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Report Creative Forum for Independent Theatre Groups

(Europe- Mediterranean)

7th Edition

1-10 February 2010

International Association for Creation and Training (I-act) E-mail: [email protected]

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In its seventh edition, the Creative Forum aims to create artistic areas where elements of

innovation and training are integrated and embodied in various theatrical performances; and

where dialogue with all its liveliness comes along with translation and publication. The

integration of these elements is not intended to arrange them in spatial and temporal contexts,

just to accomplish the art work, but rather to create a model of knowledge and creativity that

can touch the hearts of artists and spectators, transcending language borders, and cultural

specificity, to the prospects of belief in diversity as a life necessity, enhancement of critical

thinking, and seeking to change the customary real life. In order to achieve these goals, the

Creative Forum work team has worked to design and implement the following programs:

It took place through 25 performances, with the participation of 24 European and

Mediterranean countries: Algeria, Czech Republic, Austria, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France,

Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Netherlands, Palestine, Poland,

Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tunisia, United Kingdom.

The number of troupes who have applied to participate in the Creative Forum reached 82

troupes with a variety of works including plays, dramatic shows and dancing performances.

The Jury Committee has chosen 25 performances out of the countries mentioned above.

Creative Forum 2010

The Creative Forum- 7th edition 2010:

I-Theatre Performances:


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Sponsors

Country Troupe/Group Performance Date

Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Egypt

Various Drummers

Awakening the City

(Musical Happening)

Switzerland

Foofwa d’Imobilité

Place of the Subject

1.2.2010

Palestine Al Harah Theatre I have a dream

Greece Dalika Dance

Theatre Noble Escape

Ministry of Culture-Tunisia

Tunisia SINDYANA

THEATRE Mafkoud (Missing)

2.2.2010

Lebanon/

France/

Switzerland

Chrystele Khodr

&

Antoine Bouguier

Bayt Byout

Spain Roser López

Espinosa

Còncau II

Egypt

El Warsha Theater

Troupe

Troy

3.2.2010

Vanio Papadelli Greece/Egypt

/UK

Vanio Papadelli Phantom Limb

4.2.2010


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Sponsors

Country Troupe/Group Performance Date

Lebanon

Khouloud Yassine

&

Khaled Yassine

Entre temps

ArtEZ hogeschool voor de kunsten

The

Netherlands ARTEZ The Crucible

4.2.2010

ARTE’ DANZA Italy ARTE' DANZA The Third Tea Lady

Egypt /

France

Cairo Contemporary

Dance Workshop Open Doors

5.2.2010

Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Egypt

BA Orchestra

A Musical Night of

Arabic Poetry

ENARCO Nassar Arch.

Lebanon The Company Silicone bomb

Poland Silesian Dance Theatre

Dreamtime Returns

in a Heavy Rain

6.2.2010

Germany

Gintersdorfer/Klaßen

Logobi 04

Egypt Tawasol The Lesson

7.2.2010

Austria Zenith Productions

Wir Leben Die

Utopie

8.2.2010


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Sponsors

Country Troupe/Group Performance

Date

Sweden Teaterhögskolan

I Stockholm Eaten By men

8.2.2010

Germany

Junge Oper/Schnawwl,

Theatre for Children

and Youth at

Nationaltheater

The Story

Of

The Small Uncle

(Children’s

Performance)

Switzerland

/Argentina

Laura Kalauz

&

Martin Schick

Title

Egypt El Tanboura Folkloric Egyptian

Music

9.2.2010

Italy

Giuliana Urciuoli /

Francesca Foscarini/

Chiara Frigo/ Gribaudi

Silvia

Italian Night

Germany And Company & Co Mausoleum Buffo

10.2.2010


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Awakening the City-Egypt

Foofwa d’Imobilité- Switzerland

I have a dream-Palestine

Troy-Egypt

The Lesson-Egypt

The Third Tea Lady-Italy

Title- Switzerland /Argentina

Eaten by Men-Sweden


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Bayt Byout-Lebanon/France/Switzerland

Mausoleum Buffo-Germany

Phantom Limb-Greece/Egypt/UK

Italian Night


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Meet the Artists: A pilot Project: This year the Creative Forum has witnessed a remarkable turnout of spectators, especially in

the age group 20-30 years old, both males and females. Last year, we detected the spectators'

desire to have meetings with the artists after the shows to discuss the various themes and

theatrical styles that had been presented. Therefore, this year we came up with the "Meet the

Artists" program, for which we have devoted two hours on the morning following the shows.

This has attracted a huge audience. Accordingly, we had to register the names of participants

one night before the meeting, to arrange entry, and to establish a genuine dialogue between

artists and spectators. This program has demonstrated the importance of dialogue and the

desire to interact with the other, and the wish to understand their culture. So we are now

discussing ways to support this program next year.

Audience in the Gallery

Theatre and Audience:


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Total

Free Entrance

Invitation

Tickets

Country

Performance

Date

199

70

10

119

Switzerland

Place of the Subject

01.02.2010

179

90

10

79

Palestine

I have a dream

193

80

20

93

Greece

Noble Escape

231

130

25

76

Tunisia

Mafkoud (Missing)

02.02.2010

170

94

20

56

Lebanon/France

Switzerland

Bayt Byout

195

90

25

80

Spain

Còncau II

205

50

10

145

Egypt

Troy

03.02.2010

170

100

20

50

Greece/Egypt/UK

Phantom Limb

195

80

10

105

Lebanon

Entre temps

235

110

25

100

The Netherlands

The Crucible

04.02.2010

264

100

25

139

Italy

The Third Tea Lady

200

30

10

160

Egypt / France

Open Doors

05.02.2010

161

40

45

76

Egypt

A Musical Night of Arabic

Poetry

178

35

10

142

Lebanon

Silicone bomb

328

125

25

178

Poland

Dreamtime Returns in a

Heavy Rain

06.02.2010

174

95

10

69

Germany

Logobi 04

194

65

20

109

Egypt

The Lesson

07.02.2010

180

100

20

60

Austria

Wir Leben Die Utopie

190

110

10

70

Sweden

Eaten By men

08.02.2010

210

50

10

150

Germany

The Story Of The

Small Uncle

190

100

20

70

Switzerland /Argentina

Title

196

70

10

116

Egypt

Folkloric Egyptian Music

09.02.2010

192

100

10

82

Italy

Italian Night

246

120

25

101

Germany

Mausoleum Buffo

10.02.2010

4884

2034

425

2425

TOTAL

*Average of attendance per performance is (204) spectator.


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The Training and the Educational Program of the 7th edition of the Creative Forum 2010

comprised the various following axes:

1- Cultural Management workshop:

The workshop took place over duration of 7 days and was attended by 15 trainees.The

Conductor of this workshop was Ms. Marina Barham ( Al Harah Theater)-Beit Jala-

Palestine.

The following is a list of the trainees of the participating Institutes:

• Media officer- Rawabet, a space for performing Arts (Cairo)

• Media Coordinator- Badrakhan Cultural Centre (Cairo)

• Executive Director- Hala Group for Culture and Arts (Cairo)

• Director of Production – Ifims for documentary films production (Cairo)

• Cultural Affairs officer- Helwan Institute for Social development (Cairo)

• Executive Officer- Town House Gallery (Cairo)

• Executive Dirctor- Mastaba Centre for Egyptian Folkloric Music (Cairo)

• Coordinator of artistic and cultural projects- Warsha Theatre Troupe (Cairo)

• Coordinator of the Training Centre- Association of Educational & Cultural

Development, Jesuit (Cairo)

• Stage Manger- Studio Emad Eldin (Cairo)

• Cultural Programmer – Darb Al Ahmar Revival project (Cairo)

• Program Activator in the Life Skills Program- Agha Khan Institute for cultural services

(Cairo)

• Head of unit of Children's Creations- Bibliotheca Alexandria

• Administrative Coordinator –Arts Centre, Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Cultural Management workshop

II-Training and Educational Program:


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2- International Classroom for Theater Students:

The International Classroom for Theater students this year was based on 8 workshops for 21

students from all around Europe and Mediterranean countries, over a duration of 8 days, for 5

hours a day. The training was done by selected experts from a number of Foundations working

in the field of training and theatrical production from various European and Mediterranean

countries.

Below is a list of the training workshops held for this purpose:

Country Trainer Workshop Date

Switzerland Foofwa d’Imobilité

Stretching one's capacities

02 Feb 2010

Sweden

Paula Brandt, Mihra Lindblom

&Janina Rolfart

Voice and Masks

03 – 04 Feb 2010

Germany Isabelle Schad

Body Movement

05 Feb 2010

Italy Roberto Casarotto

Body Analysis

06 Feb 2010

Austria Kari Rakkola & Agorita Bakali

Physical Theatre: Grotowski Style 07 Feb 2010

Lebanon Dalia Naous

Introduction to body & movement 08 Feb 2010

Lebanon Lina Abyad

Building a Character 09 Feb 2010

Body Analysis workshop

Voice and Masks workshops

Physical Theater (Grotowski Style)


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The participating students in the International Classroom program:

Males Females Educational Institution

Country

–– 1 THE ALEXANDER ZELWEROWICZ STATE

THEATRE ACADEMY

Poland

–– 1 ANTON BRUCKNER PRIVAT UNIVERSITÄT - LINZ

Poland

–– 1 DRAMA SCHOOL -CONTEMPORARY THEATRE OF THESSALONIKI ,

VASILIS DIAMANTOPOULOS

Greece

–– 1 INSTITUTE OF APPLIED THEATRE STUDIES AT THE JUSTUS-

LIEBIG, UNIVERSITY, GIESSEN, GERMANY

Germany

1 –– SCHOOL OF STAGE ARTS, CANTABILE2

Denmark

1 –– UNIVERSITY OF LYON

France

–– 1 UNIVERSITY OF THEATRE TARGU - MURES – ROMANIA Hungary

–– 1 UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI

Finland

–– 1 THE HIGHER INSTITUTE OF DRAMATIC ARTS, DAMASCUS

Palestine

–– 1 LEBANESE UNIVERSITY OF FINE ART

Lebanon

2 –– LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY

Lebanon

1 –– TEATRO INSTITUTION, DAMASCUS - SYRIA

Syria

1 –– THE HIGHER INSTITUTE OF DRAMATIC ARTS

Syria

–– 1 DIRECTING & ACTING – JORDAN UNIVERSITY Jordan

–– 1 DRAMA COLLEGE WEIN Austria

–– 1 THE HIGHER INSTITUTE OF DRAMATIC ARTS Algeria

–– 1 DIFA JAMU

Cheque Republic

–– 1 SCUOLA TEATRO DIMITRI SPUSI – SWITZERLAND

Switzerland

–– 1 THE HIGHER INSTITUTE OF DRAMATIC ARTS Tunisia

–– 1 THE ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS IN BRATISLAVA

Slovakia

6 15 TOTAL

Note: A number of (62) applicants has applied to this program, among which (21) where selected,

representing the countries mentioned above.


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3- Training workshops: Actors and Dancers:

This axis consisted of 5 intensive training workshops for 25 trainees for a period of 10 days,

for 5 hours a day. The training was led by a group of professional choreographers concerned

with training and design in the field of physical expression. Below are the details of the

workshops held, the subjects taught and the trainers:

Country

Trainer

Workshop

Date

Lebanon

Lina Abyad

Building a Character

01- 02 Feb 2010

Germany

Isabelle Schad

Body Movement

03- 04 Feb 2010

Switzerland

Foofwa d’Imobilité

Contact Improvisation

05- 06 Feb 2010

Italy

Roberto Casarotto

Body Analysis

07- 08 Feb 2010

Lebanon

Dalia Naous

Introduction to body and movement

09- 10 Feb 2010

Body Movement workshop Introduction to Body and Movement workshop

Building a Character workshop Stretching One's capacities workshop


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4- Training and Forming School Theatre Activators:

This axis took place through 4 training workshops for 14 trainees, for a period of 10 days for 5

hours a day. The training was led by a group of professional trainers working in the field of

children's theatre, both on the level of creativity and education.

Country

Trainer

Workshop

Date

Egypt

Magdy Asham

Forming Children’s Conscience

(Pedagogical Model)

01 Feb 2010

Sweden

Nina Kjällquist

Creative Drama Tools

02- 04 Feb 2010

The

Netherlands

Jan Willems

New Eyes for Education – New Practice

for Artists:

Theatre, storytelling and drama in school

05- 06 Feb 2010

Germany

Marcela Herrera

The Group as Author

&

Protagonist in Theatre

07- 10 Feb 2010

List of Trainees:

� Theater Training department, Ministry of Education (Alexandria)

� Faculty of Diverse Education (Alexandria)

� Mer de Dieu School (Alexandria)

� AFCA Institution (Cairo)

� Egyptian Language school (Cairo)

� Jesuits and Frere Association (Minya) � Al Hara Theater (Beit Jala-Palestine)

� Sons of Jerusalem Centre (Palestine)

� Teatro Institution (Syria) � Supreme Institute for Dramatic Arts (Syria)

� Rabab El-Sadr Institute (Lebanon)

Creative Drama Tools workshop

The Group as Author & Protagonist in Theater


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This year we experienced the concept of learning through apprenticeship, which is one way to

learn practically where experience and knowledge is spontaneously passed on from an

experienced trainer to another who is less experienced; this in addition to structured meetings

for both the experienced and their less experienced colleague/assistant. In light of this program,

the Creative Forum has been testing this idea of pairing by teaming up a young assistant trainer

with an experienced trainer, provided that they are able to pass on their experience and make

use of it. This experiment has been evaluated by both the experienced and less experienced

partners, and the evaluation has inspired ideas to make the necessary arrangement for this

apprenticeship program next year. The program has included 8 pairs in the fields of training

and education and they represent the following institutions:

• Faculty of Arts, Theatre Department, Alexandria University (2 apprentices)

• Higher Institute for Theatre Arts- Academy of Arts (2 apprentices)

• Lycee Theater- Artistic House for Theater, Ministry of Culture (2 apprentices)

• Association for Educational and Cultural Development, The Jesuit Cairo in

(1 apprentices)

• Jesuit and Frere Association in Minya (1 apprentice)

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The Theatre between Two Generations: Meeting Midway

e concept of dialogue was based on the debate between the different theatre This year th

What ? And what is the relationship between them? how do they regard each other: generations

does Theater mean to each of them in the first place? In addition to the attempt to determine

What are the ? What are the achievements of the past and present: the parameters of the road

, Many confused questions which need to be reflected upon? expectations of the future

especially in transition stages of the universal culture.

We have established a dialogue between two generations, in order to overcome misconceptions

about the other, and see the self in its real size, and to go beyond the so-called constants. We

have a dialogue to look for multiple perspectives, in order to arrive to a possible form for the

freedom of human expression.

III-Apprenticeship Program: Pilot Project

IV-Dialogue Program:


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We have tried this time to use the "narration" approach to see our similarities and differences,

with no need for any presumptions. We need life experience that we get when we talk about

our experiences, and hear about those of the other. We try though dialogue to minimize pride

resulting from the fear of the Other. We try to preserve life values because if wasted, there will

be nothing left to talk about. This was asserted by the Dialogue Program that consisted of the

following themes:

First Session: Perception of the Other: How each generation perceives the Other?: "Real

Stories"

Second Session: Milestones: Past Achievements and Future Expectations: "Possible and

Impossible stories."

In this program, 40 young and elder participants have taken part in the presence of many critics,

researchers and trainers in different theatrical fields. The discussions in both axes lasted about 6 hours.

Round-Table discussion Program- Swedish Institute


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:Theatrical Writing Today in Switzerland

Friedrich DürrenmattChildren and Grandchildren of

Within the framework of the Dialogue Program, and taking on the same goal with new

approaches, the Creative Forum has established an educational artistic dialogue about

Theatrical Writing Today in Switzerland: Children and Grandchildren of Friedrich Dürrenmatt,

through a panel discussion led by the Swiss director and dramatist "Eric Altorfer". In the

presence of 50 students, researchers and artists in the theatrical field, this discussion has shown

the specialty of theatrical writing in the Swiss theatre, introducing its approaches and styles as

a multi-lingual theatre that takes the idea of political and ethnic pluralism as its cultural basis.

The Dialogue Program has shown the importance of updating the students' and young theatre

makers knowledge with the latest that takes place in the world. In Egypt, translation has been

detained in the cultural revolutionary phase of the sixties and its consequences; therefore, there

has no longer been a real translation movement since the mid-eighties, where knowledge

paused at that stage. The majority does not know about the Swiss theatre except Max Frisch

and Friedrich Dürrenment, who were both born in the past century and died in the early

nineties.

Lecture about Theatrical writing Today in Switzerland


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1- Theater Texts

“Braids” (Arab Women Playwrights from the Mediterranean)

This year the Creative Forum threw the light on the female theatre, through the " Arab Women

Playwrights from the Mediterranean" which aims at strengthening freedom of expression in the

feminist theatre and enhancing its effectiveness; and wide-spreading it by translating it into

Arabic and English. A bilingualism that aims at introducing the reader and the theatrical artist,

both locally and globally, to the issues presented by the feminist theatre as this is considered

one problem of expression, and that of ability to analyze spaces of creativity in conflict with

everyday reality.

Through this program we have discovered a new generation of female playwrights, and

therefore, other spaces, even other sources and feelings that represent the conscience of the

Arab female playwright.

Playwright

Country

Text

Translator

Youssra Sharkawi

Egypt

A Siren Concealed

Hala Kamal

Nora Amin

Egypt

Interview

Hala Kamal

Marwa Farouk

Egypt

Our Silk Curtained Window

Hala Kamal

Badia Erradi

Morocco

My Double

Sarah Enany

Yam Machhadi

Syria

Paris in the Shade

Sarah Enany

Nahil Mohanna

Palestine

Otherwise known as Woman

Soumaya Ramadan

Hayet Raies

Tunisia

Ashtar

Soumaya Ramadan

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There has been a Launching Book ceremony to celebrate the publications referred to (limited

edition of 500 copies) in which a documentary about these playwrights was displayed. Also a

session of autograph signing with the title of "Starvation of the Spirit" was held by the novelist

Sahar Almogy in the presence of audience and critics.

Launching Book Ceremony

2. Creative Forum Book:

“Exercises in Freedom”

In addition to what was mentioned above about the Publication Program, a book entitled

"Exercises in Freedom " that tracks the Creative Forum philosophy and influence through the

past six editions was published. It was edited by the critic Guirguis Shoukry, who has tracked

the effects of the Creative Forum throughout its six editions within the fields of theatrical

performance, and programs of dialogue, training and publication. The book was also translated

into English to facilitate its circulation among the European readers, as well as the Arabs.


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Items 1st

Edition

2003/ 2004

2nd

Edition

2004/ 2005

3rd

Edition

2006

4th

Edition

2007

5th

Edition

2008

6th

Edition

2009

7th

Edition

2010

Theatre performances 10 12 14 12 15

18 25

Training and Educational

programmes (workshops) 2 9 7 17

17

21 18

Dialogue program 1 2 4 5

5

2 2

Publication program ---- 1 1 2

6 6 8

Participating countries 10 12 19 23

27

24 24

Number of trainees in

workshops 30 60 91 114

104

65 75

Number of participating

artists

80 120 160 145

177 240 290

Number of trainers 2 11 8 20 14 17 15

Average of audience

number per performance 60 80 120 194 202 194 204

Creative Forum Poster from 2003-2010

Statistics 2003-2010

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