I've been thinking about international collaboration lately...how does it work? Envisioning ways to create work across culture and geography that result in something richer, something new. When I went to Africa, I had the chance to exchange ideas and techniques with other theater artists, even the opportunity to work on a new play. But what would a larger-scale project look like? What would the result be?
So the SF International Arts Festival is on right now, and I went to see "Yes, Yes to Moscow", a collaboration between American and German artists that premiered in Berlin last year. It's an ensemble physical theater piece in both languages, based on Chekov's Three Sisters. Experimental, yet charming. Seriously. Great aesthetic and movement, so many well-crafted moments, never took itself too seriously...and it felt cross-cultural somehow. I enjoyed it, even without understanding the sections that were in German and not remembering most of the Chekov plot...
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