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Sanja Mitrovic/SUTP is looking for a PROFESSIONAL MALE PERFORMER for a new production “SPEAK!” which premiered at Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels, 2013). Auditions take place mid-August and rehearsals are scheduled for September (more info at the end of summer).

The production will tour from October and throughout 2014. For tour dates check Calendar and Playlist sections.

Send a CV with a motivation letter to info@standuptall.org. Fluency in English necessary, previous experience with text-based performance desirable.

Crash Course Chit Chat in Strasbourg!

Will You Ever Be Happy Again? was presented at the Premieres Festival in Strasbourg in 2009 and went on to tour the world. We are happy to come back to Strasbourg with Crash Course Chit Chat on 4th and 5th of June @ La Maillon! http://www.maillon.eu/

Upcoming dates:

19-09-2013 Verkadefabriek Den Bosch (NL)

26-09-2013 Cultuurcentrum Hasselt Hasselt (BE)

01-10-2013 - Theater Bellevue Amsterdam (NL)

02-10-2013 - Theater Bellevue Amsterdam (NL)

SPEAK! premiere at Kunstenfestivaldesarts

The premiere of the new production SPEAK! with Sanja Mitrovic and Geert Vaes will take place on Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels on 9th of May 2013 (BE).

SPEAK! is a performance about the power and virtuosity of public speaking and its potential to shape society. Working with a wealth of historical material, two performers try to win the audience approval. In the end, is there a winner? And if so, who will that be?

In SPEAK!, Sanja Mitrović continues her exploration of various systems of communication. In a set-up that is evocative of a political campaign or an election the audience is expected to vote for its ‘representative’. In their attempts to win over hearts and minds of the viewers, the performers draw from an arsenal of historical speeches. They put to test the recruiting force of these speeches and the affective potential of images they propose. Would the performers be able to stage an image that we can all imagine together? Are we willing to participate in the temporary collectivity that the performance creates?

Together with Belgian performer Geert Vaes, Mitrović explores the capacity of language, and its public performance, to mobilise a society and to create an image of the world that we can share and participate in. Marked by subtle humor, driven by playfulness and shot through with painful moments, SPEAK! is a performance that takes us on an emotional journey through images from our collective history and our possible futures.

Concept/choreography/direction: Sanja Mitrović

Performance: Geert Vaes, Sanja Mitrović

Dramaturgy: Jonas Rutgeerts

Stage and light design: Laurent Liefooghe & Christophe Antipas (LLAC architects)

Sound design: Luka Ivanović

Costume design: Frédérick Denis

Reseach: Friso Wiersum

Different languages, with subtitles in Dutch and French

Duration: +/- 90 min

Production: Stand Up Tall Productions, Amsterdam
Co-production: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels
Supported by: Beursschouwburg (BE), Pianofabriek (BE), SPRING Performing Arts Festival (NL), STUK Kunstencentrum (BE)

Financially supported by: Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (NL)

Performing Arts Fund (NL)

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World premiere: 9 > 10 > 11 > 12/05/2013 – 20:30

@ Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Les Brigittines (BE)

NL Premiere: 16 > 17/05/2013 @ SPRING Festival, Utrecht (NL)

Performance dates:

17/10/2013 – STUK, Leuven (BE)

Spring 2014 (dates TBC) – Beursschouwburg, Brussels (BE)

28/2 and 01/3 2013 – Toneelschuur, Haarlem (NL)

5 > 6/3/2014 – Bellevue, Amsterdam (NL)

12/3/2014 – Gruitpoort, Doetinchem (NL)

13/3/2014 – Theatre aan de Spui, Den Haag (NL)

15/3/2014 – Corrosia Almere (NL)

26/3/2014 – Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Rotterdam (NL)

Photo credits: Kurt Deruyter

Left for Europe, End Up in Noord

I did not have any dreams when I left for Europe, because my father was working as a migrant worker and picked me up from Turkey. Now I am married, have a nice job and I raise my kids in North-Amsterdam. – Aydin Ure, chairman of S.T.I.S.C.C.A.N Mosque

“Crash Course Chit Chat” searches for the realistic possibility of a future for the European dream. It started by questioning the cliches of old Europeans coming from Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain. Now the project continues in North-Amsterdam with a community project. Left for Europe, End Up in Noord is about the new Europeans.

“Left for Europe, End Up in Noord” is a community project that introduces “the other Europeans”, the new ones that came to live here and their secondand third generation. It aims for getting insight into closed groups with which we normally do not have contact with, not have access to. With this project Sanja Mitrovic wants to give visibility, to understand their point of view, how do they consider themselves as European.

Presentations of the workshops which director Sanja Mitrovic and her actors made in North Amsterdam, are based on their successful performance “Crash Course Chit Chat”, in collaboration with stichting Cleopatra, de Noorderling Vrouwen Club de STISCCAN moskee, de Vrouwenbazaar and the Weekendschool Noord.

The participants – migrant women, men and kids from North-Amsterdam – re-enact their experiences: what did they dream of when they left for Europe? What do think of Europe now? Do they feel new Europeans? Which prejudices and jokes do they have about other Europeans of North-Amsterdam?

Presentations can be seen during the Winters Binnen Festival at:

Mosque

Saturday 15 December

S.T.I.S.C.C.A.N Moskee, Ribesstraat 75, Amsterdam-Noord

19.30-20.00 h

Vrouwenbazaar

Sunday 16 December

De Vrouwenbazaar, Heimansweg 33, Amsterdam-Noord

14.00-15.00 h

Presentation: participants of S.T.I.S.C.C.A.N Moskee, IMC Weekendschool, Vrouwenbazaar, Stichting Cleopatra and Noorderling Vrouwenclub.

Director: Sanja Mitrovic Actors: Geert Vaes, Katja Dreyer, Martijn Groenendijk Production: Elien van Riet Photo: Maaike Koning

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