Arta Gashi

Education

About me

Arta Gashi is a professional actor, Theatre Facilitator, Physical Performer and an Activist born in Kosova.
After the War of 1999 in Kosova, she began her studies of BA Acting at the Faculty of Arts, in Prishtina. In 2004 she left her country and since then she has been studying and exploring many aspects of Theatre Performance, Creative Drama, Drama in Education, and Dance.
She is part of the Performance Collective - Under the Dust Studios in London, combining creative elements such as music, movement and videos.
She collaborates with various independent Artists and Theatre Companies, and she does independent projects creating interactive performances in public spaces.
In Kosovo amongst the teaching in various schools and local projects, she goes popular on the street by her clown characters Dana Banana and Mime Zhap - raising awareness on various local and global issues, fighting for the human rights!
Arta Gashi is head of the Department at the Giant Olive Theatre in London, devising forms of Theatre, Song, Dance, and Storytelling.
Arta works as a facilitator in many schools across London for Bigfoot Arts Education and VIBE teaching Education, delivering their drama in the curriculum programme and organising after school clubs.
She founded Art Machine – Young Peoples Projects, and since 2010 she has been developing Theatre Workshop Programmes, devising Creative Writing, Dance and Storytelling, Circus skills including Acrobatics and Acrobalance, and most of the projects involve work with vulnerable children into rural places.
Her work explores the relationship among theatre, drama, performance art and community engagement.
Currently, she is working as a dancer,and choreographer with Artpolis.Premiere to be soon at the National Theatre of Kosova.
And, as an actor for Oda Theatre in collaboration with the Director Arben Biba.

She works between Kosova and the UK

Acting experience:
Many
Modelling experience:
Photography
Television experience:
Film
Not so keen on commercials.
Specific skills:
Actor Film//Theater
Stanislavsky
Physical Performer
Dance: Contemporary, Jazz, Locking, Popping, Contact Improvisation,Capoeira
Circus: Mime, Clown, Juggling, Acrobatics/Acrobalance
Other: Yoga, Storytelling, Puppetry, Arts&Crafts
Basics: Spanish, French, Russian.
Fluent:Albanian, Italian, English and Serbo-Croatian
Interesting past experiences:
Many
My interests:
Acting
Film
Theater
Performance and Visuals
Theater productions with young people
Devising Theater
Children's Theater
Drama
Dance

Skills

Languages Spoken	Albanian, Bosnian, English, Italian, Macedonian, Serbian