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Rio de Janeiro ganha 1º Festival de teatro-dança

O Centro Coreográfico está recebendo o 1º Festival de Teatro-Dança do Rio de Janeiro. A programação teve início na segunda-feira (23/11) com a palestra Teatro-dança enquanto linguagem poética, seguida da apresentação do solo Desgarro – Chile 1973, de Paula Lavaréda,…

Palavras e coisas são tema de trabalho em Belém

A questão do corpo e sua aparência. As danças e seus nomes incompreensíveis. A cidade e suas múltiplas narrativas. Explorando a proximidade ou distância entre as coisas e os nomes que elas têm, estreia nesta quinta-feira (26/11), em Belém, o…

Evento leva dança contemporânea coreana a São Paulo

Começa nesta quinta-feira (26/11) o evento Semana Brasil Coreia de dança contemporânea, uma parceria da Prefeitura de São Paulo com Korean Arts Managemant Service (KAMS). A iniciativa comemora os 50 anos de relações diplomáticas entre os dois países.

Até domingo (29/11),…

Raça Cia. de Dança vence o Prêmio Teatro de Dança

A Raça Cia. de Dança, com o espetáculo Tango sob dois olhares, foi a vencedora da 1ª edição do Prêmio Teatro de Dança, entregue na noite de segunda-feira (23/11), em São Paulo. A companhia foi contemplada com R$ 30 mil…

Diversos materiais formam festival em Portugal

Um espaço para a dança, teatro, música e performance em três cidades de Portugal – Alcanena, Minde e Torres Novas. Até domingo (29/11) acontece a 1ª edição do Festival Materiais Diversos, com direção artística de Tiago Guedes.

Até domingo, a programação…

Cultural Diplomacy: a perspective from Catalonia - seminar, Barcelona, 2-4 Dec

Books on the move - dance and movement online bookshop

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• Palestinian village suffers water shutdown over donkeys - Israel News, Ynetnews
  Arb al-Ramdin village supplied with water from nearby settlement for 13 years. After Alfei Menashe council head's daughter hits village's donkey with jeep, father decides to cut off water for entire village 'to illustrate matter's gravity.' Water reinstated after meeting with village dignitaries
• 'New York has lost its edge' | USA - Times Online
  Moss also points out “a weird trend in New York for making a simulacrum of the original.” As an example he mentions the cult punk bar CBGB, once the “home of underground rock”, where Patti Smith, Blondie, Talking Heads and The Ramones have all performed. The venue closed in 2006 and was eventually bought by the high-end men’s fashion designer, John Varvatos, who turned it into a boutique.
• Over The Game
  Over the Game es un proyecto comisariado por ZEMOS98 y Flavio Escribano, una exposición que reflexiona en torno al papel del videojuego en la sociedad moderna y que reúne a realizadores, artistas e investigadores en un terreno común, en una misma muestra que tiene como eje esencial la consideración de la experiencia lúdica como actividad creativa, artística y crítica.
• Rhizome | Interview with Brody Condon
  Case (2009), conceived and produced by artist Brody Condon, will be a day-long installation and performance that, in the artist’s words combines “Gibson’s 1980s dystopian techno-fetishism with faux ‘virtual reality’ scenes that will unfold via moving Bauhaus-inspired sculptural props accompanied by the Gamelan ensemble Dharma Swara.” I asked Condon a few questions in advance of the New York premiere so readers, near and far, could get a sense of how this ambitious work will unfold on Sunday.
• Artists Suffering in the Economic Downturn, Study Shows - ARTINFO.com
  The study, conducted by Leveraging Investments in Creativity (LINC), a nonprofit that works to supports artists, states that more than 50 percent of artists have seen income drop in the last year with a staggering 18 percent of respondents reporting an income loss of more than 50 percent over that period.
• Urgent calls needed for Mohammad Othman
  Palestinian human rights activist Mohammad Othman needs your help. He is being held by the Israeli government indefinitely and without charges, and he needs international pressure to either call for a fair trial in a court of law where he can defend himself, or to call for his release.

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ArtReview Close Encounters: Frieze Projects 2009

Artists Stephanie Syjuco, Kim Coleman, Per-Oskar Leu and Ryan Gander speak with ArtReview about their projects for Frieze Art Fair. Interviews by Oliver Basciano and J.J. Charlesworth.

ArtReview Close Encounters: Martin Creed

Oliver Basciano meets Martin Creed during rehearsals for his Ballet (Work No. 1020), at Sadler's Wells, London, 16–18 October

ArtReview Close Encounters: LMCC LentSpace

ArtReview's Tyler Coburn tours the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's temporary park/art installation, LentSpace, and interviews curator Adam Kleinman and artist Olivier Babin

ArtReview Close Encounters: Athanasios Argianas

Oliver Basciano speaks with artist Athanasios Argianas on the occasion of his exhibition Until Full Stops Look Like Stars, From Where You Stand, at Max Wigram Gallery, London, through 31 October.

ArtReview Close Encounters: The Jarman Award

ArtReview's Laura Allsop attends the Jarman Award ceremony, held at London's Whitechapel Gallery on 22 September, and interviews artist Lindsay Seers, who won for her film installations Extramission 6 and It Has to Be This Way (both 2009)

- THE PIECE: «Woman-Bomb» by the Croatian playwright Ivana Sajko is the monologue of a female suicide bomber, who reflects in the last minutes before the explosion of the bomb not only her action, but her circumstances that lead her to this action. Based on this text, Director and Perfomer Sanja Ristic, conceived and staged a rock concert combined with dance and theatre. The musical and aesthetic form of expression that is used in musical theatre reflects the emotional and excessive condition of this woman immediately before her action and follows the radical emotional world of the female suicide bomber. - PRESS: Sanja Ristic and her team succeeded in bringing enormous emotional sensitivities on stage and managed to avoid clichés without losing the appropriate seriousness that is required for the subject. Protect me from myself is a performance that stirs emotions and grabs you. It is in the mix: Silence and self-reflexive moments in which the suicide remembers her past are set against excessive dance scenes, songs and dynamic musical intermezzi. Still the fast show with this serious subject never sinks to arbitrary or befriending concernment. Protect me from myself abstains from any moral values. The inner life of the possibly prototypical female suicide bomber stays a fragment and is presented to the audience only in extracts. It is obvious that the performance leaves many questions. How else would it be possible to deal with this subject?

:Danish+ Showcase and Conference

:DANISH+ is a showcase of professional Danish performing arts for children and young people - supported by the Danish Arts Council and organized by Gruppe 38.

IETM is seeking an Administrative Assistant

IETM, is seeking a person to assist in the administrative tasks of the network Secretariat. The role of the Administrative Assistant is to maintain effective administrative systems as well as to assist the IETM Secretariat in their development.

FestFlash 6: Festivals world-wide engage in innovative collaborations

Again, the featured projects in the sixth edition of the FestFlash on Creativity and Innovation prove that festivals are excellent platforms to foster intercultural dialogue. But what’s more, they are excellent vehicles to exploit the exchange between cultures and stimulate the establishment of innovative collaboration activities.

Contemporary Drama Festival Budapest

The annual Contemporary Drama Festival Budapest has kicked off and will be running till 28th November this year.