Artist Dates

The Dates methodology was developed during the earlier SEAS Adriatic-Baltic project 2003-2005. It is a method designed to stretch or test the creative powers of an artist by putting them through an intense intercultural experience and asking them to create a work that reflects their experience. Find out more on the methodology and outcome.

Below is a list of these SEAS Dates. There was one major research and development phase in 2006-2007 involving 35 artists who presented their proposals to a gathering of the whole project group in Odessa April 2007. Not all the proposals were commissioned, but the successful projects formed the initial group of 16 SEAS productions that toured in 2008. There were several other dating activities throughout SEAS 2007-2010, usually held in parallel with a SEAS presentation involving a further 20 artists, some of whom were already involved in SEAS.

Date NameLocationProduction
Aleksander Morfov, theatre director (Bulgaria)
Ana Riaboshenko and Luka Zautashvili, artists (Georgia)Çamlıhemşin
Eugenio Barba & Julia Varley, actors/directors Odin Theatre (Denmark)OdessaSalt
Karena Johnson, theatre director (UK) & Melih Gorgun, visual artist (Turkey)Tromsø
Theatre du Centaure, theatre company (France) & Mahir Gunsiray & Claude Leon, Tiyatro Oyunevi (Turkey)MarseillesWaiting...
Karmella Tsepkolenko, composer (Ukraine), Kirsten Dehlholm, theatre director & Ralf Richardt Stroebech, architect, theatre director (Denmark)CopenhagenRelief
Lotte van den Berg, theatre director (Netherlands) and Nedyalko Delchev, theatre director and author (Bulgaria)AntwerpSuitcases
Dmytro Bogomazov, theatre director (Ukraine) & Siri Hermansen, visual artist (Norway)SinopBorderline
Javor Gardev, theatre director (Bulgaria) & Peter Johansson & Barbro Westling (Sweden)Istanbul
Lola Lafon, musician, singer and novelist (France) and Signa Sørensen & Arthur Köstler, SIGNA, theatre company (Denmark)Bucharest/ConstantaThe Black Sea Oracle Game
Dritero Kasapi, theatre director, (Sweden) & Venelin Shurelov, visual artist (Bulgaria)SkegnessFantomat
Cosmin Manolescu, choreographer (Romania) & Anne-Lise Stenseth, visual artist (Norway)VarnaThe Kiss and Waste Project
Metro-Boulot-Dodo, theatre company (UK) and Wunderbaum, theatre company (Netherlands)OdessaNight Scene
Cristina David (Romania) and Benno Voorham and Sybrig Doktor (Sweden)Istanbul
Gianina Carbunariu (Romania), Victoria Alarik and Jonas Fröberg (Sweden)IstanbulSEAS Göteborg local programme
Mikael Lundberg (Sweden) and Cristina David (Rumania)Stockholm
Philipe Blanchard, choreographer (Sweden) and Safak Uysal, choreographer (Turkey)Istanbul
Kajsa Sandström, choreographer (Sweden) and Chris Biddlecombe, performance artist (UK)Aberdeen
Fredrik Oskarsson, film maker (Sweden) and Michael Popper, choreographer (UK)Aberdeen
Sandy Thomson, theatre maker (UK) and Anneli Furmark, comics creator and illustrator (Sweden)Aberdeen
Oskar Östergren, film maker (Sweden) and David Leddy, theatre maker (UK)Aberdeen