PAF connects. (Performing Arts Festival Team & Guests)

The Performing Arts Festival makes connections with the formats Bridging the Scenes, Städtelabori and Introducing: between emerging artists and the Berlin performance venues, between the independent festivals in Stuttgart, Munich, Dortmund, Hamburg and Berlin and between the independent performing arts communities in Berlin and Sofia, Bulgaria.
In a comfortable atmosphere directly following the festival breakfast, all three formats will be presented to Berlin-based colleagues and the international visiting industry professionals.

Introducing
Introducing, the newcomer’s platform of the Performing Arts Festival, will present nine productions this year that demonstrate how aesthetically and thematically diverse Berlin’s independent performing arts community is. All nine positions deal for themselves with the question of the stage and whom it belongs to as aesthetic manifestos and open experimental systems at the same time. Please allow us to introduce – INTRODUCING 2018*

Städtelabor
With Städtelabor, the Berlin Performing Arts Festival provides two artists from each region, Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, North Rhine-Westphalia and Baden-Württemberg, with the opportunity to acquaint themselves with the aesthetics and working methods of over 140 Berlin productions, attend the discussion events in the schedule of programming for visiting industry professionals and benefit from the diverse networking options of the Berlin Performing Arts Festival as a festival visitor.

Bridging the Scenes
Sofia meets Berlin! The Bulgarian ACT Fest Sofia and the Berlin Performing Arts Festival are building bridges and bringing the independent performing arts communities of both cities closer together with the exchange program Bridging the Scenes.
Bridging the Scenes offers three Bulgarian and three Berlin-based producers, production managers and artists with interests in organization and administration the opportunity to attend both festivals as visitors.

Free admission. Prior registration is requested: fachpublikum(at)performingarts-festival.de