European Comunity
 

Pontedera_Italy

1st - 16th April 2006

Closing International Symposium, "Living Traces: Performing as a Shared Reality" 

The Closing International Symposium, "Living Traces: Performing as a Shared Reality" took place at Fondazione Pontedera Teatro, one of the co-organizers of Tracing Roads Across, on April 12 and 13.
Organizers, members of the documentation team, scholars and other cultural workers from Austria, Bulgaria, France, Great Britain, Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Poland, and the United States took part.

On April 11, presentations of documentary films were held for the general public at Fondazione Pontedera Teatro. Presentations included Mercedes Gregory"s film of Downstairs Action entitled, Art as vehicle (1989), along with the documentation film ACTION in Aya Irini (2003). In addition, fragments of raw footage shot by the video documentation team of Dies Irae/One Breath Left and The Twin: An Action in Creation from presentations in Aya Irini, Istanbul in 2003 were shown, as were video fragments from Dies Irae: The Preposterous Theatrum Interioris Show from Moscow, November 2005, and selections from The Twin: an Action in Creation filmed in Caen, France, in June 2004.

During the days leading up to the Closing International Symposium, the artistic team demonstrated Action, an opus in the domain of Art as vehicle, and An Action in Creation: work session, an emerging opus in the same domain, at the Vallicelle workspace. The performance Dies Irae: The Preposterous Theatrum Interioris Show from Project The Bridge: Developing Theatre Arts was presented at Fondazione Pontedera Teatro.

Hammamet_Tunisia

23th February - 30th March 2006

Focal Point: "Southern Cradle"   

The activity took place at the International Cultural Center of Hammamet.
During "Southern Cradle" the artistic team demonstrated Action, an opus in the domain of Art as vehicle, and An Action in Creation: work session, an emerging opus in the same domain. The performance Dies Irae: The Preposterous Theatrum Interioris Show from Project The Bridge: Developing Theatre Arts was also presented.

An exchange-in-work was held with two theatre groups: one from Tunis and the other made up of young actors coming from a variety African countries.
The general public was invited to view screenings of two documentary films on the Workcenter research: Art as vehicle (1989) and ACTION in Aya Irini (2003). An Open Conference was also held.

Pontedera_Italy

5th January - 22th February 2006

Main Work: "Tradition and Performance III" 

"Tradition and Performance III" was hosted by Fondazione Pontedera Teatro, one of the co-organizers of Tracing Roads Across. The activity included exchanges-in-work with five theatre groups from France, Greece and Bulgaria.