Nada Kokotović

A Croatian born in Yugoslavia, she studied classical and modern ballet, film and theatre directing, and philosophy in Zagreb. As a young artist, she lived and worked as a dancer and choreographer in a culturally diverse Yugoslavia that was open to the world and encouraged artistic experimentation. In the 1970s, she studied and worked in the USA for two years. She returned to the Yugoslav stage and created “choreodrama”. Together with Ljubisa Ristic, she founded the multi-ethnic and multilingual KPGT theatre project, with which she toured Mexico, the USA and Australia, in addition to Europe. In 1992, she emigrated to Germany because of the Yugoslav war. In 1996, she and her partner founded TKO (Theater Kokotović – Osman) in Cologne.