Company

Why a namechange?

Very simple. Theaterbureau Schmid was no longer enough.

Why international Performing arts?

Also very simple. We want to communicate carefully, rapidly and effectively with all our national - and international theatre partners. Where doing that with our new name and logo and our changed company structure.

What do we do?

International Performing Arts initiates and produces, along with Theaterburo Schmid and Asian Performing Arts, artistically interesting and high-quality theatre productions. We do that in all fields of the podium arts, both for the small and large theatres. Sometimes by our selves and sometimes in association with other producers, company's and theatres. International Performing Arts works as a manager and agent for individual artists and company's in all areas of podium arts. International Performing Arts is part of a larger international link of company's and producers. International Performing Arts develops performances with partners in Europe (like Russia, Hungary, Germany, Turkey) Asia (China and India/Tibet) and North - and south America (New York city and Argentina).

Asian Performing Arts

A department of International Performing Arts that works with Asia and the Middle East. We think that the interesting artistic vision and initiatives in the theatre area of our international theatre partners are very important for new and revealing theatre. In the future you can always count on us for the same artistic quality of our productions.

The office was funded in 1989 bye Felicitas Olga (Tassy) Speth von Schüzburg - Schmid. She has been operative in the theatre company since 1972. Tassy is also an active member of the I.E.T.M. (Informal European Theatre Meeting)

International Performing Arts is an agent and produces shows with companys and individuals, national and international artists. The offer is very varied and concerns music, theatre, dancing, opera and interdisciplinary stage arts.

Some productions of IPA are also played abroad. The Opera-Tango 'Maria the Buenos Aires' will be played in several traditional Turkish theatres in September 2005.

In the past we have cooperated with the Association Dutch Theatre Company's the Goethe Institute (Amsterdam and Rotterdam) and la Centre Culturel Francais. We have also organised theatre travels, to the ' theatre meeting ' in Berlin.

IPA is known as reliable and modern: we offer quality and depth, IPA tries to keep in touch with the time spirit and is, besides working on the existing projects, busy with searching and exploring new areas and cooperation bonds in the field of stage arts.

The division ‘Asian Performing Arts' was founded in 1997 along with drs. Maaike Riemersma (theatre sciences of not-Western podium forms).The sub-section 'Asian Performing Arts' was founded to represent productions from the Asian part of the world and the Middle East. These productions are both (co -) productions from that part of the world and shows from the Netherlands in which the Middle East is the subject.

So far 8 Tibet theatre productions have been realised. Amongst these is ' the guard chamber ' this was also nominated for the Dutch stage public price.

The year 2004 was all about Argentina, we have brought out the only opera of type-setter Astor Piazzolla ' Maria the Buenos Aires ' with an Argentinian/Dutch cast, the premiere was on 25 February 2004 in the royal theatre in The Hague. On February the 26 Willem Alexander and princess Maxima visited the show.

TASSY SCHMID

Producer /General Manager