A European Partnership: BAC’s ONE-ON-ONE Festival 2010 - 2011
BAC (UK), Huis en Festival a/d Werf (Netherlands) and Ontroerend Goed (Belgium) have come together to support European artists and producers through a platform of performances, residencies, producer exchanges and critical debates, culminating in BAC’s ONE-ON-ONE Festival 2010 and 2011. This international festival is the first of its kind, showcasing some of the finest theatre for an audience of one at a time, created by UK, Belgian, Dutch and international performers.
This partnership champions European artists pushing the boundaries of theatre, the role of the producer, and the ambition of sustainable and low-carbon models of international collaboration. All partners and artists within this programme travel by train.
This partnership has been funded with support from the European Commission. (This publication reflects the view only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.)
For more information please email Joon Lynn Goh, Project Manager at BAC.
The images on the right are of the ONE-ON-ONE Festival at BAC.
BAC: National newspapers state that BAC is ‘Britain’s most influential theatre’ (Guardian). The birthplace of Jerry Springer the Opera and the co-producer of Punchdrunk’s The Masque of the Red Death, BAC nurtures talented emerging artists and is renowned for making some of the most cutting-edge new work in the UK.
Huis en Festival a/d Werf is one of the Netherland’s leading cultural institutions that nurture young artists across interdisciplinary art forms, including theatre, the visual arts and music. HFadW is a unique multi-platform, functioning as an international festival in its 10th edition, a production house supporting young Dutch artists and a stage for local and international artists.
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Ontroerend Goed is one of Belgian's leading contemporary theatre performance groups, winning all 3 major awards at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2008 for a single show, and continue to tour a repetoire of award-winning shows across Europe, America and Australia.
Three writers from the UK, Netherlands and Belgium respond to BAC’s European partnership and to ideas behind one-on-one performance, collaboration, and home.
Open the links below for their full texts.
YOU are the performance
About the One-on-One theatre
Cecile Brommer (Netherlands/UK)
…The first time I heard about theatre of this kind was some ten years ago; a performance touring through Belgium and The Netherlands called ‘The Brothel of Fairy Tales’. The visitor was blindfolded, brought to a private chamber and caressed by the whisper, breath, fingertips and cheek of an actor, telling poetical erotic stories. It incited discussions about the value and meaning. Now, ten years later, the question still resides: what can we say about it? Let’s grant ourselves a few seconds to think about that.
A one on one audience with Europe
Diana Damian (UK)
…It’s a cold January morning in Whitechapel; I’m sat around a table with nineteen other critics, curators and producers from across Europe, sweeping from East to West. In a three day conference facilitated by SPACE, an umbrella organization supporting the circulation of performing arts in Europe, and TEAM Network (Transdisciplinary European Art Magazines Network), we are here to discuss the current landscape of international performance in Europe. How does performance circulate, how can it innovate in its travels, and what sustainable forms can this journey take?
Another Country
Pauline de La Boulaye (Belgium)
…The English have known about escaping, in their quiet way, for years. Following the example of the "Italian Journey" started by European artists in the Renaissance, the young British of the 18th century invented the Grand Tour to satisfy a newly-aroused curiosity and finish off their education. In the 19th century, collectors, art-lovers, writers and painters crossed the Channel to find out the latest artistic developments. Throughout the Europe of this period, intellectual and artistic exchanges produced a new vision of nations in a romantic mood that knew no frontiers.
