Interview
September 15, 2024
by Teia Brînză
It's completely normal to involve children in performances for adults. The idea of banning children from being on stage, as it was in ancient Greece, would be foolish today. Of course, people have opinions about what children should be allowed to do on stage and what types of plays they should be part of.
July 9, 2024
Ingeborg von Zadow and Elise Wilk in dialogue with Anda Cadariu
I don’t like workshops where tutors say everything’s great when in fact it isn’t, but I don’t like tutors who heavily criticize the participants, either. I hope I can help them find their voice. And our purpose in the framework of these workshops is to give them the opportunity to discover their vocation as playwrights and to offer our support.
August 26, 2022
by Florentina Bratfanof
As Bettina Lohmeyer celebrates this year 30 years since she first met acting coach Susan Batson in a masterclass, we publish this interview collected not only from zoom discussions but also from constant dialogues and feedback after each edition of Self Tape workshop.
January 15, 2022
by Cristina Modreanu
Of course, we desperately need new forms of performance and new forms of spectatorship. But they must go further than moving out of the theatre and becoming site-specific works, or relying on technology to compete with social media, video games, and streaming services.
November 30, 2021
by Cristina Modreanu
Through Transforma I befriend my fascination with esoteric and mystical with scientific in order to know more.
July 14, 2021
by Oana Cristea Grigorescu
Michał Borczuch ”We developed Cinema of moral anxiety in the moment when right wing political government started to destroyed in Poland everything we connected with democracy and liberation since 1989. So we started to realize how political authorities behave absolutely with our dreams and beliefs and how they start to create a social anxiety about the future.”
June 22, 2021
by Oana Cristea Grigorescu
„What mainstream rejects in its first reflex, the Łaźnia very gladly accepts, what directors of large institutions are afraid of finds its place and support with us.”
Interview with Małgorzata Szydłowska and Bartosz Szydłowski
January 20, 2019
by Cristina Modreanu
A well-known poet and journalist, Saviana Stanescu left Romania for US thanks to a Fulbright Scholarship and she arrived in New York just before the 9/11 attacks which still play a role in her imaginary, alongside with Romanian revolution in 1989 and the ghosts of the past. Here is a conversation with her as a preview to a future common endeavor to take place this fall in Bucharest, Romania - The Revolution Project.
March 14, 2018
By Cristina Modreanu
The people that I chose to organize my thoughts around were three artists who exemplified this new direction – Robert Wilson, Richard Foreman (Ontological-Hysteric Theater), Lee Breuer (Mabou Mines). Their work suggested to me the first really big move in the theatre away from having theatre founded in theatrical traditions and ideas exclusively to a theatre more interested in visual arts and dance.