Adriana La Selva is a theatre-maker, a performer, a networker and a researcher. She is currently a fellow FWO researcher, working on a Ph.D. at S:PAM (Studies in Performance and Media- Ghent University) - in association with IPEM (Institute for Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music), Utrecht University, Manchester Metropolitan University and Aalborg University. Her research investigates what it means to practice an archive, by addressing the transmission of embodied practices through virtual media and dramaturgical approaches to archival practices. In 2009, she concluded her Master’s degree in Contemporary Arts, practice-based, at the University of Lancaster, UK, on Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of becoming in relation to physical theatre. She is since 2015 member of the international theatre group The Bridge of Winds, led by Odin Teatret actress Iben Nagel Rasmussen. Adriana co-founded Cross Pollination together with Marije Nie, an international network of performers and researchers, which focuses on the dialogue in-between practices, new ways of knowledge building and understanding collaboration. She created theater m u s t, a company based in Antwerp focused on theatre for young audiences, and is the artistic director of comm’on vzw, an organization focusing on artistic exchange and applied theatre, based in Ghent. She is interested in artistic projects that support sustainable research and social thinking, all kinds of urban processions and parades, performances for young audiences, and yes, training.
