30th Young European Theatre Rencontres

Each new year presents itself with a share of the unknown. The year 2021 is exceptional in this regard. In the scenario in which we have been participating since March 2020, the date of the first lockdown due the Covid-19 pandemic, the twists and turns have not ceased with their lot of anguish and uncertainty. When will the climax of the crisis occur? Who can tell? What forms will the outcome take? We don't know. So what can we wish for each other? For our part, we will say: intelligence, sensitivity and kindness in the face of what is coming, to make as eventual worst to a possible better. And as men and women of theatre, may this long ordeal lead to more beauty and more fraternity.

Happy New Year.

Fernand Garnier and the Créarc team

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2020: Year of Covid-19

Reunion toward the future

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The 32nd Rencontres du Jeune Théâtre Européen which was originally slated from the 3rd to the 12th of July 2020 in Grenoble are cancelled. This decision follows the French Public authorities’ measure to suspend every shows and festivals until 15 July 2020 in order to handle the coronavirus outbreak.

The Rencontres du Jeune Théâtre Européen are a major moment in the Network’s life and in Grenoble cultural life. This year, they should have gathered 18 theatre troupes from 12 European countries and they should have made Grenoble a center for artistic and civic exchanges.

The cancellation of the Rencontres is a mourning and a loss.

But the outbreak is at one with the theatre history since the beginning of this one. Remember Sophocles, Oedipus Rex and the plague devastating Thebes. The crisis we are currently experiencing is a test, a journey through hells, a “trial by fire”. What we could wish and what we could work for is to get out of this crisis more aware of our mutual humanity and to create art and beauty. Like the phoenix, we have to rise from our ashes.

Director

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The Young European Theater Network was born from the Young European Theatre Rencontres which have been taking place in Grenoble since 1989. It has been made official during the seminar which was held in Grenoble, in May 2004, and which gathered participants from 18 European and non European countries.
It is made up of professional directors who have chosen to work with young people, being whether on professional theatrical training of young professionals. It gathers dozens of structures: companies, theater schools and theatrical academies, festivals, divided up in all Europe and beyond.
It is a space where artists, groups, companies and young people, share their practices, experiences, and their theater vision. This one encourages practices and abilities exchanges, between artists and theater teachers.
It is a plural artistic movement, and an international theater laboratory. Its members organize cultural and artistic exchanges: co productions, bilateral training courses, show productions, professional theatrical trainings, festivals...The Young European Theater promotes intercultural apprenticeship, diversity respect, Human Rights and solidarity values. It cooperates to the construction of a pacified, democratic, tolerant, jointly liable Europe, open to the World and contributing to Peace.
The very heart of the Net is in Grenoble, at Crearc, the founder of the Young European Theater Rencontres.