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In this series of interviews we try to get to know the artists of İstanbul Theatre Festival 2020. Our fourth and last guests are Guy Weizman & Roni Haver.  Ayse Draz, Art Unlimited Performing Arts Editor & Mehmet Kerem Ozel, Writer  [The Turkish translation of this interview is published on art.unlimited ] What is the spirit of dance/theatre/performance in your opinion? How do you define contemporary dance/theatre/performance today?   Urgency is the spirit. Relating to content, not to form or aesthetics. Contemporary art for me is interdisciplinary, it’s about pushing the boundaries of the disciplines. For a performance to be urgent, the performers should always be fully informed of what they’re doing. We don’t use dance aesthetics as the leading element in a creation. We are questioning every discipline every time we create, according to the subject we want to tell. Reinventing the languages of dance, theatre and music language according to the content. Do yo...

In this series of interviews we try to get to know the artists of İstanbul Theatre Festival 2020. Our third guest is Pippo Delbono.  Ayse Draz, Art Unlimited Performing Arts Editor & Mehmet Kerem Ozel, Writer  [The Turkish translation of this interview is published on art.unlimited ]  Photo: Tiziano Ghidorsi What is the spirit of theatre in your opinion? How do you define contemporary theatre today? A Theatre glancing at the present and trying to give different points of view on it. A Nowadays-Theatre. A Theatre of conflicts but a theatre of light, too. Two opposite tensions of our time. Do you believe in the transformative power of art? How? Art can change the the toughness of life. Art can bring love where war reigns. Art can bring joy where there is sadness, light where there is darkness. It can transform society. How do you think that this pandemic which humanity is facing at a global scale today will transform performing arts in the future? This pandemic is actua...

In this series of interviews we try to get to know the artists of İstanbul Theatre Festival 2020. Our second guest is Dimo Milev.  Ayse Draz, Art Unlimited Performing Arts Editor & Mehmet Kerem Ozel, Writer [The Turkish translation of this interview is published on art.unlimited ]  photo: Javier Garceche NDT, the world-famous dancetheatre ensemble of the Netherlands, which we had the opportunity to watch many times in Istanbul thanks to different events in the past years and continued on its way under the new artistic director of Emily Molnar in August 2020, after the nine-year period of Paul Lightfoot, started with the opening shows of the 2020-21 season, reaching out to audiences both on the screen with online livestreaming and in the auditorum whose capacity was reduced according to pandemic conditions. NDT decided to livestream online, this time without spectators, as the Dutch government closed the theaters completely again in November due to the increasing pandemic ...