African Dance in Transition: Interview with Arnold Udoka

African Dance in Transition: Interview with Arnold Udoka

by Emmanuel S. Dandaura* Arnold Udoka is one of Africa’s foremost dance artists, choreographer, scholar and director of dance of the National Troupe of Nigeria. What’s new in Nigerian contemporary dance? What drives the “newness”? Could it be as a

Enigmatic Bodyscapes – Sampling South African Dance

Enigmatic Bodyscapes – Sampling South African Dance

Adrienne Sichel* Environmental architect and cultural activist Doung Janhangeer’s Umkhumbane to City Walk (which he started  on February 11, 2000) is the perfect analogy to attempt to describe the rich ambiguities, dazzling eccentricities, entangled histories and complexities of South African

Interconnecting Artistic Landscapes in Fujairah

Interconnecting Artistic Landscapes in Fujairah

Savas Patsalidis* The Fujairah International Arts Festival, February 19-29, 2016 For twelve years, people knew it as the Fujairah International Monodrama Festival, the platform that has brought new theatre to audiences of the region. As of February 2016, it goes

A Sinewy Directorial Reading Wins: The Winter’s Tale

A Sinewy Directorial Reading Wins: The Winter’s Tale

Soon-ja Hur* The Winter’s Tale has rarely been produced in Korea,[1] and, until recently, had never been staged in its entirety. This is somewhat strange in a country where Shakespeare is consistently one of the most popular playwrights and whose

Theatre of the World in the Argentine Capital

Theatre of the World in the Argentine Capital

Alina Mazzaferro* X Buenos Aires International Festival The Buenos Aires International Festival (FIBA) is one of the most important theatre festivals in Latin America. Since 1997, it has taken place every two years in the Argentine Capital. In 2015, between

Quand la tourmente s’apaise… (Le conte d’hiver-The Winter’s Tale)

Quand la tourmente s’apaise… (Le conte d’hiver-The Winter’s Tale)

Irène Sadowska-Guillon* Le conte d’hiver (The Winter’s Tale) de William Shakespeare. Mise en scène Declan Donnellan, par la compagnie Cheek By Jowl, scénographie Nick Ormerod, lumières Judith Greenwood, musique Guy Hughes, avec : Grace Andrews – Emilia, Le Temps, Joseph

Clowns: In Conversation with Modern Masters

Clowns: In Conversation with Modern Masters

By Ezra Lebank and David Bridel 240 pp. London: Routledge Reviewed by Byron Laviolette* (Canada) Ezra Lebank and David Bridel offer a behind-the-nose look at the world of contemporary western clowning through the words of some of those who helped

Directing Scenes and Senses: The Thinking of Regie

Directing Scenes and Senses: The Thinking of Regie

By Peter Boenisch 256 pp. Manchester University Press Reviewed by George Rodosthenous* (UK) Since 2010, numerous books have appeared on Theatre Directing: some of them are directing manuals for young professionals and others are personal accounts of directors attempting to

The Routledge Companion to Stanislavsky

The Routledge Companion to Stanislavsky

Andrew White, Editor 340 pp. London: Routledge Reviewed by Christopher Innes* (Canada) This book is rather over-long, comprising 340 pages of text, not counting the index, and 23 different articles. It has a significant number of eminent scholars contributing to

Teatime Europe (2014/15): Εurope in a Constant “State of Exception”**

Teatime Europe (2014/15):  Εurope in a Constant “State of Exception”**

Maria Konomis*   Teatime Europe (2014/15)Experimental Theater of ThraceDirector: Giorgos ZamboulakisCinematographer: Theophilos GerondopoulosPerformers: Kaiti Makri (performer/song), Eirini Samdanidou, Giorgos Deligeorgakis, Periclis Toutouktsis, Foteini Markidou, Kiki Tsakaldimi, Simos Grammenos, Ion Xatzoudis, Konstantinos Papagiannis, Fotis Koftsitsidis, Giorgos Tsakaldimis, Alexandra Stergianni, Babis Papatzelakis,