Prof. D. Sc., Miroslava Kortenska (1953-2021) is a Bulgarian theatrе critic, culturologist and media expert.

Prof. Joanna Spassova-Dikova, PhD, is a theatre scholar at the Institute of Art Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

The project European Modernism in Performance Arts and Theories (EMPATH). Figures, Processes. Practices in the 20th Century aims at safeguarding the specific for the region cultural identity and traditions for creation of cultural bridge to Europe.

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Jean Monnet Actions run under Erasmus+ to support teaching, learning, research and debates on various aspects of the European Union.

The proposed text follows the idea of highlighting significant intellectual and artistic processes observed in the field of theatre, related to the professionalization and modernization of Bulgarian culture in the 20th century and its place in the context of the flexible, dynamic cultural dimensions of modern Europe. The presented cultural-historical narrative does not pretend to be complete and exhaustive. It does not insist on monumentality or canonicity. It is open and subject to change and addition with new facts, topics, interpretations.