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Kristína Zátrochová in conversation with Marta Poláková about the newly established study programme 'Dance Theatre and Performance' at the Academy of the Performing Arts in Bratislava Author: Kristína Zátrochová © Picture: Kristína Zátrochová

At first, we need to define the term our narrative will employ: it is one initially used for naming the art forms conceived outside the state structures – "independent". Author: Mira Todorova © Picture: M.Jeanson

The independent performing arts sector – comprising a range of non-governmental performing arts organisations, non-formal collectives and individuals, producing primarily visual and physical theatre, experimental drama theatre, street theatre and other interdisciplinary theatre forms – is nowadays considered to be the most vital and progressive part of a vivid general theatre scene in Slovenia. Author: Tomaž Zaniuk © Picture: Ivian Kan Mujezinović

Without a doubt, Ukrainian theatre is deeply embedded in the country‘s search for national identity. It has persevered through the prohibition of Ukrainian language, the inferiority complex, the perception of Russian art as the standard that was to be imitated. Everything created outside of such norm, everything that even tried to seek out new forms of expression and to touch on the topic of European experience was revolutionary. Author: Miroslava Todorova © Picture: Anastasia Mantach

With a population of roughly 360,000, it should come as no surprise that the Icelandic performing arts scene is small. Very small. On the whole, it is a tightly knit group of people passionate about theatre. Author: Sigridur Jonsdottir © Picture: Jóhanna Helga Þorkelsdóttir

"Theaters in Hungary feel the chill of Viktor Orban’s culture war" — the New York Times reported on 13 December 2019, marking one of the rare instances, when international press attention was directed at cultural policy changes in Hungary. Author: Katalin Erdődi © Picture: Katona