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Why Theatre? Archive
NL Donderdag 3 november 2011 - Why Theatre? met Wunderbaum
Over de werkwijze van dit eigenzinnige acteurscollectief en de voorstelling Wunderbaum speelt Onze Paus meer>>
ENG Thursday September 29 - Why Theatre? on Theatre & Ecology
Increasingly, Dutch and Flemish theatremakers, companies and organisations investigate the relationship between sustainability, ecology and performance. Ranging from green policies in theatre organisations to the actual staging of environmental and ecological issues, theatre practitioners raise questions regarding theatre's responsibility to the world, and how this relates to art's autonomy and artistic freedom. In the first Why Theatre of this season, we will discuss these and other questions with two guests: Mark Yeoman, artistic director of Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival (www.noorderzon.nl) and theatre maker Sarah Moeremans. Noorderzon received a Green Key in 2011, an international quality mark for green organisations. Sarah Moeremans is the director of the performance There are people dying, a game show in which three candidates introduce their ideas for a better world. The stage set consists completely of second-hand objects that will be re-used after the show.
ENG April 8, 2011 - CAMP
Ashok Sukaraman and Shaina Anandi introduce the work of the CAMP collective performance network more>>
NL Donderdag 9 december, 2010 - Why Theatre? Bewerkingen in het theater
met Eve Hopkins, Sophie Kassies, Robbert van Heuven & Mirjam Koen
"Hebben we ons zo totaal afgekeerd van levende toneelschrijvers dat alleen
literatuur en cinema het toneel nog waardig zijn?" Deze woorden sprak Pierre Audi tijdens het Theaterfestival 2009 in zijn rede De
Staat van het Theater. Hij maakte zich zorgen om een theater dat zijn eigen
repertoire en klassieken vergeet en in toenemende teruggrijpt op een roman of een filmscript als basis voor voorstellingen.
Of je nu wel of niet zijn zorgen deelt, Audi vestigt de aandacht op een
interessante tendens in het theaterlandschap. De vele vormen van bewerking die we in het hedendaags theater tegenkomen, roepen verschillende interessante vragen op:
Waarom willen makers boeken of films bewerken? Zijn bewerkingen een knieval naar het publiek in hun hang naar het bekende? Hoe verhouden dergelijke bewerkingen zich tot het ‘klassieke’ theaterrepertoire? Wat gebeurt er precies in de transformatie van het ene medium naar het andere? Wat win je, wat verlies je? Hoe verhouden origineel en bewerking zich tot elkaar?
Over deze en andere vragen gaat dramaturg, vertaler en bewerker Eve Hopkins (OT Theater) in gesprek met toneelschrijver en dramaturg Sophie Kassies (genomineerd voor de Taalunie Toneelschrijfprijs), theaterjournalist en dramaturg Robbert van Heuven en regisseur Mirjam Koen (OT Theater)
November 18, 2010 - Why Theatre? Modem en de theaterpraktijk van Frans Strijards
Tijdens deze editie van Why Theatre? gaat theaterwetenschapper Wil Hildebrand in gesprek met Frans Strijards over zijn artistieke praktijk als theatermaker, schrijver en artistiek leider en in het bijzonder over zijn meest recente voorstelling Modem more>>
October 21, 2010 - Why Theatre? with Anne Karin ten Bosch: Scenography is the art of charging (staged) spaces with time
In this lecture Anne Karin ten Bosch will share her perspective on design through showing the work of several scenographers (among them Anna Viebrock, Marc Warning, Philippe Quesne). She will speak about the way these artists ‘charge space with time’.
Anne Karin ten Bosch studied sculpting and scenography. She worked for sixteen years as scenographer and theatre maker and teaches scenography at the Academy of Fine Arts Minerva in Groningen. She wants to develop the
reflection on spatial design in theatre. For the ‘Lectoraat HKU’ she wrote “Wil jij mijn decor ontwerpen?” (“Do you like to design my set?”), an essay on the process of spatial design for staged spaces. Since 2009 she is a master
student Theatre Studies at the UU.
October 14, 2010 - Why Theatre? with Andrea Bozic: The making of Mars Landing
"Today we're not going to the theater to see old stories staged in new ways, television or film are doing that much easier. Theatre is an ongoing dialogue on liveness." (A. Bozic) In this seminar the participants will speak with
Andrea Bozic about topics such as 'liveness', 'intermediality' and 'generators', as exemplified by excerpts from Bozic’ performances, including Mars Landing.
October 7, 2010 - Why Theatre? with Joris Weijdom: Performance Engine
Joris Weijdom is Head of Research Group Virtual Theatre / Research Centre
Theatre making processes, HKU). The Performance Engine is a system of several hard- and software components that are designed to facilitate interaction with digital (multi-)media technology in a performative context and specifically oriented on the rehearsal phase of a theatre making proces. Joris Weijdom will speak about the development of the Performance Engine. He will also present examples of making processes of theatre and dance performance during which the Performance Engine has already been used.
September 30, 2010 - Why Theatre? with Tereza Havelkova: Staging Liveness in Hypermedial Opera
Havelkoca discusses the work of Louis Andriessen and Peter Greenaway’s opera Writing to Vermeer (1999), in relation to issues of liveness and mediatization, within an overall context of hypermediacy. She concentrates, in particular, on the relationship between liveness, cultural constructions of femininity, and the singing voice. Tereza Havelkova is Assistant Professor in the Department of Musicology at Charles University in Prague and a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam more>>
January 12, 2010 - Sanja Mitrovic: Will You Ever Be Happy Again?
Professor Maaike Bleeker will speak with theatre maker and performer Sanja Mitrovic about her performance Will You Ever Be Happy Again?. The performance employs documentary strategies to explore how nationality influences one’s personal identity. It is a piece for one Serbian and one German performer. How does Mitrovic relate to topics of nationality, identity and history? What did she discover during the development of the performance and the presentation of the piece internationally? Mitrovic will speak about the diverse responses of the audiences in Serbia, Germany, Switzerland, France, and The Netherlands and show a selection of excerpts from the performance. Touring dates and additional information are available through the weblog willyoueverbehappyagain.wordpress.com.
December 10, 2009 - Nicholas Rowe: Avoiding Victim Art: negotiating sympathy and contempt when presenting dance from a traumatized community
Nicholas Rowe presents a lecture on the topic of dance and trauma. In 2000-2008 Rowe was involved in local dance projects, in various Palestinian regions, working with local artists, companies and social communities. Rowe teaches in dance studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. This lecture takes place within the context of the program Dancing on the Edge, focused on theatre and dance from the Middle East.
November 25, 2009 - Bouam: African puppet theatre
Bouam is a women's puppet theatre company from Togo. The afternoon starts with screening of a film about their work, after which some scenes are demonstrated on the floor. Coached by the performers, members of the audience are then given the opportunity to work with the puppets themselves. In the concluding session, Eugène van Erven, senior lecture Theatre Studies at Utrecht University and researcher at Vrede van Utrecht, will interview members of Bouam and Heddy Veltkamp, a Dutch puppeteer, about the power of (African) puppetry more>>
October 22, 2009 - Alexander Karshnia (andcompany&Co.): West in Peace
During this conversation, Alexander Karshnia tells about andcompany's performance West in Peace, that will première in December in Germany. The performance is an inquiry into the status and meaning of the notion of the 'West', after the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989.
NL June 3, 2009 - De selectie van de TF-jury
Gesprek over de selectie van de jury. Te gast zijn juryleden Clairy Polak (voorzitter), dramaturge Judith Wendel, en theatercritici Joris van der Meer (Financieel Dagblad).
NL April 6, 2009 -Raoul Heertje over Heerlijk eerlijk Heertje
Raoul Heertje spreekt over zijn talkshow programma Heerlijk eerlijk Heertje dat hij maakte bij de VPRO, waarin hij de wetten van de televisietalkshow voor de ogen van de kijker deconstrueert.
April 2, 2009 - Petra Kuppers: On Theatre and Disability
During this Why Theatre? session, Petra Kuppers will present part of her research on theatre and disability. more>>
January 8, 2009 - Michal Kobialka: Theatre/Performance Culture in Eighteenth-Century London
The full title of Michal Kobialka's lecture is "Theatre/Performance Culture in Eighteenth-Century London: A Prolegomenon to Theatre Historiography of the Enlightenment". Kobialka's inaugural Lecture, accepting the Belle van Zuylen chair at the Faculty of the Humanities of Utrecht University more>>
December 11, 2008 - Mike Pearson: Imaginary archeology
Mike Pearson explores the relationship between theatre and archaeology, and will reflect on how this field of research informs his work on a future project: his contribution to a written history of the Mickery Theatre, Amsterdam more>>
October 2, 2008 - Bryan Reynolds: Sexy Shakespeare: Why We Can't Get Enough
Through a brief excursion into the fields of memetics, consciousness studies, neurochemistry, and cognitive neuroscience, Bryan Reynolds explores new ways to unveil the incentives and causality behind aesthetic appreciation and audience experience more>>
September 18, 2008 - Radical Theatrical: an afternoon with Janez Jansa
During this afternoon, a selection of excerpts from Jansa’s work will be starting point for a discussion about (among others) his re-enactment of the first ever Yugoslavian art performance 'Pupilija, Papa Pupilo and the Pupilceks', his research on theatre in the US Army and the question of entertainment for peacekeeping soldiers on an international level, his research on refugee camps for first world citizens, his ideas on mobile phone theatre, his version of Guilio Camillo’s Renaissance Theatre of Memory, and why Emil Hrvatin changed his name into that of the current right wing prime minister of Slovenia, Janez Jansa, and what happened afterwards. more>>
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