Art Evolution JURY

Nora Amin is an author, performer, choreographer, theatre director, as well a scholar, researcher, and lecturer. Working with the Theatre of the Oppressed, she is a fellow of the center in Rio de Janeiro as well as a founder and artistic director  of the nation-wide Egyptian Project and its Arab network.      In 2000 she founded the Lamusica Independent Theatre Group in Egypt and is until today its artistic director. In her academic career,  Nora is a fellow of the International Research Centre “Interweaving Performance Cultures” at Freie Universtät, Berlin, as well as the Valeska Gert guest professor for Dance Sciences. Furthermore, she is a consultant at Performing Arts Festival Berlin and a board member of the German Internationales Theatreinstitut, as well as an advisor for their Academy. She was a former mentor at flausen+bundesnetzwerk  and is an alumni of the Arts Management Program at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Ziad Adwan is a theatre maker and an academic. He took a Ph.D. in Theatre Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. Between Europe and the Middles East, Ziad’s work comprises directing, theater writing, acting, holding workshops as well as teaching and writing for academic journals. His theatre work includes text-based theatre, choreography, and community theatre. His scholarly work engages education at drama academies and is affiliated with several academic projects. Ziad co-founded TANWEEN Company for Theatre and Dance and has been producing theatre and other performance projects. He is as well a consultant at Mamdouh Adwan Publishing House.

Born in Beirut in 1989, Ali Chahrour studied theatre and dance in his native city and various schools in Europe. Far from western models, the dancer and choreographer have created a language inspired by Arab myths and by the political, social, and religious context of his country. Through it, he explores the deep relationships between the body and movement, between tradition and modernity. “Told by my mother” was presented at the Festival d'Avignon in 2016 and 2018 and many other worldwide festivals, The second part of a new trilogy about love, which began with Layl-Night in 2019. His performances were presented at the Festival d'Avignon in 2016 and 2018 and many other festivals around the globe.

Krystel Khoury is a Lebanese dramaturge and performing arts researcher. Trained as a dancer and performer, she holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology of Dance and Intercultural Dynamics from Université Clermont Auvergne . Her work, writings and practice explore embodied knowledge and body politics, collaborative choreographic processes, arts education, and anthropological theories. Since 2006, she has been collaborating with numerous Arab and European cultural organizations. From 2017 till 2019, she led as artistic director the Open Border Ensemble at the Münchner Kammerspiele in Munich. She is currently part of the arts organization Mophradat and the head professor of the Institut Supérieur des Arts et des Chorégraphies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, in Brussels.
 

Since 1998 Katrin Ostwald-Richter has worked for the Goethe-Institut (GI) in Moscow, Rome, Minsk, Zagreb, and Milan. She has been the director of the GI in Skopje since February 2022, which is also responsible for Albania and Kosovo. In Milan in particular, she has organized programs from Germany for international theatre, performance, and dance festivals, whether for the Santarcangelo Festival, MilanOltre or the "Performing Architecture" programme of the GI for the Architecture Biennale in Venice. During her time in Belarus, she particularly strengthened the independent scene and network concerned with creating conditions for the development of a free scene and facilitating contacts with the European community. In the Western Balkans, activities focus on strengthening the independent scene and networking with European countries.