Donya Speaks is a dancer and theatre maker from Bern and Tunis. In her artistic practice, she creates a living dialogue between language and body and their interweaving. In Bis zum Ende des Regens (Until the End of the Rain), she engaged with the Arabic poetry of her uncle as well as the freedom of movement between North Africa and Europe. In POETIK P, she developed a conversation with artists from Switzerland, Rwanda, and the Congo about sexuality/sexualities and the ongoing sexualization of their bodies. Through her interdisciplinary and international collaborations, she deliberately creates a diversity of perspectives and questions Eurocentric claims to interpretive authority. A central concern of her work is the creation of de-hierarchized stage spaces in which collective responsibility is negotiated. Fête Finale is her first solo project. In it, she deepens her interest in the performative role of the «host», who on the one hand moderates and on the other uses her own body as an instrument to negotiate the themes at hand. With this project, she challenges herself and addresses death – a reality for which we often lack the words. Donya Speaks studied at the Accademia Dimitri, the Justus Liebig University Giessen, and the Zurich University of the Arts.