THEATRE AS A PATH OF HEALING
May 23rd – 27th, 2003.
The festival and conference "Theatre as a way of healing" brought together an international group of artists and theoreticians who, in their work, deal with issues of healing and transformation of difficult experiences using theater techniques.
These questions are extremely important for our country in this period, but also internationally, bearing in mind modern world history. The most important questions in the focus of this festival/conference are: what is the role and power of theater and art in researching content related to healing and reconciliation? What is the power of art in dealing with crimes committed in our name? What are the ways to heal "wounds" made during the past period in our region? What are the experiences of people and artists from other countries?
Rituals and shamanistic practice are the origins of theater. Knowledge of the cosmos, stars, herbs and healing ceremonies preceded modern medicine. Art and theater as we know it today have separated from everyday life as well as modern medicine. Our world is characterized by the separation of the functions of different fields of knowledge and art, but also by the desire to somehow merge or permeate them again. Contemporary theater is increasingly taking on the role of spiritual disciplines, and its healing power is becoming more and more obvious. In a way, we are going back to the beginning. - Jadranka Anđelić
PROGRAM
THEATRE AS A PATH OF HEALING
With this Festival, we marked the beginning of the work of the DAH Theater Center for Theater Research in a new space, at Marulićeva 8, in Belgrade.
23 May, Friday
10:00-14:00, REX Cultural center, Taiko Rhythms, Rita Superbi, Italy - Drumming Workshop
12:00, Dah Theater Research Center (Maruliceva 8) – OPENING OF THE FESTIVAL AND OF THE SPACE and the cocktail
17:00, BITEF Theater, Peru, Argentina & USA: Theater, Memory & Resistance by Roberto Gutierrez Varea (Argentina/ USA) – Lecture and video presentation
21:05, National Theatre, Maps of Forbidden Remembrance, 7 STAGES (USA) and DAH Theater – Performance
24 May, Saturday
10:00-14:00, REX Cultural center Taiko Rhythms, Rita Superbi, Italy Drumming Workshop
17:00-19:00, Dah Theater Research Center (Maruliceva 8) KALI, Vesna Tokin, Belgrade - Video
Healing Power of Theatre, Sejo Djulic, Mostar Youth Theatre, BIH – Lecture and video presentation
20:00, Bitef Theater Mbira Song, Stella Chiweshe, Zimbabwe – Concert
25 May, Sunday
17:00, Dah Theater Research Center (Maruliceva 8), Psycho Drama Therapeutic Techniques or/and Creative Form by Vladimir Miloševic, and Zoram Djuric, Serbia – Presentation
20:00, Dah Theater Research Center (Maruliceva 8), Inner Mandala, Dah Theater, Belgrade – Lecture / Performance
26 May, Monday
10:00-14:00, REX Cultural Centre, Taiko Rhythms, Rita Superbi, Italy – Drumming Workshop
17:00-19:00, Dah Theater Research Center (Maruliceva 8), Color of Time – Claudia Bernardi / Argentina Healing From Governmental Abuse- Installation
Buddhist View by Tanja Popovic, Naropa University of Buddhist Studies, USA – Lecture
20:00, Bitef Theater Chronicles, The Song of the Goat Theatre, Poland – Performance
20:00, Museum of African Art, Meeting with Stella Chiweshe (Zimbabwe) – Meeting with artists
27 May, Tuesday
10:00-13:00, REX Cultural center Taiko Rhythms, Drumming Workshop, Rita Superbi, Italy – Drumming Workshop
13:00, Čubura Park, TAIKO Drumming workshop presentation – Outdoor Concert
17:00, Dah Theater Research Center (Maruliceva 8) Bread Stories, KPM Ogledalo, Novi Sad - Presentation of the work with the people with special needs
20:00, REX Cultural Centre, White Women From the West, Kathy Randels, ARTSPOT Production, USA – Performance
We dedicate the festival to Lena Eckham.
Background work - Caludia Bernardi
SUPPORTED IMPLEMENTATION
PRO HELVETIA BELGRADE, CITY OF BELGRADE - SECRETARIAT FOR CULTURE, MUSEUM OF AFRICAN ART, EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND
The arrival of 7 Stages Theater and Kathy Randels helped:
The Fund for US Artists at International Festivals and Exhibitions, National Endowment for the Arts, The US Department of State, The Pew Charitable Trust and the Rockefeller Foundation.
The arrival of Robert Varo helped
The University of San Francisco, Performing Arts and Social Justice Program.
