Zürcher Theater Spektakel
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The Zürcher Theater Spektakel is an international theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

 and performing arts
Performing arts
The performing arts are those forms art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face, and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some physical art object...

 festival
Festival
A festival or gala is an event, usually and ordinarily staged by a local community, which centers on and celebrates some unique aspect of that community and the Festival....

, held annually each summer in Zürich
Zürich
Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...

, Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

. First held in 1980,
the festival invites 20-25 different performing arts groups and artists from around the world to take part each year.
The event began in a much smaller form as an annual international meeting of independent theatre groups, before emerging as a much larger cultural event in Switzerland.
Currently, five separate locations are used as venues for the festival,
of which the largest is the Landiwiese venue.
The Landiwiese venue is located by Lake Zurich
Lake Zurich
Lake Zurich is a lake in Switzerland, extending southeast of the city of Zurich. It is also known as Lake Zürich and Lake of Zürich. It lies approximately at co-ordinates ....

 in the Wollishofen
Wollishofen
Wollishofen is a suburb in Zurich's 2nd district.It was formerly a municipality of its own, having been incorporated into Zurich in 1893.The suburb has a population of 15,592 distributed on an area of 5.75 km².-Transport:...

 quarter, District 2
District 2 (Zürich)
District 2 is a district on the western side of Lake Zurich in the Swiss city of Zurich.The district comprises the quarters Wollishofen, Leimbach and Enge.-References:...

, and features numerous open-air shows.

The most recent event was held from the 13th to the 30th of August 2009, and had a Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages  – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...

n focus.
The next festival is scheduled to be held between the 19th of August to the 5th of September 2010, and will have a special focus on Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...

.

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