3.12.10: North America by Ivan Sygoda
Ivan Sygoda is the Director of Pentacle, a New York City-based non-profit service organization helping dance artists with administrative functions. He co-founded the New York State DanceForce, contributed to many arts publications, lectured on arts administration and has been on the boards of Dance/USA, NAPAMA, Arts Presenters, the Western Arts Alliance and the New York City Arts Coalition. He has been a member of the New York Dance and Performance Awards (the “Bessies”) selection panel since 1996. He was awarded Dance/USA’s “Ernie” in 1996 and the Arts Presenters Fan Taylor Distinguished Service Award in 2000.
10.12.10: Slovenia by Andreja Kopac
Andreja Kopač is a journalist, publicist, dramaturge and Master of Science, program Linguistic of Speach and theory of social communication on. As a publicist she writes for Maska, Mentor and Dialogi. She works as a free lance cultural worker, involved in many cultural and artistic projects, also as a free lance researcher in the field of non-governmental cultural organizations.
Past sessions:
07.05.2010: Portugal by Tiago Bartolomeu Costa
Tiago Bartolomeu Costa is a theater and dance critic, he created the independent publication Obscena. Besides his work for the European Team Network, he is also Member of the Consultative Council for the International Festival Divadelna Nitra (Slovakia), Member of the International Association of Theater Critics and Voting Member of the Award New Theatrical Realities / Price Eur. In 2009, he was selected by the British Council to participate at the International Cultural Leadership Program.
28.05.2010: Poland by Joanna Nawrocka
Joanna Nawrocka has worked alternatively for the National Theater of Warsaw, the Polish Office of Pro Helvetia and the Theater Company Studio Kolo. She is currently the International Relations Manager of the Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute, as well as the Executive Director of the Warsaw Theatre Meetings festival.
04.06.2010: United Kingdom by Steven Brett
Steven Brett danced with NDTII and Rambert Dance Company of the UK where he was rehearsal and associate artistic director. He was a Drama and Dance Projects manager for Western Europe, Latin America, and Southern Africa for the British Council. He produced 2009’s SPILL Festival of Performance in London. He now runs the Nightingale Theatre in Brighton – a development, residency and performance space.
11.06.2010: The Netherlands by Pieter Zeeman
After having worked in different theaters (notably as artistic director of the Shaffy Theater), Pieter Zeemans joined the international department of the Theater Instituut Nederland where he specialized on relations with Eastern countries and then with the USA. Today he leads the international department of the Performing Arts Fund Nederland where he deals with international cultural policies and international subsidy program.
18.06.2010: Italy by Luca Scarlini
Luca Scarlini is a playwright, artist performer, professor of theater history at the Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, literary adviser to various companies and has published several books. He was the Artistic Director of the Festival MilanOltre in Milan, and worked as a playwright and translator with Motus, Fanny & Alexander and Societas Raffaello Sanzio.
25.06.2010: France by Albane Ahrens
Albane Ahrens is a trainer and consultant at “La Belle Ouvrage” of which she is co-director since October 2006. She also co-directs the production office “Et bientôt...”, accompanying several artistic projects and leads missions with cultural structures.
22.10.10: Germany by Kathrin Tiedemann
Kathrin Tiedemann, Artistic director of the Forum Freies Theater in Dusseldorf since 2004. Former dramaturge and curator at Kampnagel Hamburg and of the reich & berühmt festival (rich & famous) in Berlin, former editor and critic for "Theater der Zeit" and "Freitag". She writes and lectures on contemporary performance practice in Dusseldorf and elsewhere. She is chairwoman of the "Verband Freie Darstellende Künste NRW" (Lobby of Independent Theatre Producers in North Rhine- Westfalia).
5.11.10: Switzerland by Sally de Kunst, 5th of November
Sally De Kunst is the director of the Belluard Bollwerk International festival since 2007. Before that, she was the dance curator for the arts centre STUK and for the international contemporary dance festival KLAPSTUK in Leuven. In 2006, she also worked as a co-curator/ organizer of Monsoon and Expedition, two international exchange platforms. She worked as a freelance dance and theatre critic for De Morgen and Etcetera, a Belgian magazine on theatre, dance, performance.
