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tičara - Jugoslovenskom dramskom pozorištu. U sklopu Kongresa biće održan i manji showcase beogradskih pozorišta, na kome će biti prikazane, po izboru selektorskog tima, predstave koje stranim gostima mogu da prikažu najviše umetničke domete ovih kuća. Značaj ovog programa je veliki jer se njime stvara mogućnost da oko sto kritičara iz celog sveta, od Japana do Argentine i od Kanade do Indije, vidi naše predstave i o njemu piše u svojim medijima, čime beogradsko pozorište dobija međunarodnu vidljivost kakvu, slobodno to možemo reći, gotovo nikad nije imalo. Takođe, ove godine će se ideja novuma artikulisati i na jednom drugačijem, simboličkom planu. Protivno verovatnim očekivanjima javnosti, u Glavnom programu jubilarnog Bitefa neće biti predstava nijednog reditelja niti koreografa koji su već nastupali na festivalu: drugim rečima, „nove pozorišne tendencije" svodiće se i na - predstavljanje novih imena, nova lica. Iz ovog pravila izuzeti su. donekle, samo domaći autori, jer je u tom okviru teže pronaći „debitante“. Ovo nikako ne znači da na 50. Bitefu neće biti sećanja na njegovu prebogatu i nemerljivo značajnu istoriju, ali će se to ostvariti, pre svega, u pratećim programima kao što su konferencije, tribine, izložbe. Funkciju „omaža“ ima i predstava Kantor Downtown, Teatra Polski iz Bidgošča (Poljska), koja je vrlo promišljena i sofisticirana kombinacija „rekonstrukcije“ čuvene predstave

nal. The Introductory speakers will be eminent theatre scholars Erika Fischer Lichte (Germany) and Georges Banu (France) and it will be attended by some twenty theatre critics and theatre scholars from France, USA. Greece, Romania. Brazil, Turkey, Serbia, Nigeria. India, Georgia, Latvia, England, Iraq and Canada. The conference will take place in a theatre which will be the host of all the activities of the 28 th Congress of the International Association of Theatre Critics - the Yugoslav Drama Theatre. A small showcase of Belgrade theatres will be presented within the framework of the Congress so as to show to foreign guests the highest artistic achievements of these theatres as chosen by the selector team. The showcase is very important as it makes it possible for about a hundred critics the world over, from Japan to Argentina and from Canada to India, to see our productions and write about them in their media thus making the Belgrade theatre life internationally visible - something that, we take the liberty to say, it has almost never been. Likewise, the idea of newness will also be articulated on a different, symbolic level. Contrary to probable public expectations, Bitef Main Programme shall not include productions by any director or choreographer who have already participated in the festival; in other words, “new theatre tendencies" will also come down to presentation of the work of new names, new faces. Only domestic authors have been exempted in part from this

rule because in this framework it is difficult to find "debutants“. This does not mean that the 50 th Bitef will not evoke memories of its extremely rich and immeasurably important history but this will happen, first of all, in the course of side programmes such as conferences, forums, exhibitions. Kantor Downtown of Teater Polski from Bydgoszcz (Poland) will perform the function of ‘homage’, as well. This is a well-analysed and sophisticated combination of a ‘reconstruction’ of Dead Class, the famous production of historical avant-garde by Tadeusz Kantor, shown at the 10 th Bitef and a ‘video installation’ made of several recently done interviews with well-known and unknown figures of the New York theatre avant-garde in the latter half of the 20 th century. The confrontation of this material questions, intelligently and touchingly, the fate of the avant-garde, the situation on the independent artistic scene today, numerous challenges posed by a specific life style etc. This production participates in the competition but it will be shown a day before the opening ceremony. We called it “Prologue Day” and it is devoted in full to the festival past. "The Prologue Day” will also include the opening of four exhibitions with common title Sky Over Bitef, done in cooperation with Radio-Television Serbia, Atelje 212 and New Moment Art Gallery. These exhibitions are not dedicated to Bitef alone, but also to the above institutions who have been important festival partners

istorijske avangarde Afrfw razeed Tadeuša Kantora, a koja je bila prikazana na 10. Bitefu, i „video-instalacije" sastavljene od nekoliko nedavno radenih intervjua s poznatim i nepoznatim akterima njujorške pozorišne avangarde iz druge polovine 20. veka. U suočavanju tih materijala problematizuje se, pametno i dirljivo, sudbina avangarde. položaj nezavisne umetničke scene danas, brojni izazovi određenog životnog stila, itd. Ova predstava je u takmičarskoj selekciji, ali će se igrati u danu pre svečanog otvaranja, koji smo nazvali „Prolog“ i koji je ceo posvećen prošlosti festivala. Pored predstave, u „Prologu" će se održati i otvaranja četiri izložbe pod zajedničkim naslovom Nebo nad Bitefom, ostvarenih u saradnji s RTS-om, Ateljeom 212 i galerijom New Moment. Ove izložbe nisu samo posveta Bitefu nego i dotićnim institueijama koje su dugogodišnji i veoma značajni partner! festivala: svaka od izložbi posvećena je i aktivnosti ovih kuća u okviru Bitefa - snimei Bitefovih predstava na RTS-u, prvih dvadeset godina Bitefa (kada je Atelje 212 organizovao festival), plakati Bitefa... U okviru Bitefa na filmu, koji već decenijama ureduje Vera Konjović i koji je, pored Bitef Polifonije, najstariji prated program na festivalu, biće prikazan i snimak izvorne Kantorove predstave. U sklopu obeležavanja jubileja, organizovaće se i medunarodna konfereneija Bitef I kulturna dipiomatija: pozorište i geopolitika, kojom će predsedavati Milena Dragićević Šešić. Ovaj skup bi trebalo da pokaže, izmedu ostalog, koliki je bio doprinos Bitefa,