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Introduction to Teatr ZAR’s theatre project “Armine, Sister” with Aram and Virginia Kerovpyan (France). Presentation of the film project Winds of Armine – Expedition to Anatolia. Meeting with film directors and producers, Nathalie Rossetti and Turi Finocchiaro (Belgium) Sun 11 November 5pm Laboratory Theatre Space Admission free An Armenian couple of the Diaspora, Aram and Virginia Kerovpyan, interpret and teach Armenian liturgical chant, a tradition threatened to disappear. To better understand the setting in which this music developed, they lead the European theatre company Teatr ZAR, directed by Jaros³aw Fret, to some of the places in Anatolia where this art has thrived in the past. Along the way, the richness of a destroyed culture and the tragic history of a massacred people rises back up to the surface. Since 2011 Teatr ZAR has been working on a new performance project, “Armine, Sister”, which explores Armenian culture and history. During expeditions to Istanbul, cities of Anatolia, Yerevan and Jerusalem, ZAR members met with singers, choir leaders, musicians and researchers, some of whom will participate directly in the work. Among them is Istanbul-born Aram Kerovpyan, master singer of the Armenian Cathedral in Paris, who has become the group’s key collaborator in researching the tradition of monodic singing. The new performance is planned to premiere in autumn 2013. The meeting will include a presentation of the main lines of development of Teatr ZAR’s new piece Armine, Sister, such as its musical sources, the concept of space composition, and the fundamentals of the new physical training. Teatr ZAR is a multinational group that was formed in Wroc³aw by apprentices of the Grotowski Institute and took shape during annual research expeditions to Georgia between 1999 and 2003. Performances of the company are just part of a long process of research, expeditions, personal explorations and transformation. Gospels of Childhood. The Triptych is the culmination of the company’s more than 10 years of work with ancient sacred songs. Currently the company is working on the new project “Armine, Sister”, dedicated to Armenian culture and realised through expeditions and studies of Armenian tradition and history. www.teatrzar.art.pl  Nathalie Rossetti has been working since 1991 as a scriptwriter and music consultant for film directors and producers. Early on, she became extremely committed to writing short stories, and has since received awards for several of her stories. She worked as a co-author on the script for four other fiction feature films, including Le Nain Rouge by Yvan Le Moine (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs – Cannes, 1998). As of 2000, she has decided to give priority to directing her own documentaries. Turi Finocchiaro decided to go into the field of audiovisual production with an initial foray into fiction films (Italy), followed by documentaries (Belgium). In 1998, he went on to create Impronte Digitali in Rome, a production company devoted to short films and creative documentaries. Back to Belgium in 2004, he directed several films with Nathalie Rossetti and together, along with Amel Bouzid, they founded Borak Films in 2009. Together with Nathalie Rossetti, they created the ‘Faito DOC Festival’ – a thematic documentary film festival (www.faitodocfestival.it). |