SPRING 2007 progams
International/World theatre series
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SPRING 2007 progams International/World theatre series |
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 Jan Fabre Photo © Stephen Van Fleteren |
An Evening with Belgian Theatre Artist Jan Fabre Join us for an evening with renowned theatre artist Jan Fabre previewing the English language premier of his work I am Blood (Je suis Sang) at Montclair University, Alexander Kasser Theater. The reading will be directed by Dean Moss(New York) with Julia Chan and Peter Jacobs. A question and answer session with Jan Fabre, Luk Van Den Dries, and David Willinger will follow. Jan Fabre(Antwerp, 1958) is known as one of the most innovative artists of his day. Over the last 25 years he has produced work as a performance artist, theatre-maker, choreographer, opera-maker, author, and visual artist. Jan Fabre has grown into one of the most versatile artists on the international scene. He breaks away from the codes of the existing theatre by introducing “real time performance” —sometimes called “living installations” —and explores radical choreographic possibilities in order to bring renewal to classical dance. His productions Je suis sang at the Cour d'Honneur in Avignon and Tannhauser at the opera house DeMunt/LaMonnaiein Brussels achieved wide international success. http//www.troubleyn.be Dean Moss creates multidisciplinary projects and artistic collaborations that have been presented internationally. He serves as both a Curatorial Advisor at The Kitchen and on the Board ofDirectors of P.S. 122. Moss is the director of Gametophyte Inc., a nonprofit performance and media production company. www.gametophyte.org Luk Van Den Dries is professor at the Theatre Studies Department of the University of Antwerp (Belgium). He has written many articles and books on contemporary theatre. His most recent works are Body Check. Relocating the Body in Contemporary Performing Art(with Kaat Debo e.a., Rodopi, 2001) and Corpus Jan Fabre(Imschoot, 2004). David Willinger is a director, playwright and professor of Theatre at City College and in the Ph.D. Program in Theatre at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He has edited and translated many Belgian plays from both French and Flemish, including An Anthology of Contemporary Belgian Plays, 1970-1982. 6:30 p.m., Monday, January 22, 2007 Co-presented by Montclair State University |
Screenings and Symposium on Bruno Schulz - with Double Edge Theatre Double Edge Theatre’s Republic of Dreams, a work exploring the oeuvre of Jewish-Polish artist and writer Bruno Schulz (1892-1942), will have its world premiere at La MaMa E.T.C. in March 2007 in New York. Double Edge Theatre’s colorful and provocative project provides an opportunity for in-depth discussion of Schulz’s small but powerful body of work as it relates to rich theatrical inquiry. Please join us after the afternoon screenings of Schulzinspired productions, for an evening symposium that will include a short excerpt from Republic of Dreams followed by a panel discussion on the life and work of Bruno Schulz. Bruno Schulz was born on July 12, 1892, in the town of Drohobycz. His parents owned a textile shop until his father’s death in 1915. Schulz was a graphic artist and writer who taught at the Jagiello Gymnasium for fourteen years. He published two books, Cinnamon Shops and Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass. From 1941 to 1942 Schulz was protected by a Nazi who took an interest in his art work and hired him to paint. In November 1942, Schulz was shot by a Nazi officer who had a grudge against Schulz's protector. He was found by a friend who buried him in a cemetery that no longer exists. The manuscript of his last novel, The Messiah, has never been found.
2:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m., Monday February 26, 2007 |
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An Evening with Japanese Playwright Takeshi Kawamura and Richard Foreman Join us for an evening with Japanese playwright Takeshi Kawamura, featuring video clips of his past work, readings, and a discussion of his vision and creative process with legendary New York avant-garde director Richard Foreman (Ontological-Hysteric Theatre, New York), moderated by Carol Martin, associate professor of Drama at the Tisch School of the Arts. Readings directed by Aya Ogawa (Knife Inc., N.Y.) and Kenn Watt (Director, N.Y.). Takeshi Kawamura (Writer/Director) was born in Tokyo in 1959. In 1980, Kawamura founded his theatre company Daisan Erotica with students at Meiji University, and in 2002 he created his production company T-Factory in order to broaden his producing capabilities for his writing and directing work. In 1985 Mr. Kawamura was awarded the prestigious Kishida Kunio Award for Shinjuku Hakken-den Chapter One: Birth of a Dog (Inu no Tanjou). In 1996 he received a fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council for a New York residency. In 1998, he was invited to teach at New York University as a guest director, where he directed two plays from Yukio Mishima's Modern Noh Plays, Sotoba Komachi and Yoroboshi in English translation. Mr. Kawamura has directed several productions at the Setagaya Public Theatre including Heart of Straw (Wara no shinzou) (2000), which he also wrote, and a staged reading of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Orgia (2003). He was chosen as the participant representing Japan for the Setagaya Public Theatre — Japan Foundation's Asia Contemporary Theatre Collaboration Project. Richard Foreman founded the Ontological-Hysteric Theatre in 1968. In the early 1980s a branch of the theatre was established in Paris and funded by the French government. Since 1992 the theatre has been located in the historic St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery, in New York City's East Village neighborhood, and serves as a home to Foreman's annual productions as well as other local and international artists. Carol Martin was awarded a Visiting Professor Fellowship to Tokyo University for the spring semester of 2005. Her most recent book is Global Foreigners, co-edited with Saviana Stanescu and published by Seagull Press, London, New York, and Calcutta. 6:30pm Monday, March 19, 2007 |
Bringing Dolls to School: Theorizing performing Objects A Ph.D. Student Conference - Curated by Elisa Legon & Ana Martínez This one-day graduate student conference will focus on the academic study of and engagement with the field of performing objects. Performing objects have become increasingly prominent in adult theatre, regularly featured in mainstream and experimental works. Since puppetry is an art and academic subject that engages with other disciplines, its study proves to be an area of great vitality. The overarching objective is to foster and nurture new networks of emerging scholars coming from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives to look at the multifaceted ways performing objects are being used on stage. All graduate students who wish to participate in ongoing conversations about the impact and theoretical implications of performing objects are invited. The conference will feature a panel discussion, where emerging scholars will be able to share their research with their colleagues, and a roundtable discussion moderated by Claudia Orenstein (Hunter College, CUNY), with invited academics specializing in the study of performing objects. Established and emerging scholars will discuss strategies to emphasize and advance the study of performing objects in a university setting. Elisa Legon is a graduate student in the Ph.D. Program in Theatre at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She holds a B.A. in Economics from Stanford University. Her fields of interest are South American theatre and performing objects. Ana Martínez is a graduate student in the Ph.D. Program in Theatre at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She holds a licenciatura in Architecture from Universidad Anahuac (Mexico City) and an M.A. in Scenography from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (London). Her fields of interest are theatre architecture and material features of performance. Claudia Orenstein is Associate Professor of Theatre at Hunter College, CUNY. Author of Festive Revolutions: The Politics of Popular Theatre and the San Francisco Mime Troupe and co-author of The World of Theatre: Tradition and Innovation, she serves as Associate Editor of Asian Theatre. Her current research is on contemporary puppetry. 2 p.m., Monday, April 16, 2007 |
 Bride by Kevin Augustine Photo © Gloria Sun |
 Great Small works Photo © Roberto Rossi  Teatro Tinglado Photo © Melissa Ortiz |
International Puppet Theatre An Evening with Teatro Tinglado (Mexico) and Great Small Works (N.Y.) Join us for an evening of puppetry and performing objects featuring world renowned companies Teatro Tinglado (Mexico City) and Great Small Works (New York). Troka el Poderoso (Mighty Troka) by Teatro Tinglado is a solo toytheatre performance based on the character conceived by Germán List Arzubide, with music by Silvestre Revueltas, and with engravings and poems by artists from the Mexican "Estridentismo" movement of the 1920s, directed by Pablo Cueto and performed by Alejandro Benítez. Great Small Works performs A Walk in the City, a toy-theatre adaptation of a story by Italo Calvino, directed and designed by Roberto Rossi and performed by John Bell, Trudi Cohen, Jenny Romaine, and Mark Sussman. A question-and-answer session moderated by Professor Claudia Orenstein will follow. Founded in 1980, Teatro Tinglado is dedicated to the creation of new plays involving contemporary Mexican authors by commissioning new work or by adapting texts. Great Small Works was founded in 1995 as a collective of theatre artists who draw on folk, avant-garde, and popular theatre traditions to address contemporary issues. Claudia Orenstein is Associate Professor of Theatre at Hunter College, CUNY. Author of Festive Revolutions: The Politics of Popular Theatre and the San Francisco Mime Troupe and co-author of The World of Theatre: Tradition and Innovation, she serves as Associate Editor of Asian Theatre. Her current research is on contemporary puppetry. Curated by Ana Martínez and Elisa Legon, graduate students in the Ph.D. Program in Theatre at the Graduate Center, CUNY. 6:30 p.m., Monday, April 16, 2007 |
| Theatre and the Spanish Civil War The Siege of Madrid - Reading and panel discussion Join us in celebrating the 70th anniversary of the keystone staging of Miguel de Cervantes' Numantia and exploring other examples of the theatre of resistance during the Spanish Civil War. Numantia was staged on December 28, 1937 for the people of Madrid and for the soldiers defending the city under siege by Francoist troops. The text, a version by Rafael Alberti, poet, playwright, and Anti-Fascist activist, highlighted the parallelism of the siege of the ancient city of Numantia by the Romans in 134 BC, and the siege of Madrid by the joint forces of Mussolini and Franco. The evening will feature readings from excerpts of Numantia (Cervantes and Alberti), Alberti's Noche de guerra en el Museo del Prado (A Night of War in the Prado Museum), and selections of Romances de la Guerra de Espańa (Romances of the War in Spain). A panel discussion with Daniel Gerould and Jean Graham-Jones will follow. Participants will include: David Manning (Advisor) has written, edited, directed, and produced for print, theatrical, film, A-V, and broadcast media in San Francisco, Barcelona, Martha's Vineyard, North Carolina, New Jersey, and, currently, New York City. With his wife, Suzanne, he co-directed the Synergic Theater for 20 years. Ana Martínez (Curator) is a graduate student in the Ph. D. Program in Theatre at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She studied Architecture at the Universidad Anahuac (Mexico City) and she holds a M.A. in Scenography from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (London). Puy Navarro (Director) graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, where she is currently a faculty member. She has worked internationally as an actress in Paris, Japan, Spain, and the U.S; with directors Steven Daldry, Jorge Ali Triana, Steve Wangh, Tam Warner, and S. Dibble. David Rodríguez-Solás (Co-Curator) is a student in the Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is writing his dissertation on the theatre and cultural history of the Spanish Second Republic and the Civil War. 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, May 1, 2007, With additional support from the instituto cervantes and The Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian literatures and languages Ph D program at the Graduate Center |
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An Evening with Italian Playwright Roberto Cavosi Join us for English language premier readings from a range of Cavosi’s work, including Beautiful Maria (Bellissima Maria), winner of the 2001 Riccione Teatro Prize, A Marriage of Arrangement (Maresciallo Butterfly), Teatrogiornale (a radio show), and his most recent play Epiphany Nights (Notte d’epifania). There will also be a short visual presentation and a panel discussion with the playwright.
6:30 p.m., Monday, May 7, 2007 |
An evening with Catalan playwright Sergi Belbel Join us for a reading of Mobile by playwright-director Sergi Belbel, translated by Marion Peter Holt and directed by Mallory Catlett. A discussion of the play with the author and translator will follow. As the new director of the National Theatre of Catalonia (TNC), Belbel will also talk about his plans to promote Catalan drama and emerging playwrights. Sergi Belbel is the most widely performed of contemporary Catalan dramatists and has become one of the most acclaimed directors in Spain, with stagings of plays by Koltès, Guimerà, Shakespeare, Benet i Jornet, Mamet, and Marivaux, as well as a production of Rossini's Il viaggio a Rheims for the Teatre del Liceu. Among his most successful plays are Tàlem (Fourplay) (1990), Carícies (Caresses) (1991), Després de la pluja (After the Rain) (1993), La sang (Blood) (1999), and Forasters (Strangers) (2004). His work has received both the Catalan National Prize for Literature and Spain's National Prize for Literature. In 1999, the Paris production of After the Rain was awarded the Molière Prize as best comedy of the season. Last year Belbel became the new director of the National Theatre of Catalonia. Mobile is subtitled a Digital Phone Play, an apt classification for a satirical play in which most of dialogue consists of one-sided monologues spoken into cellphones. The four characters— a domineering company executive, her dependent son, an unhappy middle-aged woman, and her frustrated daughter— can only be described as "dysfunctional." The two mothers survive a terrorist attack in an airport and are consequently brought together in a nearby hotel, but their lives are drastically changed by the experience, as are the lives of their offspring who now confront their own dissatisfactions in a redemptive way. They are able to speak to their parents via cellphones in a way that had been impossible for them before. Belbel has not only ridiculed the dependency of contemporary society on the ubiquitous cellphone and its multiple functions (recorded messages, instant photography), but has also ingeniously made these functions a basic part of plot development. He has written a troubling account of the way mindless terrorism disrupts the lives of self-centered individuals whose dependence on technology has further alienated them from direct human interactions. 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 9th, 2007 Co-sponsored by the Institut Ramon Llull and the North American Catalan Society |
 Sergi Belbel Photo © Pilar Aymerich |
An Evening with Polish Playwright and filmmaker Przemysław Wojcieszek Please join us for an evening with Polish playwright, screenwriter, and director Przemysław Wojcieszek. After a reading of excerpts from his plays, he will discuss his work with Linda Chapman, New York Theatre Workshop. Co-presented by the Polish Cultural Institute. Przemysław Wojcieszek studied journalism and Polish literature but debuted as a film director with Kill Them All in 1999. He quickly became a leading representative of Polish independent cinema, opening his own distribution company in 2001 and launching a Polish counterpart of the Sundance spin-off with the annual Slamdance Poland for independent and fringe filmmakers. In 2004 Wojcieszek was named Best Director at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia for Down The Colorful Hill. The author of his own screenplays, Wojcieszek won a 2005 Polityka Passport in film, honored by the weekly magazine for “his unconventional work as a manifesto of those born in the 1970s who are trying to find a place for themselves in our reality.” But in 2004 he began working in theatre, exploring themes of tolerance, personal identity, and being Polish. Made in Poland, about a rebellious young man from the outer-city housing projects, marked Wojcieszek's debut both as playwright and as theatrical director at the Modjeska Theatre in Legnica. The play was highly successful with audiences and critics alike and was proclaimed the best in Poland in 2004. Wojcieszek then directed three highly acclaimed plays in Warsaw: Whatever Happens, I Love You, Darkroom, and Dorota Masłowska's Two Poor Romanians Speaking Polish — before returning to Legnica with Personal Jesus in 2006. Linda Chapman is Associate Artistic Director at New York Theatre Workshop since 1995; co-writer and performer of Gertrude and Alice: A Likeness to Loving, with Lola Pashalinski; an Associate member of The Wooster Group from 1983- 94 as Managing Director and performer; founding Artistic Director of Sang- Froid, Ltd.; and a founding producer of Dyke TV and DTV Productions. Chapman was administrator for Theater For The New City, a member of Sonia Moore's American Stanislavski Theatre; and is a founding board member of Youth Arts NY. Most recently Chapman co-adapted Ann Bannon's Lesbian classic The Beebo Brinker Chronicles with playwright Kate Moira Ryan, which will be produced in NYC in the fall of 2007. 6:30, Thursday, June 7, 2007 |
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 Przemyslaw Wojcieszek Courtesy of the artist |
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