It was easy to spot the most popular kid at last week’s “Open Source Meets Business” conference in Nuremberg. Between presentations, in the halls, even at the lavish evening banquets, there he’d be, flitting around in a cherry fedora, showing off the coolest toy in town, if not the world. Jan Wildeboer is a Solution […]
Theatrical and Anti-Theatrical Aesthetics in Romania Today
Miruna Runcan Theatrical and anti-theatrical stage aesthetics in Romania today If one wants to really understand the contemporary substance (general horizon, phenomena and/or directions) of the Romanian theatre stage today, a short historical approach is inevitable. As in many other Central and Eastern European cultural spaces, the modern Romanian theatre was dominated […]
HIT’n’RUN
HIT’n’RUN Dance & Theatre & Music & Video performance collection SHOW 1. Description of the project and its concept One utopian road/One utopian world A road/space one cannot go in and out of whenever one wants to. The journey represents the quest for a solution, by hitting […]
The Hands of Romeo
La Plata, Argentina — The old adage that necessity is the mother of invention is one Guillermo Gomez-Romeo, grill maker and owner of the custom barbeque supply shop Pigue, has taken to heart. In cow-obsessed Argentina, where per capita consumption of beef hovers at 150 lbs per year, the highest in the world, the […]
History of the World – Part II
As you will remember from our previous chapter of “The Mid-Western History of the World”, just over seven thousand years ago Adam and Eve were deceived in the Garden of Eden by the theories of the evil serpent Charles Darwin and his corrupt, British sense of humour. Their indiscretions were punished by the Lord who […]
A Place to Belong
The Phoenix Theatre by day is a picture reminiscent of an after school daycare program. Inside the main auditorium kids are skateboarding on the multitude of wooden ramps set up against the walls. The lobby is filled with youth hanging out, and searching their pockets for change to buy candy or soda from the concession […]