FESTIVALS AND ENCOUNTERS
Dah Teatar Center for Theatre Research creates festivals and encounters as a place of exchange between domestic and international artists, experts, cultural managers, various organizations and initiatives with audiences
of all ages.
From June 10th to 13th, this year’s festival is themed “Thinking Peace.” The program will include theater productions, workshops, installations, concerts, talks, and films from Brazil, Croatia, France, Macedonia, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Israel,
Jordan, the Czech Republic, Taiwan, and Serbia.
Prologue – a program that announces the “Art and Human Rights” festival in June 2025, this year’s theme is “Thinking Peace,” which is also the theme of the Festival. How to think about peace in a time of numerous conflicts and what are the characteristics of peace that is not just
the absence of war. We talk online with artists from Palestine and Lebanon about their artistic practice in war zones.
The third edition of the Festival, June 20-24, 2023, is inspired by Martin Niemöller’s poem “First they came…” and connects artists and human rights defenders with each other and with the wider community. Artists and activists come from Argentina, Armenia,
Australia, Brazil, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Kosovo, Norway, Italy, Serbia and the USA.
PROLOGUE 2022
On the occasion of International Human Rights Day 2022, we present the PROLOGUE program of the ART AND HUMAN RIGHTS 2023 festival. During the Prologue, we will try to answer one of the burning questions: What can art and activism do in light of
human rights violations today? Guests from Iran, Russia, Israel and the USA.
ART AND HUMAN RIGHTS 2022
From February 24 to 27, 2022, in Belgrade. The second edition of the festival, which is designed as a platform for initiating and presenting ideas and concepts that put art and human rights in the foreground and connect them, advocate for equal
human rights, as well as the development of that idea in Serbia.
BRIDGING CENTURIES 2021
From June 23rd to 27th, DAH Teatar celebrates 30 years of work and presents all the performances on the repertoire, as well as exclusively, the performance of Roberta Carreri from Odin Teatret. The program includes meetings, talks, performative lectures
and concerts.
ART AND HUMAN RIGHTS 2020
The festival is conceived as a platform for initiating and presenting ideas and concepts that put art and human rights in the foreground and connect them. The program consists of performances, plays, films, installations, workshops, debates and meetings
of artists, activists and the public. A special part of the festival will be the Conference “Art in Challenging Contexts from the Perspective of Gender Equality.”
EXIST[A]NCE 2016
Festival and conference on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of DAH Teatar, from June 30th to July 3rd, 2016. A theater platform where, through examples of permanent artistic collectives, in the form of dynamic conversations, plays, workshops and performances,
through live meetings with artists and eminent professors from the country and abroad, the ways of survival and duration of contemporary theater art will be explored.
PASSING ON THE FLAME 2011
Festival and conference on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of DAH Teatar, June 11-18, 2011.
“Passing on the Flame” is a project consisting of a festival and a conference, whose themes are the transfer of knowledge in the field of theater art, a meeting of generations, the importance of duration and continuity in the culture of a country, and how knowledge
in this art, which exists only at the moment it is performed, can be recorded, passed on to another and preserved for the future.
BE IN BELGRADE 2005
Meeting of the Balkan Express network at DAH Teatar Center for Theater Research, from March 15 –17, 2005 with the theme “The position of theater in regional changes”, within the IETM 29th Annual Plenary Meeting held in Belgrade. The meeting
brought together participants – performers, directors, producers, managers, cultural policy makers, from Southeast Europe (Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia), Slovenia,
Turkey, Italy and France.
FORUM OF INDEPENDENT THEATERS 2003
Conference “CONTEMPORARY PERFORMING ARTS AND CULTURAL / MEDIA POLICY IN SERBIA”, December 5 –11, Cultural Center of Belgrade (in cooperation with the Association of Independent Theaters – ANET).
The conference brought together professional artists and experts in the field of performing arts who discussed topics related to the status of contemporary non-institutional theater in our country. The program includes a Butoh theater workshop which
is led by Katsuro Kan from Japan. With the support of the Secretariat for Culture of the City of Belgrade and in cooperation with the Cultural Center of Belgrade and the Belgrade Drama Theater.
THEATER AS A PATH OF HEALING
2003
The festival and conference “Theater as a Path of Healing” brought together an international group of artists and theorists who deal with issues of healing and transformation of difficult experiences using theatrical techniques in their work.
What is the role and power of theater and art in exploring content related to healing and reconciliation? What is the power of art in dealing with crimes committed in our name? What are the ways to heal the “wounds” inflicted during the past period
in our region?
MELTING 2002
International festival at Bitef Theater, December 16 – 22, 2002. Performances, workshops, presentations, round tables with the motto “Melting of theatrical styles, generations, media, artists with different theatrical experiences”.
In cooperation with the Association of Independent Theaters – ANET. With the support of the European Cultural Foundation.
DURATION AND TRANSFORMATION 2001
International theater meeting and festival that marked 10 years of DAH Teatar’s work. Realized in cooperation with the National Theater and the Cultural Center REX from Belgrade.
In addition to theater performances and work presentations, a round table brings together eminent domestic and foreign artists, who will exchange opinions on the mentioned topic through the aspect of their experience and the current cultural situation in Europe as well as in Israel and
the USA.
THRESHOLDS 2001
Theater symposium and Festival of performances that were created in work with young people within the Play Against Violence program – program of the European Cultural Foundation (in cooperation with the Association of Independent Theaters – ANET)
SURVIVAL STRATEGIES 1999
Festival from 22 – 26 September presented performances by members of the Association of Independent Theaters, and on September 27, a forum was held at the Bitef Theater on the topic “Different aspects of the work and existence of the independent theater scene in Belgrade”.
A round table on the topic “Survival Strategies” at which Euđenija Barba spoke, at Atelje 212, marked the beginning of the activities of the newly founded Association of Independent Theaters-ANET (Ister Teatar, DAH Teatar, Plavo pozorište,
Omen Teatar, ErgStatus, Swan Teatar).
INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF THEATER WORKSHOPS 1996
Belgrade, 7 – 20. October 1996. in cooperation with the Cultural Center Cinema REX. Workshops and performances from Japan, Poland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Serbia.
ART SAVES LIFE 1993 and 1994
Festival and meeting of the theater network NATASHA Project, in cooperation with the Sava Center, Belgrade. With guests from Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Sweden.