High Fest 19th
Dear friends and colleagues!
Words! Words! Words! This is the slogan of the 2021 edition of HIGH FEST. Yevgenya Podpomogova – our co-founder, art director and my wife, invented this slogan. Unfortunately she is no longer with us and these are not just words. It’s crucial and this too is one of the reasons for the postponement of the festival.
How many words we speak and how little we do. The world is shaken and dulled by unnecessary, mediocre and even dangerous words that are transformed into dangerous actions that lead to catastrophic consequences. And we, people of culture, are especially responsible for the formation of opinions, thoughts, taste, aesthetics ... and in general for the world! Hopefully, for 19 years now, we have been making the world a little better through our festival.
Our festival is the flagship and indisputable trendsetter of theatre in Armenia. And despite the awful cuts in funding from the government (for objective and subjective reasons), sluggish sponsors and rare (and therefore very valuable) support from European structures, we must remain leaders. We should not bring a few inferior performances and say that this is good in a pandemic time. Every year we prove that it is we who are opening, not a window, but a whole portal to the contemporary world of performing arts. This year is no exception. We will have a powerful educational festival, with the play ChekhovOS, where American theatrical stars shine, led by the great Baryshnikov (after the performance, the director Igor Golyak will meet with the audience); performances of Augsburg Staatstheater, one of the most technologically advanced theaters in Germany, and the brilliant Krzystof Garbaczewski (Poland), who will also conduct an online master class; a great luck for our students will be a master class of one of the best directors in the world - Kirill Serebrennikov. And we will end with a Georgian-German performance (with the help of the Goethe Institute), which will be held live and this will be the start of the 20th anniversary edition of HIGH FEST 2022. We really want to return to a live format next year.
We are waiting for you! Come and see how Words turn into Deeds!
Sincerely Yours,
Words! Words! Words! This is the slogan of the 2021 edition of HIGH FEST. Yevgenya Podpomogova – our co-founder, art director and my wife, invented this slogan. Unfortunately she is no longer with us and these are not just words. It’s crucial and this too is one of the reasons for the postponement of the festival.
How many words we speak and how little we do. The world is shaken and dulled by unnecessary, mediocre and even dangerous words that are transformed into dangerous actions that lead to catastrophic consequences. And we, people of culture, are especially responsible for the formation of opinions, thoughts, taste, aesthetics ... and in general for the world! Hopefully, for 19 years now, we have been making the world a little better through our festival.
Our festival is the flagship and indisputable trendsetter of theatre in Armenia. And despite the awful cuts in funding from the government (for objective and subjective reasons), sluggish sponsors and rare (and therefore very valuable) support from European structures, we must remain leaders. We should not bring a few inferior performances and say that this is good in a pandemic time. Every year we prove that it is we who are opening, not a window, but a whole portal to the contemporary world of performing arts. This year is no exception. We will have a powerful educational festival, with the play ChekhovOS, where American theatrical stars shine, led by the great Baryshnikov (after the performance, the director Igor Golyak will meet with the audience); performances of Augsburg Staatstheater, one of the most technologically advanced theaters in Germany, and the brilliant Krzystof Garbaczewski (Poland), who will also conduct an online master class; a great luck for our students will be a master class of one of the best directors in the world - Kirill Serebrennikov. And we will end with a Georgian-German performance (with the help of the Goethe Institute), which will be held live and this will be the start of the 20th anniversary edition of HIGH FEST 2022. We really want to return to a live format next year.
We are waiting for you! Come and see how Words turn into Deeds!
Sincerely Yours,
The "HIGH FEST” International Performing Arts Festival has been the discoverer of the most important work in the formation and development of festival culture in Armenia. This festival standardized the qualities of the working in the field of the performing arts, particularly on the international network. It has enlarged the scope of international cooperation of the Armenian theater; the Armenian audience had the opportunity to get acquainted with the work of well-known directors from all over the world. Due to the limitations of the pandemic, the format of the festival was changed.
The online platform became the place of various professional discussions, lectures, performances, which did not interrupt the twenty-year history of the festival. I congratulate the organizers of the festival on their continuous creativity in overcoming the challenges, and the participants for the opening of the festival. I wish creative networking and endless inspiration to you.
The online platform became the place of various professional discussions, lectures, performances, which did not interrupt the twenty-year history of the festival. I congratulate the organizers of the festival on their continuous creativity in overcoming the challenges, and the participants for the opening of the festival. I wish creative networking and endless inspiration to you.
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Opening of HIGH FEST
HIGH FEST reality-VR
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Online conference
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“Rethinking digital, remaking art”
23.11 – 18:00 (GMT+4)
Speakers
Bruno Costa, Director of Theatre network “Outdoor Arts Portugal”, Portugal
Pedro de Freitas – Director of FarOFFa festival (Brazil)
Levan Khetaguri – Director of Arts Research Institute (Georgia)
Lorenzo Papagalo, Founder of “XperTeatro” platform, Spain
Tina Lorenz, Project Manager for Digital Development of Staatstheater Augsburg, Germany
Arthur Ghukasyan, Director of “HIGH FEST” International Performing Arts Festival
Performances
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