The National Council for the Performing Arts of the Ministry of Culture of Cuba announces the XIV Festival de Teatro de La Habana [XIV Theater Festival of Havana]. The festival will take place at various venues in Havana from October 28 to November 6, 2011. There will be performances by theater companies from Argentina, Brazil, China, Cuba, Cyprus, Ecuador, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Spain, Turkey, United States, and Venezuela. An honored guest at the festival will be Peter Goldfarb.
Description: On this occasion, the festival aims to provide a space to promote theater as an art of resistance that continues to uphold the possibility of human exchange. In our world, increasingly moving towards the alienation of personal voices and the control of the possibilities of participating in universal politics by the centers of power, to insist on the theater is to insist on defending the possibility of direct debate among human beings, multiple points of views, and thought on society from the standpoint of the arts. As opposed to a worldview that functions with the irrationality of the market, the theater encourages the encounter of ideas that places front-center the affirmation and defense of life; a theater that participates in the needs of our culture. The urgency of recovering human interaction, the urgency of saving the environment, the urgency of policies that defend the interests of all, are some of the reasons for an art engaged with its moment. Theater of resistance, theater of the everyday life, utopian theater, theater as a space of provocation, live theater, urgent theater. . .
Peter Goldfarb is an award-winning international producer, director, and actor. He is vice president of the UNESCO/International Theatre Institute Education and Training Committee and teaches master classes and actor training workshops around the world. He trained in Gestalt with Fritz Perls, and is founding faculty and a former trustee of Naropa University. His current projects include a stage adaptation of the life and work of the Sufi poet, Rumi, in Turkey, the creation of a major theater piece, The Dream Project, at the Centro Nacional de los Artes in Mexico City, and, in New York, a multi-media adaptation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
For more information, you may write to fthabana@cubaescena.cult.cu or see http://www.fth.cult.cu/loader.php?edition=14&cont=home.php&tipo=3
For the complete schedule, see http://www.fth.cult.cu/loader.php?edition=14&cont=espectaculos.php
For more on Peter Goldfarb, see http://petergoldfarb.com/
