EDIT KALDOR

Edit Kaldor was born in Budapest. She immigrated as a child to the United States, where she’d lived for ten years. She studied English Literature and Theatre at Columbia University and had worked for years as dramaturge and video-maker with Peter Halasz (Squat theater/Love theater, New York).

After enrolling at DasArts (the postgraduate performing arts centre in Amsterdam), she started making her own theatre performances, which soon received international acclaim.

She now lives and works in Amsterdam and makes theatre pieces often integrating the use of documentary elements and various digital media, as in Or Press Escape (2002), New Game (2004), Drama (2005), Point Blank (2007), C’est du chinois (2010) and WORK (2011). In the last years her work has been performed widely in Europe and beyond.

The press about Edit Kaldor:

“The way in which Kaldor uses the theatre, - a place for collective dialogue - as a platform to show extreme isolation and the inability to communicate is absolutely brilliant.” (La Presse, Montréal, Canada)

“The work has a paradoxical directness. We sense here a very strong artistic personality… While watching, our own solitude is guaranteed to hit us in the face.” (Liberation, France)

“It doesn’t look like theatre, but it is. The best kind of theatre that exists.” (Folha de São Paulo, Brazil)