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Waiting for Goodbye Lindita  (Eleni Papadaki Stage - Rex Theatre, Athens - 20 April 2024, 18:00) © Mehmet Kerem Özel Waiting for MAMI   (Onassis Stegi, Athens - 16 March 2025, 14:00) © Mehmet Kerem Özel Born in 1998 in Tirana, Albania, residing in Greece since 2004 and graduated from the Athens Conservatory Theatre School of Acting, director Mario Banushi is currently the youngest rising star in Europe, and even the world, in the performing arts.  Following the end of the pandemic period, in 2022, he garnered significant attention with his inaugural work, entitled Ragada (Stretch Marks). This was followed by Goodbye Lindita , staged in 2023 upon an invitation from the National Theatre of Greece, which played to sold-out crowds in Athens for a period of three years, while also touring the world. Invited to the Amsterdam Brandhaarden Festival in February 2024, the Madrid Festival de Otoño, Dresden and Munich in the fall, and the prestigious Adelaide Festival in Australia in...

© Kamerich & Budwilowitz - Eyes 2 Atta, Turkey's first and only international arts festival for babies and children, has been held in Istanbul around 20 November, the International Children's Rights Day, since 2016. The festival, which has hosted many groups from abroad so far, brings together babies aged 0-3, children aged 3-18, young people and their accompanying adults, and children and young people with disabilities aged 3-18 with theatre, dance, music, film and exhibitions as well as interactive content. The programme of this year's sixth edition of the festival includes opera for babies, dance for audiences aged 7 and above, theatre and pop-up performances. From 22 November to 8 December 2024, performances by ensembles from the United States, Denmark, France, the Netherlands and Ireland, as well as Atta Festival's own and co-productions, will be staged at Alan Kadıköy, Arter, Caddebostan Cultural Center, Hisar Schools Cultural Center and Kadıköy Barış Manço ...

La Ruta  © Rahi Rezvani, NDT 1 Gabriela Carrizo and Frank Chartier, founders of the Peeping Tom dance company, have been working separately again for the past two seasons, following Kind in 2019, which they created together long after A louer in 2011. In 2022, Carrizo created her second choreography, La Ruta , with NDT 1 dancers. In 2023 Chartier created a piece for the duo's own company, S 62° 58', W 60° 39' .  La Ruta was on NDT 1's programme in 2022-23 and the current 2023-24 season, while S 62° 58', W 60° 39' continues its world tour. For those familiar with the work of Peeping Tom, neither Carrizo's La Ruta nor Chartier's S 62° 58', W 60° 39' begins surprisingly or unexpectedly. In La Ruta , which lasts about 30 minutes, Carrizo has transferred the eerie and creepy atmosphere she created indoors (in the cabin of a cruise ship) in The Missing Door , which she had previously worked on with NDT 1, to outdoors, on and around a road, an asp...

The New Text Festival, organized by GalataPerform, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, and which is Turkey's first and only playwriting festival, took place this year for the twelfth time between 24th November and 4th December 2023, focusing on the theme of "Real". At the festival, which creates an area where Turkish writers and directors meet with artists from abroad within the scope of Theater Beyond Borders, we continue from where we left off by publishing our conversations with international playwrights whose plays have been translated into Turkish and staged readings. Our next guest is  Malin Axelsson. Playwright, writer and director Malin Axelsson was born in Stockholm in 1975. The plays of the author, who graduated from the Swedish University Film, Radio, Television and Theater Department in 2002, have been translated into German, French, Italian, Romanian and Norwegian. She has been working as Artistic Director at Riksteatern Youth Theater since 2021....

The New Text Festival, organized by GalataPerform, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, and which is Turkey's first and only playwriting festival, took place this year for the twelfth time between 24th November and 4th December 2023, focusing on the theme of "Real". At the festival, which creates an area where Turkish writers and directors meet with artists from abroad within the scope of Theater Beyond Borders, we continue from where we left off by publishing our conversations with international playwrights whose plays have been translated into Turkish and staged readings. Our next guest is Tue Biering.  Over the last 25 years, Tue Biering has initiated and directed a wide variety of projects, including new dramatic works, classics, operas and interactive performances. He has won many awards, most recently the Crown Prince Couple's Cultural Award. Biering looks at our concepts of the world and shows different aspects of the stories that surround us that w...

Organized by GalataPerform and being the first playwriting festival in Turkey, the New Text Festival was held for the tenth time this year between November 1st and 28th, 2021, with a hybrid structure focused on the theme of "Breath", both in the physical space and digitally.   We hosted Magne van den Berg in the second of our conversations with international playwrights whose plays were translated into Turkish and staged and read at the festival.   Ayşe Draz & Mehmet Kerem Özel © Caroline Bijlhi What is the essence of good play/playwriting in your opinion? For me the essence is to find the right tone in which a play is put… almost like making music… the right content in the right form, makes a good play a good for me… besides that it is important that a play shows me something that was hidden, that I was uncontious of, a taboo, a pain or un unconvenient thuth that is not easy to talk about, and I like it when there is something to laugh and cry about. Do you bel...

Last September I was in Lyon to attend Moeder (Mother) , the 2016 dated creation of Belgian dance company Peeping Tom, with whom the loyal followers of Art Unlimited are already familiar from my article published on the 38th issue (September-October 2016) and, to make an interview with its creator Gabriela Carrizo (1970). Moeder is the second part of a trilogy that opened with Vader (Father) in 2014, directed by Franck Chartier (1967) who is the co-founder of Peeping Tom and the husband of Carrizo.  On a September day which began chilly and got warmer in the afternoon I met with Carrizo at the Maison de la Danse de Lyon (Lyon Dance House). We walked from the backstage door to the front foyer from the outside, since she had an espresso and deservedly would like to smoke. Till she finished her coffee and cigarette we chit-chatted warming in the Lyon sun. Carrizo couldn’t believe that I came to Lyon from Istanbul just to watch Moeder and to make an interview with her. We talked ab...

photo: danzon atmosphere and inspirations you come to the theater to see a dance or a dance theater piece, but it is impossible to define what goes on the stage as dance or dance theatre. yes, these two works contain parts with dance and also certain characteristics of dance theatre too. however, similar to other works or their creators which i had seen, it seems that, for them, rather than dance choreographies, it is more important to design a choreography to create a certain atmosphere on the stage. an atmosphere having the qualities which no one ever thought to create on stage before. their inspiration is not a secret of course, especially the cinema of david lynch and all the things that those movies evoke: a mysterious, weird, surreal and nightmare-like atmosphere… as for the content, i can associate it with ingmar bergman cinema: digging the relationships/problems in human relations, especially those in the family (between woman-man, parent-child, mother-son, mother-daug...