International Network [1992-2000]
Natasha Project supports exchange and respect among artists and interest in mutual work. It is a meeting place of diversity as well as a way of learning through understanding the creative process of others.
Founded in 1992 by theater artists and groups from Denmark, Hungary, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Holland and Yugoslavia, among which was the DAH Theater.
The idea for the project arose in the ODIN Theater (Denmark) during a seminar led by actor Torgeir Wethal from 1990-1994.
It was a common basis at a highly professional level, from which in 1992 the participants [Tina Nielsen, Zsuzsanna Varkonyi, Massimo Gianetti, Juan Loriente, Petra Lindblom, Jolanda van Dijk Dijana Milošević and Jadranka Andjelic] decided to create a network with the aim of continuing their artistic collaboration and developing work in contemporary theater.
Meetings / Workshops / Festivals / Cooperation
ART SAVES LIFE / ART SAVES LIFE
The sentence "Art Saves Life" was graffiti written on a wall in New York and was adopted as the name of the network's project. Powerful and provocative, this sentence expresses the highest potential of art in general.
The members of the Natasha Project constantly question the attitude "Art saves life", asking the questions: "How can art save life and what kind of art/theatre can give meaning to life?".
Meetings of the Natasha Network Project take place in different forms (festivals, exchanges, workshops, cooperation) following the needs and research of the participants and as a form proposed by the group or institution that organizes the meeting.
During the meeting in Sweden (Lund) in 1995, an outdoor play was created based on the "Epic of Gilgamesh" with thirteen performers from different European countries.
Members of the network also collaborated in the international project "Region of Memories", produced by the INFANT festival from Novi Sad in 2000.
NATASHA PROJECT Meeting - SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain, Sala Galán, 1992.
ART SAVES LIFE (International Workshop) - Seminar at ODIN Theatre, HOLSTEBRO, Denmark, 1993.
ART SAVES LIFE (festival and workshop) - Dah Theater and Sava Center, BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, 1993 and 1994.
ART SAVES LIFE (festival and workshop) – Dagaz Theatre, LUND, Sweden, 1995.
ART SAVES LIFE (Theater Workshops IN A HOME FOR CHILDREN WITHOUT PARENTAL CARE) - ROMANIA, 1996 and 1997.
Meeting and festival "After five years" - ODIN Teatret, HOLSTEBRO, Denmark, 1999.
Art Saves Life Meeting - DIJK Theater, AMSTERDAM, Holland, 1999.
Natasha Presentation and collaboration at the play "landscape of memories" - INFANT Festival, NOVI SAD, Serbia, 2000.