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Directing Ibsen in Israel Department of Theatre Arts Norwegian Embassy The Yolanda and David Katz Faculty of the Arts Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv Self- Realization and the Theatre of Henrik Ibsen An International Symposium at the Department of Theatre Arts, Tel Aviv University In Collaboration with the Norwegian Embassy in Israel January 12-13, 2020 at the Genia Schreiber Tel Aviv University Art Gallery Sunday, January 12, 2020 14:45-15:00 coffee break Dr. Vered Maimon, Tel Aviv Unviersity Genia Schreiber Tel Aviv University Art Gallery 15:00 – 16:00 KEYNOTE LECTURE Natural Images, Failed Copies: On the Singularity of Early Photography 9:00 Gathering Chair: Dr. Dror Harari, Tel Aviv University Dr. Olga Levitan, Tel Aviv University 9:30-11:00 GREETINGS AND OPENING LECTURE Prof. Gad Kaynar-Kissinger, Tel Aviv University Meyerhold in Dialogue with Ibsen: Experiments in Stylization Chair: Prof. Gad Kaynar-Kissinger From the Phallocentric to the Gynocentric 16:00-16:30 coffee break Tel Aviv University DollHOUSE: Ibsen's Signature Play on the Israeli Stage 16:30-18:15 Roundtable: Directing Ibsen in Israel (In Hebrew) Edvard Grieg, Solveig’s Song 16:15-17:15 Ibsen and the Modern Self Singer: Liora Levy | Pianist: Esty Yoffe Mexcio Building room 206A Chair: Prof. Shulamith Lev-Aladgem, Tel Aviv Kfir Azoulay, Dedi Baron, Yael Cramsky, Moshe Perlstein, Hannan Prof. Eran Neuman, Dean, Faculty of the Arts, University Snir, Prof. Rina Yerushalmi, Prof. Yossi Yzraely Tel Aviv University Dr. Yair Lipshitz, Tel Aviv University Convener: Prof. Gad Kaynar-Kissinger, Tel Aviv University His Excellency, Mr. Jon Hanssen-Bauer The Cave, the Garden, and The Wild Duck: Ibsen 18:30-19:00 Video Discussion with Thomas Ostermeier The Norwegian Ambassador to Israel between Plato and the Bible Mexcio Building room 206A Dr. Sharon Aronson-Lehavi, Chair, Dr. Lior Levy, University of Haifa Artistic Director, Schaubühne, Berlin; Department of Theatre Arts, Tel Aviv University Peer Gynt/Oedipus: Self-Knowledge and the OPENING LECTURE Modern Self Interviewed by Dr. Ruth Schor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ms. Gianina Druta, Center for Ibsen Studies, 17:15-17:30 coffee break 19:30 GALA RECEPTION University of Oslo, Norway 17:30-18:00 IBSEN SCENES (In Hebrew) Digital Perspectives in Ibsen Studies in honor of His Excellency, Mr. Jon Hanssen-Bauer, The Norwegian Chair: Yael Cramsky Ambassador to Israel, Shotlander Hall, Gilman Building 11:00-11:15 coffee break performed by third year students of the Honors 20:00 Premiere of THE WILD DUCK 11:15-12:15 KEYNOTE LECTURE Acting Program, Department of Theatre Arts, Gilman Building, Shotlander Hall (140) Tel Aviv University Chair: Dr. Sharon Aronson-Lehavi Tel Aviv University Dinner for Symposium Participants Directed by Moshe Perlstein Prof. Dr. Peter Marx, University of Cologne, Translated by Gad Kaynar-Kissinger Germany Monday, January 13 2020 Designed by MFA students of the Theatre and Film Design of the Mexico Building Ibsen’s Ghosts – Inventing Modern German Faculty of the Arts, Tel Aviv University Theatre through (Re-)Staging Naturalism: From PERFORMING IBSEN Brahm to Reinhardt Set Design: Noa Friedman; Costume Design: Ihab Jiryis; Lighting: 10:00-13:00 MASTER CLASS/WORKSHOP Tal Amir 12:15-13:15 lunch break (In Hebrew) PLAYING IBSEN with Prof. Yossi Yzraely and Performed by fourth year MFA students of the Honors Acting 13:15-14:45 A Doll House as a Cultural and third year acting students, Little Eyolf Program, Department of Theatre Arts, Tel Aviv University Philosophical Crossroad Mexcio Building room 207A Chair: Dr. Daphna Ben-Shaul 13:00-14:00 Lunch break ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Dr. Sharon Aronson-Lehavi, Tel Aviv University The Self-Realization of A Doll House 14:00 – 16:00: Ibsen and the Arts at the Turn Dr. Sharon Aronson-Lehavi, Prof. Gad Kaynar-Kissinger, Prof. Freddie of the Century Mexcio Building room 206A Rokem, Dr. Ruth Schor Dr. Dror Harari, Tel Aviv University “How Shall I Live”: The Transition to Modernity Chair: Prof. Nurit Yaari, Tel Aviv University SPECIAL THANKS in A Doll House Dr. Ruth Schor, The Martin Buber Society of Ms. Christine Knudsen, Norwegian Embassy to Israel; The Genia Dr. Ira Avneri, Tel Aviv University Fellows, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Schreiber Tel Aviv University Art Gallery and its staff; Prof. Sharon The Liminal Letterbox: Indoors and Outdoors in "Meet me at the Ibsen Club”: Alternative Rostorf-Zamir, Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, Tel Aviv University; Ibsen's Realistic Dramas Venues for Critical Thought in Late Nineteenth- Jenny Barak, Faculty of the Arts, Tel Aviv University; Natan Skop and Century Munich and Berlin Yael Via, Department of Theatre Arts, Tel Aviv University .
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