Festival „SANKRYŽA“
Festival “SANKRYŽA“
International festival “Druskininkų vasaros teatro SANKRYŽA“
is an already rooted cultural event in the Lithuanian resort and was started in 2015.
The first international festival, held in the summer of 2015 was attended not only by the artists from theaters and media, but received an attention of holidaymakers and citizens of Druskininkai, as well. “The name of the festival appears to confirm that for Druskininkai it is still complicated to acquire a strong theatrical summer face“, wrote a theater critique Daiva Šabasevičienė (“Lietuvos žinios“, 2015-08-11). The festival is still searching for its face, therefore “Sankryža“ gives a chance for experimentations and its program not only includes purely classic performances, but performances of new theatrical expressions, as well.
During six years of the festival the audience had a chance to see more than 60 performances from Armenia, Belarus, Ukraine, Great Britain, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Germany, Israel and Lithuania.
“Druskininkų vasaros teatro SANKRYŽA“
is not only a feast, it is also a meeting place of prominent and new performances‘ authors, theater stars, beginners and artists, who had won international awards.
The off program of the festival consists of discussions about performances with actors, spectators and media representatives, meetings with prominent actors, presentations of movies on theater and theater directors.
The international jury (five representatives from cultural and theatrical field from various countries) evaluates Lithuanian performances and plays from various countries and award their nominees.
Druskininkai city community has established an award for audience sympathy.
This festival has been organized by a team, which smoothly works together for a very long time.
It does not only give a chance to present performances from other countries, but it also involves a Lithuanian resort multicultural and multiethnic community to a vivid relationship with cultural traditions of visiting artists.