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Participants of festival SETKANI/ENCOUNTER 2011
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Preview and Annotation of schools
Chang pa, University of Suwon (수원 대학교) (SUWON, REPUBLIC OF KOREA)
The University of Suwon was founded in 1977 as a part of University of Hwaseong. In 1981 it was authorized as an independent university. The Changpa Theatre was founded in 1995. The controversial name, changpa, is composed of two words: the root changjag means « creation », whereas the root pagoe means « destruction ». The name refers to the age-old conflict between ambivalent forces and therefore alludes to the never-ending cycle of samsara. The second meaning of the word is literally « sea waves », which come and go in the form of creation and destruction. The Changpa Theatre group is an expressive physical theatre that uses body, sound, puppet- like movements, traumas of horror and the cruelty within to explore the innermost feelings of today’s society. The director and manager, Seung-Hoon Chai, experiments with the so-called « Language of Death » which can be understood as a language used to access the spirits by employing different body position and voice. He uses these ways of expression to give word to his opinions on history and its subject.
www.suwon.ac.kr
William Shakespeare:HAMLET (햄릿)
Director, adaptation: Seung Hoon Chai
Scenography: Jong Hun Pyo
Music: Young Hoo Byun
Interpreter: Mi Hyang Jeon
Cast: Cheol Jong Shim, Jong Sang Park, Jong Geun Bark, Tai Sung Kim, Huyk Jong Kim,
Hyoung Min Han, Kyung Jun Lee, Su A. Na
Length of the production: 80 minutes
Language: Korean, simultaneous interpreting into English
The Korean representation first deconstructs Hamlet to subsequently reconstruct him through physical language, expressing himself as an intellectual suffering the modern history of Korea. The Eastern stylization is undermined by reminiscences of Western values that show the way to search the universalism outside the boundaries of Western representation. Hamlet calls out the spirits of the tragic history and understands their suffering. “The theatre is the way to seek death,” says Seung-Hoon Chai (who also represents La politique des auteurs in Korea). Thus, his Hamlet is a part of his theoretical experimental series called « Theatre of Death ».
University Theater House of Iran (TEHRAN, IRAN)
The State Fine Arts and Music Department was the fist cultural institution in Iran to create a licence for a Theatre Department. Subsequently, the Theatre Studio was established by the Ministry of Culture and Arts. The main aim of the Studio was to train students in all the subjects of theatrical art – creative writing and playwriting, directing, acting, scenography and graphic design. Soon, film and TV creation were added and the Studio became the Faculty of Dramatic Arts. University Theatre House was established after the Islamic Revolution.
www.art.ac.ir
Morteza Mirmontazemi:WOMAN, MAN
Director: Morteza Mirmontazemi
Scenography: Morteza Mirmontazemi
Music: Hamed Doratabadi
Cast: Mohammed Alah Dadí, Melodi Aramnia
Length of the production: 30 minutes
Language: Farsi/ English
This production studies human life from birth to death. It is a story about a personal relationship – a relationship between different sexes, that are the smallest beings, two seeds of life. We witness the development from childhood, through adolescence, adulthood to the final transition ending with the eternal boredom of old age. Woman, Man talks about education, love, marriage and sex, hard work as well as huge and minor successes of everyday life.
The University of Winchester (WINCHESTER, UNITED KINGDOM)
The University of Winchester was established in 1840 and currently, it has around six thousand students who can choose from a variety of courses taught at four faculties – Faculty of Business and Law, Faculty of Education, Health and Social Care, Faculty of Social Sciences and Faculty of Arts. The Faculty of Arts offers a great variety of study programmes, ranging from creative writing to film studies, including several programmes in performing arts. The course Choreography and Dance is ranked one of the top among similar courses in the UK.
www.winchester.ac.uk
Charlotte Cassey:THE BRIGITTE CABARET
Director, dramaturgy, scenography and costume design: Charlotte Casey
Cast: Charlotte Cassey
Lenght of the production: 30 minutes
Language: English
Charlotte Cassey studies MA Devised Performance programme, a new course established in September 2009, at the University of Winchester. Charlotte, besides being the author of the performance, is also the director, the dramaturg, the scenographer and the only actress. Charlotte has been preparing this performance since the beginning of her studies. The assignment was to observe and study the relationship between creative thinking and the authorial subject by describing personal experience and self-expression in a particular style. In this phase of the programme, the student is required to actualize a "mirror" performance based on his or her very self, on the autobiographical material and according to the premise that our life is the essence, that is, every attitude or opinion or creative impulse has its source in the structure of our personality and life experience, the "I". Aesthetic preferences are neither neutral nor objective, but extremely subjective. This programme makes the student explore the creative process and later develop and enrich it by new spheres of performance and self- reflection. The cabaret style functions as an irony of female autobiographical performance emerging in the beginning of 1960s. This play has been presented at a number of British theatre festivals and it is highly appreciated for its liveliness, humour and originality.
De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde (MANILA, PHILIPPINES)
De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde (DLS-CSB) is a private Catholic university in Malate district of Manila, the capital of the Philippines. Founded in 1980, the university has developed - under the leadership of Br. Andrew Gonzalez FSC - from a local community college into a dynamic institution offering study programmes distinct from other programmes available in the area: Arts, Design, Hotel Business, Tourism, Business, Management or Diplomacy. The dance study programme focuses both on theory and practice, transforming dance into striking artistic forms.
The university follows a so-called Lasallian philosophy, drawing on the principles interconnecting faith, zeal in service and missionary work. It also believes each student is gifted by God with skills and talents that should be appreciated and developed. Terms such as spirituality, creative flow, artistic goals and pursuit of common welfare are an integral part of the teaching.
www.dls-csb.edu.ph
Andrew Cruz:REPLEKSYON
Director and Choreographer: Christiane Crame
Light Design: Michael Serrano
Music: various
Production: Michael Serrano, Juan Angelo Arucan
Cast: Alane Kim Aragon, Kristine Anne Constantino, Kattleya Titalia Jimerez, John Antony
Lao, Mosne Neff Ponferrada, Justine Lio Roxas, Paul Christian Deriquito, Jill Alyanna Tanig, Rhodů Tinoy, Andrea Beatrice Vega
Length of the production: 40 minutes
Language: Filipino – Tagalog
Repleksyon salutes all the foreign workers in the Philippines, sometimes referred to as “Mga Bagong Bayani”/ “New Heroes”. A story of one family is told in parallel with stories of other families from different periods, situations or towns. Through the dance drama, the production shows various groups of Filipinos who have lost their identities in order to gain livelihood for their kin. Besides the social critique (corruption, social injustice), negative emotions in looking for a job abroad and subsequent physical and mental mistreatment of the workers by their employers are reflected in the show. It also discusses death not only as physical matter, but as a psychological loss of ideals and ambitions.
The Artistic Academy – the Faculty of Theater (BRATISLAVA, SLOVAKIA)
The Faculty of Theater in Bratislava is the best known Slovak school engaged in education concerning the theatre. It has maintained favourable conditions for education, publishing and artistic activities from its foundation in 1949 to the present. The subjects offered by the school cover the whole field of theatre studies, ranging from artistic courses to the practical branch of theatre management on one side, and the theory of theatre on the other. Cooperating with other institutions of the same or similar orientation, the school helps to constitute a network of theatre scholars and practitioners, who would later become a solid part of Slovak theatre environment. Every two years, DF VŠMU organizes an international theatre festival called Istropolitana Projekt, which exceeds the space limited for the theatre, reaching the fields of music or photography.
www.vsmu.sk
William Shakespeare:MIDSUMMER NIGHT DREAM
Direction: Michal Vajdička
Translation: Ľubomír Feldek
Dramaturgy: Zuzana Bírešová
Scenography: Ondrej Zacha
Costume Design: Gabriela Paschová
Music: Zuzana Bírešová
Production: Lenka Bartošíková, Lenka Görfölová
Cast: Peter Havasi, Mara Mayinga N´Gueve Lukama, Juraj Ďuriš, Peter Brajerčík, Andrea
Sabová, Ivana Kubáčková, Michal Režný, Csilla Tarr, Martin Šalacha, Ivan Petro, Marián
Viskup
Lenght of the production: 140 minutes
Language: Slovak
The graduation performance of the 5th-grade students is going to present a love comedy with a complicated mathematical puzzle of relationships between four lovers. Two young couples fled from Athens to escape from an unwanted marriage, but their situation becomes even more complicated because of a magic flower of love, possessed by an elf named Puck.
The performance mingles the mystery of enchanted forest full of elves and nymphs with the eroticism of the sensual world of passionate lovers. What is more, a troop of craftsmen- amateur actors, skilfully depicted by Shakespeare, join the “love parade”, equally eager to act out their own life stories.
The Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute (MOSCOW, RUSSIA)
The history of the famous Moscow Theatre Academy starts in 1913, when a group of students founded a non-professional theatre studio and asked J. Vachtangov to become a leader of the ensemble. The official opening ceremony took place on the 23th October 1914, initiating a successful existence of the Academy, which was implemented into the structure of the Vachtangov theatre to support it with new talented actors, one of them being also Boris Shchukin, whose name the school adopted in 1926. The institute has influenced many important personalities of Russian theatre during the time of its existence.
www.htvs.ru
Fjodor Michailovič Dostojevskij:THE YOUTH
Director: Michail Borisov
Dramaturgy: Elena Odintsova
Scenography: Akif Belov
Costume Design: Svetlana Miroshnichenko, Ekaterina Miroshnichenko
Music: Julia Massalskaja
LightDesign: Alexander Matveev
Cast: Sergej Beskakotov, Ivan Gorškov, Alexandra Odintsova, Daria Egorova, Anna
Dvoršečkaja, Irina Verbitskaja, Pavel Afonkin, Vladimir Logvinov, Ksenia Larina
Lenght of the production: 165 minutes
Language: Russian
The Moscow ensemble is going to present the theatre adaptation of the novel by F. M. Dostojevskij which offers several plot lines for a director to follow, one of them being the relationship of a young illegitimate Arkadij and his father Versilov. This line has been taken by the director as a basis on which – through the theme of broken family bonds – he can express their opinion on traditional social values and their changes in modern society. As people today are being continually confronted with temptations of consumerism, and the rush for money is becoming the life goal, even a slight meditation over human existence and its priorities seems to be more than relevant. The director characterizes the performance as exploiting the concept of “four revolts against father” in terms of ideology. As for the way of interpretation, rather than striving for reaching an outrageous form, Borisov concentrates at a coherent acting expression, which would support the idea of the author.
Academy of Performing Arts in Prague – Theatre Faculty - DAMU (PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC)
The Theatre Faculty is one of the three faculties of the AMU in Prague, where film and music are taught together with theatre. The Faculty was founded in 1945, and its range of study programs has been growing ever since. Nowadays, the faculty offers drama studies as well as alternative theatre and puppetry. The faculty’s activities go well beyond the boundaries of the Czech Republic, since the school has greatly developed international relations and encourages students to participate in internships in most of the member states of the EU and in other countries around the world. Starting in 1994, every year, the students organize an international theatre festival called Zlomvaz (“Break a Leg”).
www.damu.cz
Bertolt Brecht:IN THE JUNGLE OF CITIES
Director: David Šiktanc
Translation: Ludvík Kundera a Rudolf Vápeník
Dramaturgy: Kristýna Čepková
Scenography: Magdalena Klára Hůlová, as a guest
Costume Design: Petra Krčmářová
Choreography: Karolína Párová, as a guest
Production: Anna Dynková, Zuzana Kravcová, Eva Krenčíková
Cast: Jan Ťoupalík, Marek Adamczyk, jan hušek, Klára Krejsová, Markéta Frösslová, Adéla Petřeková, Vuk Gojkov Čelebić, Adam Kraus, Michala Ďurišová, Petr Borovec a Ivana Krmíčková
Length of the production: 150 minutes
Language: Czech
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East - West, location: the underworld. »
This is how the author himself defined the theme of one of his early works – In the Jungle of Cities – which is one of this season’s three premieres performed by the students from the fourth year of the Theatre Faculty at DISK theatre. The drama is set in 1912 Chicago, representing an urban and industrial jungle. A family from the prairies moves to this new environment that immediately starts to deform them. Brecht sets his battle against the backdrop of the jungle of the city to represent search, longing for freedom and the unexpected destruction of a person who willingly gets rid of relationships, faith and responsibility towards others in his exaggerated search for freedom.
St-Petersburg State Theatre Arts Academy (ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA)
Founded in 1779, St-Petersburg State Theatre Arts Academy is the oldest Russian state theatrical institution (though the present name comes from 1993). Today, the Academy has around 900 full time students, and there are four main departments: Drama; Puppetry; Set/Light design and Stage technology; and Theatrology. Students stage their shows in the Academy Theatre, from where are the best productions transferred to prominent St. Petersburg stages.
Of interest is Mokhovaya 33-35 (street and number, but also the name of the building of the academy), an experimental laboratory of new disciplines of theatrology that holds annual national and international conferences on theatre history and theory.
www.tart.spb.ru
Euripidés:MÉDEA
Director and Dramaturg: Jekatěrina Khanzhorova
Stage design: Jekatěrina Malinina
LightDesign: Rustam Nasytiv
Choreography: Jurij Vasil’kov
Music: Vangelis, Gardzienice
Cast: Karina Medveděva
Lenght of the production: 65 minutes
Language: Russian
The myth of Medea presents one of the most oft-told tales of world literature. Even though the tragedy by Euripides is the oldest known variation of the myth, it is still a vivid portrayal of love, unscrupulousness, the mental ordeal of a woman and mother betrayed by her beloved husband. Medea has been abandoned by Jason, she has become an outcast from her family and the whole of society – from everything she believed in. She tries to recall love, faithfulness and dignity. But what can a woman do against a cruel society? She makes sacrifice - she kills her children with her very own hands. The cruelty destroys this young and beautiful woman, it makes her dirty, ugly and old. Murder becomes suicide. The piece of drama is staged as a monodrama totally concentrating on expression of the main character. The confession of a soul.
Ludwik Solski Academy for the Dramatic Arts in Kraków (KRAKOW, POLAND)
Ludwik Solski Academy for the Dramatic Arts (often shortened to PWST), located in Kraków, was founded in 1946 by a well-known Polish actor, Juliusz Osterwa, who took the initial steps leading to the establishment of the Academy through the amalgamation of three local studios, the Theatre Actors’ Studio at Stary Teatr, the Słowacki Theatre Actors’ Studio, and Iwo Gall’s Dramatic Studio connected with Juliusz Osterwa’s Reduta Theatre.
The dramatic acting and dance theatre programme are focused on the artistic versatility of the performance. The theoretical and practical training is offered in a nine-semester-programme based in interdepartmental teaching. Thus it combines modern dance, ballet, acting, philosophy, history of theatre, music, anatomy, new media, improvisation, direction, composition and much more in a single unrestrained style of teaching. According to the philosophy of the academy, the real celebrities are students, who are the future of the art of acting both in Poland and abroad.
To name but a few alumni of the PWST: Anna Polony, Jerzy Stuhr, Krystian Lupa or Jerzy Grotowski.
www.pwst.krakow.pl
Joe Alter:EVERYTHING SLIPS AWAY…
Director and Choreographer: Joe Alter (and the company)
Assistant of Director and Choreographer: Dorota Łęcka
Cast: Magdalena Bartczak, Agnieszka Jaśkowska, Paulina Jóźwicka, Katarzyna Kostrzewa, Mateusz Czekaj, Bartosz Figurski, Michał Guzenda, Mikołaj Karczewski, Karol Miękina
Length of the production: 60 minutes
Language: Polish
The inspiration of the dance performance is the question of ethereality. Ignoring our hopes, passions or beliefs, everything we know is in constant motion. It changes and moves to or from the ideal state we dream things and life around us should be in. Stability does not exist. Like it or not, we are in a state of constant changes. And so is everything around us.
The Dimitri’s Theatre School (VERSCIO, SWITZERLAND)
The Theatre School founded by Dimitri in 1975 is now part of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Italian Part of Switzerland (SUPSI). The School offers a basic training in all aspects of movement theatre that is unique in Europe. The main aim of the School is to develop its students’ talent and it takes into account their personality, creativity and physical and psychic abilities. Courses focus on creating original performances and the students are expected to create characters, moods as well as dramatic suggestions and material. The actor becomes an author.
www.teatrodimitri.ch/scuola
Plautus, Molière, Kleist, Giradoux:GLUTTONOUS AMPHITRYON
Director: Davide Giovanzana
Choreography: Davide Giovanzana and students
Scenography: Davide Giovanzana, Rocki Maggi and students
Music: Centrum de Musique Ancienne - Ensemble de Grimace
Cast: Laura Belli, Sara Bocchini, Angela Castillo, Micha Goldberg, Claudius Hoffmann,
Alaide Ibarra, Samuel Müller, R. Vargas, Sophie Rodriguez, Ida Sons, Raul Vargas and four
musicians from Ensemble Grimace
Length of the production: 70 minutes
Languages: Italian, English, Spanish
The Swiss production of Gluttonous Amphitryon, presented at the festival as a world premiere, is made up by a combination of several authorial versions of Amphitryon’s story, represented by ten actors of six different nationalities and by the group Ensemble Grimace. The actors tell the story using body language, namely dance, but also through masks, texts and – naturally – music. The production is based on performing and musical abilities of the cast, while the set is in the background. Amphitryon represents the theme of identity. The stress is on our selfish ego, envious and longing for change. Our society is full of masks and disguises we use to hide or change our real face. The production is strongly inspired by commedia dell’arte and employs this theme mainly because masks offer a deeper insight in the theatre, as well as the possibility to be combined and to elaborate their multifaceted meanings.
Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno (JAMU) – Faculty of Theatre (BRNO, CZECH REPUBLIC)
Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts is named after one of the most distinguished Czech composers, who was its spiritual father and whose objective was to establish an art college in Brno. Although he did not live to see his efforts come true, the establishment of the Academy in 1947 was a continuation of his conservatoire. It is the second university teaching theatre courses in the Czech Republic. Besides Theatre Directing and Acting, after 1989, the Faculty’s Departments oriented towards practical theatre began to emerge, now featuring programmes such as Musical Acting, Theatre Dramaturgy, Clown Stage and Film Creation or Drama Education for the Deaf, which is the only course of its kind for the deaf in Europe. Since its beginning, the Theatre Faculty has also been the main organizer and an active participant of the festival SETKÁNÍ/ENCOUNTER.
www.difa.jamu.cz
Ján Mikuš, Jana Hanzelová:ROMEO AND HERO
Director: Ján Mikuš
Dramaturgy: Jana Hanzelová
Production: Tereza Hladká
Scenography: Iveta Ryšavá
Lighting design: Martin Bitala
Sound design: Adam Černoch
Cast: Tomáš David, Darina Kovářová, Veronika Lazorčáková, Petra Lorenzová, Radúz
Mácha, Ladislav Odrazil, Petr Pavlas, Lucie Schneiderová, Petr Míka
Lenght of the production: 120 minutes
Language: Czech
The director Ján Mikuš is one of the few current students of the Theatre Faculty who has had the opportunity to direct plays in a number of professional Czech companies. The main characteristic of his work is its strong authorial signature – and this production is not an exception. Romeo and Hero is a dramatization of a Greek myth about Hero and Leander as a parallel to Shakespeare’s story of impossible love between Romeo and Juliet. The protagonists long for connection, but they are separated not only by the theatre, but also by time. The producers try to represent the theme of solitude and the longing for connection with the other person by creating an autonomous dramatic world full of imaginative poetics.
University of Ljubljana, Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA)
The Academy in Ljubljana was founded after the WW II. as the Academy of Performing Arts. In 1963, it expanded the training of film, and radio and television broadcast (AGRFT) and in 1975 it became a part of the University Ljubljana. It consists of four departments: Theatre and Radio; Film and Television; Drama; and Centre of Theatre and Film Studies. About 20 new students enrol each year. Students‘work is presented in productions and film or TV films. They also participate on the productions of theatre and film industry or festivals both home and abroad.Since 2000, the Academy is a member of Erasmus and Socrates network. In season 2009/2010 it also adopted the training according to the Bologna Declaration, which has strengthened interdepartmental cooperation, joint projects and research.
www.agrft.uni-lj.si
Molière:GEORGE DANDIN OR THE ABASHED HUSBAND
Translation: Josip Vidmar
Director: Eva Nina Lampič
Dramaturg: Urša Adamič, Nuša Komplet
Costumes: Tina Kolenik
Cast: Jernej Čampelj, Anja Drnovšek, Tina Gunzek, Žiga Udir, Tadej Pišek, Tina Potočnik, Oskar Kranjc
Length of the performance: 85 minut
Language: Slovenian
The plot is about a rich countryman, who buys a courtesy title and young beautiful wife. However, he does not get the respect and acceptance by the high society. In fact, the only thing he gets by the marriage is contempt and cuckoldry. Even though the story is over four hundred years old, it discusses still contemporary topics of money and social status.