Sundance Institute today announced the artists and projects selected for its first "Theatre Lab on Zanzibar," which concluded yesterday. Under the supervision of Artistic Director Philip Himberg and Producing Director Christopher Hibma, the two-week exchange and development program (November 10-24) is part of the Sundance Institute East Africa initiative, now in its eleventh year, a professional program that creates peer to peer mentorship and exposure opportunities between theatre artists in East Africa and the U.S. Deborah Asiimwe, Specialist-East Africa, and Roberta Levitow, Senior Program Associate-International and Co-Founder, Theatre Without Borders, co-led...
- 11/25/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Playwright and social activist Catherine Filloux was already a player on the international theater scene before the terrorist attacks of 9/11. But in its wake she felt an urgency to keep the lines of global communication open. So did her friend, director Roberta Levitow."In America there was a battening down of the hatches, and cultural exchange was becoming more difficult," she says. "In 2003, we created Theatre Without Borders (Twb) as a way to encourage cultural exchange and reach out to others with similar interests."Twb is an informal network of theaters, organizations, and international artists who represent a range of missions and sensibilities. Many theater artists, such as Marcy Arlin, have been social activists for decades. Arlin's 24-year-old New York–based Immigrants' Theatre Project was spawned to produce works dealing with immigrants' experience in an alien American world. Similarly Arab-American artists Tracy Cameron Francis and J.J. El-Far, who run Hybrid Theatre.
- 4/27/2012
- by help@backstage.com (Simi Horwitz)
- backstage.com
Sundance Institute Announces Projects Selected For 2011 Theatre Lab To Be Held At The Banff Centre A Record 31 Artists Invited From The United States, Kenya, Mexico And Tanzania
Sundance Institute today announced the artists and projects selected for its 2011 Theatre Lab to be held at The Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada, from March 27-April 17. The centerpiece of Sundance Institute.s Theatre Program, the Theatre Lab is a three-week developmental retreat designed to provide a private, creative environment for playwrights, directors, composers and librettists to devise and refine new work with the support of creative advisors, full casts and rehearsal space. This year, Sundance has 31 fellows or generative artists, including playwrights, composers, directors and creative teams. Sundance Institute is grateful for the assistance of the Performing Arts Residency program at The Banff Centre.
The 2011 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab at the Banff Centre:
Africa Kills Her Sun (Tanzania/Kenya)
An Adaptation of Africa...
Sundance Institute today announced the artists and projects selected for its 2011 Theatre Lab to be held at The Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada, from March 27-April 17. The centerpiece of Sundance Institute.s Theatre Program, the Theatre Lab is a three-week developmental retreat designed to provide a private, creative environment for playwrights, directors, composers and librettists to devise and refine new work with the support of creative advisors, full casts and rehearsal space. This year, Sundance has 31 fellows or generative artists, including playwrights, composers, directors and creative teams. Sundance Institute is grateful for the assistance of the Performing Arts Residency program at The Banff Centre.
The 2011 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab at the Banff Centre:
Africa Kills Her Sun (Tanzania/Kenya)
An Adaptation of Africa...
- 2/2/2011
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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