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post theater[ new york / berlin / tokyo]
WHO
post theater is a theater company without theater and without a
company: there is no art space permanently used by post theater
and there is no permanent ensemble of performers; instead there
is a small, mobile and interdisciplinary think tank of artists and
academics. This core unit frequently switches roles and responsibilities
and casts performers and other artists according to the specific
requirements of a project.
WHAT
The works of post theater include dance, multi-media performances,
installations, interventions in public spaces, lectures, and workshops.
gposth means gbeyond".
HOW
post theaterfs works are either installation based or site-specific.
Space is read as a text that is just as important as other texts.
All post theater projects are research-based. post theaterfs re-occurring
themes are identity and technology. These issues relate form to
content and vice versa. post theater plays with reality and fake
and with its audiencefs expectation. It aims to engage with the
spectators in various ways, providing surprising methods, multi-sensory
experiences and complex contents.
WHERE
post theater has been founded 1999 in New York. The main office
moved to Berlin in 2002. The Tokyo branch has been opened in 2005. |
Core Members
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Max
Schumacher
artistic director / dramaturge
Schumahcer studied dramaturgy at Humboldt
University Berlin and performance studies at New York University.
He founded post theater in New York in 1999. His pieces toured
to Germany, USA, Korea, Singapore, Austria and Serbia and
have been invited to several international festivals. He was
a fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude Stuttgart in 2001.
In 2003 he conceived gmatchmaker matchmakerh (with Matthias
Boettger) and ?Turnover (House, Unsettled)g (with Hiroko Tanahashi).
His 2 audience-member piece glighth was invited to the Patravadi
Theater in Bangkok (2004) and to Japan (2005). Together with
Hiroko Tanahashi he conceived gHeavenly Bentoh which was presented
at the Bonn Biennale 2004 and the Singapore Arts Festival
2005. Max Schumacher curates all performing arts for Rohkunstbau
(with festivals in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006), a Brandenburg
based festival, and teaches in various contexts (e.g. workshops
recently in Ljubljana, Zagreb and Tokyo). He was awarded several
times with the Capital City Culture Funds Berlin. In 2007
he is invited to residencies with Eks-Scena in Zagreb, Kunstraum
Syltquelle on Sylt Island (North Sea) and Taipei Artist Village
in Taipei.
max@posttheater.com
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Hiroko
Tanahashi
artistic director / multi media design
Tanahashi is a graduate of Tisch School of
the Artse Film and Television Program at New York University
(BFA) and of the MFA Program in Multi Media Design and Technology
at Parsons School of Design, New York. She has been invited
by the Bauhaus Foundation in Dessau to present a multi media
dance piece, ?Bisscuitg. Her interactive theater piece ?The
Last Circusg has been shown at the Parsons Auditorium, New
York, and the SoloDuoFestival, Berlin (2002). Her project
gFLIEh was a hybrid between design and fine arts, a post card
sculpture at Laura Mars Group, Berlin in 2003. She is the
artistic director of post theater production gHeavenly Bentoh
which was shown at Biennale Bonn and Museum for Communication
in Berlin (2004) and in Singapore Arts Festival (2005). She
showed her second solo exhibition gdelicious movesh, a visual
and culinary experience of legendary bento boxes, at Zagreus
Projekt in Berlin (2004) and Museum for Desgin in Zurich.
Her site-specific-multimedia perforamnce series gskinSITEsh
has been invited to Croatia, Japan, Slovenia, Switzerland,
Taiwan, and Thailand .In 2006 she received gThe Future of
The Presenth from Franklin Furance in New York. In 2007 she
is invited to residencies with Eks-Scena in Zagreb, Kunstraum
Syltquelle on Sylt Island (North Sea) and Taipei Artist Village
in Taipei.
She also works as an illustrator under the label: hirographie
hiroko@posttheater.com |
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Naoto
Iina
producer /
tokyo office
Naoto Iina has studied film-making and film history at Meiji
Gakuin University, Japan.
He is founding director of Dance
and Media Japan (DMJ), a Tokyo-based organization
that fosters the dialogue between performing arts and media
arts since 2003. DMJ is an independent network that hosts,
organizes and facilitates workshops, festivals, lectures etc.
Naoto Iina has curated and produced international and domestic
artists, such as Christian Ziegler, Kazue Ikeda, Maren Strack
and post theater (all D), Joseph Hyde (UK), Ohad Fishof (ISR),
Maxine Heppner, CORPUS (both CAN), Takayuki Fujimoto / Dumb
Type, Sal Vanilla, Nest, Yuzo Ishiyama, Grinderman (all Japan).
He has organized and conducted workshops and seminars at institutions
all over Japan, including various universities, YCAM (Yamaguchi)
and Morishita Studios (Tokyo) and internationally, e.g. in
Berlin, Limerick (Ireland), Seoul (Korea).His workshops include
the teaching of skills and themes around dance-film-making,
documenting dance on video, site-specific dance-media, interactive
media and dance etc. Naoto Iina has been working as advisor
and curator for events at ZAIM, Tokyo Performing Arts Market,
the Marushka Dance Series and many more. In 2005 he opened
with Hyojung Seo the Seoul branch of DMJ.
iina@posttheater.com
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Matthias Boettger
spatial tactics / producer
Ronit Muszkatblit
director / producer / N.Y. office
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