Książka "Reclaimed Avant-garde: Spaces and Stages of Avant-garde Theatre in Central and Eastern Europe” to efekt konferencji, która odbyła się w listopadzie 2017 roku w Instytucie Teatralnym, a zarazem kolejny etap rozłożonego na wiele lat procesu poznawania i przywracania znaczenia awangardowym poszukiwaniom teatralnym, które w latach 20. i 30. ubiegłego stulecia eksplodowały prawdziwym bogactwem pomysłów wywołującym także i dziś podziw, zachwyt, zdumienie. W książce zgromadzono 14 tekstów badaczy i badaczek  z 11 krajów regionu, od Łotwy po Słowenię, i od Gruzji po Czechy. Prezentują one awangardowe odkrywanie i przekształcanie przestrzeni teatralnej, pracę z jej dramaturgią, nowatorskie pomysły scenograficzne. Jednocześnie przypominają artystów i artystki o niezwykłej wyobraźni, dziś pamiętanych tylko (a i to nie zawsze w kręgach rodzimych specjalistów). Książka pozwala odkryć prawdziwe bogactwo inspiracji, odświeżając myślenie o przestrzeni i teatrze.

The book "Reclaimed Avant-garde: Spaces and Stages of Avant-garde Theatre in Central-Eastern Europe" is the outcome of a conference held in November 2017 at the Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute. The book is also a next stage of the process of recognizing and restoring the importance of avant-garde theatre search, which in the 1920s and 1930s exploded with a real wealth of ideas that has evoked admiration, appreciation and amazement lasting until today. The book consists of 14 reports prepared by researchers from 11 countries of the region, from Latvia to Slovenia, and from Georgia to the Czech Republic. These texts present avant-garde discovery and transformation of theatre space, work with its dramaturgy, innovative set design ideas. At the same time they remind us about both male and female artists who drew from their unusual imagination, and are nowadays recognized (yet not always) only by the local specialists and researchers. The book allows us to discover the real richness of inspiration, refreshing at the same time the way of thinking about space and theatre.

Reclaimed Avant-Garde: Spaces and Stages of Avant-Garde Theatre in Central-Eastern Europe

Zoltán Imre, Dariusz Kosiński - Introduction

SPACES OF THE NEW STAGE

Višnja Kačić Rogošić - Avant-garde visions of performance space on the Croatian stage

Edīte Tišheizere - The principle of broken space in the avant-garde and its development in contemporary theatre: The Latvian case

Ana Kocjančič - Slovenian theatre avant-garde and shaping the space of the stage

Valentyna Chechyk - Urbanism and the visual ideas of the avant-garde in the Ukrainian scenography of the 1920s

Dariusz Kosiński - The avant-garde dramaturgy of space – the Polish case

THEATRE AS A SOCIAL SPACE

Martynas Petrikas, Asta Petrikienė - Avant-garde theatre and social space: Lithuanian examples

Martin Bernátek - Theatrical apparatus and social change: The Divadlo práce project

Kamelia Nikolova - The stage as a social space in the historical avant-garde and the contemporary theatre in Bulgaria

A SPACE FOR WOMEN

Ewa Guderian-Czaplińska - The imagined theatrical spaces of Teresa Żarnower

Hanna Veselovska - The movement of bodies: Gender issues in Ukrainian avant-garde theatre

Zoltán Imre - Women in the Hungarian avant-garde – How does the Great Forgetting become the Great Tradition? 

THE CROSSROADS

Martina Mašlárová - The influence of Škola umeleckých remesiel on the avant-garde theatre in Slovakia

Justyna Michalik - Something HAPPENED theatrically – The Cricot Artists's Theatre

Levan Khetaguri - Tbilisi – Crossroads phenomena

Glossary of key figures

Author bios

Ave: An Action for Footsteps, Megaphones, Flags, Shouts and Flares

Seven Songs about the Avant-garde: Reconstructions

Index of names