Press Release
This year’s Festival will close on September 10 with creative director Kris Muhammed Adem’s interdisciplinary performance “LEDRA’S LAMENT”.
“LEDRA’S LAMENT” is a cross-communal, non-narrative contemporary live performance that combines music, dance, design, and drag art. Nicosia was once known as the city of gardens, shaped by its fertile grounds with abundant access to water. The production reflects on what is beneath Nicosia’s damaged ecosystem. Drawing on the archives and historical memory of the ancient city of Ledra, the work approaches the past as a living source of inspiration, guiding us to reflect on the present and imagine a shared cultural future. As for the language of the production, Adem excavates traces of Eteocypriot from beneath the soil—a language once spoken in ancient Cyprus that has now largely disappeared from public memory.
Within the framework of a contemporary site-specific approach, the performers (our ancestors) take the audience’s seats in the amphitheatre and claim it as their stage, while today’s audience is positioned in front of the amphitheatre, creating a dilemma and fluidity, merging and blurring the boundaries between audience and performers, our ancestors and us.
Created and directed: Kris Muhammed Adem
Research assistance: Hazal Barışer
Performers: Troodia Christodoulou, Mizgin Bozkaya İçli, Noa Daoulatian, Doğa Uluçlar, Ahmet Zildji, Chiara Capizzi, Selsu Solman, Ayda Canova, Hayal Gezer, DIANA, Cosmo Mo Rose, Aphroditios, Hazal Barışer and Kris Muhammed Adem
Visuals: Barış Parlan
Costumes: MEMO
Botanical installation: Sonay Sevgüm
Special thanks to Ron Mandos, Dance House Lefkosia, Hasder, Rüstem book shop, PERA School of Performing Arts, Sülop, Thomas Daskalakis, Ulaş Öğüç, Naz Atun, Stephanie Castendyk, Katerina Ellis Despotis and Zeynep Mevlit.
Duration:75 minutes
Date: Thursday, 10 September 2026
Time: 8:30 p.m.
Venue: Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, 86-90 Faneromenis Street, 1011 Nicosia
Free entrance
Doors open at 20:00
Events will take place with observation of all necessary protection measures for the health and safety of visitors and staff and are accessible to individuals and groups with disabilities.
You can find more information on the website of the Cultural Foundation: www.boccf.org , on the official pages of the Foundation on Facebook & Instagram (@boccf)
During the events, photos and/or videos will be taken. The pictures of visitors of the events may be used for promotional purposes or may be provided to the media or uploaded on the Internet. By attending the events, the public automatically gives the organizers the right to use the photos/videos taken.
Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation
86-90 Faneromenis, 1011 Nicosia
For information: 22 128175
