Actresses with Down syndrome: Maja Kowalczyk and Aleksandra Skotarek play the role of Marilyn Monroe. This American icon of pop culture is still perceived as a symbol of femininity, liberated sexuality and one of the most recognizable and appreciated actresses in the world. The artists enter into a game with the figure of Monroe. In their artistic work they explore how the disabled body is perceived in society and they confront taboos about disability. performed by: Maja Kowalczyk, Aleksandra Skotarek screenplay: based on texts by Maja Kowalczyk and Aleksandra Skotarek inspired by Marilyn Monroe’s diary directors: Justyna Wielgus, Justyna Lipko-Konieczna costumes: Wisła Nicieja cinematography: Wojciech Kaniewski, Ania Hatłas editing, subtitles: Wojciech Kaniewski The performance “Body to Body with Marilyn” was commissioned by Saša Asentić within the project “DIS- is not included”. The event was funded by the Department for Culture and Europe of the Senate of the City of Berlin. It premiered in February 2021 at Sophiensæle in Berlin. “In the video performance “Body to Body with Marilyn”, Teatr 21 actresses Maja Kowalczyk and Aleksandra Skotarek play the role of Marilyn Monroe. This American icon of pop culture is still perceived as a symbol of femininity, liberated sexuality and one of the most recognizable and appreciated actresses in the world. Reading her diaries reveals the image of a very conscious artist, who explores acting techniques, a poetess and an intellectual, which seemingly does not fit the image of a sexpot. And is there room in this image for illness or disability? The gesture of using the figure of Marilyn Monroe by the actresses of Teatr 21 is a play on the ideas and expectations of the audience connected with the perception of femininity, acting and sexuality of people with disabilities. The artists enter into a game with the figure of Monroe. In their artistic work they explore how the disabled body is perceived in society. What are the boundaries between norm and non-normativity, human and non-human, masculinity and femininity? The actors use manifestos and theatrical means to confront taboos about disability. About Teatr 21 Teatr 21 (Warsaw, Poland) is a theater company whose actors are mainly people with Down syndrome and autism. During the 16 years of its activity, the group has created more than a dozen plays, presented in theaters and institutions all over Poland. Teatr 21 is also engaged in education, publishing, and works in international networks. Teatr 21 is working on a project of the Centre for Inclusive Arts – social institution of culture entirely dedicated to the work of artists with disabilities. The Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP) is an annual event showcasing films drawn from the world of theatre and performance. The festival presents experimental, emerging, and established theatre artists and filmmakers from around the world to audiences and industry professionals. The Segal Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP) is produced by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center under the Graduate Centre at the City Univerity of New York (CUNY), Executive Director Frank Hentschker Co- Curated by Frank Hentschker, Andie Lerner, and Tanvi Shah. Festival Coordination by Bukola John Omokore Web Design by Gaurav Singh Nijjer Digital Marketing by Cactus Juice Intro/Outro Theme credit: Second Sight (India) courtesy Anusha Ramasubramoney and Pushkar Srivatsal.

Tianding He is a director, puppeteer, curator and producer of hybrid performances originally from China. She is the founding artistic director of B·O·N·D International Virtual Performance Festival. As Artistic Director, she cultivates international artists and programs virtual performance for over 250000 audience. As an artist, she focuses on creating inclusive, intercultural and experimental theatre and performances with global artists. Recent directing credits include inclusive performance: Imaginarium in CSL, virtual theatre: South Node of the Moon, immersive theatre: The White Night(Margo Feiden Gallery), Versailles 2.0 (Shanghai Theatre Academy); puppetry show: Warning! Apocalypse!(International Virtual Toy Theatre Festival) and Me, You, He & She(Dixon Place); physical theatre: Plastic Mirror and Invisible Days (UNFIX Festival); and performance arts: Getting Lost with Yoko Ono in NYC. She also produced Off-Broadway shows: The Romantic Misadventures of Ah Q (Theatre Row), A Language of Their Own (IATI Theatre) and line-produced Be HERE Now Reopening Party (HERE). Her two master’s degrees were at Tisch school of Arts in NYU and Hunter College, while she is pursuing a PhD at UCI and UCSD. The Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP) is an annual event showcasing films drawn from the world of theatre and performance. The festival presents experimental, emerging, and established theatre artists and filmmakers from around the world to audiences and industry professionals. The Segal Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP) is produced by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center under the Graduate Centre at the City Univerity of New York (CUNY), Executive Director Frank Hentschker Co- Curated by Frank Hentschker, Andie Lerner, and Tanvi Shah. Festival Coordination by Bukola John Omokore Web Design by Gaurav Singh Nijjer Digital Marketing by Cactus Juice Intro/Outro Theme credit: Second Sight (India) courtesy Anusha Ramasubramoney and Pushkar Srivatsal.

Molissa Fenley (1954), Founded Molissa Fenley and Company, 1977. Performances throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, Europe, Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and more. Commissions: from the American Dance Festival, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Dia Art Foundation, Jacob’s Pillow, The Joyce Theater, Lincoln Center, New National Theater of Tokyo, National Institute of Performing Arts, Seoul, The Kitchen, DTW/New York Live Arts, and others. I have choreographed and performed my work since 1977. My work has been choreographed for ensembles, (my own dance company as well as for others by commission) and as solo works created in collaboration with contemporary visual artists, composers, and poets. Many of the works, although not in my current repertoire, are still foremost in my mind and personal body memory. State of Darkness, choreographed in 1988, was the first solo choreographed to Igor Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps. The work was commissioned by and premiered at the American Dance Festival. I subsequently performed State of Darkness many times throughout the United States, Korea, and Australia until 1993. One of my most memorable performances was at the Brisbane Biennial in 1991 where I danced the solo work with the Brisbane Symphony Orchestra, one dancer with 114 musicians. The Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP) is an annual event showcasing films drawn from the world of theatre and performance. The festival presents experimental, emerging, and established theatre artists and filmmakers from around the world to audiences and industry professionals. The Segal Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP) is produced by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center under the Graduate Centre at the City Univerity of New York (CUNY), Executive Director Frank Hentschker Co- Curated by Frank Hentschker, Andie Lerner, and Tanvi Shah. Festival Coordination by Bukola John Omokore Web Design by Gaurav Singh Nijjer Digital Marketing by Cactus Juice Intro/Outro Theme credit: Second Sight (India) courtesy Anusha Ramasubramoney and Pushkar Srivatsal.

Mihaela Drăgan is a multidisciplinary artist with an education in theatre who lives in Bucharest and works in several other countries. In 2014, she co-founded Giuvlipen Theatre Company, for which she is an actress and playwright, together with other Roma actresses. Over the last years she has been working in Berlin as an actress for Maxim Gorki Theatre, Heimathafen Neukölln, Theater Aufbau Kreuzberg. She is also a trainer at Theatre of the Oppressed where she works with Roma women on their specific issues in Romania. In addition, she has worked with refugee girls in Germany as a theatre trainer. She was one of the six finalists for The 2017 Gilder/Coigney International Theatre Award from New York, an award which acknowledges the exceptional work of 20 theatre women around the world. In 2020 she was nominated again and she is the recipient of the Special Award of the League. In 2018, Drăgan was a resident artist in Hong Kong at Para Site Contemporary Art Centre where she was developing Roma Futurism – that lies at the intersection of Roma culture with technology and witchcraft. Her performance “Roma Futurism” has been showcased in art spaces as the Museum of Contemporary Art from Belgrade; at FutuRoma – collateral exhibition at Venice Biennale; at Critical Romani Studies conference at Central European University in Budapest or Romanian Cultural Institute in London. In the same year is acknowledged by PEN World Voices International Play Festival 2018 in New York as one of the ten most respected dramatists of the world. In 2019 is one of the playwrights selected for the acclaimed Royal Court Theatre International Summer Residency in London where she wrote a science fiction play about a future utopian society of Roma witches who control technology and fight neo-fascist politics in Europe. In 2021 she exhibited her first video installation at the Goethe Institut in Bucharest – ”The Future is a safe place hidden in my braids” divided into 3 short films that depict futuristic rituals for healing transgenerational trauma of Roma people and are projecting a safe future for the community. The Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP) is an annual event showcasing films drawn from the world of theatre and performance. The festival presents experimental, emerging, and established theatre artists and filmmakers from around the world to audiences and industry professionals. The Segal Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP) is produced by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center under the Graduate Centre at the City Univerity of New York (CUNY), Executive Director Frank Hentschker Co- Curated by Frank Hentschker, Andie Lerner, and Tanvi Shah. Festival Coordination by Bukola John Omokore Web Design by Gaurav Singh Nijjer Digital Marketing by Cactus Juice Intro/Outro Theme credit: Second Sight (India) courtesy Anusha Ramasubramoney and Pushkar Srivatsal.

About Alexander Eisenach born 1984 in East-Berlin author and director for theatre works at Volksbühne Berlin, Berliner Ensemble, Deutsches Theater Berlin, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Residenztheater München and others The Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP) is an annual event showcasing films drawn from the world of theatre and performance. The festival presents experimental, emerging, and established theatre artists and filmmakers from around the world to audiences and industry professionals. The Segal Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP) is produced by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center under the Graduate Centre at the City Univerity of New York (CUNY), Executive Director Frank Hentschker Co- Curated by Frank Hentschker, Andie Lerner, and Tanvi Shah. Festival Coordination by Bukola John Omokore Web Design by Gaurav Singh Nijjer Digital Marketing by Cactus Juice Intro/Outro Theme credit: Second Sight (India) courtesy Anusha Ramasubramoney and Pushkar Srivatsal.

Simon Senn obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Haute école d’art et de design in Geneva and a Master’s degree at Goldsmiths College in London. His work explores paradoxes rather than articulates directed criticism. The Segal Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP) is produced by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center under the Graduate Centre at the City Univerity of New York (CUNY), Executive Director Frank Hentschker Co- Curated by Frank Hentschker, Andie Lerner, and Tanvi Shah. Festival Coordination by Bukola John Omokore Web Design by Gaurav Singh Nijjer Digital Marketing by Cactus Juice Intro/Outro Theme credit: Second Sight (India) courtesy Anusha Ramasubramoney and Pushkar Srivatsal.

Abhishek Thapar (1985, Moga), is a theatre/performance maker, performer and artist based in Amsterdam. He holds a post-graduate diploma in Physical Theatre from LISPA, London and a Master in Theatre degree from DAS Theatre, Amsterdam. For several years, he has been building an artistic research and practice in post-colonial epistemologies, historiographic metafiction and storytelling. The Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP) is an annual event showcasing films drawn from the world of theatre and performance. The festival presents experimental, emerging, and established theatre artists and filmmakers from around the world to audiences and industry professionals. The Segal Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP) is produced by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center under the Graduate Centre at the City Univerity of New York (CUNY), Executive Director Frank Hentschker Co- Curated by Frank Hentschker, Andie Lerner, and Tanvi Shah. Festival Coordination by Bukola John Omokore Web Design by Gaurav Singh Nijjer Digital Marketing by Cactus Juice Intro/Outro Theme credit: Second Sight (India) courtesy Anusha Ramasubramoney and Pushkar Srivatsal.

SWOOSH LIEU (Johanna Castell, Katharina Pelosi and Rosa Wernecke) was founded in 2009 at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen and has since worked continuously in various constellations and different forms of cooperation. From 2016 to 2018 they worked with their team at Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm on the trilogy What is the Plural of Crisis – ein Krisenbericht in verteilten Rollen, in which they dealt in various formats with the effects of the financial crisis from a queer-feminist perspective. The first part Who Cares?! – eine vielstimmige Personalversammlung der Sorgetragenden is about care work and role models based on interview material. In 2017, it was invited to the Stückemarkt of the Berlin Theatertreffen and the Impulse Festival. The second part Who Moves?! – eine performative Montage der Beweggründe was created at the Frankfurt LAB in late 2017. Swoosh Lieu again used interviews to address the production of images in connection with migration. In 2018, the piece was invited to the “Politik im freien Theater” festival at the Kammerspiele in Munich and then toured to Kampnagel/Hamburg, the Sophiensaele/Berlin and the Theater Rampe/Stuttgart. The third part Who Reclaims?! – ein collagierter Streifzug durch die Raumfrage premiered in September 2018 as a performative walk with the audience through the city of Frankfurt and through feminist spatial politics. Who Cares?! (2018) and Who Moves?! (2019) were also produced as radio plays in cooperation with NDR, Who Cares?! was nominated for the Juliane Bartel Media Prize in 2018. Due to the pandemic they produced their first video work A Room of Our Own in the beginning of 2021 in coproduction with the Digital Mousonturm Frankfurt, which was invited to the Hessische Theatertage, the Heidelberger Stückemarkt and was screened at nachtkritik.de and Kampnagel Hamburg among others. In december 2021 their performance Dea Ex Machina about gender, technology, witches and glitches was premiered at Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt. Swoosh Lieu spent 2018 as artists in residence at the Villa Kamogawa/Goethe-Institut Kyoto/Japan. While there, they began working on their project A Feminist Guide to Nerdom, which aims to feature international female media artists and build a network among them. A Feminist Guide to Nerdom was presented as an installation at Künstler*innhaus Mousonturm and Tanzhaus NRW in 2019. 2020/21, Swoosh Lieu continue working on this project as artists in residence at the Cultural Academy Tarabya/Goethe-Institut Istanbul/Turkey.The Segal Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP) is produced by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center under the Graduate Centre at the City Univerity of New York (CUNY), Executive Director Frank Hentschker Co- Curated by Frank Hentschker, Andie Lerner, and Tanvi Shah. Festival Coordination by Bukola John Omokore Web Design by Gaurav Singh Nijjer Digital Marketing by Cactus Juice Intro/Outro Theme credit: Second Sight (India) courtesy Anusha Ramasubramoney and Pushkar Srivatsal.

The Swiss artist Stefan Kaegi is one of the leading figures in European theatre. With the Rimini Protokoll collective, he has contributed to broadening the notion of documentary theatre by attempting to depict reality in all its facets, notably by calling on “experts of everyday life”. The Segal Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP) is produced by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center under the Graduate Centre at the City Univerity of New York (CUNY), Executive Director Frank Hentschker Co- Curated by Frank Hentschker, Andie Lerner, and Tanvi Shah. Festival Coordination by Bukola John Omokore Web Design by Gaurav Singh Nijjer Digital Marketing by Cactus Juice Intro/Outro Theme credit: Second Sight (India) courtesy Anusha Ramasubramoney and Pushkar Srivatsal.

‘Every Piece of Me’ is about Palestinian women living their lives under occupation and enduring constricting societal expectations. The piece was written by the late theatre artist Weam Al Dairi. Several of Weam’s friends came together to produce this piece. We feel privileged to be sharing some of her ‘final words’. The production also aimed to unite participants and performers of different backgrounds, with lived experiences of life under occupation, or conflict, and above all, as women.The Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP) is an annual event showcasing films drawn from the world of theatre and performance. The festival presents experimental, emerging, and established theatre artists and filmmakers from around the world to audiences and industry professionals. The Segal Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP) is produced by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center under the Graduate Centre at the City Univerity of New York (CUNY), Executive Director Frank Hentschker Co- Curated by Frank Hentschker, Andie Lerner, and Tanvi Shah. Festival Coordination by Bukola John Omokore Web Design by Gaurav Singh Nijjer Digital Marketing by Cactus Juice Intro/Outro Theme credit: Second Sight (India) courtesy Anusha Ramasubramoney and Pushkar Srivatsal.