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Friday,
29 January 2010 |
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2010 Thalia Prize is awarded to Richard Schechner
The International Association of Theatre Critics’ Thalia Prize to American Critic-Scholar Richard Schechner
The International Association of Theatre Critics – an association of theatre critics, theatre journalists and theatre scholars in over 50 countries – is pleased to announce that the winner of its highest honour, the Thalia Award, will be American critic-scholar Richard Schechner for 2010.
“The Thalia is awarded by IATC every two years,” said IATC President Kim Yun-Cheol of Korea, “to a scholar, theatre critic or theatre practitioner whose writings have significantly influenced critical thinking about the art of theatre. Previous winners have included Eric Bentley (US, 2006) and Jean-Pierre Sarrazac (France, 2008). We are delighted to add such an eminent man of theatre as Prof. Schechner to the list of Thalia laureates.”
The prize includes a specially designed theatrical memento contributed by the Romanian national IATC centre and the Craiova “William Shakespeare” Foundation, and full expenses to attend the award ceremonies which in 2010 will be in Yerevan, Armenia June 16 to 20. Previous awards have been presented at IATC Congresses in Seoul, Korea and Sofia, Bulgaria.
President Kim pointed out that Schechner, based at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, has been the editor of one of the world's leading theatre journals, TDR (The Drama Review) for some 30 years. He first edited TDR from 1962 to 1969 and then returned to it again in 1986, still editing the quarterly journal today.
“During that time, he has turned it from a rather specialised academic journal into the world's leading journal on the avant-garde and later helped it to evolve into the premiere journal of Performance Studies, a field he virtually invented. TDR promoted very early on the work of most of the major avant-garde artists of the late 20th century from Brook and Grotowski, to Barba, Boal and Suzuki. Through its work in Performance Studies, the journal has significantly changed the way theatre is seen world-wide. As well, Prof. Schechner has been a tireless theorist of theatre in Asia and Africa. Indeed, an Asian version of TDR is now coming out in Shanghai.”
“He is also the author of a variety of books which have significantly affected perceptions of theatre on the stage, and the theatrical in our lives,” said Kim.
Among Schechner’s major books are Public Domain (1968), Environmental Theatre (1973), The End of Humanism (1981), Between Theatre and Anthropology (1985), By Means of Performance: Intercultural Studies (1990), The Future of Ritual (1993), and Performance Theory (2003). His books have been translated into Spanish, Chinese, Parsi, Italian, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Hungarian and Serbo-Croat.
“One other aspect of his lifelong work as a scholar-critic-editor has been his constant willingness to test his theories as a working director, “ said Kim. “He has done this on stages in New York through his Performance Group (which produced such landmark shows as Dionysus in '69), through the Wooster Group, through the East Coast Artists company which he ran from 1992 to 2009 and in the many individual productions he has staged in China, India, South Africa, Poland and Taipei among other countries. He is truly an international figure and a most worthy winner of this award. We are delighted that he has chosen to accept the Thalia Award for 2010.”
For additional information contact
KIM Yun-Cheol, IATC President -- yunckim911 @ yahoo.com
or
Michel Vaïs, IATC Secretary-General – vais @ ca.inter.net |
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Friday,
6 November 2009 |
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Theatre critics launch a web journal
Critical Stages is a new web journal founded by the International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC). The biannual journal, at www.criticalstages.org, is published in English and French. Critical Stages contains not only theatre criticism, but also interviews and other articles about the theatre as seen from the critic’s point of view. The inaugural issue takes a closer look at, for example, Jerzy Grotowski, Eugène Ionesco and the first winner of IATC’s Thalia Prize, Eric Bentley - and also reviews Lars Norén’s newly-published diary, as well as important productions from countries around the world.
Contributors represent nations from all continents. In the current issue, these include: Canada, Cuba, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, India, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, South Africa, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the United States.
The editor-in-chief is Maria Helena Serôdio of Portugal.
IATC, established in 1956, operates through its national sections in some 50 countries.
Publisher
Yun-Cheol Kim President, International Association of Theatre Critics
Editor-in-Chief
Maria Helena Serodio Academic and critic, Portugal
Co-Editors
Lissa Tyler Renaud, English language Theatre director and scholar, U.S.
Michel Vaïs, French language Critic, Quebec, Canada
Editors
Randy Gener Critic, U.S.
Hervé Guay Academic and critic, Quebec, Canada
Temple Hauptfleisch Critic, South Africa
Yun-Cheol Kim Academic and critic, Korea
Matti Linnavuori Critic, Finland
Tomasz Milkowski Critic, Poland
Manabu Noda Academic and critic, Japan
Rodolfo Obregón Critic, Mexico
Ludmila Patlanjoglu Academic and critic, Romania
Patrice Pavis Theoretician, France
Maria Shevtsova Academic, U.K.
Don Rubin Academic and critic, Canada
Halima Tahan Critic, Argentina |
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Monday,
5 October 2009 |
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Our colleague Mark Brown, member of the Excom, will take part in the event "21 for 21" (the international celebrations of the 21st anniversary of Howard Barker's theatre company The Wrestling School) on October 21st. He will be assistant director on the performed reading of (Uncle) Vanya in Glasgow at the conservatoire, the RSAMD, and also be on the post-show panel at the Royal Shakespeare Company's performed reading of the Castle in Newcaste-upon-Tyne. The address of the web site is www.21421.co.uk. |
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Symposiums |
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Symposium in Pilzen, Czech Republic |
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Thursday,
2 July 2009 |
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Symposium in Pilzen, Czech Republic – 9-13 September, 2009
Organized by The Czech Section of IATC and the Divadlo Festival in Pilzen
20 YEARS LATER or: METAMORPHOSIS OF THEATRE AND ITS REFLECTION SINCE 1989
In celebration of the forthcoming anniversary of the rise of the Iron Curtain, this symposium is an invitation to make an overview of the theatre’s progress during the time that has since passed.
The face of the world has been dramatically changing ever since, and so have its stages – on either side of the former “curtain”. Or have they? What have been the most conspicuous gains and losses?
Is there still a distinct Eastern/Central European theatre style and, if so, what is it and why? Has it influenced Western stages? Or has the process been only one-way: i.e. West – East and only on a management and structural level at that? How has the nature of the theatre-audience relationship changed in Eastern Europe? Have there been special developments in that respect in the rest of the world?
What about the plight of the written drama in Eastern/Central Europe – has there been a give-and-take on a par with the West? Or are the bulk of Eastern/Central European playwrights still behind a curtain, and if so, why?
Has there been any substantial change in our reflection on theatre? Has education in theatre criticism – a unique trademark of the region’s theatre landscape – turned out to be a mission impossible or, on the contrary, is it about to become a possible export?
Some of today’s most interesting theatre directors now live in, or come from, Eastern/Central Europe – no wonder the European Theatre Prize for New Theatre Realities so frequently finds it way to such an address. Is that because of the new realities of life there or is it a result of particular innate theatre genes and traditions?
Looking back in dismay that already 20 years have passed, let’s try to describe the lineaments of our new theatre face and examine the present theatre map of Eastern/Central Europe and the world. The Pilzen Theatre Festival ‘Divadlo’ and the IATC extend their invitation. |
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Award for John Elsom |
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Monday,
18 May 2009 |
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In December 2008, honorary president of IATC John Elsom was given the "Award of International Outsanding Contribution to the Creative Industries of China" within the 2008 China Creative Industry Annual Awards (the Chinese trade's equivalent to an Oscar). Congratulations! |
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Symposiums |
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Papers of the Novi Sad Symposium |
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Monday,
4 May 2009 |
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13th International Symposium of Theatre Critics and Scholars
Topic: International theater festivals and audience development
organized by the Sterijino Pozorje, Novi Sad,
in association with
International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC)
and the European Festival Research Project (EFRP)
in Novi Sad, Serbia, 28th - 31st May 2009
(During Sterijino Pozorje Festival)
Conveyors: Dr Dragan Klaić (Amsterdam), Chair of EFRP,
and Dr Ivan Medenica (Belgrade), IATC Adjunct Secretary General.
Papers of the Symposium participants are now available, in advance, on the website of Sterijino Pozorje (www.pozorje.org.rs)
Please do not hesitate to address your comments and suggestions in regards
to the papers to the following e mail: dusana.todorovic@pozorje.org.rs
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Sterijino Pozorje Festival Program |
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Info on the Amsterdam Symposium |
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Friday,
27 March 2009 |
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Symposium AICT June 2009
‘Forced to tour / Tour de force?’
June 17–21, 2009
Muziekgebouw aan het IJ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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Amsterdam Invitation |
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Amsterdam Registration Form |
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Amsterdam Program |
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Amsterdam Program - Info / Performances |
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