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Bond Street Theatre initiates theatre-based projects for conflict resolution, education and empowerment in critical areas worldwide. The company's actor-educators initiate creative programming for peacebuilding that reach women, youth, children, educators, refugees, those in prisons and shelters, and other populations in need. Bond Street Theatre creates performances that illustrate important social issues, and uses the arts to educate, inspire, and heal in areas of conflict, poverty and post-war rehabilitation. The company collaborates with local artists to enjoy the benefits of artistic exchange—to learn, to share, and to explore commonalities and differences, and promote mutual understanding and the value of the arts in shaping a peaceful global future. The company has initiated theatre-based programs in over 40 countries worldwide that improve leadership skills, build self-confidence, stimulate the imagination, and illustrate health and civic issues to audiences of all ages and genders. ==History== Bond Street Theatre was founded in 1976 by Joanna Sherman and Patrick Sciarratta, and a group of physically skilled, socially concerned actors dedicated to innovative theatre and motivated by a passion to be useful in the world. A resident company at LaMama Theatre in its early years, the ensemble created both indoor works and large street theatre productions that toured throughout New York and nationally. The company has trained extensively in the physical and gestural arts of many traditions to develop a theatrical language that communicates across cultural borders. The ensemble selects the gestures, rituals, and symbols that give life its shape and dynamics, and complements them with striking theatrical forms such as acrobatics, martial arts, masks, stilts, dance, puppetry, many types of music, and performance styles from many cultures. The ensemble utilizes forum theatre, playback, and other interactive theatre forms. Today, Bond Street Theatre spends much of its time working internationally, collaborating with local theatre artists throughout the world, and initiating community-based arts projects. The company is committed to furthering peace and cross-cultural understanding through creative associations with artists worldwide, creating theatre-based projects for education, healing, and empowerment in critical areas, and training trainers in these techniques to insure the sustainability of its artistic-humanitarian programs. To date, the company has worked in China, Japan, Indonesia, Myanmar (Burma), Singapore, Thailand, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Israel, Palestine, Haiti, Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela, Guatemala, Mexico, Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Hungary, and across Europe, Canada, and the USA, performing, teaching and creating theatre projects. Highlights: Bond Street created Jerusalem’s first street theatre company with Arabs and Jews together (1984); initiated the first Afghan-US theatre collaboration (2005); worked with refugees in Montreal (1987), Macedonia (1999), Pakistan (2002), and Haiti (2011); toured an Afghan-US-Indian theatre team to rural communities across India (2006-2009); performed in war-torn theatres across the Balkans and created the Performing Artists for Balkan Peace uniting artists from 8 Balkans nations. Since 2003, the company has been working in Afghanistan to revitalize the theatre arts and create theatre to reach isolated women, and currently conducts projects with groups in Myanmar and Haiti. The company received a MacArthur Award for its innovative programming, and receives consistent foundation and governmental support, including the US Institute for Peace, the US Department of State and its Embassies around the world. Bond Street Theatre is an NGO in association with the United Nations. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bond Street Theatre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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