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Naturae - Armando Punzo  Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia © Andrea Avezzù  Although art lovers know Venice best for its art and architecture biennials and its film festival, La Biennale di Venezia, the organisation responsible for these three events, has also been organising theatre, dance and music festivals every year for years. Especially in the 70s, the Teatro Biennale hosted the most important international representatives of the performing arts of the time, from Robert Wilson to Peter Brook, from The Living Theatre to Jerzy Grotowski. In those years, Ariane Mnouchkine staged L'Âge d'or (The Golden Age) by a canal, John Cage and Merce Cunningham staged their works in Piazza San Marco and Brook in the courtyard of a monastery. Like the Dance and Music Biennials, the Teatro Biennale, instead of taking over the city as it did in the 1970s, has recently been using the 300-400 year old Italian Navy shipyard buildings in the monumental Arsenale area, which the Biennale di Venezi...

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...