Wainrot: "Kive Staiff has never been a politician and has not aspired to positions" – 19/07/2018

If something terrible was to happen to close yesterday, July 18, when the 24th anniversary of the bombing of the AMIA was commemorated, with no news about the murderers who have done such horror, it happened. It was nothing less than the death of our beloved Kive Staiff, the man of culture, the man who marked the best era of the San Martin Theater, who was an administrator, organizer and manufacturer of shows, puppets, theaters, magazine publishers, books, art galleries, TV shows, contemporary music cycles, writers' reports and anything imaginable can be done in a public institution. A man who was undoubtedly the flagship of much of the Argentine culture, the San Martin Municipal Theater. Kive Staiff has led on three occasions and to so many national and international events that he has managed to achieve

No one will look like him and no one will be able to defeat him in working ability, ideas , generosity and leadership, simply because Kive never existed. politician, nor aspired to posts or posts .

He never thought of using the institutions as they do and they did a lot of politicians, who have no knowledge or skill for these specific positions.

Kive Staiff made Culture, popular culture for a theater that was the illuminated lighthouse of the middle clbad in Argentina, in better social moments and also in many others worse than the last dictatorship .

Kive offered us clbadic works by extraordinary authors such as Ibsen, Shakespeare, Molière, Brecht, Miller, and also contemporary works by Argentine and foreign authors of different generations. Kive made us meet Pina Bausch, Tadeusz Kantor, Dario Fo, Jennifer Müller, Susanne Linke and many other great artists and companies.

Personally, I lose my second father . The pain is very big. A strong relationship has united us for decades, creating a very specific bond of intellectual and creative trust. We also created a relationship, almost family, for the mutual affection we had. Such a relationship has rarely occurred in life, and this has been our great connection.

Together we worked for over twenty-five years in a very productive way and the fruits were unforgettable experiences and unforgettable shows. remember the audience. More than seventy different programs accompanied us with choreographies and many other national and foreign choreographers.