Showoff is a podcast by the Arts and Theatre Institute that addresses the performing arts’ sensitivity and response to current professional and social issues. Each episode is an audio-essay inspired by the international discussion series "Green Thursdays" with guests and moderators from the ranks of dance and theatre artists, curators, cultural managers and researchers from the Czech Republic and abroad.
#2: Theatre as a Cultural Institution
As part of a webinar focused on the role of theatres and theatre academies in the public space, we tried to speak not only about the current situation in selected theatre academies in Poland, Hungary, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic, but to think together about important aspects of institutional politics in a European context, and also in terms of the interconnectedness of these academies. We identified the following common themes as key: deep care for the quality of relationships and institutions; the assumption of personal responsibility; the creation of alliances and networks; new possibilities for leadership and the use of initiatives from all levels of the institution; reducing the difference between proclamations and performativity; transparency and the willingness to take action in public. A discussion on theatre as a cultural institution, with Alice Koubová, lecturer and researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the Czech Academy of Sciences.
Participants in the discussion:
- Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca/ The Netherlands - Professor and Head of DAS Graduate School at the Academy of Theatre and Dance, Amsterdam University of the Arts in the Netherlands
- Agata Adamiecka-Site / Poland - Senior Lecturer and Ombudsman at the National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw; theatre researcher, critic and publisher
- László Upor / Hungary, Dramaturg, literary translator, essayist and Rector of University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest
- Martin Bernátek / Czech Republic, Assistant Professor, Area Head of Theatre Studies and Vice-Chair at the Department of Theatre and Film Studies, Palacký University Olomouc
The discussions are recorded and you can watch them on YouTube channel @jsmeIDU, this discussion you can watch here.
You can listen to the podcast here >> showoff.cz
Podcast
- Podcast Author: Alice Koubová/ Czech Republic, Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the Czech Academy of Sciences.
- Podcast Director: Jiří Šimek
- Dramaturgy: Martina Pecková Černá and Co.
- Production: Barbora Comer
- Soundesign: Jan Čtvrtník
