Chris Torch
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Chris Torch, född Christopher Torch 26 februari 1952, är producent and konstnärlig chef.
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[redigera] Short Biography: Chris Torch
Chris Torch is artistic director at Intercult, a production and resource unit focused on intercultural performing arts.
The unit was founded in 1992 and, since re-structuring in 1996, is a publically financed initiative, based in Stockholm, Sweden, presently employing a full-time staff of 9 and a growing number of project collaborators.
Torch earlier founded SHIKASTA – the first multicultural ensemble at the Swedish National Touring Theatre (Riksteatern) and was the ensemble’s first artistic director (1992-1995). He was also one of the initiators of the Re:Orient festival in Stockholm (1993 &1994).
In an earlier life, Torch was born and raised in an italian-american family in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, After a few years in the USA and Italy as an actor with the legendary Living Theatre, he settled in Sweden in 1977. There he formed the independent theatre Jordcirkus, with whom he worked for 13 years as an actor, director and stage designer.
Intercult since 1996 has focused to a great degree on international collaboration and co-production. Projects like LANDSCAPE X (Stockholm 98), HOTEL EUROPA (2000) and TRANS//FUSION (2002) have challenged Intercult to develop new strategies for cultural border-crossing.
Intercult has always had a special eye to the Balkans and to the Baltic Sea region. This axis is reflected in the present international work SEAS, focusing on artists from 11 different countries around the Baltic and the Adriatic Seas.
SEAS: Phase I – Research & Development ended in december 2003.
Phase II - Production and Phase III - Distribution will take place during 2004 & 2005.
SEAS/events have already been presented in Klaipeda (Lithuania), Kaliningrad (Russia). Liepaja (Latvia), Gdansk (Poland) and Ljubljana (Slovenia) during 2004 and in Rijeka (Croatia), Koper (Slovenia), Stockholm (Sweden), Helsinki (Finland) and Podgorica (Montenegro) in 2005. Plans for a SEAS continuation with sights set on the Black Sea region are being concretized, beginning with a Research and Devlopment period in 2006.
Apart from large-scale production, Torch has played a role in the development of cultural policy both in Sweden and in Europe. He lectures reguarly and, together with his colleagues at Intercult, leads workshops in development and strategy.
He is currently a Member of the Board for EFAH (European Forum for Arts & Heritage). He is also on the Board of Directors for Culturebase.net, a european consortium maintaining an online database for World Artists. Finally, he is a co-founder and present Board member of THEOREM, an association for exchange within the performing arts between Eastern and Western Europe since 1998.
