Theatre Studies at Utrecht University
Utrecht University, founded in 1636, is one of the best universities in the world and is ranked 11th in Europe, 1st in the Netherlands, and 52nd in the world on the Shanghai university ranking list. Theatre Studies at Utrecht University is part of the department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University. This department also includes Film and Theatre Studies, Musicology, Gender Studies, New Media and Digital Culture, and Art Policy and Management. Many collaborations occur, both at the level of education and research. Herein, the interplay between the mediatisation of cultural heritage and the mediatisation of culture plays an important role, not only from the perspective of performativity and theatricality, but also highlights the connected questions of the specificity of various media and their underlying relations: intermediality, crossmediality, and transmediality. Theatre Studies research and education focuses specifically on current developments in theatre and dance from an interdisciplinary, intermedial, and international perspective.
www.theatrestudies.nl
Festival a/d Werf
Festival a/d Werf is an annual festival that takes place at a wide range of locations, steeping the city of Utrecht in culture for ten days each May. The installations, theatre, dance and music performances are known for its large experimental content. Productions from young artists, partly developed in Huis a/d Werf, are shown next to the creations of internationally renowned makers. It is a festival for artists with a unique view on the world and for audiences unafraid of questioning their own perspectives.
This year, the 26th edition of Festival a/d Werf (19th to 28th of May) carries the motto Take it personal! It refers to dealing with important social and political issues such as interculturality, migration, war and conflict of generations, as well as to accessibility and to personal views from artists from several countries. The new artistic director Rainer Hofmann presents work which combines social and political awareness with the search for an adequate contemporary form. About 25 productions from all fields of performing arts will be shown. Part of these will come from Huis a/d Werf, the production house of the festival.
www.festivalaandewerf.nl
The Faculty of Theatre (Utrecht School of the Arts)
The Utrecht School of the Arts (De Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht – HKU) is one of Europe’s largest educational institutes in art and culture. The Faculty of Theatre is one of five faculties at the Utrecht School of the Arts alongside the Faculty of Visual Arts and Design, the Faculty of Art and Economics, the Faculty of Art, Media and Technology, and the Faculty of Music (‘Utrechts Conservatorium’). The Faculty of Theatre offers a wide array of preparatory degrees and courses in the various elements of theatre (acting degrees, theatre design, writing for performance, design for virtual theatre and games, theatre management, and theatre and education). The common denominator of all degrees and courses is the collaboration between actors, theater makers, writers, designers, and teachers.
www.hku.nl
Gemeente Utrecht (Utrecht city council)
www.utrecht.nl
Centre for the Humanities (Utrecht University)
The Centre for the Humanities (CfH) is the platform where pioneering, innovative research is connected to greater socio-political relevance of the humanities. CfH makes this connection by focusing on the social status and the public perception of the humanities today.
www.uu.nl/cfh
Cultures and Identities (Utrecht University)
Cultures & Identities represents one of Utrecht University's fifteen prioritised research areas. It provides a unique interdisciplinary platform bringing together expertise in the fields of media and the arts, religion, and organisations from the faculty of Humanities and the faculty of Law, Economics and Governance.
Cultures and Identities (link)
Kommerz – identity, strategy & editorial design
Kommerz is a Rotterdam-based office for identity, strategy & editorial design, founded by Bram Nijssen and Marcel van den Berg in 2010. Through thoughtful analysis of the assignment, its social context, and the feel for the perception by the user, Kommerz aims to render thinking as form, process and experience. Kommerz subscribes at the same time to a quote of French philosopher Marie José-Mondzain: “Contrary to the instant immediate readability of communication messages, the graphic designer produces objects that require time and demand patience to construct the divergent forms. To produce visual enigmas which stimulate thought and invite speech is the only way for graphic design to participate in the creation of common space. Not a world where we are ‘as one’, but a world where there is dispute and exchange in the multiplicity of differences and divergences. A world that is a jumble of continual motion.”
www.kommerz.nl
Anniversary Committee UU 375 (Utrecht University)
In 2011, Utrecht University will celebrate the 375th anniversary of its founding. ‘Knowledge for the Future’ is the theme of this year’s anniversary celebrations. After all, this is precisely what Utrecht University does. It develops knowledge for future generations and the science of tomorrow.
UU 375 (link)
Centrum voor Beeldende Kunst Utrecht (CBKU)
Centrum Beeldende Kunst Utrecht (CBKU / Centre for Visual Art Utrecht) provides exhibition and meeting space for contemporary art and also functions as a working place for artists. It houses a graphic atelier, and holds regular workshops on art and cultural entrepreneurship, and artist-in-residence periods. Located in the city centre of Utrecht, CBKU is a creative impulse to the art climate of both the city and province of Utrecht. It also offers space for reflections on national and international developments.
www.cbk-utrecht.nl
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
As the forum, conscience, and voice of the arts and sciences in the Netherlands, the Academy promotes quality in science and scholarship and strives to ensure that Dutch scholars and scientists contribute to cultural, social and economic progress. As a research organisation, the Academy is responsible for a group of outstanding national research institutes. It promotes innovation and knowledge valorisation within these institutes and encourages them to cooperate with one another and with university research groups.
www.knaw.nl
Treaty of Utrecht
In 2013, the 300th anniversary of the Treaty of Utrecht will be marked with spectacular celebrations. The Treaty of Utrecht foundation is organizing a cultural programme in cooperation with many organizations. The activities will take place in the city and province of Utrecht. The programme links art and culture with current social themes. The 2013 celebration will mark a milestone in the city and province of Utrecht’s broader ambition: to make fundamental contributions towards a flourishing and internationally-oriented cultural life. The Vrede van Utrecht Foundation is to act as the developer and binding factor in the region. The Foundation works to advance cooperation between the city and the region, between the historic centre and later districts, between the cultural sector, Utrecht’s knowledge institutes and the Utrecht business community and, most of all, between Utrecht and Europe. Next step in the development will be the city becoming European Capital of Culture in 2018.
www.vredevanutrecht2013.nl
Stadsschouwburg Utrecht
Stadsschouwburg Utrecht is the prominent theatre in the Central Netherlands. Annually, over 550 performances and activities are held in two auditoriums and at other locations inside and outside the theatre, varying from modern dance to musicals, and from modern theatre to romantic operas. The city theatre also enables numerous Utrecht festivals such as Springdance, Festival a/d Werf, and the Dutch Film Festival.
www.stadsschouwburg-utrecht.nl
Stadsschouwburg Utrecht / Restaurant Zindering
Restaurant Zindering is the café – restaurant on the first floor of Stadsschouwburg Utrecht, where Remco Vellinga will prepare his culinary creations with fun and pleasure for the participants of the PSi conference. During the conference, the kitchen is open from 13.00 – 20.00 pm for a (warm) lunch or a three-course dinner, especially for the guests of PSi. At any time, conference participants are welcome to enjoy a cup of coffee or tea. You can book by phone on the number (+31)(0)30-2324160 or on the website.
www.zindering.nl
Motion Bank / The Forsythe Company
Motion Bank is a new four year project (2010-2013) of The Forsythe Company providing a broad context for research into choreographic practice. The main focus is on the creation of on-line digital scores in collaboration with guest choreographers to be made publicly available via the Motion Bank website. Both these unique score productions and development of related teaching applications will be undertaken with and rely on the expertise and experience of key collaborative partners. Motion Bank is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, the Hessische Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, the kulturfonds frankfurtrheinmain and Ms. Susanne Klatten.
www.theforsythecompany.com/motionbank
Dancing on the Edge
Dancing on the Edge, based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, presents and promotes dance & theater artists and groups from the Middle East and North Africa. The activities include a bi-yearly festival held in a number of Dutch cities, as well as training programs, workshops, artist-in-residences, symposiums, and meetings.
www.dancingontheedge.nl
Klein Dytham architecture / PechaKucha
PechaKucha was devised in Tokyo in February 2003 as an event for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. Since then, it has turned into a massive celebration, with events happening in hundreds of cities around the world, inspiring creatives worldwide. Drawing its name from the Japanese term for the sound of "chit chat", it rests on a presentation format that is based on a simple idea: 20 images x 20 seconds. It's a format that makes presentations concise, and keeps things moving at a rapid pace. It also requires that images and ideas become performances.
In the Shift 'Camillo 2.0 x PechaKucha' that is presented at PSi #17, this format has been adapted to performance studies research. Part conference presentation, part improvisation, part media, and all performance, the PechaKucha shift gives scholars and artists the opportunity to showcase their work in a dynamic, visual, and interactive environment and conference participants the chance to view performance studies scholarship in a totally new way. Presenters prepare 20 slides of anything--texts, photographs, images, diagrams, colors, nothing--and then each slide appears for 20 seconds. Once the slideshow starts, the presenters have 20 seconds per slide (6 minutes and 40 seconds total) to perform and present while the audience comes along for the ride. This unique format is devised and shared by Klein Dytham architecture.
Holland Festival
The Holland Festival has been the trend-setting performing arts festival in the Netherlands since 1947, annually presenting exceptional work at the international level. The Holland Festival features a mix of all the performance arts, a mix of big names and daring experiments.
www.hollandfestival.nl
Intellect
www.intellectbooks.co.uk
SNS REAAL Fonds
www.snsreaalfonds.nl
Performing Arts Fund NL (Fonds Podiumkunsten)
www.fondspodiumkunsten.nl
Aberystwyth University
www.aber.ac.uk
Roehampton University
www.roehampton.ac.uk
DasArts
www.dasarts.nl
Brown University
www.brown.edu
University of South Wales
www.unsw.edu.au
Hogeschool Zuyd / Toneelacademie Maastricht
www.toneelacademie.nl
Central School of Speech and Drama
www.cssd.ac.uk
King's College London / University of London
www.kcl.ac.uk