How to see everything

Live blogging from the Neu/Now Festival (8)

Everyone knows it’s impossible to see everything. Some things feature only once. Some always feature at the same time at different places. And if you go to see everything, you’ll be so over-exposed you won’t have anything sensible to say at the end of the day. Yes, we know all that. And still we tried.

Do it yourself

Live blogging from the Neu/Now Festival (6)

Floor Plan

Last night Open Batch Theatre performed Floor Plan. They could only do one show because today they flew back for their graduation; Millie, who is doing the blog on neunow.eu, was there in time to have a short interview with them.

Live blogging from the Neu/Now festival (2)

Marloeke van der Vlugt: Patchmaker

It’s as if you enter an anatomical theatre. Marloeke van der Vlugt is sitting there, with a camera and a mirror pointed at herself, serenely, waiting for you to press the sensors on her body. Around her are video screens, and windows that double as mirrors. In her installation “Patchmaker”, body contact calls up video and sound – while you are intimately close to her, touching her feet and belly and hand and shoulder and neck, you are also playing her like an instrument.

ITs Festival goes international

June is graduation month, and all around Europe art schools are putting on their graduation shows and festivals. Last night we attended the opening of the 20th International Theatre School festival, ITs for intimates, which features over 70 unique productions by fresh graduates in theatre, dance, music and film. Advertising itself as the largest European festival of its kind, and as standing at the cradle of the future of theatre, it is now featuring work from Frankfurt, Berlin, Dresden, Bern, London, and Perth, as well as from most leading performing art schools in Holland and Flanders. “In the coming years we are going to put a lot of effort into expading our international branch”, says Theu Boermans, artistic director.

NEU/NOW

We are inviting all members of ELIA and partner networks to nominate their graduating and freshly graduated student talent for the NEU/NOW Festival, an event that will first take place in virtual space and then live in Vilnius, Cultural Capital of Europe.
NEU/NOW is intended to become a yearly recurrent event that presents the best of the new generation emerging now from art schools around Europe, in all disciplines. Schools can nominate up to two students in each of the five discipline categories.

Deadline for nominations: 10 June

www.neunow.eu