Holland Tsunami, Drowning in Europe

"Holland Tsunami" is a theatrical mockumentary. A ‘what if’- scenario about a tsunami threatening to flood Holland.

Concept: Petra Ardai ( NL , H)
Moderating, performing: Petra Ardai, Luc van Loo, Sanja Mitrovic
Text: Feico Sobel (NL), Eszter Babarczy
Sound: Luc van Loo
Video: Marloeke van der Vlugt (NL), Ernst Süss (H)
Dramaturg (H): Anna Veres
Dramaturg (NL): Nienke Rooijakkers

Korzotheater, Den Haag - 5-6 December 2008.
Oostade Theater, Amsterdam, 13-14 March 2009.
Kaai Theatre, Brussels, 24-25 November 2009.

Will You Ever Be Happy Again? in Tilburg

The performance "Will You Ever Be Happy Again?" on "70 jaar na Kristallnacht Festival".

Date: 6 November
Place: Theater NWE Vorst, Tilburg, The Netherlands

Bimhuis Monday Match

Impro evening on the topic of "To Be Or Not To Be A Hero" with a group of people who gathered together just for this special occasion.

Location: Bimhuis, Amsterdam, 2008
Date: 3rd of November 2008

Curators: Sanja Mitrovic and MaryLou Weijmans
Participants: Mijke Werkema (movement), Dannny O'Really, Slobodan Babic (feedback electronics), Vladimir Rakic (electronics), MaryLou Weijmans (vocals), Sanja Mitrovic (movement)

For every edition of Monday Match a dancer invites a partner musician or the other way around. This duo comes up with the line of approach for a unique improvisation lab. The first Monday of the month a number of dancers/musicians selected by this duo enters the stage. On the spot they create an inspiring match for performers and the audience.

Orbis Pictus conference

Food for Thought event of the Orbis Pictus conference (scholars having dinner with theatre makers)

"Swashbuckling dishes: Pirates, Politics and Promises" Jörg Wiesel meets Sanja Mitrovic

Jörg Wiesel is a guest professor at the Freie Universität Berlin (Institut für Theaterwissenschaft). Last year he finished his habilitation about pirates and his book will be published next year. He is working at the University Of Art in Basel (University of Applied Sciences in Nortwestern Switzerland, fhnw). His teaching fields there are fashion-design, theory and performance.

In the late evening afterthoughts will take place in Theatre Frascati. Afterthoughts and food for thought are 'living knowledge installations'.

Date: 25th of October
Place: Amsterdam

Actual Theatre

Intensive workshop for the third year of the Mime department students at Amsterdamse Hoogeschool voor de Kunsten.

Will You Ever Be Happy Again? Dutch tour

After the international premiere during the BITEF Festival in Belgrade, as a part of the special program of the 42nd BITEF festival "TRUTH IN THEATRE", "Will You Ever Be Happy Again?" has it’s Dutch premiere at Hetveem Theatre, on Thursday 23rd of October. This performance was preceded by the Hetveem Research project culminating in the public presentation at Hetveem Theater in March 2008.

Dates: 23 October (Dutch premiere + afterpary DJ’s Sinisa Mitrovic and Vladimir Tupanjac with their eclectic electric & bastard disco & special guests)
24 October(with debate moderated by dr.Dragan Klaic)
25 October at 20.30
26 October at 16.00
Place: Hetveem Theater, Amsterdam
www.hetveemtheater.nl/makers
Language: Serbian and German spoken, Thu 23 and Fri 24 Oct Dutch subtitles, Sat 25 and Sun 26 Oct English subtitles.

further dates: 6 Nov 20.00 uur Kristallnachtremembrance De NWE Vorst, Tilburg (NL)

The interview "Voetbalvreugde en oorlogsherinneringen" by Laura Karreman you can read in Dutch at http://www.hetveemtheater.nl/content/interviewsanjamitrovic.html

Discussion after the performance "Will You Ever Be Happy Again?"

After the Dutch premiere of “Will You Ever Be Happy Again?” the post-performance debate IN/BETWEEN mirrors of collective history. Thought experiments for Holland, Serbia and Germany moderated by Dr. Dragan Klaic was held in Hetveem theatre.

We are repeating history just as the history seems to repeat itself. Is there a hope to survive one’s own history? Can we learn from the history and find out more about where we are at the moment?

The idea of the discussion was to reflect upon the role of the history today.

Date and place: 24th of October 2008. Hetveem Theatre, Amsterdam
Moderator: dr. Dragan Klaic
Participants: Drs. Hanco Jurgens, Igor Dobricic, Sanja Mitrovic, Felix Ritter

Dr. Dragan Klaic is writer, theater scholar and cultural analyst. He led the Theater Instituut Nederland (1992-2001) and now serves as a Permanent Fellow of Felix Meritis Foundation in Amsterdam. Fields of interest are: international cultural cooperation, interculturalism, cultural systems in Europe, cultural memory. Culture and globazation, sustainability and expanded typology of cultural organizations. He is initiator and Chair of the European Festivals Research Project (EFRP - www.efa-aef.org). Dragan Klaic’s Specialties: experienced leader of complex international research projects; analyst, commentator and avisor in cultural affairs; trainer, mentor, coach and conference key note speaker..
www.draganklaic.eu