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                                          LONG DISTANCE AFFAIR
                                             (make possible an impossible trip)

              

Coming soon in Buenos Aires
part of Bienal Arte Joven Buenos Aires
at Ciudad Cultural Konex 

November 12-17


Long Distance Affair  is a multi-artist, multi national collaboration and a one of a kind theatrical event: a Skype show for an audience gathered in one place with performances given by actors spread out around the world. After 4 successful productions since 2011 with more than 75 artists world wide, we are expanding our family and including over 30 new young spanish fluent artists under 33 for the new edition of Long Distance Affair in Buenos Aires.

The show itself is planned to take place around the world, but the Buenos Aires audience will view it via Skype at Konex Cultural. Each audience is assigned a computer with a ready made connection to one actor located in a different part of the world. Each performance is one audience member at a time.  Long Distance Affair: Buenos Aires will assemble 18 teams of Actors, Playwrights and Directors from around the  world.  Come see us if you are in Buenos Aires in November!




Proximamente en Buenos Aires
parte de la Bienal Arte Joven Buenos Aires
en Ciudad Cultural Konex 

Noviembre 12-17

Long Distance Affair es una propuesta teatral única basada en la colaboración multi artística, multinacional llevada a cabo via Skype para espectadores reunidos en un solo sitio y las actrices y actores representan desde sus casas en distintas partes del mundo. Después de 4 exitosas producciones desde el 2011 y con la participación de más de 75 creadores en todo el mundo vamos a extender  nuestra familia  e incluiremos a  más de 30 jóvenes creadores de habla hispana menores de 33 años para nuestra nueva edición de Long Distance Affair en Buenos Aires.

Las obras están diseñadas para que se representen alrededor del mundo, pero los espectadores de Buenos Aires lo verán en una locación via Skype. A cada uno de los espectadores se le asigna una computadora con una conexión Ready Made con uno de los actores alrededor del mundo, el cual actuará una obra interactiva de 9 minutos para 1 espectador. Cuando termina la obra el espectador se trasporta a otra país en el mundo(computadora). Long Distance Affair Buenos Aires estará conformado por 18 equipos de actores, dramaturgos y directores de distintas partes del mundo.

Past shows:

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EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE (2013)
LDA performed in the prestigious festival 2-25 August 2013 at Summerhall. 50 artists from 6 continents joined the project. Visit Artists page to see all the participants and their bios.  Huffington Post UK reviewd the show: "Theatre is often comfortable voyeurism - Long Distance Affair rejects this traditional role. You become as much a part of the narrative as the actor, making the experience surprisingly raw and unsettling, as your past life spills into the story, sharing it with a perfect stranger. Margineanu’s production is dangerous, thrilling and a fascinating piece of psychological theatre."

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New York City, US (2013)
When theatre meets technology possibilities become endless.
In Long Distance Affair, someone across the globe is reaching out exclusively to you. What will be the result when you and a perfect stranger meet with only a computer screen between you?
LONG DISTANCE AFFAIR performed at The Gershwin Hotel between 5-28 February, 2013. 33 artists from 6 continents participated.

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QUERÉTARO, MEXICO (2012)
What level of intimacy can you aspire to when all the information you receive comes through a computer screen? 18 artists from 6 countries decide to take this virtual adventure and bring it to an audience of  48 participants in Querétaro Mexico. Each  virtual "affair" is performed for (and with) only one audience member at a time. 
Long Distance Affair: Querétaro is possible through the partnership with El Centauro Mecánico and at the invitation of the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro and the 7° Festival Cultural Universitario Tecnología-Exceso de Presente.
 THE COUNTRIES: Romania, US, Germany, Spain, Australia, Mexico.

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NEW YORK CITY, US (2011)
Long Distance Affair was first presented in November 2011 at "Around the World in 24 hours," an Internationalists Directors Collective Annual Festival of independent global theatre makers. Participation artists included: Ana Margineanu, (US), Doug Howe (US), Jeremy Lydic (US), Andreea Duta (Romania), Alfonso Carcamo (Mexico), Ella Greenhill (England), Stacey Gregg (Ireland), Diane Lefer (US), Sigtryggur Magnasson (Iceland), Lisa Parry (England), Monica Raymond (US), Peca Stefan (Romania), David L. Williams (US), Radu Campean (Romania), Svandis Dora Einarsdottir (Iceland), Fatih Genckal (Turkey), Aimée Horne (Australia), Miguel Loyola (Mexico), Martina Marti (Finland), Lorenzo Montanini (Italy), Oksana Mysina (Russia) and Anastasia Papatheodorou (Greece).