Bazaar Festival of Central and Eastern European performance

About

The Bazaar Festival is a Prague-based festival showcasing independent, innovative dance and theatre artists from Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and other regions. The festival explores contemporary themes affecting creative communities through physical performance and performing arts that center the body as a site of cognition and experience. Each edition features a thematic focus, examining topics such as human and non-human communities, identity, cooperation, resistance, ecosystems, and biodiversity. The festival program typically progresses through explorations of gender and community identity, human communities of protest and resistance, non-human natural communities, and communities of play and diversity. By engaging with independent researchers and makers working in dance and innovative theatre, the festival reflects on broader contemporary contexts including pandemic impacts, military conflicts, agricultural challenges, and environmental change with sensitivity