Marta Keil
Marta Keil (she/her) is dramaturge, curator and researcher, currently based in Utrecht. Her curatorial and research practice focuses on institutional dramaturgies and practices of instituting in the performing arts.
As a fellow of BAK in Utrecht she started in 2023 her research on dramaturgies of withdrawal and exhaustion in performing arts, which she will continue from September 2025 at AP School of Arts in Antwerp.
Marta works as tutor at DAS Theatre, Academy for Theatre and Dance, Amsterdam University of the Arts, and has collaborated as freelance dramaturg, curator, and advisor with various European institutions and artists, e.g. Ira Brand, Ainhoa Hernández Escudero, Samara Hersch, Milla Koistinen, Lina Majdalanie, Rabih Mroué, Jagoda Szelc.
Recently, she curated an artistic research project Breaking the Spell, co-produced by Residenz Schauspiel Leipzig, München Kammerspiele, Performing Arts Institute in Warsaw and Viernulvier in Ghent and collaborated with the New Theatre Institute of Latvia in Riga and Rosendal Teater in Trondheim for The Shake Down project, involving teenagers to curate two international performing arts festivals.
Marta edited several books on curation, choreography and performing arts and holds a PhD in Culture Studies. She is a board member of the Performing Arts Institute in Warsaw.
https://www.martakeil.com/
Camille Barton
Camille Sapara Barton is a writer, embodiment facilitator and movement artist that supports people and organisations to flow through transitions. Their movement practice explores the interplay between bodies, words and vibration by weaving dance, clowning, somatics and sonics. This work aims to deepen ancestral communication technologies and grow imagination gardens.
Camille also supports people to reduce stress and increase resilience, while navigating change. They offer trauma informed facilitation and consultancy to support cultural workers, funders and those working with socially engaged topics. Their approach creates relational wellbeing by increasing connection to the body, care practices, grief and imagination.
Camille is the author of Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community (2024). Based in Amsterdam, they designed and directed MA Ecologies of Transformation (2021 – 2023) which explored how embodiment and socially engaged art making can create change through the body, into the wider world.
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Brian Lobel
Brian Lobel is a performer, teacher and curator whose work has shown work internationally, from Harvard Medical School to Sydney Opera House and from London’s National Theatre to the Lagos Theatre Festival. His books include Theatre & Cancer, BALL & Other Stories About Cancer, and Purge. Live performances include 24 Italian Songs & Arias (with Gweneth-Ann Rand), A Pacifist’s Guide to the War on Cancer (with Bryony Kimmings), Binge, Sex with Cancer (with Joon Lynn Goh) and Cruising for Art. Brian has received commissions and grants from the Wellcome Trust, Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, Complicité, Jerwood and Arts Council England, among others.
Brian is a Professor of Theatre & Performance at Rose Bruford College and the co-founder of The Sick of the Fringe. Brian is a Come Dine with Me winner, on an episode where he tried to showcase/shovel all of his Live Art performances inside the framework of a British reality show. Currently, Brian is also a member of the International Guild of Professional Toastmasters, as well as a celebrant creating and facilitating funerals, weddings and other ceremonies. Brian is a member of the 2025 ANTI Live Art Prize jury.
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