IUGTE Annual Conference

In 2012 the Conference's Speakers were: Dione A. Joseph (Australia), Maggie Killingbeck (UK), Monika Herzig (USA), Burcu Yasemin Şeyben (Turkey), Amy Drake (USA), Pamela Crevcoure (USA), Irene Mack-Shafer (USA), Kelli Sanford-Burgoon (USA), Michael Vamos (USA), Wanasak Padungsestakit (Thailand), Sayompooh Jindarat (Thailand), Bill J. Adams (USA), Young-Hyun Cho (South Korea-USA), Ruth Boden (USA), Dean Luethi (USA), Todd Dellinger (USA), Carola Boehm (UK), Jane Linden, Jodie Gibson (UK), Gavin Carver (UK), Stephen Wetzel (USA).

It is always such a great pleasure to create a multicultural and multidisciplinary meeting of artists from around the world!

Just imagine:

From 2008, IUGTE has the pleasure to collaborate with Chinese Theatre Circle Limited (CTC) from Singapore, who attended IUGTE Conference in Bovec (Slovenia), Malpils (Latvia) and Leitring bei Leibnitz (Austria) and gave their remarkable presentations about Chinese Opera: "The fascinating world of Chinese Opera" - practical workshop under the guidance of Joanna Wong Quee Heng and Leslie Wong Sze Ying; Chinese Opera performance by Chinese Theatre Circle (Singapore) in 2008 and in 2009; and An Interactive Talk On Chinese Opera With Practical Demonstration And Performance - Presentation by Joanna Wong, Artistic Director of Chinese Theatre Circle Limited (CTC), Singapore.

From 2010 up to 2018, IUGTE Conference was annually held in Retzhof Schloss in the southern region of Austria. This small place became great for many people from around the world. On this website, we are trying to save all the presentations, from all the amazing speakers who gave their presentations, workshops, talks, performances, share their knowledge with curious young emerging artists and professionals in the field. We are grateful to Retzhof Castle's administration for welcoming international audiences and hosting our Conference. As a result of our fruitful collaboration IUGTE Conference program has extended and grown.

We carefully keep all the presentations, descriptions and biographies of the Conference Speakers. Click here to view presentations...

We are glad to share the archived video from the IUGTE Conference in Bovec featuring the presentation of the Chinese Theatre Circle.

John Britton (UK) with his workshop"Psychophysical Training through Movement Improvisation";

Fay Nenander (Sweden) with the presentation "Reflections on the total regeneration of a post-high school, professional dancers training program";

Mandy Fox (USA) with a practical workshop "Exploring Pause Behavior";

“Thrown” Project - Workshop and performance presentation by Nightmare Before Valentine (Germany);

A workshop and performance by Fabrizio Paladin (Italy) "Commedia Dell’Arte - A Tradition of Playing Now".

Also: Yoriko Okamoto (Japan), Ritsuko Tsumaki (Japan) Elke Van Campenhout (Belgium), Izumi Ashizawa (Japan/USA), Kimberly Davis (USA). See more...

In 2005, Conference moved to Bovec - Slovenia and stayed there for several years. The site of the conference was a small 800-year-old alpine town, which is a mountain resort. It is located in northwestern Slovenia in the Trenta Valley of the Julian Alps within the Triglav National Park. Its features include the source of the Soca River, one of the most beautiful in Europe, and the Boka waterfall.

Many interesting and important topics were touched and many names are engraved in the memory and in the archives of the Conference. All the great names of great teachers and speakers are worth mentioning, here are some of them: Bence Vagi, Valentina Franchino, Briana Zaki, Maria Jose Contreras, John Wayne Shafer, SU-EN Butoh Company, Padmanabhan S.Sri, Dietlind Bertelsmann, Joanne Marie Jones, Marianne Kubik, Beth Cherne.

Speaking about IUGTE Conference in Bovec we can not pass by such important for us names as:

Here you can see an archived video of one of the events capturing the tour of traditional African dance and music ensemble "Tsir Kor Mpam" from Cape Coast (Ghana) organized by IUGTE in the framework of the International Festival "Theatre Between Tradition & Contemporaneity 2002". Performances and exhibitions of traditional crafts of the Gulf of Guinea took place in Riga, Malpils, and Jelgava (Latvia).

Malpils (Clay Castle) is a fabulous place, situated in Vidzeme, the north-eastern part of Latvia, drowning in fragrant gardens, forest clearings, and parks with lakes full of blossoming lilies.

In the framework of IUGTE Conferences in Malpils, we would like to highlight the works and the names of such speakers as:

Eugenia Rozanova - famous theatre critic from Russia;

Floyd Favel from Canada and his presentation "The research into Native Performance Culture";

Sheila Gordon from the USA and her workshop on "Animal Body in Performing Shakespeare" based on Lee Strasberg;

Prof. Dr.Haji Zainal Abdul Latiff - teacher, professor, performer from Malaysia with "Pencak Silat in the Training of Theatre Practitioners"

Victor Copytsko - composer, musicologist, conductor, director, member of IUGTE (Belarus) with the lecture "Theatricality in Non-Theatrical Music".