Lisa Rüger (GER)
Lisa Rüger (Bergisch Gladbach, 1993) is performance artist, strip-performer, costume designer and set designer. She is a passionate advocate of the pro-sexwork movement with a focus on queer-femme bodies. In 2022, Lisa completed her degree in stage and costume design at HfBK Dresden, studying as well at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her work has been featured in various off-spaces, festivals and clubs, as well as at the Fusion Festival, the Theaterakademie August Everding in Munich, the NSDokumentationszentrum in Munich, the Körber Studio Junge Regie 2021, the Staatstheater Saarbrücken, the Staatstheater Kassel, and Hellerau, Zentrum für Europäische Künste.
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.
