East European Performing Arts Platform (EEPAP) supports the
development of contemporary performing arts (dance and theatre)
in 18 countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

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EEPAP meeting in Krakow

sylwias

06/10/2011

Artists, curators, critics, cultural managers, and producers of the eighteen countries of Central and Eastern Europe met in Krakow at the first assembly of the East European Platform for Performing Arts.

- We want to get to know each other and talk. We want to show the realization of this project - said Marta Keil, curator and author of the project. The basic goal of the EEPAP is helping artists and curators of this part of Europe and facilitate mutual contact and exchange of experience.

On the two-day meeting in Krakow, 80 guests from 18 countries visited. There among Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kosovo, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovakia, Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia and Poland. All of them had the opportunity to show themselves and their theaters or organizations which they represented. For the participants, this part of the program was very important since they don’t know each other and thereby they don’t have the possibility to.

There was also presented preliminary findings of the reports about the situation of theaters and dance scenes in the participant countries. The goal of the reports is aid in discovering the most important problems in this region, and what needs to be changed first. Based on these reports, the participants of the meeting discussed what should be the network’s next step. Marta Keil reminded people that EEPAP isn’t only a website (www.eepap.org) where creators and institutions can present themselves, but also next year it will realize educational projects for curators and producers, as well as residential program for artists.

- East European Platform of Performing Arts is organized within the I, CULTURE - Cultural Program for Foreign Polish Presidency of the EU and coordinated by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute. The end of our presidency does not mean the end of the project, and EEPAP will continue to support artists, theaters and dance companies as an independent organization - said Marta Keil.

Partner of the project is the Institute of Theatre. The event took place at the Krakow Theatrical Reminiscences and accompanied the IETM meeting.

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