Press Releases
TAMPERE THEATRE FESTIVAL'S ARTISTIC TEAM COMPLETED
Theatre Festival's Artistic Team is reinforced with two new members after Anna-Elina Lyytikäinen starts her maternity leave.
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DANCE THEATRE TAKES OVER THE THEATRE FESTIVAL
This year Tampere Theatre Festival offers a wide range of beautiful dance performances. Norrdans, Teater Västernorrland and Nordiska Kammarorkestern cooperated in Svansjön, a visually mesmerizing modern dance performance directed and choreographed by Kajsa Giertz.
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43RD THEATRE FESTIVAL IN FIGURES
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THE GREAT NOCTURNAL HAPPENING TAKES OVER THE CITY OF TAMPERE
The Great Nocturnal happening arrives to town on the 4th of August. Carnivalesque even welcomes all groups and individuals in performing arts, as well as other cultural organizations, to get on stage and take part in this unique happening in the heart of Tampere.
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OFF TAMPERE OFFERS A GREAT DEAL OF ENERGETIC AND PASSIONATE THEATRE ART PERFORMANCES
Off Tampere is a fringe programme for any professional and amateur artist and group who wish to perform in Tampere Theatre Festival at their own expense. The OFF plays, performances and events bring a wide, versatile and fresh repertoire to the festival, which spreads around Tampere city and its neighbouring area.
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CLUBFESTIVAL ENCOREBAANA SPREADS OUT TO THE RESTAURANTS AND BARS
The authentic atmosphere of Tampere Theatre Festival continues in restaurants located in the centre of Tampere from Tuesday to Friday 2.-5.8.2011. Encorebaana is a club festival for all tastes and preferences, with its broad selection of venues and performances. All the performances have free entrance.
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TAMPERE THEATRE FESTIVAL BOOSTS FINNISH THEATRE EXPORT
In August 2011 Tampere Theatre Festival and TINFO Theatre Info Finland organize together their frist Finnish Showcase, a promotional event of theatre exporting. The Finnish Showcase is as a part of the 43rd edition of the Tampere Theatre Festival. The event showcases Finnish theatre groups, theatre professionals and their recent work for Festival’s foreign guests.
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FOUR PROSPERO PRODUCTIONS AT THE FESTIVAL
Besides the choises made by Tampere Theatre Fetival’s Artistic Team, Festival gives the stage for the Prospero Project for the 3rd time this summer. The partners in Prospero are six elite theatre cities; Rennes, Liège, Lisbon, Modena, Berlin and Tampere, and the project is supported by the European Union’s Culture Programme. University of Tampere’s Centre for Practice as Research in Theatre is the Finnish cooperative organization in the project.
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WORLD-WIDELY ACCLAIMED AND AWARDED INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCES
Tampere Theatre Festival international Main Programme includes eight international visits chosen by the Artistic Team, Anna-Elina Lyytikäinen and Auvo Vihro together with the Executive director Hanna Rosendahl. These acclaimed and awarded performances offer a special insight to the current times and among them there are the unspoken topics, documentary theatre and the new generation of theatre makers.
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NEW THEATRE GENERATION AND NOVEL AESTHETICS IN FINNISH MAIN PROGRAMME
Tampere Theatre Festival Artistic Team, Anna-Elina Lyytikäinen and Auvo Vihro together with the Executive director Hanna Rosendahl, drew a firm line on the selection process of the new Finnish Main Programme last fall. They mainly looked for modern theatre and the work of an interesting new generation of Finnish theatre makers, instead of focusing on translated drama or classics. Altogether 13 performances were selected.
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