
Koullou|Makka Collective
Identity of the Group
Koullou|Makka is a Cyprus-based artistic collective founded in 2022 in Limassol by theatre director and educator Elena Sokratous, inclusive dance educator Eleftheria Sokratous, and actress-performer and theatre educator Nayia T. Karakosta. Our name comes from two Arabic words — kullu (all) and ma ba’d (together) — reflecting our core values of inclusivity and collective action.
We are a group of disabled and non-disabled artists with 10 active members, working together to rethink performance, embodiment, and social interaction. We collaborate across disciplines to explore how bodies exist and resist within social constructs like gender, time, disability, and public versus private space.

Our Mission
Our mission is to create inclusive, interdisciplinary artistic work that challenges normative boundaries and opens up new possibilities for how we experience art and each other. At the heart of our practice is a commitment to poetic activism and collective authorship. We engage with crip aesthetics to question dominant narratives around the body and ability, while centering creative accessibility and an ethics of care in everything we do.
We are deeply inspired by the concept of crip time, embracing flexible, non-linear experiences of time and process. Our performances are often structured as relaxed environments, offering audiences — disabled or not — the freedom to move, rest, observe, or participate on their own terms. Public space is a central site of exploration for us, a space where we reimagine participation, accessibility, and connection through experimental artistic interventions.

Our urgency
What drives us is the urgent need to reframe how bodies, access, and diversity are understood in both artistic and public spheres. We are working against systems that prioritize productivity, conformity, and able-bodiedness, and instead imagine alternatives that are slower, softer, and more attuned to the complexities of real life.
Our urgency stems from lived experience - from the silences, the erasures, and the exclusions we and others have faced. We are here to create space where people who are often sidelined can be seen, heard, and celebrated. Whether through a performance-party that challenges (hetero)normativity or a participatory- accessible walk, our work insists that art can be a tool for disruption, care, and radical joy that embraces the notion of crip and feminist kill-joy.
Koullou|Makka is not just about making art — it’s about building worlds where difference is not only accepted but necessary.
