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20th September, 20:00, Belgrade Cultural Center, Art-get Gallery Author: Jan Fabre Jan Fabre (Antwerp, 1958) is considered one of today’s most innovative and versatile artists in the domain of performance, theatre and visual arts. However, his ultimate mode of expression is constituted by his texts. He started experimenting with language and the border between literary texts and other art forms at a very young age. This is most clearly reflected in his Night Diaries , where he gives the reader a unique insight into the mind of a young artist. Entrapping the night in its electrifying intensity, Jan Fabre celebrates both imagination and instinct in his Night ...

22nd September, 16:00, Festival Centre (Andrićev venac 2)Editor: Milena Dragićević Šešić with Ljiljana Rogač Mijatović and Nina Mihaljinac The book is a joint project of the Creative Europe Desk Serbia and the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade that organized, together with the Bitef, an international conference Bitef and Cultural Diplomacy: Theatre and Geopolitics last October. The conference highlighted the importance of Bitef as a festival at the crossroads of East and West, a platform for meeting different cultures, and it examined the work of Mira Trailović and Jovan Ćirilov, who positioned Belgrade on the world theatre and ...

25th September, 18:00, Festival Centre (Andrićev venac 2)Author: Dragan Klaić As a theatre professional and university professor, Dragan Klaić watched the ascent of commercial theater and its growing professionalism with great concern about its effects on the noncommercial scene. Bearing in mind the rivalry, proximity and even the networking of these two worlds - one chasing profit and the other surviving on state subsidies - in this book the author advocates their clear delineation. The question that he raises is how these theatres, companies, spaces, festivals, studios and the infrastructure that supports them and which ...

28th September, 20:00, Festival Centre (Andrićev venac 2)Editors: Bojana Denić, Drinka Gojković, Jelena Kostić Tomović Contemporary German Drama isa sequel to a long-standing undertaking of Zepter Book World Publishers to bring out the dramatic work in major world languages and cultures. After the French, American and Russian contemporary dramatic literature we have arrived at the German-speaking world: Germany, Austria and Switzerland so that by the end of 2017 the readers will have three volumes with 36 plays written between 1945 and 2008. They will include 20 new translations of playwrights less known to the professional public such as HeinarKipphardt’s In ...

University of arts in Belgrade, performing arts laboratory of the faculty of dramatic arts and the faculty of educational sciences in Jagodina, university in Kragujevac 30th September, 17:00, Festival Centre (Andrićev venac 2)Authors: Christopher Innes and Maria Shevtsova Christopher Innes’s and Maria Shevtsova’s Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Direction is an outstanding theatre studies research on the evolution of the role of the theatre director and different genre operations in directing procedures. The professional audience ranks the authors Innes and Shevtsovaamong the most important contemporary theatre experts. In this ...