The following report is the result of the first year of EEPAP’s operation. Its aim was to gather information about the state of theatre and dance in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Our goal is not to present you with ready theses, for it is much too early for that. This publication is the result of the first stage of the research project planned for several years, whose aim it is to try to map out the directions for development of theatre and dance in Central and Eastern Europe. We hoped to gather information about the consequences the transformation of the political system at the turn of the 1990s had for the organization of theatre and dance life. We examined how the structures that determine the work of  artists in this European region have been shaped in the past twenty years. We collected data based on the reports prepared by specialists (critics, researchers, artists) from each of the countries listed below; the selection of the authors of the national reports was based on our partners’ recommendations. Thus collected information is only the beginning of our work, an opening of the discussion which requires amendments and counterarguments from other researchers. The closing of this stage of our work demands above all that we formulate precise questions and map out the directions for further research. 

Table of contents

Foreword – Paweł Potoroczyn

EEPAP – a platform for the development of performing arts (theatre and dance) in Central and Eastern Europe – Marta Keil           

Overview Report Paweł Płoski

I. On the wave of great changes 

II. Organizational models of public theatres 

III. New initiatives 

IV. International cooperation 

V. The situation of contemporary dance in Eastern Europe 

VI. Theatre legislation 

VII. Reforms and legal solutions– examples 

Conclusions

Bibliography

List of tables

Appendix