IETM Bucharest: Newsround session
Hello everyone,
I am pleased to say that almost 50 people applied for our Newsround session at IETM Bucharest.
You will find some information about the selected projects below. They will be presented at the session on Friday 21st April 2017 (10:00 – 13:00) @ National Theatre Bucharest.
In the meantime, feel free to get in touch with the presenters if any of the projects seems interesting to you.
LE PETIT THEATRE DU BOUT DU MONDE
Chef de File : Théâtre de la Massue / Cie Ezéquiel Garcia-Romeu
Un dispositif de production d’œuvres croisant différentes pratiques artistiques et intégrant une dimension digitale (réseau social dédié, robotique pilotée à distance par les internautes…), Le dispositif est appuyé par une série de laboratoires de recherche en partenariat avec un réseau d’universités européennes, latino-américaine et une circulation autour du bassin méditerranéen ; laboratoires où s’élaboreront à la fois une recherche pure (en sciences humaines : sociologie ethnologie…) et une recherche appliquée (développement logiciels, robotisation, arts appliqués…). Le projet fera également une large place à la transmission des savoirs par la mise en place de partenariats avec différentes écoles d’Art et établissements d’enseignement des arts de la scène à travers l’Europe
Chaque partenaire participe de l’objet final tant en recherche qu’en pratique dans les laboratoires de conception des différentes phases évolutives du projet. Les laboratoires sont accueillis dans les pays des différents partenaires et permettent le croisement d’artistes de chercheurs et de publics.
La dimension numérique s’emploiera à développer un nouveau schéma économique de production des œuvres de spectacle vivant, notamment par l’interface du réseau social dédié et les accès aux phases de monstration par l’entremise d’outils digitaux.
Le dispositif réunis une communauté d’artistes de chercheurs et de publics autour d’un projet artistique questionnant les rapports entre pouvoir numérique, société et démocratie.
Les phases de monstration publiques émailleront le processus de recherche-création et s’emploieront à explorer les mutations des positions du spectateur face aux évolutions de la technologie.
Le prototype sera élaboré à partir du projet de spectacle de marionnettes « le petit théâtre du bout du monde – opus 2 » proposition artistique de Ezéquiel Garcia-Romeu ; le dispositif sera ensuite étendu, après une première phase triennale, à d’autres projets proposés par les différents partenaires.
Georgian International Festival or Arts Gift in Tbilisi and Tumanishvili Film Actors Theatre seek for partners for international collaboration involving cultural organizations and theatre makers from different countries that are willing to take part into building an effective network to experiment with transnational theatre aesthetics and create a production, voicing one of the main issues of our continent:
What are the proper host and guest boundaries in our understanding and the relationship between the individual cultures and etiquette of different countries in Europe?
Do there exist various notions of inclusion or exclusion of migrants and travelers across our continent? And may the moral principals or the national philosophy, tradition and religion create a new human constitution in Europe?
We invite to create the trip between the theaters across Europe to create a new theatrical contemplation about the human constitution which will try to define the norms together with artists, societies and audience involved into the story telling. While their documents, arguments and opinion that will emerge during the process of development will shape the final scenario.
We would like to suggest a masterpiece of the Georgian literature, an epic poem by the Georgian poet, writer and philosopher Vazha-Pshavela (first published in 1893 in Tbilisi) - “Host and Guest” - as a navigator through the process and the Georgian International Festival or Arts Gift in Tbilisi as the solid international platform for the presentation of the final production.
For any further information please contact Ms. Sophie Tortladze, Founding General Manager of the Georgian International Festival of Arts GIFT in Tbilisi in honour of Michael Tumanishvili
tbilisigiftfestival@gmail.com
00 995 32 2350203 Office
00 995 599501816 Cell
00 372 82 193 183 International
164, Agmashenebli Ave, 0112 Tbilisi, Georgia
Copyright for the Idea and project is registered at EU Creative Europe Portal, ECAS PIC NUMBER 913698388.
Crazy sounds from non-musicians. /// . I am Christophe Rocher, musician and artistic director of Ensemble Nautilis in Brest / France.
I am looking for partners around the creation and distribution in many forms of orchestras of non-musicians created in situ, with the people of your territory (public, family, actors, dancers, citizens ...).
These orchestras are created with the contribution of professional improvising musicians and perform in very different contexts (pure concerts, performing arts, in connection with theater or dance ...), each project is built with the place and context that welcomes.
for us, through practice and exchange, we put music at the center of our society, create links and integration (I work in my city for example with migrants people ), or/and in connection with artistic companies (theater, dance, etc.) to bring a musical dimension to them, to ask questions of musical langage, speaking, power relations or communication within the group through music. It is above all to put everyone in the position to create, to improvise, alongside musicians who approach these open practices with great experience, then to publicly share the original fruits of these musical creations.
2b theatre company is an 18 year old creation and touring company based in the small city of Halifax, Canada. 2b is busy and growing. The company maintains creation and new production activities, significant touring activities, and artist and community development programs. Our provincial government has recently invested significantly in a plan to expand 2b's touring volume and operations.
We have plans in place. Some are specific and underway, and some are still a bit general and have not yet begun. For instance, we know that we want to invest in significant showcasing in strategic markets and geographies, but we haven't finalized which markets we want to target, and how best to achieve our objectives.
Artistic co-director Anthony Black lays out some of the options and seeks feedback, advice, and outside the box thinking from attendees of Newsround and IETM generally about how a Canadian company from a small place might best to expand the sharing of the company's work.
SAFARI
by K.A.K.
K.A.K. searches artists and collectives to collaborate in an international project and partners to help organizing this encounter between artistic collectives.
K.A.K. (Koekelberg Alliance of Crafters) is a loose-fixed alliance of crafters, theater makers, thinkers and other tinkerers. K.A.K. organise their own marginal work environment and create a communal platform to dialogue with themselves and the other. K.A.K. is based in Brussels.
What happens if you bring two collectives together on stage? What if you re-enact something that has already been made with another group of people? What if you involve other work methods in your process? What does this encounter add to the project? What can we bring back to Brussels and can we create a “open source collective process”?
K.A.K. don’t believe in artistic survival of the fittest. We believe in going on SAFARI to discover and meet other art collectives in Europe and around the world. In a two-days exchange programme we will discuss horizontal working, self-organization and collective creative processes. After a day of talking, K.A.K. propose an artistic encounter: the two collectives will perform SAFARI together.
Safaris are all about spotting wildlife, but K.A.K.’s SAFARI is different. Our lions, elephants, snakes and antelopes are played by naked people. They are trying to retire from being human. But the question remains, do they manage to escape their human nature? They are not living in a jungle but in a urban abandoned space. Audience is taken in cars by “guides” and driven through the tinkered jungle.
Today we need contacts with an artistic network in Europe and the world. We want to meet artists and collectives to collaborate with in this project. We also need institutions that want to collaborate and help organising this project.
info@k-a-k.be
0032 496 23 26 24
I am a performer in Live Art. I have already done many things; my artistic background is both dance and theatre, as well as management, and some other stuff!
I am French and I’ve recently moved to the UK, in Bristol. I enjoy it!
I want to develop my network in Live Art. I want to meet friends and colleagues, to share experiences and reflexions, or to work with: artists, producers, and managers, people working in venues & festivals, good friends… I am here.
I take part of this Newsround because I want to meet you.
(below, link to my FB page and the trailer of my last performance)
Associazione Etre is a network of 20 multi-disciplinary artistic residencies based in Lombardy, in Italy.
The work our residencies do isn’t solely dedicated to artistic creation, also on socially engaged projects. The focus can be on youth engagement, social integration, requalification of the suburbs, development of rural areas and much more, through cultural activities. The common aim is to support artistic creation and develop a deep connection with the local territory, engage more people in culture and build a stronger and open-minded community.
We want to share with you all, projects that our associates are currently developing, that have an international dimension, ambition or potential:
• Habitat Possible Scenarios, by Residenza Ilinxarium (www.ilinxarium.org), aims at promoting artists’ mobility through an international network, that supports the creation and circulation of new site-specific work.
• Cultura di contrabbando: sguardi oltre confine, by Karakorum Teatro, Varese (www.karakorumteatro.it). By creating an international circuit with other organisations dedicated to artistic residencies, and that will possibly work in a ‘border’ zone like Varese (near the Swiss border), the project wants to increase the flow of international work in areas that are not ‘mainstream’ and facilitate artists’ mobility, with a special focus on Under 35/emerging artists.
• The Young Child, The Art of Mild Joy by Compagnia Dionisi (www.compagniadionisi.it)
aims at improving the social life in the suburbs through artistic activities that can revive people’s sense of wonder and curiosity for life.
• Carni Scelte Abroad, by Teatro Magro (www.teatromagro.com) is a group of very young students participating into a free training programme in the performing arts. Teatro Magro is looking for an organisation with a similar focus on the ‘very young’, to create international training exchange.
• Teatro in-folio, with broad experience in theatre projects for schools, is looking for other organisations and projects with an interest or focus on European literature and/or history of design.
We look forward to meeting you all!
Speak Percussion is an Australian new music organisation who collaborate with composers and artists from around the world to create art, a recent example of this is "Fluorophone" with Danish composers Simon Loeffler and Juliana Hodkinson and Australian composers Eugene Ughetti and Damien Ricketson which premiered at Sonica in Glasgow in Nov 2015.
Speak Percussion are looking to continue to further collaborate and engage with Europe and the world outside of Australia.
We are looking at new ways of engaging with artists and presenters - at new models which do not tie us to "traditional" ways of operating which are rapidly vanishing within Australia and we believe internationally.
Michaela Coventry - Executive Producer
michaela@speakpercussion.com
Eutopians of all countries, unite!
We believe that the European Project faces harsh and justified criticism. The European Union of today is far away from a social and cultural community of shared values. The solution isn’t the return of national states, but collective discussions and the formation of a new European vision.
While nationalists of all countries connect all over Europe, a democratic, transnational counter proposal is missing. This absence leads to fear, division and exclusion. As European artists it is our purpose to face this powerlessness. The time has come for a democratic left-wing Eutopia.
We are looking for initiatives all over Europe that set out to strengthen solidarity, community and plurality in different ways. Our core questions:
What are the different European narratives that shape our social coexistence?
What theories of a European Utopia are there and are worth discussing?
Which positions can be and want to be taken by artists within this discourse?
Being political artists, we are looking for forms of protest as well as political representation. We are addressing artists, scientists as well as citizens’ groups, NGO’s and government initiatives to find out how, where and by whom new societal ideas are being developed, designed and tested.
Based on these contacts we will build a network of European Utopians. We will invite chosen initiatives to Munich for a think-tank to discuss the concrete realisations of utopian concepts. This format is planned as an impulse to collectively develop transdisciplinary projects, that will be realized out of the network in 2018.
we would love it, if you contact us: lashut@riseup.net.
BIRCA - Bækkelund International Residency Center for Artists is made for performing artists. The ambition is to create a room for reflection and practice with a feeling of home and belonging based on my own love for and work with artists from all over the world.
I have bought this beautiful space on the Island Bornholm in the middle of the Baltic sea surrounded by some of Europes most phantastic nature. It has two big rehearsing spaces 160 m2 and 130 m2 and can host 16-20 persons - it will be an amazing worksplace for international performing artists - especially those who wants to engage in how nature can influence and inspire the creation of arts.
I would like to get in contact with other residency places especially those placed in similar natural surroundings. And artists who would be interested in such workingplaces. And I would like to raise a discussion on how we can engage in an investigation together on how to use and be inspired by nature. Which practices and tools do you know of?
My name is Colin Pitrat, I’m in charge of a performing arts production office in Paris, France.
I work with French director Julie Beres (www.lescambrioleurs.fr), who is currently developing two different projects about "climate change" (with French-Romanian author Alexandra Badea) and “the youngest generation’s search for an ideal”.
Julie is used to work in direct contact with communities, getting involved and experiencing collaborative writing.
I’ll be really pleased to have a further exchange with you, know more about your own experience, and initiate possible collaborations!
I am the Director of The Development Platform for the Performing Arts which is a new Danish initiative; an independent organisation with the purpose of furthering the development of independent performing arts, project-based theatres and less established theatres in Denmark. The intention is for this to happen through dialogue and partnership with national and international stakeholders in order to contribute to a more dynamic, qualified and diverse performing arts environment in Denmark.
The Development Platform will focus on the producer, and particularly on the creative producer, that plays a central part in processes that facilitates networks, development and internationalization. The Creative Producer that we aim to nourish will also be central in identifying and implementing new business models for the performing arts.
The purpose of the Development Platform will mainly be reached by facilitating peer-to-peer learning. There is a great amount of expertise to be found within project-based performing arts in Denmark, but it is too often isolated in specific areas or organisations or even amongst individuals. The activities of the Development Platform and the establishment of a physical hub for project-based performing arts will help gather the collective knowledge of the industry and bring it into play. Hence, we have established a 500 sqm collaborative workspaces for producers, artists and companies in the heart of Copenhagen.
I am keen to make use of IETM to forge links with people who can be included in our network and to help the Danish performing arts sector to be exposed to best practice cases internationally.