It must have been Day 3 of Kiosk Festival for Theatre and Dance when, scrambling out of my tent – surrounded by a watery moat from the last night’s torrential rain at Stanica Cultural Centre – I understood how near to art I had come.
Richard Pettifer
Richard Pettifer (GER/AUS) is an Australian theatre director, theorist, and critic based in Berlin. As a critic he is published in online magazines such as Sirp (EST), Arterritory (LVA), Arta (ROU), and Artslant (USA), and was an invited guest critic to Latvian Theatre Showcase 2018 and DRAAMA Festival Estonia. He has led workshops on critical writing and Theatre of the Oppressed in Ukraine, Serbia, and London, and has written for academic journals such as Symbolon (ROU) and Methis (EST). He was Artistic Director of Faki Festival Croatia, 2021.
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Tereza Vejvodová Brings Back the Human Touch – An Outside View of Delimitation
Following its reception of the Grand Prize and the Audience Award of the Dance Film Festival (Festival tanečních filmů), Guest Critic Richard Pettifer (AUS/GER) takes a closer look at Tereza Vejvodová’s debut film.
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Thank you for your thoughts. One got stuck in my mind – that passion makes us different from AI. Just yesterday I read…I am a dance critic. I am a member of an endangered species