The 10th International Festival Territoriya gives another closeup picture of the modern theater tendencies.

      Territoriya is a teaching festival, therefore its main participants are dozens of students and young actors from the cities of Russia and the near and far abroad, the festival art director, the actor Yevgeny Mironov said to journalists.

      This year theatrical youth from 24 regions of Russia and from 8 countries take part in the festival.

      "They will have an opportunity to communicate with renowned directors and choreographers at master classes and lectures", – Yevgeny Mironov added.

      This year the organizers have provided a most powerful Russian program. It includes performances staged by Kirill Serebrennikov, Timofey Kulyabin, and Talgat Batalov. The list of foreign guests is also impressive: the German director and composer Heiner Goebbels, and the choreographers Tero Saarinen from Finland and Rachid Ouramdane from France.

      Rachid Ouramdane opened the festival with his sculpturesque performance Sfumato based on documentary evidences of environmental refugees.