Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Stage Director
Ivan Chagas – Before moving to the USA, Ivan Chagas had been acting and directing in different theatrical ensembles in Brazil.
He is the founder of Grupo de Teatro Roupa de Ensaio, a troupe that still based in Brasilia and follows a line of work inspired in the acting methods developed by Eugenio Barba’s Odin Theatre (Norway). The group also works with Antunes Filho’s method, as well as Grotowski’s ideas. With the Brazilian troupe he trained the actors and directed for The Blind Man, by Michael de Ghelderode, Prometheus, by Eschylus and his adaptation for Les Precieuses Ridicules, by Molière.
During his MFA program at UMKC he designed sets for different theatres in the Kansas City area such as Burn This(The Grant Hall Theatre), The Dinosaur Musical (The Coterie Theatre), The Barnabies Five, for the KC Urban Project and Love’s Labor’s Lost, The Pirates of Penzance, Romeo and Juliet(Little Theatre, Fayette).
Here in USA, he also directed and designed the set for The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Little Prince in Columbia, MO, and Waltz # 6 for the Kansas City Fringe Festival.
A one-woman play by Brazilian playwright Maria Adelaide Amaral
Disdain for mediocrity
Fashion passes, style remains.
Chanel as a subject
Several artistic projects inspired in Chanel's life have come up in the last couple of years showing that she was one of the most important women of the 20th century.
Shirley MacLaine played Coco in her later years for a made-for-television film at Lifetime.
She said, "What's wonderful about her is she's not a straightforward, easy woman to understand. She was born into poverty and would do anything to keep from going broke again."
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