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Part of Trashing Performance, which pays attention to forms of performance and popular culture, Performance Matters is a proposition for a different approach to performance research, one that capitalizes on the potential of public discourse and collaboration. It sets out to challenge how we approach value in performance, and the inherent social and political baggage.

«[…] good Mr. Hooper's face is dust; but awful is still the thought that it mouldered beneath the Black Veil!» In this unutterableness revives the new Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio's creation, Romeo Castellucci's “The Minister's Black Veil”, premiered at Teatro Vascello in Rome. To find a descriptive relationship with Hawthorne's story is here completely vain...

Hermanis writes on stage a long and agile team-work starting form Ziedonis poems, from the book to him dedicated by Nora Ikstena and from the interviews collected by Māra Zālīte. Using a total and yet discrete direction, the partition in short chapters reshapes the conventional narrative scheme, into a conversation between the main character and his own subconscious.

Prospettiva Festival in Turin hosted one of the most unique artistic realities nowadays, real “strangers in their own country” (which was the theme of the Festival 2011 edition). Formed in 2005, Belarus Free Theatre is a Belarusian group committed in a strenuous intellectual fight against the regime of cultural repression...

Extremists. If they didn't exist we'd have to invent them. Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio/Romeo Castellucci went on stage at Théâtre de la Ville, Paris with Sur le concept du visage du fils de Dieu, an accurate investigation on the hazard of representation and the limits of the sensibility. When the show premiered in Italy in 2010...