Posted by in Uncategorized Recently I received a message from a young friend of mine. She wrote me: “I haven’t seen you update your blog for a long time. I’m worried about you.” Indeed, I didn’t write anything new for a long time. Honestly, I lack the inspiration and motivation for writing, specially about theater. The time we live…Read more »
Posted by in Drama, Drama Education, Theater, Theatre, Uncategorized The year 2019 is behind us and the new 2020 is still young. The year of the Pig is slowly flowing away and the year of the Rat is coming with good perspectives and promises. Isn’t this a perfect moment to make a summary of the last year?! Theater Once Upon a Chaos The highlight…Read more »
Posted by in Drama, Drama Education, Stories, Storytelling, Theater, Theatre, Uncategorized Every year on March 20, all the artists, theater practitioners, children and everybody who love children’s theater celebrate The World Day of Theater for young audiences! Each year ASSITEJ Centres and Networks, theaters for children and artists around the globe, deliver activities ranging from conferences, performances, workshops and special media events in order not only…Read more »
Posted by in Drama, Drama Education, Stories, Storytelling, Theater, Theatre, Uncategorized In the time of visual communications and artificial intelligence that is sucking the imagination out from the mind of our children, we, professionals in the field, have a fundamental mission and task to reaffirm the importance of the spoken word and stories and build up the environment for rebirth of storytelling. We must urgently educate…Read more »
Posted by in Drama, Drama Education, Theater, Theatre, Uncategorized Why am I doing What? Recently I was asked to give a workshop on making theater performance and to use the story of Peter Pan as a working material. I immediately said: “No! The story of Peter Pan is not for stage. Not in the outlook that Walt Disney designed in his cartoon film from…Read more »
Posted by in Drama, Drama Education, Theater, Theatre, Uncategorized In Chinese theater practice, drama education for educators (drama teachers and parents) apart from Universities, usually have a form of three days seminar/workshop that is taking place over a weekend. Almost every week one can read announcements of different drama courses that would take place somewhere in China over Friday — Sunday. (Very rarely you…Read more »
Posted by in Drama, Theater, Theatre, Uncategorized Dear friends, Dear colleagues in the arts and in education, Dear artists — actors, directors, dancers, set and costume designers, light designers, musicians, Dear puppeteers and puppet theater makers… Dear all of you who are working in theaters — producers, technicians, workers on stage and in administration… Dear teachers — in the universities, in the…Read more »
Posted by in Uncategorized A grandfather is talking to his grandchild: “You know my grandson, when I was young I didn’t have internet”. In disbelief the child asks: “How many hours you didn’t have it?” In the history of mankind, the paradigm of childhood as a time of play and innocence was changing according to the social changes. With…Read more »
Posted by in Drama, Theater, Uncategorized An Award for Playing November 6, 2018 was very important day for me. On that day Xi’an Municipal People’s Government awarded me with “Xi’an Friendship Award”. I received this prestigious award as one of ten outstanding foreign experts that are living and working in Xi’an. Among 10 awardees from business and management I was the…Read more »
