The Western University Foundation, in partnership with the Western University and the Faculty of Music and Theatre, with the support of the Faculty of Arts and Design and the Faculty of Political Sciences, Philosophy and Communication Sciences, is holding, in June, six events within the third edition "WePerform - Evenings of music and theater", part of the "At UVT, Culture is Capital!" project.
Series of events WePerform – Music and theater evenings will debut on the weekend of June 9-10, with some changes in the schedule due to the unfavorable weather conditions expected for this weekend. Thus, this weekend will be exclusively built around theater performances, which will take place at the Youth House, and the concerts originally scheduled for this weekend will be postponed to the last weekend in June.
On June 9, at Casa Tineretului, at 19 p.m. the public will be waiting for a stage improvisation workshop, in German, and then, from 21 p.m., at the physical, non-verbal theater performance, Ora la carre no we knew each other, by Peter Handke (nobel prize winner for literature in 2019), by the students of the Acting in German language – UVT, directed by Florin Vidamski (Germany), with music by Oleksandr Solokha (Ukraine) and Retro J, with the participation of the famous mezzo-soprano Aura Twarowska.
The schedule for the first weekend looks like this:
Friday, June 9, Youth House
- 19:00, stage improvisation workshop in German
- 21:00 p.m., physical, nonverbal theater show, The time when we didn't know about each other, after Peter Handke
About the specialization Performing Arts – Acting in German
Unique in the world, this specialization has been training, for thirty years, professional actors for theaters in Romania and in the area of German expression. In the center of attention are the discovery and development of the artistic personality of each individual student through improvisation exercises, role studies, performances in conventional and unconventional spaces, as well as internships in the country and abroad. Our teachers are actors, directors, theater people with extensive experience, who promote a direct connection with the actual work in the theater from the student days. Students work with numerous international artists, participate in festivals and carry out interdisciplinary projects. In the foreground are internationalization, permanent communication with European theater schools, genuine dialogue and exchange of know-how with them, total openness to new and quality.
About the show
The hour we didn't know about each other is a theater text - score of non-verbal actions - by the renowned Austrian playwright and writer Peter Handke, laureate of the Nobel Prize for Literature. This scenario was the starting point of our physical theater performance, which bears the same name, and gave us existential themes and vivid impulses to create a polyphonic performance, with visual and choreographic accents, in which a space of utopia is revealed theatrical, a space that forcefully pulls us out of isolation, a space of meeting the Other or searching for it. What do we hide, what do we reveal, what do we keep only to ourselves when we are exposed to external circumstances, when we become social beings?
The theater becomes the city square, where by chance the absurd everyday life spills out, reflected by the crowd - young people, children, soldiers, characters from films or cartoons, women, men, couples -, absorbed by routine, which suddenly discovers the explosion of the present and slips into awareness of existence.
Saturday, June 10, Youth House
- 17:00, workshop for lovers of movement and contemporary dance
- 19:00, Casa, dolce casa – theater-dance performance presented by UVT students – Master of Theater Arts, directed and choreographed by Viktoria Medviedieva (Ukraine) and Lavinia Urcan, to the music of Oleksandr Solokha (Ukraine).
Casa, dolce casa is a theater-dance show, created in collaboration with an international choreographer and presented on an outdoor stage. It aims to develop new audiences for the field of contemporary dance and lay the foundations for the accessibility of a constant cultural offer for the audience consuming dance performances. Based on the model of the story in the frame, the show reproduces various frames from the daily lives of the characters in a unique way, focusing on the lives of the characters influenced by other secondary characters, who are in inter- and co-dependent relationships.
Often we become witnesses of a frame, a moment, and based on it we build an impression of those involved. But just as often, the truth is much deeper, the picture is wider, and the moment is not a moment at all, but a long story. We see involved parents taking care of their child. Or a child they didn't want who is raised as a soldier and driven to despair by endless neglect at home. We see a guy in a wheelchair and a mother helping him. We see a happy couple just starting their journey. Or a man who chose a pretty face and forbids the woman to work because he is the main one and she is his trophy. Do they have anything in common besides the house they live in? Should we intervene? Or, do we pass by indifferently? The show, presented to the general public on an outdoor stage, with increased visual impact, will strengthen the presence of shows as a form of relevant artistic expression, as well as related events in the cultural landscape of Timișoara.
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Both theater performances and classical music concerts are performed by undergraduate, master's and doctoral students enrolled in the Faculty of Music and Theatre. More information about this year's WePerform program, including changes to locations and dates, can also be found on the Facebook pages of Faculty of Music and Theater Timișoara, West University of Timișoara and At UVT, Culture is Capital.
The WePerform project - Music and theater evenings is financed by the Municipality of Timișoara through the Project Center, as part of the cultural program "Timișoara 2023 - European Capital of Culture" and is co-financed by the Timiș County Council.
Theater performances also benefit from funding through the Inside Timișoara 2023 program, run by the Project Center of the Municipality of Timișoara, with amounts allocated from the state budget, through the budget of the Ministry of Culture.
The project partners are Nokia, CTP and FITT.
