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David Binder: The arts festival revolution
David Binder: A revolução dos festivais de artes
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David Binder é um grande produtor da Broadway, mas no verão passado ele deu consigo num pequeno bairro australiano, a ver os locais a dançar e representar nos seus relvados -- e a adorar. Ele mostra-nos o novo rosto dos festivais de artes, que derruba fronteiras entre público e o performer e contribui para que as cidades se expressem a si próprias.
David Binder - Theater producer
A Tony Award winner, theater producer David Binder is interested in taking performances off the stage. Full bio
A Tony Award winner, theater producer David Binder is interested in taking performances off the stage. Full bio
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Sydney. I had been waiting my whole life to get to Sydney.
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Sydney. Eu esperei toda a minha vida por chegar a Sydney.
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I got to the airport, to the hotel, checked in,
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Cheguei ao aeroporto, ao hotel, fiz o check-in
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and, sitting there in the lobby, was a brochure
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e na entrada, havia um folheto
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for the Sydney Festival. I thumbed through it,
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do Festival de Sydney. Dei uma vista de olhos
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and I came across a show called "Minto: Live."
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e deparei-me com um show chamado "Minto: Live."
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The description read: "The suburban streets of Minto
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A descrição era: "As ruas do subúrbio de Minto
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become the stage for performances
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"tornam-se palco para performances
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created by international artists
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"criadas por artistas internacionais
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in collaboration with the people of Minto."
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"em colaboração com os habitantes de Minto."
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What was this place called Minto?
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Que lugar era este chamado Minto?
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Sydney, as I would learn, is a city of suburbs,
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Sydney, como eu descobriria, é uma cidade de subúrbios,
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and Minto lies southwest, about an hour away.
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e Minto fica no sudoeste, a uma hora de distância.
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I have to say, it wasn't exactly what I had in mind
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Confesso que isso não era bem o que eu tinha em mente
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for my first day down under.
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para o meu primeiro dia lá.
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I mean, I'd thought about the Harbour Bridge or Bondi Beach,
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Quero dizer, pensei na Harbour Bridge ou na Bondi Beach,
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but Minto? But still, I'm a producer,
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mas Minto? Mas ainda assim, sou um produtor,
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and the lure of a site-specific theater project
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e um projeto de performances na rua foi um isco,
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was more than I could resist. (Laughter)
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a que não pude resistir. (Risos)
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So, off I went into Friday afternoon traffic,
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Então, lá fui eu pelo trânsito de sexta à tarde,
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and I'll never forget what I saw when I got there.
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e nunca me esquecerei do que vi quando lá cheguei.
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For the performance, the audience walked
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Para a performance, o público andou
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around the neighborhood from house to house,
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pela vizinhança de casa em casa,
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and the residents, who were the performers,
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e os moradores, que eram os performers,
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they came out of their houses, and they performed
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saíram das suas casas e realizaram
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these autobiographical dances on their lawns,
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danças autobiográficas nos seus relvados,
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on their driveways. (Laughter)
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nas entradas das suas garagem. (Risos)
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The show is a collaboration with a U.K.-based
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O show é uma colaboração com uma companhia de
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performance company called Lone Twin.
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performance do Reino Unido, chamada Lone Twin.
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Lone Twin had come to Minto and worked
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Lone Twin chegou a Minto e trabalhou
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with the residents, and they had created these dances.
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com os moradores, e eles criaram estas danças.
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This Australian-Indian girl, she came out and started
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Esta rapariga australiana-indiana, saiu e começou
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to dance on her front lawn,
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a dançar no seu relvado,
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and her father peered out the window to see
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e o seu pai espreitou pela janela para ver
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what all the noise and commotion was about,
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qual era a razão de todo aquele barulho e comoção,
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and he soon joined her.
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e pouco depois juntou-se à filha.
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And he was followed by her little sister.
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E ele foi seguido pela irmã mais nova dela.
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And soon they were all dancing this joyous,
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E em breve estavam todos a dançar esta alegre,
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exuberant dance right there on their lawn. (Laughter)
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exuberante dança, ali mesmo no relvado deles. (Risos)
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And as I walked through the neighborhood,
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E andando pela vizinhança, fiquei
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I was amazed and I was moved by the incredible
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maravilhado e comovido com o incrível senso
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sense of ownership this community clearly felt
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de propriedade que essa comunidade claramente sentiu
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about this event.
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com este evento.
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"Minto: Live" brought Sydneysiders into dialogue
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"Minto: Live" colocou os habitantes de Sydney
em diálogo
em diálogo
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with international artists, and really celebrated
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com artistas internacionais, e celebraram, de facto,
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the diversity of Sydney on its own terms.
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a diversidade de Sydney nos seus próprios termos.
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The Sydney Festival which produced "Minto: Live" I think
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Acho que o Festival de Sydney, que produziu "Minto: Live",
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represents a new kind of 21st-century arts festival.
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constitui um novo tipo de festival de artes para o século XXI.
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These festivals are radically open.
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Estes festivais são radicalmente abertos.
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They can transform cities and communities.
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Eles podem transformar cidades e comunidades.
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To understand this, I think it kind of makes sense
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Para entender melhor, acho que faz sentido olhar
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to look where we've come from.
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para o lugar de onde isto surgiu.
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Modern arts festivals were born
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Os festivais de arte moderna surgiram
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in the rubble of World War II.
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nos destroços da II Guerra Mundial.
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Civic leaders created these annual events
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Os líderes civis criaram estes eventos anuais
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to celebrate culture as the highest
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para celebrar a cultura como a maior
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expression of the human spirit.
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expressão do espírito humano.
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In 1947, the Edinburgh Festival was born
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Em 1947, nasceu o Festival de Edimburgo,
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and Avignon was born and hundreds of others
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de Avignon, e centenas de outros
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would follow in their wake.
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seguiriam o seu "despertar."
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The work they did was very, very high art,
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O que eles fizeram era arte de muito elevada qualidade,
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and stars came along like Laurie Anderson
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e astros como Laurie Anderson vieram,
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and Merce Cunningham and Robert Lepage
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e Merce Cunningham e Robert Lepage
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who made work for this circuit,
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que fizeram trabalhos para este circuito,
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and you had these seminal shows like "The Mahabharata"
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e houve shows seminais como "The Mahabharata"
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and the monumental "Einstein on the Beach."
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e o monumental "Einstein on the Beach".
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But as the decades passed,
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Mas com o passar das décadas,
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these festivals, they really became the establishment,
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estes festivais tornaram-se realmente uma instituição,
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and as the culture and capital accelerated,
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e à medida que a cultura e o capital acelararam,
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the Internet brought us all together,
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a internet juntou-nos a todos,
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high and low kind of disappeared,
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aos mais e aos menos "desaparecidos",
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a new kind of festival emerged.
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um novo género de festival emergiu.
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The old festivals, they continued to thrive, but
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Os antigos festivais continuam a desenvolver-se, mas
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from Brighton to Rio to Perth, something new was emerging,
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de Brighton ao Rio, a Perth, alguma coisa nova ia emergindo
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and these festivals were really different.
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e estes festivais eram, de facto, diferentes.
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They're open, these festivals, because, like in Minto,
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Eles eram abertos, estes festivais, porque, tal como em Minto,
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they understand that the dialogue
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eles compreendiam que o diálogo
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between the local and the global is essential.
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entre o local e o global é essencial.
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They're open because they ask the audience to be a player,
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Eles eram abertos porque pediam ao público para serem atores,
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a protagonist, a partner, rather than a passive spectator,
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protagonistas, parceiros, mais do que meros espectadores,
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and they're open because they know that imagination
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e eles eram abertos por saberem que a imaginação
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cannot be contained in buildings,
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não pode ser circunscrita aos edifícios,
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and so much of the work they do
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e muito do trabalho que eles fazem
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is site-specific or outdoor work.
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é específico para um determinado local ou para o ar livre.
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So, the new festival, it asks the audience to play
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Potanto, o novo festival, pede ao público que desempenhem
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an essential role in shaping the performance.
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um papel crucial no desenrolar da performance.
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Companies like De La Guarda, which I produce, and Punchdrunk
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Companhias como De la Guardia, da qual sou produtor, e a Punchdrunk
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create these completely immersive experiences
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criam estas completamente imersivas experiências
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that put the audience at the center of the action,
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que põem o público no centro da ação,
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but the German performance company Rimini Protokoll
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mas a performance da companhia alemã Rimini Protokoll
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takes this all to a whole new level.
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leva-nos a um nível totalmente novo.
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In a series of shows that includes "100 Percent Vancouver,"
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Na série de espetáculos que inclui "100 Percent Vancouver",
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"100 Percent Berlin," Rimini Protokoll makes shows
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"100 Percent Berlim", Rimini Protokoll faz espetáculos
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that actually reflect society.
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que são realmente um reflexo da sociedade.
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Rimini Protokoll chooses 100 people that represent that city
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Rimini Protokoll escolhe 100 pessoas que representem essa cidade
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at that moment in terms of race and gender and class,
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nesse momento, em termos de etnia, género e classe,
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through a careful process that begins three months before,
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através de um cuidadoso processo que começa três meses antes
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and then those 100 people share stories about
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e depois essas 100 pessoas partilham histórias sobre
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themselves and their lives, and the whole thing
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si próprias e sobre as suas vidas, e tudo isso
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becomes a snapshot of that city at that moment.
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se torna um retrato dessa cidade nesse momento.
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LIFT has always been a pioneer in the use of venues.
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LIFT sempre foi pioneira em usar palcos.
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They understand that theater and performance
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Eles compreendem que tanto o teatro como a performance
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can happen anywhere.
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podem acontecer em qualquer lado.
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You can do a show in a schoolroom,
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Pode fazer-se um espetáculo numa sala de aula,
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in an airport, — (Laughter) —
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num aeroporto , — (Risos) —
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in a department store window.
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numa montra de centro comercial.
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Artists are explorers. Who better to show us the city anew?
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Os artistas são exploradores. Quem melhor que eles para nos mostrar a cidade de outra forma?
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Artists can take us to a far-flung part of the city
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Os artistas podem levar-nos às zonas mais remotas da cidade
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that we haven't explored, or they can take us into
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que nunca explorámos, ou podem levar-nos até
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that building that we pass every day but we never went into.
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àquele edifício pelo qual passamos todos os dias, mas onde nunca entrámos.
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An artist, I think, can really show us people
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Um artista, penso eu, pode realmente mostrar às pessoas
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that we might overlook in our lives.
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que talvez devemos dar atenção às nossas vidas.
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Back to Back is an Australian company of people
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Back to Back é uma companhia australiana de pessoas
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with intellectual disabilities. I saw their amazing show
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com dificuldades intelectuais. Eu vi o seu espetáculo impressionante
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in New York at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal
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em Nova Iorque, no Staten Island Terminal
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at rush hour.
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em hora de ponta.
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We, the audience, were given headsets and seated
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A nós, o público, foram dados auscultadores e sentaram-nos
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on one side of the terminal.
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num dos lados do terminal.
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The actors were right there in front of us,
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Os atores estavam mesmo diante de nós,
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right there among the commuters,
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mesmo ali, no meio dos passageiros,
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and we could hear them,
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e nós conseguiamos ouvi-los,
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but we might not have otherwise seen them.
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mas poderíamos, de outra forma, não estar a vê-los.
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So Back to Back takes site-specific theater and uses it
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Por isso os Back to Back fazem teatro em locais específicos e usam isso
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to gently remind us about who and what we choose
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para delicadamente nos lembrarem de quem e do que é que escolhemos
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to edit out of our daily lives.
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excluir das nossas vidas.
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So, the dialogue with the local and the global,
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Por isso o diálogo com o local e o global,
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the audience as participant and player and protagonist,
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o público como participante e ator e protagonista,
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the innovative use of site, all of these things
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o uso inovador do espaço, todas essa coisas
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come to play in the amazing work
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participam no incrível trabalho
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of the fantastic French company Royal de Luxe.
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da fantástica companhia francesa Royal de Luxe.
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Royal de Luxe's giant puppets come into a city
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Os bonecos gigantes da Royal de Luxe chegam a uma cidade
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and they live there for a few days.
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e vivem nela por uns dias.
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For "The Sultan's Elephant," Royal de Luxe
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Para o "The Sultan's Elephant", a Royal de Luxe
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came to central London and brought it to a standstill
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veio ao centro de Londres e deixou-a paralizada
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with their story of a giant little girl and her friend,
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com a sua história da menina gigante e do seu amigo,
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a time-traveling elephant.
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um elefante viajante-do-tempo.
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For a few days, they transformed a massive city
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Por uns dias, eles transformaram as massas da cidade
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into a community where endless possibility reigned.
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numa comunidade onde infinitas possibilidades reinaram.
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The Guardian wrote, "If art is about transformation,
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O Guardian escreveu: "Se a arte é transformação,
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then there can be no more transformative experience.
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"então não poderá haver experiência mais transformativa.
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What 'The Sultan's Elephant' represents is no less
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"O que 'The Sultan's Elephant' representa não é nada mais
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than an artistic occupation of the city
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"do que uma ocupação artística da cidade
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and a reclamation of the streets for the people."
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"e uma reivindicação das ruas para o povo."
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We can talk about the economic impacts of these festivals
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Podemos falar sobre o impacto económico destes festivais
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on their cities, but I'm much [more] interested in many more things,
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nas suas cidades, mas estou muito [mais] interessado em muitas outras coisas,
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like how a festival helps a city to express itself,
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tal como a forma como um festival ajuda uma cidade a expressar-se a si própria,
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how it lets it come into its own.
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como permite que se torne nela própria.
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Festivals promote diversity,
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Os festivais promovem a diversidade,
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they bring neighbors into dialogue,
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trazem vizinhos ao diálogo,
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they increase creativity,
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incrementam a criatividade,
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they offer opportunities for civic pride,
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oferecem oportunidades para o orgulho cívico,
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they improve our general psychological well-being.
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aumentam o nosso bem-estar psicológico geral.
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In short, they make cities better places to live.
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Resumindo, tornam as nossa cidades melhores sítios para se viver.
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Case in point:
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No caso em questão:
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When "The Sultan's Elephant" came to London
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Quando "The Sultan's Elephant" veio a Londres
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just nine months after 7/7, a Londoner wrote,
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apenas nove meses depois do 7/7, um londrino escreveu,
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"For the first time since the London bombings,
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"Pela primeira vez desde os atentados bombistas em Londres,
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my daughter called up with that sparkle back in her voice.
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"a minha filha chamou-me com aquele brilho de volta à sua voz.
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She had gathered with others
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"Ela tinha-se juntados a outros
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to watch 'The Sultan's Elephant,' and, you know,
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"para verem "The Sultan's Elephant" e, como devem saber,
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it just made all the difference."
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"isso fez toda a diferença."
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Lyn Gardner in The Guardian has written
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Lyn Gardner no Guardian tinha escrito
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that a great festival can show us a map of the world,
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que um grande festival nos pode mostrar o mapa do mundo,
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a map of the city and a map of ourselves,
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o mapa da cidade e o mapa de nós próprios,
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but there is no one fixed festival model.
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mas não há nenhum modelo fixo de festival.
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I think what's so brilliant about the festivals,
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Eu acho que o que é fabuloso nos festivais,
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the new festivals, is that they are really fully capturing
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os novos festivais, é que eles estão realmente a captar completamente
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the complexity and the excitement
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a complexidade e excitação
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of the way we all live today.
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do modo como todos vivemos atualmente.
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Thank you very much. (Applause)
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Muito obrigado. (Aplausos)
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
David Binder - Theater producerA Tony Award winner, theater producer David Binder is interested in taking performances off the stage.
Why you should listen
David Binder won the Tony award for producing the record-breaking smash Hedwig and the Angry Inch starring Neil Patrick Harris. Other Broadway credits include Of Mice and Men starring James Franco and Chris O'Dowd (the first Broadway show to be filmed by the National Theatre of Britain's NT Live and shown in cinemas around the world), 33 Variations starring Jane Fonda, and the first Broadway revival of A Raisin in the Sun, with Sean Combs, Phylicia Rashad and Audra McDonald.
Binder has also staged events and festivals around the globe, including The High Line Festival, which was curated by David Bowie, The New Island Festival (ten days of Dutch site-specific theater, dance and music in New York City) and IBM's 100th Anniversary: Short Ride in a Fast Machine (held at Lincoln Center). He is the Artistic Associate of London's LIFT Festival.
PHOTO CREDITS for David's 2012 TED Talk:
Minto: Live – Sydney Festival
2011
3 Courtesy of Lone Twin
4 Courtesy of Lone Twin
5 Courtesy of Lone Twin
6 © Pekka Mäkinen
7 © Amrit MacIntyre
8 Courtesy of Lone Twin
9 © Pekka Mäkinen
10 © Pekka Mäkinen
11 © Pekka Mäkinen
12 © Pekka Mäkinen
13 © Pekka Mäkinen
14 © Pekka Mäkinen
The Mahabharata
16 © Image Entertainment
Einstein on the Beach
17 Spaceship © Lesley Leslie-Spinks 2012
De La Guarda
21 Courtesy of De La Guarda
Sleep No More
22 © Alick Crossley
100% – Rimini Protokoll
23 100% Berlin, © Barbara Braun, courtesy of Rimini Protokoll
24 100% Karlsruhe, © Jochen Klenk, courtesy of Rimini Protokoll
25 100% Köln, © Sandra Then, courtesy of Rimini Protokoll
26 100% Köln, © Sandra Then, courtesy of Rimini Protokoll
27 100% Köln, © Sandra Then, courtesy of Rimini Protokoll
28 100% Karlsruhe, © Jochen Klenk, courtesy of Rimini Protokoll
29 100% Köln, © Sandra Then, courtesy of Rimini Protokoll
Grown-Up School (Daily Life Series Part 4)
32 LIFT Brecknock Primary School, London 1999
Photograph: Andrew Whittuck
www.dailylifeltd.co.uk
Roam – a National Theatre of Scotland and Grid Iron production
33 Photo by Richard Campbell, courtesy of National Theatre of Scotland
Urban Dream Capsule
34 Photo courtesy of Bedno.com
Small Metal Objects, Back to Back Theatre
36 Photo by Berni Sweeney, courtesy of Back to Back Theatre
37 2009 Time-Based Art Festival. Photo: Carole Zoom, courtesy of Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
38 Photo by Jeff Busby, courtesy of Back to Back Theatre
39 Photo by Prudence Upton, courtesy of Back to Back Theatre
40 © Richard Termine
Royal de Luxe
42 © Carsten Siegel, berlinsidewalk.com
43 © Flickr user Mlle Jordan
44 © Carsten Siegel, berlinsidewalk.com
45 © Carsten Siegel, berlinsidewalk.com
46 Photo by Flickr user sw77, licensed by creative commons
47 The Sultan’s Elephant produced by Artichoke with funding by Arts Council England and the Mayor’s Office of London, photo by Matthew Andrews
48 The Sultan’s Elephant produced by Artichoke with funding by Arts Council England and the Mayor’s Office of London, photo by Matthew Andrews
49 © Carsten Siegel, berlinsidewalk.com
50 The Sultan’s Elephant produced by Artichoke with funding by Arts Council England and the Mayor’s Office of London, photo by Matthew Andrews
51 Photo by Flickr user sw77, licensed by creative commons
52 The Sultan’s Elephant produced by Artichoke with funding by Arts Council England and the Mayor’s Office of London, photo by Sophie Laslett
54 The Sultan’s Elephant produced by Artichoke with funding by Arts Council England and the Mayor’s Office of London, photo by Matthew Andrews
55 The Sultan’s Elephant produced by Artichoke with funding by Arts Council England and the Mayor’s Office of London, photo by Sophie Laslett
56 The Sultan’s Elephant produced by Artichoke with funding by Arts Council England and the Mayor’s Office of London, photo by Matthew Andrews
57 The Sultan’s Elephant produced by Artichoke with funding by Arts Council England and the Mayor’s Office of London, photo by Matthew Andrews
58 The Sultan’s Elephant produced by Artichoke with funding by Arts Council England and the Mayor’s Office of London, photo by Sophie Laslett
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