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UTE Special Newsletter #3 | 2016
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News from the UTE Decentralized Academy & the ISO Theatre 2016
All across Europe a series of three masterclasses for young European actors and one artistic residency took place this summer in context of the CONFLICT ZONES network programme of the UTE in collaboration with the Teatro Nacional São João do Porto, the Comédie de Reims, the National Theatre of Greece, the European Cultural Centre of Delphi and the Sfumato Laboratory Theatre in Sofia. With the public presentation on 1st July of the ISO Theatre's masterclass directed by Margarita Mladenova and Ivan Dobchev at the Sfumato Theatre in Sofia this year's season comes to an end; for now.
This autumn already, the UTE Decentralized Academy will offer a new masterclass for young stage directors and stage designers in Russia. Directed by the Teatrul Bulandra's artistic director, Alexandru Darie, and an important dramaturg, this masterclass will be a collaboration with the Maly Theatre Moscow and the Rostov Drama Theatre.

Favouring transmission and inter-cultural dialogue, the UTE Decentralized Academy contributes to the development of links between artists of the European continent, while enabling an act of transmission between young artists and great “masters” of our time.

"Second Hand"
The ISO Theatre in Sofia

27 June – 2 July 2016 
Exclusive ISO masterclass directed by Margarita Mladenova & Ivan Dobchev


"The idea is through the garment to resurrect the human, his unique personal being and so to form his monologue." 

A fragment of No - I by Samuel Beckett
 

"We will apply as creative tools theatrical techniques and practices 'outside-inside'; we will provoke the imagination, the sensory memory and the ability of the actor to empathize 'entering' in someone's life. We will find a path from the game to the no-game, through a series of individual attempts to a theatrical re-construction of the genius text of Beckett, formed by the monologues of a group of nameless people. Let us look at the nameless human, the human second hand." M. Mladenova, I. Dobchev

More info

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Presentation to the audience

on 1 July 2016 | 7 pm 
in the Big Hall | Sfumato Laboratory Theatre Sofia, Bulgaria.
 

The 2016 ISO team in Sofia:

Petya Alabozova | Germany/Bulgaria
Bilyana Georgieva | Bulgaria
Aglaia Katsiki | Greece
Boris Krastev | Bulgaria
Benjamin-Lew Klon | Germany/Poland
Sophie Lewisch | France
Luís Puto | Portugal
Angélique Zaini | France

Participants from Bulgaria:
Ivan Barnev
Nadia Keranova
Boyko Krastanov
Hristo Petkov
Katalin Stareishinska

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Masterclass in Delphi

From 11 – 22 June 2016, the UTE Decentralized Academy in collaboration with the National Theatre of Greece in Athens, offered a masterclass for young actors at the European Cultural Centre of Delphi directed by Greek actress Lydia Koniordou.

The masterclass brought together six young actors from Italy, Hungary, Portugal and Russia and eight young actors from the National Theatre of Greece to work together with Lydia Koniordou on Antigone by Sophocles and on the refugee crisis. 

The participants offered a public presentation of their work in the ancient theatre of Delphi on 21 June 2016. The ancient theatre in Delphi was built in the 4th century B.C., and is usually not in use for public performances anymore because of its protected status. The National Theatre of Greece has asked for a special permission for the masterclass’ presentation at this historic place.

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Masterclass with Lydia Koniordou

Presented by the UTE Decentralized Academy

From 11 – 22 June 2016 
At the European Cultural Centre of Delphi, Greece
 

The international participants:

Orosz Ákos
Vígszínház Budapest, Hungary


Maria Carolina Pinheiro Amaral,
Teatro Nacional São João do Porto, Portugal

Daria Novoselceva
Maly Theatre Moscow, Russia

Daniele Molino,
Piccolo Teatro di Milano, Italy

Nicolo Parodi,
Piccolo Teatro di Milano, Italy

Nicola Sorrenti,
Teatro di Roma, Italy

The Greek participants from the National Theatre of Greece:

Afrodite Antonaki
Helen Dafni
Sofia Fytianou 
Stella Kostopoulou 
Petra Mavridi 
Melita Psychogiopoulou
Lygeri Tampakopoulou 
Eugenia Vissariou 


More info about the masterclass in Delphi

"The Last Days of Mankind"  

The ISO Theatre in Porto
22 – 31 May 2016

ISO Theatre residency directed by Nuno Carinhas & Nuno M. Cardoso

From 22 – 31 May 2016 the actors of the ISO Theatre have attended a two-week residency at the Teatro Nacional São João do Porto, working on Karl Kraus’ The Last Days of Mankind together with stage director Nuno M. Cardoso and artistic director Nuno Carinhas. 

A group of the Young Journalists On Performing Arts project were present during the residency in Porto. Read about the impressions of Sergio Lo Gatto from Italy, Elena Galanopoulou from Greece and Juli Kočí‏ from the Czech Republic on the UTE online theatre magazine www.conflict-zones.reviews.

All articles are available in original language and in English translation.


The 2016 ISO team in Porto:

Petya Alabozova | Bulgaria/Germany
Balázs Bodolai | Romania
Bilyana Georgieva | Bulgaria
Khwala Ibraheem | Israel/Palestine
Boris Krastev | Bulgaria
Sophie Lewisch | France
Vincent Menjou-Cortès| France
Luís Puto | Portugal
Kim Willems | Germany
Angélique Zaini | France


More info about the ISO Theatre residency in Porto here

Click here to see all the pictures of the ISO Theatre's residency at the Teatro Nacional São João do Porto.
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Masterclass in Reims

From 2 – 6 June 2016, the UTE Decentralized Academy offered a masterclass for young actors at the Comédie de Reims directed by artistic director and UTE Secretary Ludovic Lagarde.

The masterclass brought together six young actors from Bulgaria, France, Greece, Hungary and Italy to work together on texts by Falk Richter: Monologues and choral forms; contemporary loneliness; roaming in the globalized world; attempt at a political theatre; life turned into a conflict zone for each and every one; the feeling of being strangers in a foreign country in which one will never live – these were the thematic associations that stood at the beginning of the work process. 

Read a report of the masterclass in Reims by Young Journalist Lucie Beraha in the UTE online theatre magazine conflict-zones.reviews. The article is available in French and English. 
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Masterclass with Ludovic Lagarde

Presented by the UTE Decentralized Academy  

From 2 – 6 June 2016
At the Comédie de Reims, France

The participants:

Maria Teresa Campus
Teatro di Roma, Italy

Ruggero Franceschini,
Piccolo Teatro di Milano, Italy

Kata Bach,
Vígzsínház, Hungary

Delyan Plamenov Iliev,
Sfumato, Bulgaria

Chryssa Toumanidou,
NTNG Thessaloniki, Greece

 

Assistant:
Sophie Engel
Comédie de Reims, France



More info about the masterclass in Reims

Read more about the CONFLICT ZONES network programme: Here
Read more about the UTE Decentralized Academy: Here
Read more about the ISO Theatre: Here
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