Synetic Theater

Washington DC's Premier Physical Theater
Synetic Theater is a non-profit physical theater company located in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. It performs at the Crystal City Theatre in Arlington Virginia. Since its formation its productions have received numerous awards.
History.
Founded in 2001, Synetic Theater began as an artistic subgroup within the now defunct Stanislavsky Theater Studio which performed at the Church Street Theater in Washington, D.C. – the result of an artistic split by the husband and wife team of Paata and Irina Tsikurishvili from Andrei Malaev-Babel, the other co-head of The Stanislavsky Theater Studio. It made its artistic debut in April 2002 with a wordless adaptation of Shakespeare's "Hamlet", known as "Hamlet…the rest is silence". The production was remounted the following season, receiving the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Resident Play, Outstanding Choreography and Outstanding Director. Despite the artistic split, Synetic Theater and The Stanislavsky Theater Studio continued to share resources and performance space into the following season, but in 2003, after a series of disagreements over financial matters, Synetic set off on its own. The following year Synetic merged with Classika Theater, a children's theater based in Shirlington, Virginia.
In 2014 Synetic Co-Founders Paata and Irina Tsikurishvili were honored as Washingtonians of the Year by Washingtonian Magazine for their contributions to the Washington theater community. In 2010, the American Theatre Wing awarded Synetic with their National Theatre Company Grant.
Facilities.
The Synetic Theater's offices and administrative spaces are located 2155 Crystal Plaza Arcade, T-19, Arlington, VA 22202 in the Crystal City area of Arlington. Until 2010 Synetic performed most of its shows in the Arlington County run Rosslyn Spectrum. In September 2010 it moved into the Crystal City Theatre space outfitted by the Arena Stage after the latter moved back into its newly renovated spaces in Washington D.C. Between 2006–2010, it performed one show each spring in the Kennedy Center. In the 2009–2010 season it produced the premiers of its "Silent Shakespeare" series at the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Lansburgh Theatre. With the company's move to Crystal City, the relationship with the Shakespeare Theatre Company and the Lansburgh Theatre ended.
Past Productions.
2015-2016
2014-2015
2013-2014
2012/2013 
2011/2012:
2010/2011
2009–2010 Season
2008–2009 Season
Since many of Synetic's company members were from Georgia, "Host and Guest" was remounted in reaction to the Russian invasion of Georgia in August 2008. The production replaced the originally scheduled stage adaptation of the vintage horror film "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari"
Significant events.
In 2010 Synetic Theater moved to the Crystal City Theatre in Arlington VA.
Synetic Theater was invited to perform in Tbilisi, Georgia. Remount performances of "King Lear" and "Host and Guest" were presented at the Rustaveli Theatre 3-19 Nov 2012. The tour was supported by the U.S. Department of State, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation and the Trust for Mutual Understanding.
In 2013 Synetic raised funds for new studio space in Crystal City near the theater space. The studio has 3 classrooms that can be used for camps, classes and rehearsal space as well as a green room and a reception area.
In 2014 Synetic Theater produced its 10th "silent Shakespeare" adaptation "Twelfth Night." 
In 2014, Synetic Theater's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream was invited to the 10th Festival Internacional in Chihuahua, Mexico. Subsequently, they also performed at Teatro Victor Hugo Rascon Banda, Juarez, Mexico.
Significant past productions.
Silent Shakespeare series.
Synetic is noted for performing well known Shakespeare plays without words. Hours long plays are pared to 90 minutes of highly stylized dance, movement, acrobatics, pantomime, music and story without a word being spoken. In a letter to patrons in a program, Michael Kahn, the Artistic Director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company, says: "Synetic's signature blend of music, movement, and dance represents a novel approach to Shakespeare" In the Directors Notes of "The Tempest" program Paata Tsisurishvili stated "Since our first production in 2002, I have often been asked, without the language, is what we do "really Shakespeare"? I believe it is. Since Shakespeare has been translated into multiple languages, his words having found multiple expressions and becoming a truly universal institution in the process, we believe the language of movement is no less valid method of exploring his work than any other. As Shakespeare himself painted with words, we attempt to paint his words with our images, offering an archetypical Shakespeare that we know, as one reviewer put it, 'in our bones'"
Productions are regularly remounted in the years following their initial production.
The series includes the following well reviewed and award-winning productions:
^ – Helen Hayes Award Winner
† – Named one of the year's "10 best" by the Washington Post
In January 2011 "A Midsummer Night's Dream" was remounted by invitation at the '62 Center for Theatre and Dance at Williams College in Williamstown, MA,
Classic Literature series.
"The Washington Post" named "Host and Guest" as one of the ten best performances of the decade. The Harriman Institute at Columbia University requested its presentation it at the university's Miller Theatre
Awards.
Overall, Synetic has earned a large number of Helen Hayes Nominations and won many Helen Hayes Awards in ten seasons. Most of the awards have been for its wordless Shakespearean repertoire. Its more prestigious awards include:
Other items of note.
The name "Synetic" was coined by founding artistic director Paata Tsikurishvili from the words Synthesis (the coming together of distinct elements to form a whole) and Kinetic (pertaining to or imparting motion; active ... dynamic ...) yielding "Synetic Theater – a Dynamic Synthesis of the Arts"
Synetic Theater is a member of the League of Washington Theaters (LOWT).
See also.
Helen Hayes Award