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Tea Tupajić: “Variete Europe”, residency at Tanzfabrik Berlin (apap Production Studio), December 9th-22nd
Tea Tupajić: “Variete Europe”, residency at Tanzfabrik Berlin (apap Production Studio), December 9th-22nd
The performance Variete Europe by Croatian theatre director Tea Tupajić questions the identity of what we today know as Europe. It brings on stage people from everyday life, each of them resembling a character from European mythology or art work. Through improvised situations, tasks and challenges, performers enter the characters in order to evoke and examine myths that constitute us.
Why is the old tax inspector invited to perform the role of Orpheus? Into which character does the shy nude model enter? The salesman of used books, that hasn't read a book in years? And what can they tell us about Europe?
"Let us name the things by their name. But we are told: You forget that there are "questions". To assassinate a man is a crime, to assassinate a people is a "question". Each government has its questions. We answer: Humanity also has it's questions."
Victor Hugo "Pour la Serbie", 1876.
Tea Tupajić (Sarajevo, 1984) is a Croatian theatre director. She is an independent artist, working on theater and gallery projects. From 2010. to 2012, in collaboration with Petra Zanki, she was creating "The Curators' Piece", as well as several performances and conferences as a part of "The agora project" initiated by Jan Ritsema. Her projects are presented in venues/festivals such as BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen), Bastard (Trondheim), TUPP festival (Uppsala), Tanzquartier Wien (Vienna), Kaaitheater (Brussels), steirischer herbst (Graz), PACT Zollverein (Essen)...
She is a guest editior and writer for the Croatian magazine Frakcija. Her articles are published in various magazines. She gives lectures and takes part at conferences in Croatia and abroad.
Save the date for the Performing New Europe festival 2014
The second edition of Performing New Europe, a festival by SZENE Salzburg, taking place from the 13th until the 18th of January 2014, presents projects by new choreographers, theatre makers, film producers and visual artists from different countries, who are part of apap. The six day long programme is spread all over different locations of Salzburg and shows works by an ambitious generation of artists, who are interconnected all over Europe. The festival includes dance, theatre, performances, concerts and installations.
Check out the full programme here
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"Audiences or communities? Between policies, marketing and true desires"
To read the publication by apap - advancing performing arts project (edited by SZENE Salzburg, 2013) online click here.
GRAND-PRIX 53rd Festival MESS Sarajevo | Simone Derai best young director
Diego Gil WHITE
Oct. 31st - Nov. 3rd | Het Veem Theater (NL)
The title stands for “white magic”, reclaiming the word magic in an attempt to re-animate, both critically and sensibly, our modes of approaching topics we are concerned with. With short demonstration acts, the two performers invoke across their bodies the affective resonances of nature, money, technology and other such concerns. “White” is a performance made of kinaesthetic rituals exploring the transmission of the political quality inherent in aesthetic gestures. Deviating from the usual statements in the arts, the political and the poetical are considered two movements of expression that activate the affective relation we have for the things we care for in this world.
Concept Diego Gil; Lighting design Pablo Fontdevila; Dramaturgy Igor Dobričić; Sound design Tian Rotteveel; Performance Noha Ramadan and Ayara Hernández.
BUDA VISTA#3: Performing Europe?!
Twice a year, BUDA VISTA presents performances that have been (partly) made in the studio’s at BUDA. Some of them have toured extensively, others are brand new. This time we mainly present pieces that have been created in the framework of the European artistic network APAP - connecting important cultural organisations, and thus putting artists on tour throughout Europe.
Four days long, artists from 10 European countries (+ Japan + New-Zealand) invite you to most shivering examples of a ‘Performing Europe’. And all of this, on one single small island: BUDA. (Wel)Come and discover!
