Venice Biennale Dance - Venezia Biennale Danza
The 6th International Festival of Contemporary Dance by the Venice Biennale will this year "talk about" beauty: with performances, workshops, meetings and a video installation accompanying the event, running from 14th to 29th June in Venice. With Beauty, the title of the Festival, director Ismael Ivo extends his research on the body, which characterised the preceding editions, and creates a new current for exchange between dance and the contemporary world.
The symposium opening the Festival (14th June, Corderie dell'Arsenale) will gather dancers and choreographers, scholars, writers and journalists. Alongside choreographers Frédéric Flamand, Stephen Petronio, Michela Lucenti, Ismael Ivo, there will be Germaine Greer (the controversial writer of The Female Eunuch), David Michalek (artist and photographer), Loredana Lipperini (essayist, writer and internet journalist), and Jeffrey Stewart (professor of Black Studies at the University of California).
The Prague-born Jirí Kylián, the creative spirit of the Nederlands Dans Theater, will be awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Festival. The awards ceremony will be held on 17th June at the Teatro Malibran in Venice.
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Biennale Dance "Beauty" Program |
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Beauty Symposium
Meetings and lecturesEntrance to the Corderie – Arsenale 14 June, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. / 3 p.m. – 6 p.m. |
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David Michalek (USA)
Slow Dancing [European premiere] video-installationEntrance to the Corderie – Arsenale 14 > 29 June, 6 p.m. - 11 p.m. (closed on 18 and 23 June) |
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Ballet National de Marseille (France)
Métamorphoses [Italian premiere]Teatro alle Tese – Arsenale 14 > 16 June, 8 p.m. 15 June, 10 p.m. |
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Bonachela Dance Company (UK)
Square Map of Q4 [Italian premiere]Teatro Piccolo Arsenale 14 June, 10 p.m. 15 June, 8 p.m. |
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Stephen Petronio Dance Company (USA)
Beauty and the Brut / Bloom / This is the Story of a Girl in a World [Italian premiere]Teatro Malibran 15 June, 6:00 p.m. 17 June, 7:30 p.m.
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