Emese Csornai

Emese Csornai is a theater professional with a visual art background, specialized in installation, performance and light design. She studied architecture in Budapest and received a BA at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam in 2009. A self-taught theater lighting designer in 2007, she latered mentored with Ellen Knops, and was dramaturg and light designer…

Distant Cousins #2 • Nina Wise & Sten Rudstrom • Friday • 6 May

an empty room. Sten Rudstrøm and Nina Wise enter the stage. they don’t know what is about to happen. from out of the emptiness they craft a landscape— at the intersection of imagination, life experience and the present, an unpredictable, unique journey through human nature. . . Action Theater meets Motion Theater! Sten Rudstrøm and…

Streugut – Ensemble Improvisation

08 May 2016 • Sunday  • 20:00 • 10€/8€* Now! Festival Special Price • 290€ for all workshops & shows   << back to Now! Festival In Streugut, we slam several media together: movement, speech, voice and a musical instrument. We all come from varied trainings; our approach and understanding of how to express a…

Brenda Waite – Duet Improvisation with Jenny Haack

07 May 2016 • Saturday  • 20:00 • 10€/8€* Now! Festival Special Price • 290€ for all workshops & shows   << back to Now! Festival Brenda Waite is a performance practitioner, teacher and movement director based in Bristol. With a background in physical theatre, clown and new dance techniques her interest is in the…

Andrew Morrish – Oh Well (Solo)

05 May 2016 • Thursday  • 20:00 • 10€/8€* Now! Festival Special Price • 290€ for all workshops & shows << back to Now! Festival A pioneer of the Australian performance improvisation scene, Andrew began with Al Wunder’s Theatre of the Ordinary in Melbourne in 1982 (Al Wunder and Ruth Zaporah were colleagues in San…

Jenny Haack – Performance strategies // Engaging with Time

05-06 May 2016 • Thursday – Friday • 15:30 – 18:00 • 60€/ 50€* Now! Festival Special Price • 290€ for all workshops & shows << back to Now! Festival In this workshop we explore the different layers and textures of movement, connecting inner and outer sources of stimulation with our compositional mind. We engage…

Sten Rudstrom – Ta(l)king Your Head Off // Dismantling the Left-Brain Conspiracy and Entering the Explosive, Colourful Absurdity of Experiential Speech!

05 – 08 May 2016 • Thursday – Sunday • 10-11:30 • 60€/50€* Now! Festival Special Price • 290€ for all workshops & shows   << back to Now! Festival Once you discover that language is a visceral experience, that words are not purely mental constructs but actual body experiences, your improvisations crank up. You…