WHERE YOU ARE / public space in Jerusalem, Vienna and Kinshasa

National Theatre Wales is offering a Welsh or Wales based theatre director the opportunity to participate in WHERE YOU ARE, a three days workshop from 19th to 21st April 2010 exploring public space in Vienna with the Dutch theatre directors Lotte van den Berg and Merel de Groot.

The same workshop will then be take place in the cities of Jerusalem and Kinshasa.

The workshop will be structured around the following questions:

What does public space means in this city? In a city? Is it a place to encounter or to pass by? How private is a public space?

What happens when workshop participants occupy the space? When they stop, sit down or stay? When they move chairs, draw lines?

They will interact by watching only. They will interact by building something. They will be performers and spectators, observing and acting at the same time.

Please send a cv and a letter to show your interest to mathildelopez@nationaltheatrewales.org before Tuesday 9th March 2010.

Lotte van den Berg studied Theatre Direction at the Amsterdam School of the Arts. After graduating, she started working freelance as a director for various Flemish and Dutch companies. In her work she is always asking herself the questions: “How can I create a space where you can look without words and rules? A space in which the spectator becomes a participant who can experience the performance without expectations.”

From 2005 to 2006 Lotte van den Berg was responsible for the non-speaking parts in “Volk” at Toneelhuis Antwerp. A year later Toneelhuis’ artistic director Guy Cassiers offered her a permanent position. In 2009 she left Toneelhuis to become artistic director of a new structure in Dordrecht called OMSK (www.omsk.nl)

Merel de Groot lives in Amsterdam. She studied Acting and Theatre Directing from 2001 to 2003 at Theatre Academy Maastricht (NL) and Theatre Directing from 2003 to 2008 at Amsterdam School of Arts (NL). She worked as performer, director but also did workshops at Noord Nederlands Toneel (NL), the Grand Theatre in Groningen (NL), at Frascati WG (NL).