30 Years of Continuo Theatre
The guests of the festival 30 years of Continuo Theatre are two eminent personalities of the world theatre Roberta Carreri, an actress of Odin Teatret, and Leszek Madzik, a director and art manager of Scena Plastyczna Theatre, KUL. Meeting with them at the end of the 80s and the beginning of the 90s significantly influenced and inspired formation and shape of Continuo Theatre. There will be a discussion with Roberta Carreri, Leszek Madzik, Pavel Štourač and some other festival guests held by Martina Pecková Černá.
Roberta Carreri, Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium – Odin Teatret, Holstebro, Denmark
Roberta Carreri is an actress, teacher, and organizer. She has been a member of Odin Teatret in Holstebro, Denmark, since 1974. She was involved in the International School of Theatre Anthropology since its beginnings in 1980 and she encountered scenic techniques from Japan, India, Bali and China, which influenced her work as an actress as well as a teacher. In 1980–1986 her teachers were Japanese masters, Katsuko Azuma (Nihon Buyo dancer), Natsu Nakajima and Kazuo Ohno (Buto dancers). Every year she holds the international workshop Odin Week Festival both in Holstebro and abroad. In 2007 she published a book called Tracce about the most important aspects of her theatre life as a student, teacher, and actress in Odin Teatret. Her articles have been published in various magazines, like New Theatre Quarterly, Teatro e Storia, Mascara, The Open Page, Peripeti or Performance Research.
Leszek Mądzik, Scena Plastyczna KUL, Lublin, Poland
Leszek Madzik is a scenographer, director, artist, photographer, and professor at the Faculty of Scenography of the Academy of Fine Arts in Lublin. He was a founder of Scena Plastyczna in 1969 and since that time he has been its director. He also creates posters and book graphics. He is one of the most universal Polish artists known for his forceful and unmistakable style. He took part in tens of international theatre exhibitions and festivals with his performances. He is a multiple prize winner. He has made stage design for various Polish, Portuguese, French and German theatres. He has been invited by universities and art schools to run courses for students and hold exhibitions with them, among others in Helsinki, Berlin, Amsterdam, Washington, San Francisco, Hamburg, Lyon, and Prague.
In cooperation with Arts and Theatre Institute Prague.
