Children’s Memory of Performance: Discovery, Rediscovery, and Re-creation

“You don’t need quantitative data to show that Theatre changes people”, says Elaine Faull, to the workshop attendees on Monday afternoon of the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2019. And yet nevertheless, her data...
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Sitting Down with Sintija Kirsone & Anke Leen Ledda Mikk – Faces of the...

Anke Leen Ledda Mikk is currently a final year student at Tallinn European School (Estonia). Since she was young, she has always been interested and involved with Theatre, learning the Art from...

Playing a Child as an Adult

In this roundtable, that was subsequently followed by a workshop, Isabelle Verlaine (from Belgium), allowed us to delve into the complex question of how an adult Actor can play a child effectively....
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Can the Norwegian Model Inspire a New Direction for the Future of Presenting Professional...

Scenekunstbruket is the largest nationwide provider of Performing Arts for Young Audiences in Norway and is a competence centre for distribution and dissemination of Theatre for Young Audiences. Through their network (in...

Sensory Performance Practice Part One: Where We Are And Where We’re Not

I was extremely excited about this symposium. Entitled, “Sensorial Practices in Performing Arts for Babies and Neuro-diverse Audiences - A Critical Perspective”, it was run by Dalijia Acin Thelander and Ellie Griffiths...
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Chatting with Yannick Boudeau – Faces of the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2019

Yannick Boudeau has been the General Manager and Producer at Compagnie la Casquette, a Theatre for Young Audience in Brussels, since 2007. Co-founding ASSITEJ Belgium in 2014, he has been the Chairman...
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Nina Helene Jakobia Skogli: Against All Odds by Fix & Foxy – Confronting the...

A Paper by Nina Helene Jakobia Skogli University of Agder (Norway)Presented at the Conference of the International Theatre for Young Audiences Research Network (ITYARN), part of the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2019...

Art is a Free Voice?

Gunhild Bjørnsgård led a timely and relevant debate on whether we really have a free voice while creating Art. The discussion explored why Art is important to oneself and to society and...

Nordic and Baltic Artist Speed Dating

At the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2019, we’re lucky enough to be exposed to an array of international theatre that we normally wouldn’t have access to, along with a diverse variety of delegates...
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Talking with Sanja Tropp Frühwald – Faces of the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2019

Sanja Tropp Frühwald studied Contemporary Dance at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD). She has collaborated with numerous artists and, in 2007, she founded the VRUM Performing Arts Collective and worked...