VISIONS AND FOCUS

The overall visions for the ASSITEJ 2011-festival are:

• Globality - representation from all parts of the world

• Relevance - reflection and reflection upon the present state of performing arts for young audiences in the world today

• Diversity - a celebration of the diversity and equality of cultures

• Quality - performances of the highest quality

The Performing Arts Festival for Young Audiences is an international festival presenting selected high quality work from all over the world.
It is the intention to bring 25-30 performances to Copenhagen/Malmoe during the 10 days of the festival and to have 5-6 presentations of each performance.
The festival intends to reflect the “here and now” in contemporary children’s theatre.
What absorbs theatre people in different countries now - and what are their artistic answers to the challenges that we – and our children and young people - face?
Hence, the festival will focus on new original plays.

 

"The classics of tomorrow must be written today"

Selection Focus

• Original work from this millenium (written or devised 2000-2011)

• Diversity in age groups

• Diversity in genres

• Diversity in geography

• Artistic quality

Danish and Swedish performing arts will be presented at a special cavalcade in addition to the international performances.

The deadlines for applications are:

1 September 2009 (1st round)

1 March 2010 (2nd round)

1 September 2010 (3rd round)