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Tuesday, December 31, 2024

From Hunting Ritual to Installation Art: Tianzhuo Chen and Siko Setyanto’s “Ocean Cage” by Ilinca Todoruţ

Ocean Cage engulfs its audience for almost two hours in a multi-sensorial, immersive performative installation combining visual art, light design, dance, film, video art, sound design, and m…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:47PM
Monday, December 23, 2024

Humankind’s Search for the Living in Shinichi Anasako and Pijin Neji’s “Stand by Me” by Ilinca Todoruţ

How does a coming-of-age story look like today, at a time of a global ecological catastrophe and increasingly dire social, economic, political crises looming in the future? Kyoto-based playw…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:45AM
Thursday, December 19, 2024

Nanako Matsumoto and Anchi Lin (Ciwas Tahos) Trekking Mountains by Ilinca Todoruţ

As part of Kyoto Experiment, I watched at the black box of Theatre E9 two performers interact with an installation rich in textures and materials against a background of projections. The pro…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:07PM
Friday, December 13, 2024

(LA)HORDE’s Flash Mob Revolution by Ilinca Todoruţ

The enthusiastic applause and standing ovations received by Room with a View from the large audience filling the spacious proscenium hall of the ROHM Theatre in Kyoto paid tribute to the art…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:45AM
Thursday, December 12, 2024

Melati Suryodarmo and Alessandro Sciarroni Moving Within Patriarchy by Ilinca Todoruţ

Indonesian performance artist Melati Suryodarmo and Italian choreographer Alessandro Sciarroni don’t seem to have much in common beyond their shared success on the international artistic s…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:58AM
Thursday, December 5, 2024

On Kyoto Experiment’s Curatorial Vision by Ilinca Todoruţ

The interdisciplinary theatre, dance, and performance art festival Kyoto Experiment (KEX) wowed me with the thoughtfulness of its curatorial vision. The three co-artistic directors—Yoko Ka…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:13AM
Sunday, October 13, 2024

La Vie En Sickly Rose: Florian Zeller’s “The Son” at the German State Theatre by Ilinca Todoruţ

The entire stage is the same shade of pale, dusty pink: the extra-long couch and side tables, the floor, the three backdrops encompassing the interior of an elegant urban apartment of the up…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:24AM
Saturday, October 12, 2024

“Eréndira”: Show Business As Usual by Ilinca Todoruţ

Yuri Kordonsky’s Eréndira at the German State Theatre in Timișoara is a visually gorgeous, well-acted, and imaginatively directed stage adaptation of a seedy and second-rate 1972 novella…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:22AM
Friday, October 11, 2024

Theatrical Tectonics: The Slowdown Entertainment of a José Rivera Play by Ilinca Todoruţ

A couple of hours before watching José Rivera’s play Cloud Tectonics staged at the German State Theatre in Timișoara, Romania, I was chatting with the theatre’s head of dramaturgy and …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:49AM
Wednesday, October 9, 2024

On State Theatres and Minoritarian Theatres: Interview with Andrea Wolfer, Head of the Dramaturgy and PR Department of the German State Theatre in Tim by Ilinca Todoruţ

How is the German State Theatre different from other Romanian public theatres? Last year, when Timișoara was the European Capital of Culture, international visitors were very surprised that…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:31PM
Saturday, July 20, 2024

The “ETC Theatre Green Book” and Theatre-making During Climate Crisis by Ilinca Todoruţ

The European Theatre Convention (ETC) in collaboration with Renew Culture officially launched in July 2024 the ETC Theatre Green Book (ETC TGB). The sixty-nine-page, freely available documen…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:33PM
Friday, March 4, 2022

Free Performance: A Response to metaLAB’s futureStage Manifesto by Ilinca Todoruţ

On November 20, 2021, TheTheatreTimes.com published futureStage Manifesto, developed by futureStage Research Group at metaLAB at Harvard, a group of 40 leading thinkers in performing arts. …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:12AM

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