The International Theatre Festival in Sibiu is the most important annual festival of performing arts

Performing arts

The performing arts are those forms art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face, and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some physical art object...

 in omania]. The programme brings participants from 70 countries into Sibiu

Sibiu

Sibiu is a city in Transylvania, Romania with a population of 154,548. Located some 282 km north-west of Bucharest, the city straddles the Cibin River, a tributary of the river Olt...

, and it has 350 events taking place in 66 areas, and caters for 35,000 spectators. The festival lasts for ten days, and is attended by famous groups in the performing arts, Romanian and foreign filmmakers, critics, local and foreign cultural tourism

Cultural tourism

Cultural tourism is the subset of tourism concerned with a country or region's culture, specifically the lifestyle of the people in those geographical areas, the history of those peoples, their art, architecture, religion, and other elements that helped shape their way of life...

 operators. Tens of thousands of people from the town itself, the local region and abroad meet in Sibiu to celebrate a cultural event aimed at promoting globally recognised standards over its ten days of performances and artistic creativity

Creativity

Creativity refers to the phenomenon whereby a person creates something new that has some kind of value. What counts as "new" may be in reference to the individual creator, or to the society or domain within which the novelty occurs...

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