Brunch with Yohann Floch, Sebastian Hoffmann, and other representatives of the MIPs (Mobility Information Points) in UK, Belgium, Austria, Czech Republic, among others

Language: English; Location: Media Library

Artistic mobility is one of the prerequisites for cross-border artistic collaboration. However, this often presents specific challenges: issues surrounding visas, residence permits, taxes, and social security are complex and time-consuming. Yohann Floch from the ON THE MOVE network, Sebastian Hoffmann from touring artists, and other representatives of European Mobility Info Points will discuss these topics this morning.  

There are 11 Mobility Info Points worldwide, organized under the umbrella of ON THE MOVE. Their services are aimed at artists, creatives, and cultural organizations planning projects, tours, or residencies abroad. touring artists is the German Mobility Information Point (MIP), which the ITI operates together with the Dachverband Tanz and the IGBK to provide artists with free information and advice on working internationally. 

Open end until 12:00 pm (for those who don't attend one of the 10:30 offers)

Presentation from ITI Academy Lab III with Deepika  Arwind  and  Lloyd  Nyikadzino 
Language: English; Location: Studio1

The ITI Academy LAB brings together international artists for a five-day meeting to explore strategies of collective resistance and resilient artistic practices. In Lab III Lloyd Nyikadzino and Deepika Arwind use the body as a starting point to negotiate questions of identity, explore dimensions of exploitation, and strengthen local communities. Their tools are community theatre and writing.  Once their joint research days have concluded, the public is invited to join them at the Open Lab. 
 

Deepika Arwind’s practice often looks at etching an emotional map of the social and political where it intersects with the lived and the personal. She is a writer / performer / transdisciplinary artist between Berlin and Bangalore. Her work has been performed / published in several continents. While her practice is expansive, it often begins with the written word and its possibility of myriad inhabitations. Her upcoming work includes her debut novel Good Arguments being published by Simon & Schuster India, and her play Phantasmagoria (previously produced in London) in Bern in 2026 

Lloyd Nyikadzino is an international theatre practitioner, lecturer, columnist, and professional arts manager. He has worked with theatre and non-profit organizations on various projects dealing with community engagement and transformation using theatre. He is the founding Executive Director of the Zimbabwe Theatre Academy and the founder of the Mitambo International Theatre Festival. Lloyd serves on the Executive Council of the ITI worldwide and lectures in the Department of Creative Media and Communication at the University of Zimbabwe, where he bridges academic research with practical performance-making. He has served as a cultural expert and board member of the Zimbabwe German Society, worldwide coordinator for the ITI Network of Emerging Arts Professionals.

Examples and practice of tools from theatre for peace work and conflict transformation. 

with Natasha Borenko

Language: English; Location: Studio2

From conflict zones to community spaces, people turn to art to make sense of crisis. This workshop explores how theatre can support peacebuilding and conflict transformation. We’ll look at examples from different contexts, try out a few techniques, and share experiences of projects that work with conflict through art. ... Theatre won’t save the world – but maybe we will.  
 

Natasha Borenko is a fluid theatre maker, born in Siberia/Russia, based in Berlin. Her work explores the intersection of the personal and the political, drawing on methods such as game design, participatory theatre, and ritual exploration. As a queer feminist migrant artist, Natasha sees gender sensitivity and participation as tools to to deconstruct the system and rehearse the change. Alongside her artistic work, she works in conflict transformation, holds a certificate as a conflict consultant (forumZFD, Cologne), and is is currently training as a conflict mediator (inmedio, Berlin). 

Table talks with curators of THEATER DER WELT 2026: Rodrigo González Alvarado, Joshua Dalledonne, Simon Abrahams, Mané Toure, Srishti Ray, and Yuan Zhang

Language: English; Location: Studio1

Theater der Welt 2026 promises to live up to its name like never before. With nine curators based across Asia, Australia, the Americas, Africa, and Europe, the festival takes a bold step towards horizontal and multicentered festival-making, with the potential to expand the notion of collective curation in the performing arts.  
Six of the nine Theater der Welt 2026 curators will offer a glimpse into their joint creative process, as well as into the respective regional conditions and structures for theatre production that shape their curatorial work. 
 

Rodrigo González Alvarado is a cultural practitioner born in Tunja, Colombia, and based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His work includes performing arts direction, curation, production, translation, and teaching. His main focus are international festivals, where he is particularly interested in principles of fair and truthful exchange. As an artist, he creates analog-reality works using documentary materials. 
González Alvarado has coordinated the MARKET/FIBA (2019–2024) within the Festival Internacional de Buenos Aires and collaborated with Teatro Colón on contemporary opera productions. He has participated in the International Forum at Berliner Festspiele and Mülheimer Theatertage as well as interned at Berliner Ensemble. Rodrigo holds a B.A. in Theater Directing from Universidad de Palermo, where he also teaches. 

Joshua Dalledonne is an artistic producer and programmer for live performance and community activations. Believing in the transformative power of creativity, collaboration, and kindness he gathers artists and audiences to make the world a more welcoming place. An advocate for equity-seeking artists and communities, he is deeply invested in a programmatic vision that centres the relationship between audience and artist.  
Beginning his career with the UK’s Birmingham Repertory Theatre Josh honed his practice internationally, across Canada, and in his hometown of Calgary, Canada – most recently with Arts Commons as Associate Director Creative. An actor and playwright, his works for young people have been commissioned and produced across the state of Alberta, Canada. 

Simon Abrahams is Creative Director & CEO of Melbourne Fringe, where he is recognised as one of Australia’s arts and cultural leaders. His work explores the intersection of art and civic participation, with particular expertise in children, young people and the arts. Simon regularly works as a facilitator, host, peer assessor, mentor, judge and arts consultant. Simon is a current Australian Ministerial appointment to the Creative Workplaces Council, a Trustee for the Betty Amsden Foundation, and a member of the International Society for the Performing Arts Board Programming Committee (New York). He is a life member of Theatre Network Australia, an organisation he co-founded and chaired from 2010-2017.     

Ndèye Mané Touré holds a Master in Business Administration at the African Institute of Management (I.A.M Dakar), she works in the administration and production of various cultural projects, including dance, music, visual arts, and cinema. With fifteen years of experience, Mané is at the head of Makeda Production, specializing in the curation and production of arts as well as events. In 2023 Mané initiated the Bideew Festival which is a cross-disciplinary festival around astronomy, art, gastronomy, science and technology in rural areas.  

Srishti Ray is passionate about all performing arts - music, dance and theatre. Equipped with a masters degree in Arts Management, she is presently an Associate Producer with the Bombay based theatre company QTP Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. She has also led Thespo, QTP's youth theatre initiative, as a Fellow (2016-2018), and is now an active and dedicated mentor to the current Thespo Fellows and Coordinators. 
She has worked on other festivals and conferences such as Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFest, Art of the Possible, and Love, Sex and Data. She has also co-authored a chapter in The Routledge Companion’s Theatre & Young People published in 2023. In addition to her theatre work, she has trained as a Kathak dancer for more than 15 years and teaches the dance form.  

Yuan Zhang is based in Shanghai and a curator and producer in the field of contemporary performing arts. Since 2006, he has been committed to promoting local practices as well as international exchanges. In the last decade,  by working with festivals, theaters and art museums, he has been exploring the potential of performing arts, bridging theater and contemporary art, the two distinct art institutions, He is connected to and has been active in the Chinese independent scene, and quite a few professional networks in Asia and Europe. In addition, he also engages in research, writing, translating as well performing. Recently, he co-curated Re-writing Theater History, the archival exhibition of contemporary performing arts in China from the late 90’s till today.