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In this series of interviews we try to get to know the directors/choreographers who will be the international guests at the 23rd Istanbul Theatre Festival in November 2019. Our final guest is Lisbeth Gruwez. Ayse Draz & Mehmet Kerem Ozel Art Unlimited Performing Arts Editor & Writer [The Turkish translation of this interview is published and can be accessed on  art.unlimited ] What is the spirit of dance in your opinion? How do you define contemporary dance today?  I think of my work, and maybe dance in general, as a vibration that reaches out to an audience in order to move them — physically as well as emotionally. Do you believe in the transformative power of art? How?  I do not like to think of art in terms of 'force' or 'power', but I'm sure it can be a candlelight in the dark or even an explosion that blows up falsehood and make-believe. When you are working on a piece, what sources inspire you? Do dreams play a role in your works?  ...

In this series of interviews we try to get to know the directors/choreographers who will be the international guests at the 23rd Istanbul Theatre Festival in November 2019. Our eighth guest is Marco Martins. Ayse Draz & Mehmet Kerem Ozel Art Unlimited Performing Arts Editor & Writer [The Turkish translation of this interview is published and can be accessed on  art.unlimited ] What is the spirit of theatre in your opinion? How do you define contemporary theatre today? In a way, my way of looking at the theatre has changed a lot over the last few years I have worked with ARENA (my company). What I want to draw from a process and a show is radically different today. I started by doing Repertoire Theater, which is something that would hardly interest me today as an author. I do not want to say that I do not admire many authors working from a single text but my processes are rather extremely open research processes, without an a priori defined body of text and theref...

In this series of interviews we try to get to know the directors/choreographers who will be the international guests at the 23rd Istanbul Theatre Festival in November 2019. Our seventh guest is Begüm Erciyas. Ayse Draz & Mehmet Kerem Ozel Art Unlimited Performing Arts Editor & Writer [The Turkish translation of this interview is published and can be accessed on  art.unlimited ] Begüm Erciyas (Photo: Bea Borgers) What is the spirit of dance in your opinion? How do you define contemporary dance today?  I'm confused about this like everybody else. Many of us now create works beyond disciplinary traditions. Stage works that are not based on text or textual narrative as in theatre but structured by alternative compositional choices and based on a dramaturgy of affect might be called dance or music theater in Europe even if they do not contain dance or music in the sense we are used to. I personally oscillate between calling my work dance and not. I've studied co...

In this series of interviews we try to get to know the directors/choreographers who will be the international guests at the 23rd Istanbul Theatre Festival in November 2019. Our sixth guest is Delphine Ciavaldini. Ayse Draz & Mehmet Kerem Ozel Art Unlimited Performing Arts Editor & Writer [The Turkish translation of this interview is published and can be accessed on  art.unlimited ] Delphine Ciavaldini (Photo: Zoé Forget) What is the spirit of theatre in your opinion? How do you define contemporary theatre today?  I would say the spirit of theatre comes from the necessity of catharsis. The unlimited number of issues devouring human condition counts as so many topics theatre can embrace. The translation of these issues into stage language allows for symbols, images and metaphors to occur. With these figures, the spectator’s imagination co-creates an additional mental and emotional space in which previous certitudes can be questioned. Theatre’s live perfor...

In this series of interviews we try to get to know the directors/choreographers who will be the international guests at the 23rd Istanbul Theatre Festival in November 2019. Our fifth guest is Prodromos Tsinikoris. Ayse Draz & Mehmet Kerem Ozel Art Unlimited Performing Arts Editor & Writer [The Turkish translation of this interview is published and can be accessed on  art.unlimited ] Prodromos Tsinikoris  What is the spirit of theatre in your opinion? How do you define contemporary theatre today? I see theatre as a publically staged political act to which everyone should feel free and invited to participate. It should ask the important and right questions for our time and open a new place of discourse for daring and provocative approaches in order to create a proposal for a future as we imagine it. Do you believe in the transformative power of art? How?   By presenting different stories and creating alternative narratives against a mainstream ...