Oct 27 2009

Interview with Hotel Modern: Theatre VJs on brutal themes

Back in June, during Eurokaz – The International Festival of New Theatre, Arlene Hoornweg and Pauline Kalker from theatre company Hotel Modern gave me an interview about their work. We weaved our talk around two of their performances – Kamp and The Shrimp Tales.

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Oct 11 2009

Interview with Aurelien Bory: On stage puzzles and space formulas

During this year’s edition of Eurokaz – The International Festival of New Theatre I had an opportunity to interview artistic director of  CIE 111 Company,  Aurelien Bory…

aurelien_bory_1.jpgAurélien Bory in Zagreb, photo taken from SEEbiz (c)

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Jul 24 2009

Cool boyz from the past… male dancers

I just realized that I never introduced male dancers in the ‘vintage category’… Therefore, I made a small selection of male dancers who were active between approximately 1900 to 1925. Back then, they made decadent ladies in the audience pretty upset and flushed in their faces…

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Jun 25 2009

E-learning: How to Perform Mime Routines

After being such good performers of mime, it’s time to end series of mime classes under the guidance of Mike Wenzel.

Today you are gonna train some Mime routines, and at the same time, you will learn how to distinguish mime from an old form of street culture, and that’s clownery. I leave gentlemen Pierrot and Harlequin for some other time…

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Jun 13 2009

E-learning: Mime Practice Exercises

Time for a new class of mime exercises by Mike Wenzel, simply to get you more into the corporal structure of this art form…

To understand truly the way body and muscles behave in mime you need several lessons of basic bodily isolation and to practice some elemental movements… this takes you to the next level of your sense of embodiment and body control…

etienne_decroux_as_Smart_Object_1.jpgEtienne Decroux as Smart Object

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