Cross-Channels: Intercultural Artistic Initiatives
Cross-Channels is a new festival organised by students of the MA Theatre Studies and MA International Performance Research of the Universiteit van Amsterdam. Over the course of two days Cross-Channels seeks the borders of the intercultural with theatre, dance, installations and literature. On the 18th and 19th of December more than 14 initiatives of both students and professionals will be staged in the Universiteitstheater.
Sightwalk
by Johanna Barnbeck and Maarten Walraven
Thu. 18th & Fri. 19th, 16.00 hrs
We will take you on a tour, a meta-tour, which will have you experience the city of Amsterdam through the walking of a tourist and of a flaneur.
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Second Me
by Olga Chepurova and Kate Mikhailova
Thu. 18th & Fri. 19th, 17.30 hrs
A story about a girl who wants to understand herself in this confusing world. Once she gets up and realizes that she has acquired a double. This double is another part of her personality. They start to communicate, demonstrating their character, and finally the characters become embodied in one person. Thereby she gets her personality, which is contradictive, as any other, but complete.
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Reading the COOL NOIR STORIES
by Maurice Seleky
Thu. 18th & Fri. 19th, 18.00 hrs
The dark and tragic tales about young people living a fast paced life in 21st century metropoles in the West. Although smart, beautiful and rich, they are lost in a circus of sex, drugs and cynicism. Maurice Seleky writes about their quest for love, purpose and a way to escape...
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Six degrees of inner turbulence
by Pauline Elvira Weijs
Thu. 18th & Fri. 19th, 18.30 hrs
Hölderlin, Nijinsky, Artaud, Schreber and Schumann: all these persons suffered from (the symptoms of) schizophrenia. For this piece, every dancer 'specialized' him/herself in one of these persons to tell his story on stage. The piece is not meant to tell the exact biography of every person, but merely to show how this disease infected their thoughts and way of living and behaving.
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Where does the road take me?
by Marie Faber
Thu. 18th, 19.30 hrs
In our days many people are nomades for their whole life. Which role does travelling play in my life, where is my place in the world and how can I find it; carrying... carrying my own history.
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Citizen
by Margo van de Linde and Dineke Faas
Fri. 19th, 19.30 hrs
A short performance piece which explores the tension between alienation and belonging. Spoken word forms the basis- the product of a life largely spent on the move and in between cultures. We attempt to honestly translate these sentiments into a physical language.
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{The Alunsina Network}
Direction: meLê yamomo
Choreography: Helen Pokrovskaia
Text & lyrics: Maya van den Heuvel - Arad
Dramaturgy: Lonneke van Heugten
Technical Direction/Lighting Design: Wouter Helmond
Sound DesignMarkus Hoogervorst
Production Management: Johanna Timonen
Cast:Lex Bremer, Lonneke van Heugten, Krystian Lada, Helen Pokrovskaia, Anne Rieger (singer), Nadeche Studer, meLê yamomo
Thu. 18th & Fri. 19th, 20.15 hrs
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A Puerto Rican Chica from the Bronx
by Benilda (Bennie) Pacheco Beretta
"Growing up as a Latina in the 1960's in New York City was the beginning of an exploration into my ethnic and cultural identity. The 60's gave me the opportunity to experience the pulsating rhythms of a city in the midst of transforming political and sociological ideologies. It was during this time that I began to question everything around me, especially my ethnicity. As a young Puerto Rican woman, I wasn't sure where I belonged. I didn't know whether to embrace my Puerto Rican heritage or discard it in order to assimilate into the "American Way of Life." Thirty years later I realized that this still is a daunting task for me."
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Reading between the lines
by Joao Tiago
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WESTERN EXPERIENCE.DEN BOSCH
by Lina Fregeres and Krystian Lada
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Being For Others
by Maya van den Heuvel - Arad, Loreto Leonvendagar, Ricarda Franzen.
Fri. 19th
Being For Others is the first part of a sound installation which investigates the concept of "feeling alien". Body, sound and gaze are being confronted and separated, asking the question: how do we experience our subjectivity?
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In the picture
by Lara Broekman, Catherine Makhumula and Gargi Bharadwaj
In the Picture is a photo exhibition which aims to showcase various images of personal identity. The exhibition focuses on themes such as self-image and the performativity of one’s identity as the individual is confronted with the intercultural.
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You and Me, Interculturally: The Intercultural Ocean
by Jenna Rodgers and Mikki Stelder
An oceanic installation, allowing the audience to discover our explorations of interculturalism over the previous semester. A series of performed vignettes will take place, showing our insights, thoughts, and reflections.
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Still, Life (A Flower Fair)
by Teilhard Paradela
Time. 17.00 - 19.00 hrs
A collection of monologues inspired by the flowers found in Seventeenth Century Dutch still-life paintings. The monologue pieces will not be about the flowers per se, but how these living objects—through sensory, conceptual, and historical associations—evoke the remembering and telling of our most intimate experiences. Each of these monologues is performed by one actor to one audience member in a very intimate setting.