International research-creation project

Technology, what for?

What are the #Svobodays?

The #Svobodays are events organized in 2023 and 2024

in performing arts schools across ten European countries,

with a program of exhibitions, workshops, lectures and roundtables to question the emergence of advanced technologies in theater,

and how to teach them in higher education.

This project has initiated a European-wide network,

which continues to explore the best ways

to adapt teaching to current stage practices.

Projet soutenu par le programme

de partenariat de coopération Eramus+

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The project team

This project, supported by Erasmus+

is led by teachers and students from three partner schools:

Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Techniques du Théâtre

ENSATT - Lyon - FR

Janacek Academy of Performing Arts

JAMU - Brno - CZ

Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático

de Sevilla

ESAD - Sevilla - SP

Huit écoles associées ont accueilli les Svobodays en 2023-24 :

ABA - Palermo - IT

Accademia delle Belle Arti

VSMU - Bratislava - SK

Academy of Performing Arts

KHiO - Oslo - NO

National Academy of the Arts

RITCS - Bruxelles - BE

Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema & Sound

IUAV - Venezia - IT

Accademia delle Belle Arti

SKH - Stockholm - SE

Stockholm University of the Arts

BHT - Berlin - DE

Berliner Hochschule für Technik

ESMAE -ESMAD - Porto

School of Performing arts & School of Media Arts

Porteurs de projet et chercheurs associés

At the origin of the project, a team of scenographers and lighting designers, also researchers and professors in the three partner schools, who share a common interest in Svoboda's work, and the teaching of stage techniques in art schools. After two round tables organized around Svoboda's legacy (2018-19), they joined forces to design the #Svobodays project as it exists today.

Christine Richier

Ensatt project coordination

Lighting designer
Professor and co-head of the lighting department at ENSATT
Researcher in the history of stage technologies. Author of a film and a thesis on Svoboda and the dematerialization of space

Eufrasio L. Muñoz (SP)

Esad project coordination

Scenographer
Professor of scenography at ESAD
Studies of scenography in Prague /DAMU

Pavla Beranova (CZ)

Jamu Project Coordination

Lighting and Video Designer
Architectural Lighting
Professor in the Lighting Department at JAMU

Martin Ondrus (CZ)

Scenography and exhibition coordination

Scenographer for Theater and Opera
PhD with a thesis on Svoboda and Wagner
Exhibition Designer for the Svoboda exhibition (Gask - 2020)

An international team of researchers and theater professionals

is associated with the project for research activities, organizing roundtables, and student mentoring:

Denis Fruchaud

Professeur à l'Ensatt
Scénographe pour le théâtre et le lyrique

François Weber

Sound and Video Designer
Digital Technology Specialist
Professor and co-Head of the Sound Design Dpt of ENSATT

Katia Hala

Ph.D. in Slavic Studies
Lecturer and Professor of Literature
Czech Theater Specialist and Translator

Annie Leuridan

Lighting Designer
Ecodesign Consultant
Lecturer at ENSAD and ENSATT

Luca Pulvirenti

Video Designer
professor at the Fine Arts School of Palermo

The team extends warm thoughts in memory of Thierry Fratissier, lighting designer and co-head of the Lighting Department at ENSATT, who passed away in June 2023. He had actively participated in the first phase of the project. We will continue to miss his smile for a long time to come.