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Get in-depth perspectives through commissioned articles, interviews and reports on current topics for Asia-Europe cultural relations.


By Catarina Saraiva

13 Jun 2011

The bridges to build in performing arts: utopia or reality? Part 3

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This article gives an overview of the European and Southeast-Asian performing arts markets. It provides information that can lead to the creation of non-hierarchical dialogue between these two communities of …

By Catarina Saraiva

08 Jun 2011

The bridges to build in performing arts in Southeast Asia: utopia or reality? Part 2

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This is the second of a series of three articles based on interviews done to contemporary performing artists and programmers from Europe and Southeast Asia.

By Catarina Saraiva

28 Apr 2011

The bridges to build in performing arts in Europe: utopia or reality?

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This is the first of three articles based on interviews with contemporary performing artists and programmers from Europe and Southeast Asia.

By Katelijn Verstraete

24 Mar 2011

The source of Monsoon

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Choreographer Arco Renz, the creator of the Monsoon platform, talks to Katelijn Verstraete, Asia-Europe Foundation’s (ASEF) Assistant Director for Cultural Exchange, about the latest edition of his project.

By Katelijn Verstraete

23 Mar 2011

Bridging Asia and Europe contemporary performing arts

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At a recent gathering in Yokohama, Japan, over 50 independent creative producers from Asia and Europe got the opportunity to inspire and learn from each other about creating leading-edge arts …

By Sasiwimon Wongjarin

16 Mar 2011

Performing arts and cultural dialogue

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The Asia-Europe Cultural Partnership Initiative: Performing Arts encouraged new strategic partnerships between Asian and European organisations to create and sustain a dialogue through the practise and production of performing arts …

By Ramona David

14 Mar 2011

MONSOON – A whirlwind of global culture

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Belgian dramaturge Bart van den Eynde describes his experiences at ‘Monsoon’, a transcultural and multi-disciplinary research and performance platform for Asian and European artists.

By Catarina Saraiva

28 Feb 2011

Investigating the relationship between programmers and artists

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Escape Line is a research project that aims to prove the possibility of establishing a balanced dialogue between programmers and creators in the performing arts market.

By Florentina Bratfanof

17 Jan 2011

The European Dimension of the Romanian National Theatre Festival

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The Romanian National Theatre Festival (RNTF) started in 1990, in Bucharest, just after the fall of the communist regime. The festival was at first a gathering of Romanian productions from …

By Claire Wilson

23 Dec 2010

Dancing in the Graey: A Festival of Asian Dance in Singapore

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The Graey Festival, staged in Singapore in November at the Substation, had its 3rd edition this year in 2010. The festival originally began as a study of Indian contemporary dance …

By Florentina Bratfanof

06 Dec 2010

Thermostat|artistic exchanges between France and Germany

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Thermostat is a series of joint exhibitions and events presented by 24 French art centers and German Kunstvereine from now until April 2011.

By Valentina Riccardi

22 Jul 2010

Asia-Europe dance film: the Bow project

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The Bow Project was borne out of affiliations created during the Asia Europe Dance Forum- Pointe to Point organized by the Asia-Europe Foundation in China in 2007. It aimed to …

By Florentina Bratfanof

14 Jun 2010

European festivals in a global era

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What do ‘festivals’ mean in a global world? How are they perceived in Europe compared with Asia? What is their dialogue, keeping in mind EU and Asian practices?

By Florentina Bratfanof

10 Mar 2010

Talking about contemporary circus in Europe

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By Florentina Bratfanof - My first memories of the performing arts go back to a little town near the amazing Danube Delta, my hometown.

By Vanini Belarmino

08 Feb 2010

Cambodian contemporary dance: Amrita Performing Arts

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AMRITA Performing Arts is an NGO based in Cambodia. Its primary objective is to promote and sustain the preservation of traditional Cambodian performing arts.