Laying Historical Ground, Wide-angle Towards the end of Faustin Linyekula's theatrical dance piece My body, my archive"devised in 2023 and witnessed by me as performed during the Aichi Trien…
Ocean Cage engulfs its audience for almost two hours in a multi-sensorial, immersive performative installation combining visual art, light design, dance, film, video art, sound design, and m…
How does a coming-of-age story look like today, at a time of a global ecological catastrophe and increasingly dire social, economic, political crises looming in the future? Kyoto-based playw…
As part of Kyoto Experiment, I watched at the black box of Theatre E9 two performers interact with an installation rich in textures and materials against a background of projections. The pro…
The enthusiastic applause and standing ovations received by Room with a View from the large audience filling the spacious proscenium hall of the ROHM Theatre in Kyoto paid tribute to the art…
Indonesian performance artist Melati Suryodarmo and Italian choreographer Alessandro Sciarroni don't seem to have much in common beyond their shared success on the international artistic sce…
The interdisciplinary theatre, dance, and performance art festival Kyoto Experiment (KEX) wowed me with the thoughtfulness of its curatorial vision. The three co-artistic directors"Yoko Kawa…
The entire stage is the same shade of pale, dusty pink: the extra-long couch and side tables, the floor, the three backdrops encompassing the interior of an elegant urban apartment of the up…
Yuri Kordonsky's Eréndira at the German State Theatre in TimiÈ™oara is a visually gorgeous, well-acted, and imaginatively directed stage adaptation of a seedy and second-rate 1972 novell…
A couple of hours before watching José Rivera's play Cloud Tectonics staged at the German State Theatre in TimiÈ™oara, Romania, I was chatting with the theatre's head of dramaturgy and P…
How is the German State Theatre different from other Romanian public theatres? Last year, when TimiÈ™oara was the European Capital of Culture, international visitors were very surprised t…
The European Theatre Convention (ETC) in collaboration with Renew Culture officially launched in July 2024 the ETC Theatre Green Book (ETC TGB). The sixty-nine-page, freely available documen…
On November 20, 2021, TheTheatreTimes.com published futureStage Manifesto, developed by futureStage Research Group at metaLAB at Harvard, a group of 40 leading thinkers in performing arts.Â…