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A Question of Diversity: In Conversation with Paulien Geerlings

Posted by Rhiannon Ling and Kasia Lech | 22nd Apr 2023 | Dramaturgy, Interview, Netherlands, Theatre for Young Audiences

Paulien Geerlings is the head dramaturg at Amsterdam’s The Toneelmakerij, a theatre company...

“Krotoa Eva Van De Kaap”: Artscape

Posted by WeekendSpecial.Co | 12th Dec 2021 | Acting, Review, South Africa, Transcultural Collaborations

Krotoa Eva van de Kaap is a moving music theatre production that was first performed in The...

True Inner-Emotion: Butoh Festival Amsterdam 2020

Posted by Christopher Harris | 2nd Oct 2020 | Festivals, Netherlands, Theatre and Dance

The Butoh dance – born in Japan in the late ’50s, and welcomed and metabolized by the West in the ’80s – is not annulled in the stereotype of a technique handed down and transmittable, but lives an ever new epiphany in the individual experience of each dancer whose results, formally indefinable, go from improvised performative intervention to the extreme of the choreographic mechanism.

Should Our Funds For The Arts Pay For Cultural Democracy?

Posted by Nan Van Houte | 3rd May 2019 | Essay, Europe, Management, Participatory Theatre

You can also read this article in French here. This series of articles, commissioned together...

Bollocks To Brexit!

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 5th Apr 2019 | Essay, United Kingdom

On Friday, March 29, 2019, was a black letter day. That is because it used to be the date of...

Cybernetics Vs. Decartes

Posted by Orion Maxted | 22nd Dec 2018 | Essay, Europe, Theatre and Science, Transmedia

The Mind of non-Cartesian Theater To contextualize my work HUMAN SIMULATION, I organized a...

How Can We Transform The World Through One’s Self? Amsterdam’s Butoh Festival

Posted by Christopher Harris | 16th Mar 2018 | Festivals, Netherlands, News, Participatory Theatre, Theatre and Dance, Transcultural Collaborations

In Waves: Transforming The World Through One’s Self At Amsterdam’s Butoh Festival In...

Performance Research/Performance Practice-ASAP Event, UvA

Posted by Christopher Harris | 13th Dec 2017 | Dramaturgy, Netherlands, News, Transcultural Collaborations

ASAP is a new initiative of both staff members and students from the Theatre Studies department at the UvA in order to create space for exchange within and around the department of Theatre Studies.

Amsterdam’s Symposium On Cultural Translation

Posted by Christopher Harris | 21st Oct 2017 | Dramaturgy, Netherlands, Transcultural Collaborations, Translation

Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum asserted itself as the watering hole for a universal collective of people congregating on the subject of cultural translation within a dramaturgical framework, which alone begins as a intriguing idea, given that the collective arrived out of the rain from many corners of the globe.