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Press & Reviews 

UK press

Skin Deep Magazine – an interview with Ruthie Osterman

Radio-  London Live- an interview with Ruthie Osterman  

TV- An interview with Ruthie Osterman on Sky News

A Younger Theatre

Alondon (Israeli magazin, in Hebrew)

Miro Magazine

The Upcoming  

The Stage 

 Theatre full stop  

View from the Circle

USA press

HollywoodSOAPBOX

BRAZIL press

Palco Paulistano

Medium Magazine

SA press

Business Day

[/still-images] Conversation about Afrotopia. The Zambian “Afronaut” Who Wanted to Join the Space Race

  Mujica – an inspiration

  Chaplin – a possibility 

Second day

We have started the day with “meet and greet” with the Bush Theatre’s staff. This is a beautiful tradition when all staff members are coming to welcome new artists/company who are coming to work in the building. Really beautiful and inspiring. We will meet the staff again for a sharing at the end of the workshop. Many people have helped me to make this workshop happen and to realize my vision for this international collaboration, many people also thought that it’s too ambitious, too conceptual, and mainly depend on budget. If there is something that I have learnt from doing international collaborations is that I must imagine that it’s already happened. There is no question about it, it’s already happen.

Then each one of us shared his/her vision, gave some background and political and social context to his/her location. What is the Market Theatre? Harlem Stage? What does it mean to work in the heart of São Paulo? And in the middle of London – the modern Babylon? From post Apartheid to Brexit to Brazil’s elections and to gun in school in Harlem. Is there a link? 

We had prepared a list of questions for people from our communities. We answered those questions ourselves, Sarah was thinking of writing a song out of it. Questions. Mwenya was sharing with as a Ted lecture by Taiya Selasi, who suggested to ask alternative questions. Don’t ask where I’m from, ask where I’m a local.

 Don’t ask where I’m from, ask where I’m a local | Taiye Selasi

Afternoon we invited Julian Mayard Smith, the Artistic Director of Station House Opera to speak with us about his telematic performances. Their interesting works Dissolved and Home in London & Gaza are very inspiring. Julian explored how to do something using technology that you cannot do on stage? How to occupy another space? Using live stream, you can allow one performer in London to walk in another space in Gaza, as if you are a ghost.

Card & Rules

We put all the “cards” we had on the table. Actually, I should say on the wall. By cards I mean scenes, ideas, fragments. And we were starting to discuss them, refined them, and choose the best.  We also agreed on our “Dogma rules”.

The Artefact “Beyond the archiving principle” presented at the C4CC (Centre for Creative Collaboration), London, 2013. 

Photo taken from the process of creating the body-cast.

Photo taken of using one of the body-cast in the performance.