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BITEF, Belgrade
International Theatre
Festival
, is one of the theatre festival that takes place in Belgrade
, Serbia
, each year.
Founded in 1967, BITEF has continually followed and supported the latest theater trends. It has become one of the most significant culture festivals of Serbia.
During the sixties, the founders of this festival (Mira Trailovic
, Jovan Ćirilov
and their associates) courageously followed tumultuous events in global theater teeming with avant-garde explorations. In the eighties, BITEF has shown Belgrade the highest reaches of the art of theater, thus becoming one of the few festivals comprising both experimental forms and significant classic achievements. In spite of political-economic crisis and embargo, in the final decade of the twentieth century, BITEF has, thanks to the generous help of international culture centers, government and non-government organizations, managed to keep up with the world, through promoting new theater trends and ultimate theater values. BITEF has thus preserved its place in the family of major international festivals, serving as a living proof that, in the society it had been created in, it represents an anti-traditional phenomenon and an epochal value of Serbian and Europe culture.
In 1999, BITEF has been awarded Special Prize PREMIO EUROPA PER IL TEATRO, Taormina arte. BITEF is the first international theatre festival awarded by Premio Europa.
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
International Theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
Festival
Festival
A festival or gala is an event, usually and ordinarily staged by a local community, which centers on and celebrates some unique aspect of that community and the Festival....
, is one of the theatre festival that takes place in Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
, Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
, each year.
Founded in 1967, BITEF has continually followed and supported the latest theater trends. It has become one of the most significant culture festivals of Serbia.
During the sixties, the founders of this festival (Mira Trailovic
Mira Trailovic
Mira Trailović was a Serbian dramaturg, theatre director and founder of Atelje 212 Theatre....
, Jovan Ćirilov
Jovan Ćirilov
Jovan Ćirilov is a Serbian theater expert, philosopher, writer, theatre selector, poet, and significant contributor to Serbian culture.- Biography :After finishing school in Kikinda, he enrolled and graduated philosophy at the University of Belgrade in 1955...
and their associates) courageously followed tumultuous events in global theater teeming with avant-garde explorations. In the eighties, BITEF has shown Belgrade the highest reaches of the art of theater, thus becoming one of the few festivals comprising both experimental forms and significant classic achievements. In spite of political-economic crisis and embargo, in the final decade of the twentieth century, BITEF has, thanks to the generous help of international culture centers, government and non-government organizations, managed to keep up with the world, through promoting new theater trends and ultimate theater values. BITEF has thus preserved its place in the family of major international festivals, serving as a living proof that, in the society it had been created in, it represents an anti-traditional phenomenon and an epochal value of Serbian and Europe culture.
In 1999, BITEF has been awarded Special Prize PREMIO EUROPA PER IL TEATRO, Taormina arte. BITEF is the first international theatre festival awarded by Premio Europa.