Each institution associates a researcher for the local creation of Shared Landscapes. The researchers come from different backgrounds and countries and are all interested in the relation between performing arts and landscapes, territories - performing art, sociology, territorial management, land-planning to give more context and to think outside the box of theatre and to provide an academic approach. They feed the collective reflection of the project with inputs from different fields.

Locally each researcher accompanies their affiliated institution in the whole process following the local research, territory analysis and implementation phases of the project Shared Landscapes. At the end of the process, after seeing the local restaging, they participate in a public talk and write a paper about the project. In parallel the partner institutions organise peer learning sessions between production, technical and audience development teams from the 

different countries. The key question leading the working groups revolves around how to develop sustainable formats of international co-production in local territories: resilient, decentralised, and innovative? They will evaluate and improve the restaging methodology and protocols after each new implementation of the event Shared Landscapes. This will allow them to build up a practical tool kit, “Performing Landscape”.

SHARED LANDSCAPES: AN EXPERIMENT OF LIVING AND SENSING WITH THEATRE

Frédérique Aït-Touati 

Discover

The landscape, ambivalent
and relational

Leila Chakroun

Discover

Lecture performance and talk
“Cartographies paysagères”

by Amaranta Fontcuberta and Leila Chakroun

May 31st
THEÂTRE VIDY-LAUSANNE (CH)

Panel “Shared Landscapes: How Do We Share the World?”

August 28th 2023
BERLINER FESTSPIELE (DE)

With Eva von Redecker, Andreas Weber, Olaf Sanders, Werner Friedrichs

Lecture and talk with Frédérique Ait Touati

July 10th 2023
FESTIVAL D’AVIGNON (FR)

With Frédérique Aït Touati researcher and director, Caroline Barneaud and Stefan Kaegi curators of Paysages partagés, Clara Hédouin director of Que ma joie demeure, Marina Ezdiari CSR manager at Audiens

Moderated by Christophe Triau of the magazine Alternatives théâtrales

The quality and diversity of resources among our group of diverse performing arts institutions enables fructuous on-going reflections and training. The partners will organise a European peer learning between executive directors and production, technical and audience managers from the different countries. These working groups will meet regularly throughout the whole project at key moments to share knowledge, practices, experiments and questions on “performing landscape”.

The working groups will first identify the relevant questions and needs, and scientists or experts will be invited to join some sharing sessions.  

This will establish a common ground and help define the areas of concern for the European partners. Some topics are already identified:
approaching new territories with care (audience and management teams), articulating local and global in all the phases of the project, improving capacity building of our institutions (management team), performing outdoors with a minimum environmental impact (technical teams)? to make concepts travel instead of shows? (Production and artistic teams) How to diversify the audience? (Audience management teams). The key question leading the working group revolves around how to develop sustainable formats of international co-production in local territories: resilient, decentralised, and innovative?

They will evaluate and improve the restaging methodology and protocols after each new implementation of the event Shared Landscapes. This will allow them to build up a practical tool kit with technical, administrative, artistic and production inputs on how to create theatre in the landscapes: This will help the sector globally learn about how to perform outdoors, developing a better understanding of the contexts by sharing references and practices.