International Festival
THEATRE METHODS 06
Between Tradition and Contemporaneity

Artistic Director - Sergey Ostrenko

 May 22-28, 2006
Kyiv, Ukraine

Performing arts have the ancient history with extremely rich and various traditions of different cultures of the world. The heritage of traditional forms is a precious and inexhaustible source of inspiration for the young generations. Recently creative works have been developed under the influence of the traditional cultures.

The search of the connection between tradition and contemporaneity helps to enrich and variegate the contemporary performing arts giving non-trivial decisions in forms, powerful energy and interesting ways of work on the stage. Today's artists show great interest to the traditions and apply themselves to the origins. 

THEATRE METHODS Between Tradition and Contemporaneity
is the annual professional festival-fair bringing up the question of the bridge between tradition and contemporaneity in performing arts. It is aimed at the unification of artists from different countries of the world interested in the research of theatre methods between tradition and contemporaneity. 

THE GOAL of the festival is to make the contribution to the upbringing of tolerance in the society by the acquaintance of the spectator with the variety of world traditions in theatre art.   

THE MAIN TASK of the festival is to demonstrate various theatre methods, to share and exchange with experience in professional theatre education and methods of rehearsal process.