Nika Parkhomovskaia

Nika Parkhomovskaia

Nika Parkhomovskaia

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I am currently participating as a peer in Here ! am program and am preparing a workshop and performative lecture on how to talk about theatre & contemporary  art at the Hamburg Fringify Festival.

Quick Facts:

Curator, producer and a researcher in the fields of theater, dance and performance, have been living and working in Europe since 2022. 

I graduated from the Russian National Institute of Performing Arts and Theatre Leaders School. Deputy editor-in-chief of Theater magazine. I have been published in various Russian-speaking and European media, gave lectures and talks on the history of theater and dance, cultural management and mediation in Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Spain, Czech Republic, Kazakhstan, France, Russia, Switzerland, and Poland.

Formerly executive director of the New European Theater festival and director of the New Space of the Theater of Nations (Moscow), I won the «Golden Mask» theatre award for the production of «Exploration of Horror». I have produced and curated more than 100 international projects, festivals, labs and workshops.

Since 2022, I have been co-organizing a support group for Russian-speaking cultural actors in exile in France and the ON/OFF platform for Russian-speaking and European dance artists. I have curated the participatory performative exhibition musée des histoires non imaginées at TNG LYON; co-organized the showcase of contemporary Russian dance in Geneva in the frame of Antigel Festival and worked as a dramaturg on a Gleichzeit performance with non-professional actors at MAXIM theater Zurich.

I'm currently doing a thesis on theatre in exile at Zurich University and am working on various cultural projects.

Three relevant works from the last 5 years of artistic practice: