Li Lorian

Li Lorian, born 1987, is an interdisciplinary performance artist and co-founder of Pandora Collective for independent theatre-makers. She graduated from The School of Visual Theater (2007–2011) and from the Train Theater Hamama programme for artistic puppetry for children (2012) in Jerusalem. Currently she is a MA student in the CuP programme at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies at the Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen. She was a grant recipient for residency in the Mamuta Art & Media Center in En Kerem (2011–12) where she started to develop the performance “South Hebron Hills – Projection”, and a grant participant in the Tool-Box programme (2013) with the project “Anne Bonnie & Marry Read”, later supported by the Jerusalem Fund and Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts (2014). Later in 2014 she was a grant-holder in the Festival Theaterformen’s international programme for young artists in Braunschweig; an artist-in-residence in the residency programmes of Arad art and architecture, SCHLOSS BRÖLLIN – international art research location (2015), and Akademie Schloss Solitude (2016), developing the piece “Exodus” (2017). She created “Between Two Worlds” for The Voice of the Word – Performance and Music Festival in Jerusalem (2014), “Posta” for Hazira – Performance Art Arena (2015) and “No One's Matter” for the festival Merkaz Habama (2015), winning the mono-dramas showing grant of Mifal Hapais (2017–18). She participated in the Lod-Berlin artist exchange programme of the festival B_tour (2017), where she co-created the sound pieces “Trainstory” and “Footnotes for Sonnenallee”, and collaborated with the Ensemble ascolta for staging “Parade” by Erik Satie, which premiered in Theaterhaus Stuttgart (2017).

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As of March 2018