member of TERAZ POLIŻ Artistic Group Association and TERAZ POLIŻ BAND.

Kamila Worobiej is an actress, performer, educator and sound artist. Her works are strongly rooted in feminism and the philosophy of deep ecology. Since the beginning of her career, she has been associated with the feminist group TERAZ POLIŻ, which she co-founded in 2009. She worked with Augusto Boal’s method in cooperation with DramaWay. In 2021 she graduated from the School for Social Playwriters organised by Strefa WolnoSłowa Association and Powszechny Theatre.

Małgorzata Wdowik is a theatre director based in Warsaw, working in Poland and Germany. She studied Choreography and Performance at the Theatre Institute in Giessen and theatre directing at the Theatre Academy in Warsaw. She works with amateurs and actors. In her recent performances Fear, Anger and Shame, she worked with the effect and representation of emotions on stage.

Martyna Wawrzyniak is a playwright, author of texts, graduate and lecturer at the Faculty of Drama Direction specialised in dramaturgy of the Stanisław Wyspiański Academy of Dramatic Arts in Kraków. Member and co-founder of the Dramaturgy Studio AST Krakow and co-author of the volume Dramaturgy Guide edited by Iga Gańczarczyk and Olga Katafiasz. She is a graduate of the Gender Studies postgraduate programme at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

TERAZ POLIŻ (Lick it now) is the only professional all-female theatre group in Poland, established in Warsaw in 2008 by actresses Marta Jalowska, Dorota Glac, Adrianna Kornecka, Dominika Strojek, Kamila Worobiej and directors Ula Kijak and Marta Miłoszewska (formerly Marta Ogrodzińska). Since the very beginning, its artistic endeavors have been centered on women and femininity. It produces and stages theatre performances, happenings, concerts and performative readings open to the public; it runs theatre workshops and discussions. Since 2015, the group has been engaged in historical research projects aimed at restoring the memory of women who contributed greatly to Poland’s modern-day art and the world’s cultural heritage. The group has embraced non-hierarchical organisational principles as it continues to explore different collaborative structures, both onstage and within the association.

Members: Ilona Błaut, Alina Gajdamowicz, Dorota Glac, Kora

Gałązka, Marta Jalowska, Adrianna Kornecka, Emanuela Osowska, Marta Wesołowska, Kamila Worobiej, Anna Zakościelna

Keiin Yoshimura is a performer, choreographer and art director of Kamigata-mai dance, head of Yoshimura Keiin Kamigata-mai Studio and of Kamigatamaitomonokai, based in Tokyo, Japan. Keiin started to practice both Japanese traditional Kabuki dance and western classical piano playing at 5 years old. In 1974, she graduated from the Musashino University of Music. She has prac- ticed Kamigata-mai with Yukio Yoshimura (5th head of Yoshimu- ra School) and Kisho Yoshimura (6th head), Noh Theatre with the great master Hideo Kanze and Izumi Mikawa (one of the living national treasures of Japan), and the traditional martial arts Ken- do and Kyudo. In 2000, she started the “Japan-India traditional performances exchange program” and since 2011 she is a Yoga Sironami (a teacher of yoga) and a teacher of Motoyama Merdien Exercises for Ki Practice.

Deborah Hunt is a specialist in the building and theatrical use of masks and puppets; puppeteer and performance artist since 1973 creating and presenting original theatre works and workshops in many parts of the world. She is the director of Maskhunt Motions, a nomadic laboratory of the performing object. Born and raised in New Zealand, she has resided in Puerto Rico since 1990 where she has created the 1st and 2nd Festivals of the Theatrical Mask, The Encounter of the Performing Object, Caminalumina: 1st and 2nd Festivals of Light and Shadow, and Sobre la mesa, a small format adult puppetry challenge now in its 13th edition. She de- scribes her work as theatre of the futile and useless and interest- ed in performing in unconventional places and to very intimate audiences. She has written and illustrated Puppets, Puppetry and Gogmagog (a manual of puppet building) and Masks, Masked Faces (a manual of mask making).