The Bazaar Festival focuses on independent theater and dance artists from Central and Eastern Europe. It is an international showcase of progressive stage works by artists who maintain a healthy distance from mainstream culture and are not afraid to take risks. The festival traditionally presents bold artists with an independent view of the world and offers a space for encounters, dialogue, and experimentation. The twelfth edition will take place from March 12 to 21, 2026, at Studio Hrdinů, La Fabrika, Alfred ve dvoře, Divadlo X10, and other venues in Prague. Come and experience unique performances that explore the relationships between people, landscape, microorganisms, and technologies, and observe how individuals transform into communities in constant motion. This year’s Bazaar Festival focuses on the relationships that shape our bodies, identities, and the environments in which we live. The theme of Human and Non-Human Communities raises questions about communities, groups, and coexistence across species, from human bodies to plants, microorganisms, technology, and the landscape. programme The festival will open with Isabelle Schad’s choreography Pieces and Elements, which works with the idea of the collective body as an organism capable of existence only through the whole. A group of dancers creates a changing structure in which each element influences the whole, similar to natural systems where nothing exists in isolation. Another notable part of the program is the durative performance Monument of Trust: The Arena by Serbian visual artist Ivana Ivković, presented in collaboration with Y Events at Divadlo X10. The project focuses on the phenomena of trust, power, and corruption, exploring how these structures are inscribed in bodies, communities, and social systems. Here, the theater is transformed into an arena of collective action, tension, and shared responsibility. In the international project BLOT – Body Line of Thought by Simona Deaconescu and VanessaGoodman, the human body becomes an ecosystem, a community of microbial, chemical, and physical processes. The performance combines dance and scientific research, viewing the body as a changing system in constant dialogue with its surroundings. Non-human communities are also the focus of attention in the choreography of Croatian artist Sonja Pregrad, who works with plant life as a collective body and source of choreographic thinking. Growth, symbiosis, eroticism, and decay intertwine here in a poetic image that disrupts the anthropocentric view of the world. → Programme