Pantomime Theatre | Organizers

Pantomime Art and Tradition in Armenia has a long history. In written sources and in manuscripts we come across numerous witnesses of pantomime artists. Recreation of modern Pantomime culture in our reality is connected with the name of famous clown-mime Leonid Yengibarov. People from Yerevan still remember the fantastic mime evenings rich in kindness and the amazing pantomime artist’s popular miniatures.

As a complete and professional stage culture, Yerevan State Pantomime Theatre was established in 1969. The theatre acted in Art Employers’ House of Armenia. In 1974, May 18 in the presence of the Fine Arts Council of RA Ministry of Culture, as well as famous cultural figures, the mime theatre group presented the first and complete performance, becoming a professional collective and being included in ArmConcert.

In 1983 the theatre got sate status.

In 2001 the theatre organized the first International Theatr Festival in the years of independency of Armenia which was called “Nazenik”.

In 2008 International Pantomime Festival in Tsakhkadzor was organized by Yerevan State Pantomime Theatre which takes place biannually.

Since 2010 International Mime Festival was called after Leonid Yengibarov.

In 2012 in the scope of International Mime Festival the bronze statue of famous artist L. Yengibarov was opened in the central square of Tsakhkadzor.

In 2014 was held 4th International Mime Festival and in the program were included illusionists, living statues and sand painting.

In 2016 Yengibaryan International Mime Festival will be held in August. And it will already be organized annually.

Today the theatre includes the following performances in its repertory:

“Galatea”(2016)

“Spirit of Throne” (2015)

“Goat-Rite” (2014)

“Soul of Chair” (2012)

“Sonnet N 90” (2010)

“Ardalion” (2009)

“Flowers’ Manuscript ” (2008)

“Demon” (2007)

“Sheranik” (2005)

“Metamorphose” (1999)

“Flowers of Evil” (1998)

“How to Paint a Bird” (1998)

“Butterflies” (1997)

“The Game” (1996)

“Eagles” (1994)

Tours of Pantomime Theater

2017 — Russia – Chelyabinsk

2016 — Bosnia & Herzegovina — Republika Srpska — Banja Luka/ Malta – Vittoriosa

2015 — Bosnia & Herzegovina — Republika Srpska — Banja Luka/ Georgia — Tbilisi/ Serbia — Belgrade/Georgia — Tbilisi/Germany – Bremen

2014 — Turkey — Istanbul/ Iran -Tehran, Kish Island/ Turkmenistan — Ashgabat/ Poland -Wroclaw

2013 — Thailand — Bangkok, Pattaya / Poland — Poznan / Germany — Bonn, Cologne / Russia — Murmansk / Georgia -Tbilisi

2012 — USA — Los Angeles

2011 — Switzerland — Zurich

2007 — Italy- Rome/ China — Beijing, Shenyang

2006 — Russia -Yekaterinburg, Moscow / Romania — Sibiu

2004 — UAE — Sharjah

2003 — Lebanon — Beirut

2002 — Iran — Tehran

2001 — Egypt – Cairo

1998 — Germany/ Georgia -Tbilisi

1991 — Serbia-Belgrade

1983 — Russia — Central Siberia / Germany

1982 — Russia — Leningrad / Hungary

1981 — Russia — Siberia, Omsk, Tomsk, Kemerovo, Barnaul, Angarsk, Bratsk, Blagoveshchensk

1980 — Russia / Ukraine -Kiev, Odessa

1978 — Russia / Belarus / Moldova

1976 — Ural — Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, Magnitogorsk/ Russia / Middle East

1975- Ukraine — Voroshilovgrad, Kharkov, Lisichansk, Kadievka

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