International Meeting of Group Theater
KNOTS-NUDOS is an International Festival and Theatre Meeting that takes place every two years, in different parts of the world. It was born in 2011 with the alliance between the Argentinean theatre group Teatro In (Asociación Civil Teatro In), based in Bs.As. and the international theatre group Marinaio Teatro, based in Berlin. During the 1st edition of the festival in Berlin 2011, the MANIFESTO was edited and the character and spirit of the festival were established.
The KNOTS.NUDOS’ program has duration of two weeks, in which all participants take part in all activities – play’s presentations, workshops, collective training and collective creation built among the groups to be shared with the audience in the end of the event.
In each edition of KNOTS.NUDOS, one of the groups that joins this “family of groups” hosts the festival in his own country and take responsibility of the edition’s management. In this perspective, the Festival reaffirms itself as a project of social and cultural character, incrementing its own management ability and conceiving a cultural program with national and international groups to empower the event in the host city and the relationship between the groups and the local agents of that city.
The major difference of KNOTS-NUDOS lies in the building of human and artistic bonds among theatre groups residing in different parts of the world and working under distinct socio-political circumstances that meet each biennial edition to share and rebuild other senses to their work.
SPIRIT
KNOTS is a festival-meeting of theater groups.
The purpose of NUDOS is to promote group theater culture and to establish knots / relationships / ties between theater groups that exist in different parts of the world and under different socio-political circumstances.
The principle of KNOTS is the meeting through work.
Spirit
Promote the culture of group theater
Festival participants must be related to the theater culture of the group, belong to theater groups, regardless of the role they play in it (director, actor, musician, plastic, playwright, etc.).
Establish knots, relationships, ties, bridges between theater groups that exist in different parts of the world and under different socio-political circumstances.
We are motivated by the desire to form a "Family of Groups" capable of transcending their ties in time, finding continuity between festival and festival.
Find us from work
Group members build their bonds from the experience of working together.
Relate to the local socio-political reality of the country-host city.
Intervene and allow yourself to be modified by the local socio-political framework in order to enrich the experience of each group and its cultural baggage.