Bitef

Theatre in education

Bth BITEF POLYPHONY 07

September 16th - 28th

THIS IS THEATRE, ТОО - PLAY, ART, DREAM...

ln collaboration with the Centre for Drama in education CEDEUM, National Centre of the International Association for Drarnamheatre and Education IDEA

Program editor:

Ljubica Beljanski-Ristic

The venues of the Bth Bitef Polyphony:

Cultural Centre "Stari grad", Kapetan-Misina 6a Theatre "Bosko Buha",Trg Republike 3 Little Theatre "Dusko Radovic", Aberdareva 1

Little Theatre "Puz", Radoslava Grujica (Bozidara Adzije) 21 Cultural Centre District, Vuka Karadzica 18

Cultural Institution "Vuk Karadzic", Bulevar Kralja Aleksandra 77a Chiidren's Cultural Centre Beigrade,Takovska 8

Program

The Bth Bitef Polyphony, just like in the previous years, explores and promotes the innovative, participatory and engaged forms of activities of theatre artists and other qualified persons who work with children and young people in different areas, especially in education. Under the auspices ofthe4lst BITEF, thè motto of which is'This is Theatre Too", Bitef Polyphony, like never before, has an open space for its"supporting" activities.

Like in the previous years, through exchanges among the participants, Bitef Polyphony discovers those spaces of new theatrical tendencies that emerge and develop through thè engagement of theatre artists and other experts in collaborative work with young people within different programs, in institutional or non-institutional form, through inter-sector collaboration or partner projects, as well as through activities from other areas or for other purposes, and in which drama and theatre are used as a method, tool, technique... This year too, thè focus is empowerment through theatre, and new establishment of the valúes and significance of exchange on national, regional and international levels, and discovering ofthose new tendencies in thè area of theatre with young people that appear tobe the drivers of new initiatives for future actions and projects that will be developed between the two Bitef Polyphonies and will be presented on the next Bitef Polyphony. This year, however, Bitef Polyphony gives special attention to the theatre for and with young people, which is just starting to develop, but is already expanding, deepening, transforming, involving, using elements, opening, stimulating changes and changing thè routine practices. Prompted by thè musical form, the name of which it carries, Bitef Polyphony isdeveloping its layout like a musical composition through a specific structure of a cyclical Organization and „feedback", because in this year's Special Program of Bitef Festival, the„polyphony" as a metaphor is a conceptual sign forthe multitude of voices, multitude of sounds, counterpoint, variations...

This year's program offers a new composition, revealing a new theatre that is opening upfor diversity-for new experience, new changes, new generations and new society, some other worlds and planets, unexpected encounters and collective participation in magic that is simultaneously play, art and dream... This is theatre, too.