Happy New Year! 2020 may have brought to us some surprises–good and bad, I hope it also allowed you some moments of pause and reflection amidst our collective social distancing. I hope that 2021 holds some promises of possibilities of meeting face to face again! In the meantime, while the theatres… Continue reading
I was excited to see our posters up on the streets again last week, in eager anticipation of the reprise of Echoing Europe – Postcolonial Reverberations in November. Today, we indefinitely postpone the restaging once more. Chancellor Angela Merkel announced, last Wednesday, the re-closure of theatres to combat the second wave… Continue reading
This evening, FAUST [working title] will premiere at the Dutch National Opera. In echoing the dialogical process of the creation of the work, I wrote my article for the programme booklet as an epistle to the Artistic Team. In time for tonight’s premiere, I share with you the English version… Continue reading
Vanavond gaat FAUST [working title] in première bij De Nationale Opera. In navolging van het dialogische proces van de totstandkoming van het werk, schreef ik mijn artikel voor het programmaboekje als brief aan het Artistic Team. Op tijd voor de première van vanavond deel ik de mijn brief met jullie…. Continue reading
It’s one week away from the premiere of FAUST [working title] at the Dutch National Opera. I am working in the production as dramaturgical adviser. A key concept that the artistic team will be integrating into this work is the notion of the body and performative repertoire as a cultural… Continue reading