East European Performing Arts Platform (EEPAP) supports the
development of contemporary performing arts (dance and theatre)
in 18 countries of Central and Eastern Europe.
Reflex3 International Theatre Festival, 18-31.03 (Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania)
The Reflex International Theatre Festival, with its 2009 and 2012 editions, became a significant theatre festival all across Central and Eastern Europe. It presents some of the European theatrical culture’s most important performances and brought several award winning productions, such as the Deutsches Theater’s Oresteia directed by Michael Thalheimer, Oskaras Koršunovas’s Hamlet from OKT Theatre Lithuania, Persona. Marilyn of Teatr Dramatyczny, directed by Krystian Lupa, or Radio Müezzin of Rimini Protokoll. These productions have the force to form the arts and audience of the Szekler region. With this edition of the festival we also offer vivid, qualitative and poetical contemporary performances for our audience members who wish for high-standard theatre. Our aim is to invite productions that respond to the world’s events in a reflexive way: classics in up-to-date version, riotously subjective contemporary, staggeringly powerful physical theatre, theatrical delusion, grim mirror-holding and artworks providing total theatre experience.
IN THE BELIEF OF CONCESSIVE AWAITING
- ONE DOT ON EUROPE’S CULTURAL MAP -
The DOT, as the symbol of Reflex3, refers to the silence; to the quality of experiencing. Because it is important to experience, to supplement, to become participants, to witness in quiet, to pay attention, to be receptive. Being in the same space, listening more: for us this means a get-together. Watchful rest. Void and plenitude, just like theatre that shows the full and the three quarters moon at the same time, the connection and the disconnection. The festival is the meeting point of all theatrical worlds, a milieu where we breathe value. Maria Shevtsova (theatrical aesthetics specialist, Goldsmiths, University of London) draws our attention to this: “Try to keep the intimacy of the festival. Being small does not mean being provincial, being small does not mean being insignificant or unpretending. This festival proves the opposite. And, since it started out well, why shouldn’t it become one of international reputation?”
László Bocsárdi
Festival director
