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SEE SOUND

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

How does one represent brilliance; it is easy to trace the lines of brilliance through narrative. Good (and bad) pieces have emerged doing the work of biography, oscillating between the less than miraculous Jobs to Paul Schrader’s seductive and experimental Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters. However, it is hard to recreate the timbre that imparts [...]

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FUNHOUSE

Friday, December 20, 2013

Peter Pan (or for that matter, Marina Abravomic) is not the only one getting the Bob Wilson treatment.  Working with Dissident Industries Inc, theater’s hallowed maverick, Robert Wilson has constructed video portraits–or caricatures?–of an odd population, including stars such as Isabelle Huppert and Brad Pitt to a…horned frog and Boris the porcupine (above).  Though the stylistic [...]

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Thursday, June 27, 2013

A new contemporary performing arts festival Foreign Affairs by Berliner Festsipele brings the beauteous choreographies of legendary William Forsythe and more on stage…

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FRESH FROM THE OVEN

Friday, June 14, 2013

‘Let them eat pepper gas’
Recep Tayyip Antoinette
‘Welcome the the gas festival’, ‘There is a beach under the stones’, ‘There is a revolution going on here, Signorita’,‘I could not find a slogan’ were some of the slogans written on the walls of beauteous cities of Turkey, the land of pepper. All you have been seeing in the news was a [...]

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FESTIWALLA 2012

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Arab revolutions, Days of Rage in London and Occupy: Worldwide protest movements are demanding greater participation in political processes; young people everywhere are calling for social change. ‘Dare real [DEMO!cracy]‘ – that is also the goal of this year’s FESTIWALLA, Berlin’s youth theatre festival from and for young people which will undertake a critical and [...]

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HUSTLE AND BUSTLE

Sunday, October 14, 2012

1920s… Years of Charleston and Flappers like movie star Louise Brooks; cabarets and Dada! After being overwhelmed by Mike Nelson’s work in the newly discovered abandoned cabaret theater from 1920s in Berlin’s Gartenstrasse, bumping into Thames and Hudson’s new publication Berlin in the 20s was a nice coincidence. The book is starting with a description [...]

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… AND EUROPE WILL BE STUNNED!

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

The Jewish Renaissance Movement in Poland (JRMiP) calls for the return of 3,300,000 Jews to Poland in order to re-establish the annihilated Jewish community. The movement was initiated by Israeli-born artist Yael Bartana in 2007 and has since spread internationally. It aims to create an atmosphere for a Jewish appearance in Europe. The Jews of [...]

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MEDEA

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Medea is a project directed by Dimitris Papaioannou with the team of Mesa Project. As Die Walküre by Wagner, their work lasts six hours, from 17.30 till 23.30. The exciting point of this project is that, as an audience, one may come and go whenever s/he wants, create her/his own composition by choosing when and [...]

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PUNCH AND JUDY

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Jan Svankmajer, who have influenced artists such as Tim Burton and Terry Gilliam, is a Czech filmmaker. This surrealist artist’s exaggerated sounds and speed-up sequences make his work all the more fascinating, creating a disturbing nature. In his films and stop-motion animations usually  food and eating has a significant role. Arcimboldo-like heads,  weird situations and [...]

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MCNULTY/FREAMON IAGO/OTHELLO WEST/PETERS

Monday, September 5, 2011

Detectives Jimmy McNulty and Lester Freamon who love each other’s company are re-united as Iago and Othello at Sheffield Crucible from 15 September to 15 October.

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