Hotel Europa

Collective creation gathering 8 artists from Central and Eastern Europe

Dramaturgy Goran Stefanovski
Set design Sören Brunes
Artistic Coordination Chris Torch

6 "rooms" and one big "reception hall"

Directors:
Piotr Cieplak (Poland),
Hotel Angels - Les Anges de l’hôtel
Nedyalko Delchev (Bulgaria),
Grand Hotel Casino Europa - Salle de réception
Viesturs Kairiss (Latvia),
Europeretta
Driterö Kasapi (Macedonia),
Room Service - Service en chambre
Oskaras Korsunovas (Lithuania),
One Night Stand - Coup d’une nuit
Ivan Popovski (Macedonia / Russia),
Maiden Voyage - Voyage de noce

Choreographer: Matjaz Faric (Slovenia),
10° Below Zero (do not disturb) - 10° en dessous de zéro (ne pas déranger)

Visual installations: Art Action Group SKART (Yugoslavia)

Set designers : Krste S. Jidrov (Macedonia),
Ieva Jurajane (Latvia),
Vladimir Maksimov (Russia),
Jurate Paulekaite (Lithuania),
Irena Pivka (Slovenia).

Starring 24 actors of 9 nationalities
Bostjan Antoncic (Slovenia), Maija Apine (Latvia), Grzegorz Artman (Poland), Ivan Barnev (Bulgaria), Algirdas Dainavicius (Lithuania), Vesta Rasa Grabstaite (Lithuania), Natalija Grebneva (Latvia), Joanna Kasperek (Poland), Katja Kosi (Slovenia), Emil Markov (Bulgaria), Albena Markova (Bulgaria), Andrei Merzlikine (Russia), Bajrush Mjaku (Macedonia), Arta Mucaj (Macedonia), Kjara Staric (Slovenia), Andis Strods (Latvia), Viara Tabakova (Bulgaria), Ouliana Saranchuk (Russia)

Premiere: May 23, 2000 - Wiener Festwochen (Vienna, Austria)

Co-production Intercult (Stockholm), Wiener Festwochen (Vienna, Austria), Bonner Biennale (Germany), Festival d'Avignon (France), Bologne 2000 (Italy).
With the support of the European Commission, of THEOREM (association supported by the Culture 2000 programme of the European Union), the Svenska Institutet (Sweden).
In partnership with Cankarjev Dom (Slovenia), The New Theatre Institute (Latvia), Theatre of Nationalities (Macedonia), Oskaro Korsunovo Teatras (Lithuania), Multimedia / Parc (Macedonia), Centre for young creation (Yugoslavia), Studio Theatre (Poland).

A hotel somewhere in Western Europe, hosting refugees, survivors, dreamers, revolutionaries, lost people. From room to room we discover heterogeneous faces and events evoking loneliness, love, mobility, emigration. In each room, a testimony of what was, what is, what comes out of the profound changes that have taken place throughout Eastern Europe over the last ten years.
Within the framework created by the Macedonian playwright Goran Stefanovski, eight directors, choreographers and visual artists from Central and Eastern Europe each take over one room in this hotel, using their dancers and actors to account for their own visions of the East. An itinerant performance with multiple perspectives, Hotel Europa juxtaposes human and political situations, as well as different cultures, artistic forms and ideas. The audience is led in small groups through corridors by the hotel staff (a local team of actors, that changes with each new performing venue), opening the doors onto scenes that may be serious or funny, but are always surprising.

Hotel Europa Collective creation gathering 8 artists from Central and Eastern Europe
Dramaturgy Goran Stefanovski Set design Sören Brunes Artistic Coordination Chris Torch 6 "rooms" and one big "reception hall" Directors: Piotr Cieplak (Poland), Hotel Angels - Les Anges de l’hôtel Nedyalko Delchev (Bulgaria), Grand Hotel Casino Europa - Salle de réception Viesturs Kairiss (Latvia), Europeretta Driterö Kasapi (Macedonia), Room Service - Service en chambre Oskaras Korsunovas (Lithuania), One Night Stand - Coup d’une nuit Ivan Popovski (Macedonia / Russia), Maiden Voyage - Voyage de noce Choreographer: Matjaz Faric (Slovenia), 10° Below Zero (do not disturb) - 10° en dessous de zéro (ne pas déranger) Visual installations: Art Action Group SKART (Yugoslavia) Set designers : Krste S. Jidrov (Macedonia), Ieva Jurajane (Latvia), Vladimir Maksimov (Russia), Jurate Paulekaite (Lithuania), Irena Pivka (Slovenia). Starring 24 actors of 9 nationalities Bostjan Antoncic (Slovenia), Maija Apine (Latvia), Grzegorz Artman (Poland), Ivan Barnev (Bulgaria), Algirdas Dainavicius (Lithuania), Vesta Rasa Grabstaite (Lithuania), Natalija Grebneva (Latvia), Joanna Kasperek (Poland), Katja Kosi (Slovenia), Emil Markov (Bulgaria), Albena Markova (Bulgaria), Andrei Merzlikine (Russia), Bajrush Mjaku (Macedonia), Arta Mucaj (Macedonia), Kjara Staric (Slovenia), Andis Strods (Latvia), Viara Tabakova (Bulgaria), Ouliana Saranchuk (Russia) Premiere: May 23, 2000 - Wiener Festwochen (Vienna, Austria) Co-production Intercult (Stockholm), Wiener Festwochen (Vienna, Austria), Bonner Biennale (Germany), Festival d'Avignon (France), Bologne 2000 (Italy). With the support of the European Commission, of THEOREM (association supported by the Culture 2000 programme of the European Union), the Svenska Institutet (Sweden). In partnership with Cankarjev Dom (Slovenia), The New Theatre Institute (Latvia), Theatre of Nationalities (Macedonia), Oskaro Korsunovo Teatras (Lithuania), Multimedia / Parc (Macedonia), Centre for young creation (Yugoslavia), Studio Theatre (Poland).
A hotel somewhere in Western Europe, hosting refugees, survivors, dreamers, revolutionaries, lost people. From room to room we discover heterogeneous faces and events evoking loneliness, love, mobility, emigration. In each room, a testimony of what was, what is, what comes out of the profound changes that have taken place throughout Eastern Europe over the last ten years. Within the framework created by the Macedonian playwright Goran Stefanovski, eight directors, choreographers and visual artists from Central and Eastern Europe each take over one room in this hotel, using their dancers and actors to account for their own visions of the East. An itinerant performance with multiple perspectives, Hotel Europa juxtaposes human and political situations, as well as different cultures, artistic forms and ideas. The audience is led in small groups through corridors by the hotel staff (a local team of actors, that changes with each new performing venue), opening the doors onto scenes that may be serious or funny, but are always surprising.