Bitef

BITEF ALL STARS

Jerzy Grotowski ★ David Esrig ★ Living Theatre & Judith Malina, Julian Beck ★ Otomar Krejča ★ Victor Garcia * Peter Zadek ★ Georgij Tovstonogov ★ Arsa Jovanovič ★ Richard Schechner ★ Luca Ronconi * Peter Schumann ★ Jirži Menzel * William Gaskilt ★ Klaus Peymann ♦ Eugene lonesco ★ Božidar Violić ★ Eugenio Barba * Mira Trailović it La Mamma & Andrei Çerban ★ Hans Lietzau * Ingmar Bergman * Petar Selem ★ Branko Pleša * Roger Planchon ★ Joseph Chaikin Jerome Savary * Pip Simmons ★ Charles Ludlam ★ Arianne Mnouchkine ★ Dino Radojevič ★ Shuji Terayama ★ Merce Cunningham ♦ Dušan Jovanovič ★ Peter Stein ★ Hisao Kanze * Georgij Paro * Miklós Jancso ★ Peter Brook ★ Giles Havergal * Memè Berlini ★ Paolo Magelli ★ Robert Wilson ★ Anatolij Efros ♦ Konrad Swinarski ★ Charles Marowitz * George Tabori ♦ Roger Planchon ★ Slobodan Unkovski * Patrice Cherau * Jurij Ljubimov ★ Samuel Beckett * Andrzej Wajda ★ Lee Breuer ★ Ljubiša Ristič ★ Philip Glass ♦ Miroslav Belović ★ Tadeusz Kantor ★ Dejan Mijač ★ Lindsay Kemp ★ Pina Bausch ★ Robert Sturua ♦ Georges Lavaudant ★ Benno Besson ★ Nuria Esperi ★ Antoine Vitez ★ Kazimierz Dejmek * Carmello Bene ★ Roberto Ciulli ★ Aleksandar Popovič ★ Jerzy Jarocki it Igor Vasiljev ★ Jerzy Grzegorzewski ★ Ivica Kunčevič ★ Alexander Lang ★ Janušz Wisniewski it Janez Pipan it Eimuntas Nekrošius ★ Jan Fabre * Petar Živadinov ★ Jurgen Flimm ★ Haris Pašović ★ Hansgünter Heyme ★ Karge Langhoff ★ Erik Appelgrin ★ Johann Kresnik ★ Dimiter Gotscheff ★ Mira Erceg ★ Jorma Uotinen ★ Steven Berkoff ★ Tamés Ascher ★ Michael Clark ★ Wolfgang Engel ★ Anatolij Vasiljev ★ Erwin Piplits ★ Carolyn Carlson ★ Janos Szikora * Hinderik de Groot ★ La fura dels baus ★ Tomaž Pandur ★ Henrijeta Janowska ★ Gébór Zsémbéki it Kama Ginkas ★ Frederick Flamand ♦ François Michel Pesenti ★ Meredith Monk ★ Roman Viktjuk ★ Wim Vandekeybus * Andrés Urban ★ Theodoras Terzopoulos * Lev Dodin it Silviu Purcarete ★ Joseph Nadj ★ Nigel Charnock ★ Jagoš Markovič ♦ De la Guarda ★ Frank Castorf * Saburo Teshigawara ★ Nikita Milivojević * Théâtre de Complicité&Simon Mcßurney ★ Vito Taufer ★ Gorgio Strehler ★ Angelin Preljocaj ★ Phil Soltanoff ★ Ivan Popovski it Margaret Jenkins ★ Valerij Fokin ★ Sonja Vukičevič ★ Christoph Marthaler ★ Sacha Waltz ★ Thomas Ostermeier ★ Regis Obadia ★ Biljana Srbljanovič ★ Aleksandar Popovski it Michael Nyman ★ Eric Lacascade ★ Arpad Sopsits ★ Susanne Linke ★ Nicolas Stemann ★ Alisa Stojanovič ★ Dalija Aćin ★ Grzegorz Jarzyna ★ Michael Thalheimer ★ Krystian Lupa ★ Marius Kurkinski ★ Krysztof Warlikowski ★ Rezo Gabriadze ★ Pjotr Fomento it Johan Simnos ♦ Oskaras Korsunovas ★ Egon Savin ★ Tomi Janežič ★ lan Grieve ★ Daniela Nicolo ★ Enriko Casagrande ★ Tossi Yungman ★ José Montavlo ★ Lorenzo Bazzocchi ★ Matjaž Farič ★ Robert Alföldi ★ Rami Be'er ★ Heiner Goebbels ★ René Pollesch ★ Alvis Hermanis ★ Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker ★ Bojan Đorđev ★ Lloyd Newson ★ Marie Chouinard ★ Constanza Macras ★ Dmitri Cernjakov ♦ Stefan Kaegi ★ Rodrigo Garcia ★ Kirsten Dehlholm ♦ Lotte van den Berg ★ Guy Weizman ★ Rony Havier ★ Ivica Buljan ★ Maurice Bejart ★ Ohad Naharin ★ Romeo Castellucci ★ Emma Dante ★ Boris Bakal ★ Katarina Pejovič ★ Lenka Udovički ★ Meg Stuart ★ Philipp Gehmacher * Suzanne Osten ★ Bojana Cvejič ★ Aurélien Bory ★ Vida Ognjenovič ★ Phil Soltanoff ★ Sidi Larbi Cherakoui ★ Robert Lepage ★ Milena Markovič ★ Ana Tomovič ★ Lola Arias ★ Urlike Ouade ♦ Jo Stromgren ★ Miloš Lolič ♦ Herman Helle ★ Pauline Kalker ♦ Arleene Hoornweg ♦ Herald Haug it Daniel Wetzel ★ Jan Lauwers ★ Kornél Mundruczó it Virgilio Sieni ★ Staffan Valdemar Holm ★ Yuri Pogrebnichko ★ Gisèle Viene ★ Snježana Abramovič Milkovič ★ Nataša Rajkovič ★ Bobo Jelčič ★ Ivana Sajko ★ Oliver Frljič ♦ Selma Spahič ★ Boris Liješevič ★ Alain Platei ★ Frank Van Leacke...

CONTENT

MAIN PROGRAMME

THEY LIVE (IN SEARCH OF TEXT ZERO)

★ TIMETABLE DAY BY DAY/MAIN PROGRAMME REPERTOARY/SIDE PROGRAMMES /MAP/ TICKET SALE

DOGS & DRUGS

BLOOD WEDDING

TOO MORTAL

CHILDREN OF THE SUN

SIDE PROGRAMME

IMRESSUM / JURY / BITEF AWARDS / POLITIKA JURY

BITEF ALL STARS / SELECTOR'S ANNOTATION/ON BITEF

MINISTER'S BLACK VEIL /IL VELO NERO DEL PASTORE /THE FOUR SEASONS RESTAURANT

LIFE AND TIMESEPISODE 1

I HATE THE TRUTH!

THE GREAT AND FABULOUS HISTORY OF COMMERCE

THE FEAST

HENRY VI

NOSFERATU

EXERCISE FOR CHOREOGRAPHY OF ATTENTION 'POINT OF NO RETURN'

BITEF ON FILM/FILM TRIP TO THE TRUTH: DICTATORS

BITEF POLYPHONY /TRUTH OR DARE

FRANCE AT BiTEF / PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION/ THEATROSCOPE

BELGRADE AT A SECOND GLANCE

THEATRE AND MARKET

SELECTOR'S ANNOTATION

To perceive theatre as o trip to the truth is no mean feat. Needless to say, the difficulty does not rest with the first word - trip. It tells us that this journey is temporary and that one can return from it. It is not irrelevant that it is also a journey involving no obligations, undertaken of one's free will and without great expectations. In this sense a production could certainly be understood as a kind of trip.Flowever, if this temporary, non-mandatory and voluntary trip is undertaken to arrive at the truth, then the subject becomes more than complex. Truth has been one of the fundamental notions in philosophy ever since its inception at the very beginning of the European civilisation in the age of ancient Greeks. Of course, in theatre's rich and long history, no artist saw it as either a means or the arena where truth could be discovered in the philosophical sense. And yet, theatre can be seen as a pursuer of truth in the broadest sense of the word. When it gets serious, theatre tries, even risking the image of a Don Quixote, to communicate something about the reality, the phenomena of this reality and even its essence or, better said, essences. Depending on how much this pursuit resembled the reality or represented this reality with its own resources, many periods in the life of theatre appeared and disappeared under different names, usually very close or even eponymous with streams in other arts, notably in literature: such as classicism, romantism, realism, naturalism, expressionism, surrealism, modernism... What a particular phenomenon in the theatre would come to be called was, and is, contingent on how this theatre practice related to the reality or, in other words, the truth. Whatever its relation was in different periods of its age-long history, whether it addressed more the reality of a given moment or tried to delve into the poetic quest for the essence of the world and man's existence under the visible surface of phenomenology, the theatre has always been a kind of a trip to the truth. And the greater the crisis in a society, be it historical, economic or moral, the more exciting, the more dramatic, the more indispensable has been the theatre's trip to the truth.

Jovan Cirilov i Anja Suša

ON BITEF

Founded in 1967, through the initiative of Mira Traiiović of Jovan Cirilov, Bitef (Belgrade International Theater Festival) has continually followed and supported the latest theatre trends, becoming thus one of the biggest and the most important European festivals. Transcending all political and cultural borders, Bitef has in more than four decades managed to keep its pace with a tumultuous evolution of performing arts. Therefore, the history of Bitef could be identified as a history of contemporary theatre. Through the revolutionary Sixties and Seventies, Bitef spectators could see some of the most courageous stage experiments pursuing the destruction of dramatic forms, but also some significant classical achievements, as well as the examples of the traditional Oriental theatre. In the Eighties and Nineties, Bitef presented highest reaches of the post-modern theatre and dance. Even in the conditions of political-economic crisis and embargo the festival succeeded to promote the ultimate cultural values, bringing to Belgrade some of the biggest names of the world performance, in the first decade of the 21st century, Bitef presents the original and innovative productions of the world mainstream theatre, the performances of post-dramatic, non verbal expression, as well as those realised with the help of new technologies, thus opening its doors to the virtual reality of cyber theatre. In the course of all these years, Bitef has preserved its place in the family of major international festivals. For its continuity and quality Bitef was awarded the Special Prize for 1999. by "Premio Europa per il teatro”. The Bitef was founded by the Belgrade City Flail, whereas Bitef theatre is in charge of the production and organization. The theatre was founded in 1989, with the chief purpose of discovering and supporting new theatre tendencies in the local context.