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Born in 1965 in Paris, due to political exiles, João Fiadeiro lived in Algeria, El Salvador and Brazil before settling in Portugal in 1972. He began his dance training in ballet and modern technics in 1983. His initiation into post-modern American Dance took place in New York in 1988, followed by contact improvi­sation in Berlin and the compositional strategies of...

There are many battlegrounds for tradition versus innovation, but few as picturesque as Siamsa Tíre’s theatre in southwest Ireland. Under Mount Brandon, Ireland’s second highest peak, the modern building’s design and materials draw on the rich archaeological pickings that surround it. Behind the ring-fort-inspired stone-clad exterior, a company of seven full-time...

Frontal-Angriff der jugendlichen Performer. Die 16 Tänzer aus Kolumbien drängen den Regisseur Nicolas Stemann von der Bühne weg, erobern sich skrupellos die Rampe. Seine Erklärungen zum Probenzustand der Aufführung gehen unter in der wütenden Beschimpfung des Pub­likums. Die Europäer seien die größten Drogenabnehmer, trügen die Schuld an der kolumbianischen Misere....