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 …

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• Europe
• Indonesia
• Malaysia
• Singapore
• Thailand

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.

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• Indonesia
• Malaysia
• Singapore
• Thailand

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

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• Europe

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.

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• Europe
• Portugal
• Spain

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 …

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• Europe
• Romania

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?

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• Austria
• Europe

[caption id="attachment_1023" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Image credit: Trans Europe Halles http://teh.net/"][/caption] The Internationale Gesellschaft der Bildenden Künste (IGBK) organised a meeting of European experts on ‘Mobility in the Visual Arts Sector …

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• Austria
• Germany

I interviewed two prominent figures in the performing arts: one from Thailand and one from Germanyto discuss their own experiences in working in opposite sides of the world.

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• Germany
• Thailand

I met German theatre director/choreographer, Helena Waldmann at a Café in the trendy Berlin-Mitte. Respected for her bold character, very much reflected in her edgy works and professional engagements in …

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• Germany

Pichet Klunchun bridges traditional Thai Classical Dance language with contemporary sensibility, while keeping the heart and wisdom of the convention. He earned domestic notoriety for his efforts in contemporising Khon.

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• Thailand

Europalia, based in Belgium, is a major international arts festival held every two years to celebrate one invited country’s cultural heritage. This year China has been chosen.

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• Belgium
• China
• Europe

Alison Andrews, Performing Arts Officer in the Yorkshire region for the Arts Council England.

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• United Kingdom

Amna Kusumo and three cultural activists founded Kelola, a national non-profit organisation that promotes Indonesian arts, through learning, access to funding and information.

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• Indonesia

Kentaro Matsui is a theatre critic and also Programme Director of the Tokyo based Setagaya Public Theatre, Japan.

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• Japan

[caption id="attachment_2811" align="alignright" width="170" caption="Daisuke Muto, Japan "][/caption] Contributed by Ive Stevenheydens 'We are interrelated through history' Daisuke Muto, Japan "I like to interpret the word 'contemporary' literally: a moment …

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• Japan

What is 'contemporary' in performing arts today? What at first seems to be a very simple question actually has no straight or univocal answer at all.

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• Indonesia
• Japan
• United Kingdom