[FR] Festival d'Avignon

[FR] Dimanche Rouge, Paris [BE] Festival de Liège / Belgique, Liège [FI] Helsinki Festival, Helsinki [ES] Facyl Festival International Arts Festival of Castilla y León / Espagne, Salamanca [IT] La MaMa Umbria International, Spoleto [IE] Dublin Dance Festival / Irlande, Dublin [IT] Uovo Festival, Milan [AU] Donau Festival / Autriche, Krems [IT] Festival Inteatro Polverigi Festival, Polverigi INTEATRO Festival 39 FROM JUNE 24th TO JULY 2nd IN POLVERIGI AND ANCONA Inteatro Festival, annual event dedicated since its beginnings to contemporary creation in the fields of theatre and dance, presents Italian and international artists able to tell stories about the present times in an original and personal way, looking for a more direct and engaging relation with the spectator. This year’s festival, in particular, is meant as a generator of new perspectives and forms of relation, dedicated to actuality, empathy, responsibility and cultural diversity. 2017 edition strengthens, even more than in its past editions, networks and connections benefiting from various collaborations with Entities, Institutions, Italian Theatres and International Bodies. Inteatro Festival 2017 takes place from June 24 to July 2 in Polverigi and Ancona. The section in Ancona will host two very diverse proposals, but both under the sign of opening the borders, of hospitality and curiosity towards other cultures.

[SI] Dajmo! |Exodos / Slovénie, Ljubljana The solo form, in the context of contemporary dance in Asia, persists as a phenomenon. Independent dance-makers – determined not to compromise on their individuality through commodification or re-locating their practice via migration – have tended to turn solo. A strategy taken out of necessity and pragmatism because of the difficult economy they have chosen to work within: weak policies, funding, and presentation structures. While partly circumstantial, the condition has also allowed these undaunted artists to create and speak in a different and strong tenor. Their notion of ‘virtuosity’ departs from the stereotype of the solo form in traditional dance genres as a vessel for technique display and diva presence, moving us instead into viewpoints on self-making and embodiment itself, by various means of irony, ambivalence and reversal. Such a tendency resists idealizing the ‘solo’ as an emancipation from the collective and/or the absolutism of selfhood.

[IT] Romaeuropa, Rome [DEU] CUE / Allemagne, Berlin CUE is a space for spontaneous expression and interdisciplinary improvisation. CUE was born out of a specific need: the need for places where it is possible to experiment new ways of expression and behavior within a performative context. There the potential actions have not necessarily to be artistic practices, because any possible mean of expression is warmly welcomed. The aim of CUE is neither providing some sort of result, nor to create some specific product, but to generate the conditions where the participants can live and enjoy their time in a collective game of simultaneous actions, where what is sought is nothing else than a new, spontaneous and permanently unstable kind of communication. Keeping in mind that there are no previously defined rules of the game, interaction has to be the key of the communication process, and participants have to allow themselves creating new relationships between each other.

[DE] SpielArt Festival, Munich [US] Filament, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) / Troy, NY) With over 15 premieres spanning theater, 24-channel sound, contemporary dance, video, and a barn raising; exchanges with artists, curators, and creative engineers; and a dynamic archive of the artistic process, this three day festival highlights EMPAC’s focus on creation via its commissioning and residency programs. Performances, installations, and screenings including: BalletLab (Australia) Yanira Castro | a canary torsi (NYC) Early Morning Opera (Los Angeles) Volkmar Klien (Austria) MTAA (NYC) Michael J. Schumacher (NYC) Hans Tutschku (Cambridge, MA) DANCE MOViES Commission 2009-2010 Premieres Filament also unveils Live Shorts: three programs of performances from across the spectrum of dance, theater, music, and the visual arts, commissioned specifically for this festival. On Sunday, join us in a dedication and performance of the late composer Maryanne Amacher's unfinished final work developed in residence, The Star Room.