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Residency of Nina Khyzna

hosted by Spring Performing Arts Festival
Participating countries:
  • Germany
  • Italy
  • The Netherlands
  • Ukraine
  • Dance
  • Storytelling
  • Theatre
© Allard Willemse

Period

  • From 01-05-2024 to 31-07-2024
Generation #2

Address

Utrecht
Netherlands

Project summary

During the residency artist Nina Khyznha aims to explore the theme of body in the context of living through massive catastrophic events such as war. How do differences in physical experience influence our intellectual and mental perspectives on a range of ethical and political issues? How does the body respond to danger and how does this affect cognitive processes? What changes in your world view after the first shell explodes a few metres away? Nina plans to organise a series of meetings and interviews with local artists and activists in Berlin, Utrecht & Santarcangelo who also work with the themes of body/war, and also with Ukrainians, who relocated there because of Russia's war against Ukraine. The collected materials will be presented as work in progress during 3 festivals.
© Kateryna Peryverzeva

Artist

Nina Khyzna

Biography: Nina is an Ukrainian theater director, performer, teacher and choreographer. She studied theater and film acting in Kharkiv National University of Arts. She worked in theaters in Poland, Slovakia and Austria & her performances were performed at different festivals in Poland, Germany, Italy & Ukraine
She collaborates with independent ukrainian theaters as “Theater beautiful flowers”, “Teatr Nafta” & Theatre VARTA. She is one of the leaders of a laboratory for performance, theater, movement and body-oriented practices.
She works in the field of post documental, dance theater and performances. Nina’s aim is to use theater as a safe space for dialogues and as a social tool for introducing themes of war, tolerance, inclusion, equality, and security into social discourse.

Participating festivals

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