Donald richie has suggested that a more direct influence is that of expressionist theatre - before becoming a film-maker , oshima belonged to a troupe that staged expressionist plays .
His day job was as sweden 's top stage director , but occasionally he would kidnap his troupe of superb actors ( eva dahlbeck , max von sydow , harriet and bibi andersson ) and make a film .
When I took my son to a play about a troupe of teenage actors , to my surprise , there was a scene in which the older woman director got amorous with one of the teenagers . Frowning my son turned to me and asked " are they married ? "
Modern dance and robotics may seem an unlikely combination , but this summer a troupe called pilobolus has been performing a routine called " seraph " with the assistance of these special guests-aerial robots programmed by the massachusetts institute of technology ( mit ) .
A troupe of italian girls took part in the dancing , but the riders were libyans , men and women in bedouin tribal dress , strutting and cantering across the artificial grass repeatedly to shake their fists and hail the man on the podium .
This intimate experience was a personal performance staged by ontroerend goed , a belgian troupe . The actor who indulged me in some transient courtship is one of the artists at the one-on-one festival , now taking place at london 's battersea arts centre ( bac ) from july 6th to the 18th .