ZID Theater | connects art, culture and society
  • English
    • Nederlands
  • Productions
    • The International ExploreZ Festival 2020
    • Performances
      • Our Odyssey
      • Lost City
    • Projects
      • FATE 2020 – 2022
      • Theatretables
      • Storycatcher
    • Training
      • CultureGuides
      • ZID Academy
      • Theatre training
  • News
    • Newsletter
    • Subscribe for newsletter
  • International
    • FATE 2020 – 2022
      • Fate 2020 – 2022
      • FATE – Information for Participants
      • FATE – information for interns
      • FATE – Activities in brief
      • FATE – Information for cultural organisations
    • Creativity Training for Europe, Erasmus+ project
    • Odyssey – from past to present
    • The International ExploreZ Festival 2020
    • ExploreZ Festival 2016 – 2018
      • Fondsen
      • Partners
    • International theatre projects – history
    • Caravan Next. Feed the Future. Art Moving Cities
  • About ZID
    • About ZID
    • Sponsors
    • Partners
    • The people behind ZID
    • An annual award of the Orange Fund
    • Awards and Nominations
  • Venue rental
  • Support us
  • Blog
  • Contact

The New Freedom – ExploreZ Festival 2018

Posted on 29 October 2018

This month, September 2018, we were organising the fourth edition of ExploreZ. Since 2016, the festival took place three times, twice in Amsterdam and once in Belgrade, in Serbia. The ExploreZ Festival is part of the large-scale EU project Caravan Next.
For us, the artistic team of ZID, the goal of ExploreZ has always been to create a platform. A platform to explore the relationship between the arts/performing arts and their social impact, in an international context. We have found that the spirit of the age and current events keep catching up with us, posing new questions, time and again. We, makers, artists, and local residents try to find our own answers to these questions in the festival productions.
ExploreZ 2018’s theme was exploring New Freedom. Why new? Because it is not about social or political freedom but about the freedom of the individual in relationship to others. In these times of technological innovation, digitalisation and globalisation we return to the core: to human beings longing to be free.
The operative word is explore. Explore freedom with us and take part in the unique productions made by professionals and local residents together. Dare to explore, meet the international makers, engage in dialogue and debate.

For this edition we have succeeded in making a long-cherished wish to come true. After many, many years, ODIN Teatret, with founder and director Eugenio Barba, returned to the Netherlands. Like no other, this world-famous company has developed a universal theatre language, in which music plays an important part. For us as ZID Theater they are a wonderful example of theatre that is never afraid to enter into dialogue with the spirit of the times. Their production Great Cities Under the Moon could be enjoyed in Theater de Meervaart, with an introduction with Eugenio Barba.

ODIN last visited the Netherlands in 1998 on the invitation of Emile Schra of the PassePartout Foundation. On that occasion, Babar was interviewed by the recently deceased Loek Zonneveld, who stated:
“Personally I think the only explanation for the fact that the work of ODIN Teatret is not known here, this provincialism.”*
With ExploreZ we are showing how theatre and other performing arts can continue to appeal to people from an intrinsic, unique power. As Eugenio Barba said in that same interview:
I am convinced that in our technological and virtual civilisation theatre will turn out to be the only technique by which two human beings can look each other straight in the eye.

For this edition of ExploreZ we have worked together with many partners in Amsterdam and The Hague and with makers from abroad. In addition to ODIN Teatret, you will frequently saw the names of Omma Studio Theater from Crete, Greece, Teatr Brama from Goleniow, Poland, POD Teatar from Belgrade, Servbia, and DAR Amsterdam from Larache, Morocco in the programme. We are happy and honoured with all the makers, partners, local residents, staff members, and volunteers who have made ExploreZ 2018 possible.

.
* De andere Odysseus [The Other Ulysses], seven texts about theatre maker Eugenio Barba, PassePartout Publications 1988.

Nederlands

« March 2018 – Theatre Can Make the Invisible Visible
Little and Big Revolutions of Significance in One Week, March 2019 »

blog

  • ExploreZ 2020 – a Festival in Times of Corona
  • Small in size and big in terms of impact, April 2020 – Art in times of the corona crisis
  • Eugenio Barba continues to dance in spite of everything, June 2019
  • Little and Big Revolutions of Significance in One Week, March 2019
  • The New Freedom – ExploreZ Festival 2018

ZID Theater

De Roos van Dekamaweg 1
1061 HR Amsterdam
Tel: 020-4888449
Fax: 020-6817760
info@zidtheater.nl

Vestiging Den Haag:
ZID Theater – Community Art & Performance Center
Van der Duynstraat 55 d
2515 NG Den Haag

Nieuwsbrief

Stay informed and subscribe to the latest ZID news

  • Inschrijven voor de Nederlandse nieuwsbrief

  • Subscribe to the International newsletter (English)

  • English newsletter archive
  • Tags

    anniversary collaboration community theatre CultuurGids Dar donation grozdanin kikot help history international marocco nomination organization people prize production

    Zoeken

    • English
    • Productions
    • News
    • International
    • About ZID
    • Venue rental
    • Support us
    • Blog
    • Contact
    © Zid Theater
    • Nederlands
    • English