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THE NATASHA PROJECT
The Natasha Project
is an international network of theater groups and artists from different
countries: Denmark, Hungary, Italy, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands
and Yugoslavia as the founding members.
The idea
for the project started in ODIN Teatret, Denmark, during
the seminars conducted by the actor Torgeir Wethal, from
1990-94. This was a common base on a high professional level
and in 1992 actors and directors from the seminars decided
to create a network with the aim to continue their artistic
exchange and develop their work in contemporary theater.
The Natasha Project encourages understanding and respect
between the artist and an interest in each other's work.
It is also a place for the meeting of differences
and a way of learning from other experiences through understanding
the creative process of the others.
The ongoing project of the network is:
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ART SAVES LIFE
Meetings/ Workshops/ Festivals/ Collaboration
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The
sentence "ART SAVES LIFE" originally is graffiti
written on some wall in New York. We found it provocative
and powerful, expressing the ultimate potentiality of the
art it self.
The Natasha Project's members continuously reinvestigate the
meaning of the phrase "Art Saves Life" which is
the motto of the network, posing the questions: In which way
art can save the life, and which kind of art can give the
meaning to the life?
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The meetings of The Natasha
Project take different forms (festival, exchange, workshop, collaboration)
following the needs and research of the members and according to
the possibilities of the group or institution, which is hosting
the meeting.
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As a result of the meeting in
Sweden '95 the performance based on "The Epic of Gilgamesh"
was made. The performance was made for open air with the
participation of thirteen actors from different European countries.
Members of Natasha Project collaborated
in the performance "Landscape of Memories"
produced by INFANT Festival in Novi Sad, 2000.
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Until today The Natasha Project Meetings have been
held in:
- SANTANDER,
Spain, 1992, 1st Natasha Project Meeting
- HOLSTEBRO, Denmark, 1993, Seminar in
ODIN Teatret
- SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain, 1993
ART SAVES LIFE (International Workshop) in Sala Galán
- BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, 1993 / 1994,
ART SAVES LIFE (Workshop and festival) Dah Theatre and Sava Center
- LUND, Sweden, 1995 ART SAVES LIFE (Workshop
and Festival) Dagaz Theatre
- ROMANIA, 1996 and 1997 ART SAVES LIFE
(Special project: Theater workshop with the orphaned children,
led by Zsuzsanna Varkonyi)
- HOLSTEBRO, Denmark, 1999 Natasha Project
Meeting and Festival: "After Five Years", at ODIN Teatret
- AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, 1999, Art
Saves Life Meeting, DIJK Theater
- NOVI SAD, Serbia, 2000, The Natasha
Presentation on INFANT Festival
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