Armenia to make fist appearance at Prague Quadrennial 2011June 11, 2011 - 17:37 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenia will make its fist appearance at June 16-26 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space (PQ2011). As a stage artist, Armenian group supervisor at the event Nelly Barsegyan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter, Armenia will be represented in Countries and Regions section, with Wiping off the Dust of Memory theme. According to Ms. Barseghyan, at the event, Armenia will feature performance design of 4 Armenian plays: Ardaghion, The Book of Flowers ( by State Pantomime Theatre) and A Chair, Aregnazan (by Yerevan State Music Comedy Theatre) in an attempt to illustrate difference genres of Armenian art, stage history and promote development of modern Armenian theatre. Lilit Stepanyan, a production designer at State Pantomime Theatre will be representing Armenia at the event along with Ms. Barseghyan. Armenia’s participation in PQ 2011 was made possible through the assistance of Armenian Ministry of Culture. Held once every four years in Prague, Czech Republic, the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space is a the world’s largest performance design event – a presentation of contemporary work in a variety of performance design disciplines and genres including costume, stage, lighting, sound design, and theatre architecture for dance, opera, drama, site-specific, multi-media performances, and performance art. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. |