Ms Maria P. van BAKELEN
mariap@knoware.nl
Director
Theater Studio Maria P, The Netherlands

For more than 20 years, Ms Maria P. van Bakelen involved as drama teacher and staff member in professional drama training schools in the Netherlands. She took an early retirement in 2001as staff member for international exchange and cultural diversity at the Amsterdam School of the Arts.

In her own enterprise “Theater Studio Maria P” she works as author and publicist, gives refreshments courses to artists/ art teachers and undertakes field research.

She was chair of the editorial board of the publication series “Theater & Educatie”.

She started in 2004 the artist-in-residence centre “Fabre Vieux” near Cahors, dpt. LOT  in France, (see www.fabrevieux.nl) where she offers interdisciplinary workshops in visual arts & theatre and site-specific theatre.

From 1992 – 1998 she was the first President of IDEA.

She initiated projects via IDEA Nederland or Theater Studio Maria P and participated in numerous projects in the field of ‘Art and School’; in European projects as ‘Partnership in the Arts’,  the ‘Amsterdam-project’, the ‘Culture in Use’-project and the European Performers House. She realised exchanges with fellow IDEA-members from Europe, Africa and Asia.

SYNOPSIS

Since the period of Enlightenment “Creativity” was seen as a divine gift from God or was placed within the artist himself.

Nowadays, more and more philosophers state that the source of Creativity cannot be placed any longer within the individual human being himself, but in-between human beings: thus, in the communication between people. Their identities are heavily influenced by the new communication means in daily live and by virtual worlds: mobile phones – traffic possibilities - mobile homes – chat boxes and webcams via internet etc. People switch easily from one role to another with the effect of “plural”, “hybrid”, “multi” and “layered” identities.   
Thus, creativity nowadays focuses on INTER-relations:

INTERculturality - INTERdisciplinarity - INTER-ESSE (literally to be translated as: “Existing–in-between”.

Together with the participants of this Summit I would like to formulate the characteristics of this INTER-creativity and what consequences we can draw for our work in Theatre/Art & Education.  

Maria P. van BAKELEN女士
Maria P. van BAKELEN女士在荷蘭有20多年教授專業戲劇的經驗。她創辦了Theater Studio Maria P，主要為藝術教師提供進修課程。1992 – 1998年間，她是IDEA 首位主席，任內推動多個項目，亦實現了歐洲、亞洲和非洲的IDEA會員國之間的交流。

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