A Walk in LePARC with Bek Berger

Join us for our first Walk in LePARC of 2023 with visiting curator, artist and producer Bek Berger about interdisciplinary creation and production. We’ll discuss various disciplinary perspectives on creative process, professional practices, and

conceptual concerns when engaging with performance, music, material, and other forms.

Berger is an Australian curator, artist and creative producer based in Riga, Latvia. She is currently Artistic Director of the New Theatre Institute of Latvia (NTIL) and curator of the International Festival of Contemporary Performance, Homo Novus. Originally from Naarm (Melbourne, Australia) she has worked in festivals across the globe such as American Realness (NYC), Dance Massive (AU), Darwin Festival (AU), Fierce Festival (UK) and Forest Fringe (UK).

As a curator she has (co)/initiated projects such as Critical Futures, Convergence, La Discorso and Possible Futures Forum. Independent of her curatorial work she has been collaborating as a dance dramaturg with choreographer James Batchelor since 2017. Their work has toured to over 20 countries including such contexts as Centre Pompidou (FR), Tanz Im August (DE), December Dance (BE), Dance Massive (AU), Sophiensaele (DE) and as Aerowaves 19 artists in Spring Forward in Paris (FR).