Archive for May, 2007
Research Projects 2007
Here you’ll find frequently updated reports on evolving community art projects in and around Utrecht that CAL is documenting.
Dragan Klaic
Dragan teaches arts and cultural policies at Leiden University. Educated in Belgrade and at Yale, he held professorships in Belgrade, Amsterdam and the U.S., led the Dutch Theatre Insitute, co-founded the European Theater Quarterly Euromaske, and led European cultural networks ENICPA and EFAH.
Stefan van Hees
Stefan van Hees has been involved in Rotterdams wijktheater productions as Fawaka, Jebbel, Players, Full Colour, Crime City, Pendrecht, and the two Dry Dock productions.
Jan van Sas
Jan van Sas is artistic co-director of Stut theatre and director of Driftwood, a play he made together with asylum seekers in Utrecht.
Jana Svobodová
Jana Svobodová is a theatre director with Prague’s Archa Theatre.
Kees Epskamp
The late Kees Epskamp was a senior staff member of the National Unesco Commission in the Netherlands, where he coordinated its World Heritage programme. Before that he worked at the Centre for Education in Developing Countries (CESO), where for many years he was a prolific author of publications on theatre and development.
Spotlight 1: The Neighbourhood
This Spotlight is about community artists and their community participants. Directors from different community theatre groups from the Netherlands, Belgium and France explain their way of working while creating a community art performance.
Anthony Heidweiller
Anthony is artistic director of the Yo! Opera Festival & Laboratory and developed from singer in the chorus of the Dutch Opera to freelance opera maker.
Victor Hugo Martínez
Multidisciplinary artist from Guatemala, associated with Caja Ludica.
Julia Victoria Escobar Holguín
Multidisciplinary artist from Colombia and founder of Caja Ludica in Guatemala City.
Tim Prentki
Tim Prentki is Professor of Theatre for Development at the University of Winchester where he is Programme Director of the MA in Theatre and Media for Development.
Rustom Bharucha
Rustom Bharucha is an independent writer, director and cultural critic based in Kolkata, India.
Saleh Hassan
Saleh is an actor, director, and journalist who received his training at the Bagdad art academy from 1985 through 1991.
Ingvild Molenaar
Ingvild is prodcution manager at Growing Up in Public.
Nelly van der Geest
Nelly van der Geest is director of the Centre for Intercultural Studies at the Utrecht School of the Arts.
Hans Lein
Hans Lein is the director of Baba, a play he made with Moroccan youths and their fathers for Rotterdams Wijktheater.
