Richard Foreman
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Richard Foreman
Richard Foreman (born 1937) has written, designed and directed more than fifty performances in New York and internationally. His productions are characterized by a complex interchange between language, visual tableaux and a constant involvement of the audience. Foreman describes his work as ‘total theatre’. In 1968 he founded the Ontological–Hysteric Theatre.
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Annette Arlander
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Annette Arlander
Annette Arlander (born 1956) is a pioneer of Finnish performance art and practice-based artistic research. After working as a director for many years, she now works mainly with research and performance projects of her own. Annette Arlander is Professor of Performance art and Theory at the Theatre Academy in Helsinki.
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Stef Lernous
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Stef Lernous
Stef Lernous studied fine arts at the Hogeschool Sint-Lukas in Brussels. He directed for the De Maan figure theatre. Since 1999 Stef Lernous has been one of the driving forces behind the Abattoir Fermé theatre company in Mechelen. The company's work is often based on outsiders, dissidents, science-fiction writers and voices from the counterculture. Stef Lernous adapts, samples and contextualises stimuli from cinema, documentaries, journalism, psychiatry, art brut, comic books a.o.
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Laurent Chétouane
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Laurent Chétouane
Living in Germany, the French director Laurent Chétouane (b. 1973) is a representative of puristic works of theatre with a strong focus on language. One of the most important young directors in Germany, he stages both new and classical drama. In 2010 he directed Ibsen's "A Doll's House" at the Norwegian National Theatre in Oslo.
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Sahar Rahimi, Manuel Gerst, Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt
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Monster Truck
Monster Truck is a young performance company who works with their own radical way of conquering the stage. Their works are apocalyptic theatrical experiences where elements of show, slapstick, stunts and visual art are combined into a whole. Monster Truck is a collective; everybody participates in the development of concepts, staging and performing.
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Eve Bonfanti & Yves Hunstad
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La Fabrique Imaginaire
Eve Bonfanti and Yves Hunstad are co-founders of the theatre company La Fabrique Imaginaire, sharing the roles of playwrights, actors, directors and stage designers. Their first play, La Tragédie Comique from 1988, was created during 5 years of intensive rehearsal work and has played more than 500 performances around the world, translated into ten different languages.
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Heiner Goebbels
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Heiner Goebbels
Heiner Goebbels (born 1952) is a composer and director. His work has toured extensively and has given a new dimension to the concept Gesamtkunstwerk. He presents a number of ingredients and it is up to the spectator to sort them. Heiner Goebbels is professor at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies at the Justus-Liebig University in Giessen and president of the Theatre Academy Hessen.
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Wanda Golonka
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Wanda Golonka
Wanda Golonka (born 1958) is a French choreographer and director living and working in Germany. Trained in classical ballet and modern dance, she founded and directed the company Neuer Tanz from 1985-95. She was director at Schauspiel Frankfurt from 2001-09. In Wanda Golonka's Gesamtkunstwerke the space is as important as the actors and dancers, as she crosses the borders between dance, performance, music and text.
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Wayn Traub
Wayn Traub (born 1972) is a director, filmmaker, choreographer and performer. In the late nineties he published his Manifesto for an Animal and Ritual Theatre, and his creative work is characterized by the desire to explore a modern ritual theatre. He uses text, music, narrative, set and film to produce a polyphonic whole. In 2012, Traub stopped making theatre performances and turned his focus to multimedia works.
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Hans van den Broeck
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Hans van den Broeck
Hans van den Broeck's fascination with theatre is a result of his love for film and movement. His style leans heavily on cinematic elements and is characterised by a body of work that oscillates between the boundaries of dance, performance and video. Hans van den Broeck was one of the core members of Les Ballets C de la B for 12 years, and since 2001 he has been the artistic director of his own company SOIT.