Amelie Sabbagh (GER)
Amelie Sabbagh (Würzburg, 1991) is a performance artist, stage/costume designer, and activist working in the fields of theater, dance, and performance. After completing a degree in theater, film, and media studies in Vienna, she studied stage and costume design at the HfBK Dresden as well as Fine Arts at the University of Leeds in England. She explores themes of sexualization of femme bodies, female anger, and gender inequality and racism in both digital and analogue spaces. Her works have been shown at venues such as the Volkstheater Wien, objekt klein a Dresden, Hole of Fame, and the Festspielhaus Hellerau. She did costume design for “The Kidnapping of the Bride,” which won the Short Film Jury Award at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.
Taken residency at
HELLERAU – European Centre for the Arts, Dresden
HELLERAU is one of the most important international centres of contemporary arts in Germany and Europe. The interdisciplinary co-production and guest performance house offers genres such as dance, music, theatre, performance, media art and visual arts spaces for production and presentation.
Davvi – Centre for Performing Arts
Davvi – Centre for Performing Arts is a hub and a gathering point in Northern Norway for the professional independent Performing Arts community. The organization is a laboratory for new ideas, artistic research, and an open space where different cultures are cared for. We challenge hegemonic thinking and support cross-sectorial artistic working and thinking. We are staff of 11 curios people, we are placed in Hammerfest, Tromsø and Bodø and we are a space that offers residency, laboratories and producer services.
Vaba Lava
Vaba Lava is a unique theatre/production house and performing arts centre. A theatre created as a meeting place for freelance creatives to meet and bring their ideas to life. The daily work is to create international theatre projects involving freelancers from Estonia and abroad. The foundation Vaba Lava provides opportunities for independent performing arts companies in Estonia, and to promote international cooperation through joint projects, co-productions, workshops, and seminars. From 2018 Vaba Lava has a Performing Arts Center in Narva, the city on the eastern border. The center provides 3 stages, hostel, stage/light/video/sound equipment, administrative and technical team.
