National Theatre, Budapest, 6-28. April 2024.
Oh, is there no place, sacred poesy,
Left for thee in this dull, grey world of prose?
(Imre Madách: The Tragedy of Man)
AUDIENCE MEETINGS
How, and how long can we, the mankind, be co-existent to enviroment on this magically beautiful planet Earth? And, how are her various nature entities incorporated in present day legal, artistic and theatrical life? Moreover, how can theatre along other arts contribute to the recreation of harmony of our ecology?
The ISTA Theatrum Mundi performance of Anastasis (Resurrection) preceded by a book launch for Eugenio Barba - Nicola Savarese's The Five Continents of Theatre - Facts and Legends about the Material Culture of the Actor, with the participation of the author Eugenio Barba.
Oscar-winning actress Juliette Binoche has had many public readings of Talking with Angels, and has mentioned in several interviews this book about four young people's questions and their quest for answers amidst the horrors of the world war. What does this Hungarian book mean for a French actor? Why has its underlying spirituality captured her? In what ways does it help the professional work of an actor and the daily life of a woman? Why does she think it's important to present the teachings of this work also in a theatrical setting? These are some of the questions Juliette Binoche addresses in the interview on her reading performance at MITEM The Matter of Light, based on the book Talking with Angels.
This is the first time art reception has been studied with Noldus FaceReader, the results of this research will be presented during the workshop. The diagnostic software measures the simultaneous expression of the six basic emotions (joy, fear, anger, sadness, surprise, disgust) as a percentage in the default setting, as well as the temporal expression of the most prominent emotion in terms of reaction time.
A nationwide survey conducted by the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church Theatre Pedagogy Research Group assessed the current state of the field in spring 2023. The first results of this survey will be reported and compared with the results of a similar survey conducted 10 years earlier.
The workshop aims to promote research in the sociology of theatre in Hungary. The proceedings of the workshop will be published in the journal Uránia in Hungarian and English.
The Symposium is organised around the Suzuki Company of Toga's (SCOT) theatrical work of nearly 50 years, with a particular emphasis on the Suzuki Method of Actor Training (SMAT), to investigate how and why the SCOT has created a universal standard for contemporary theatre, of which the Theatre Olympics is a manifest illustration.
The SCOT-Suzuki Company's performance of The Trojan Women followed by an audience meeting to launch Tadashi Suzuki's book Culture is the Body, with the author.
The organizers of the 10th Theatre Olympics are delighted to present a dialogue between Theodoros Terzopoulos and Tadashi Suzuki, founders of the Theatre Olympics. Moderated by Ted Motohashi, a member of the International Association of Theatre Critics and President of the Japan Section.
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