CLASH! International Festival. The Hybrid in Dance Models, between Classic and Contemporary will be held from the 8th to the 13th of December 2020. Starting at 6 pm CET (17:00 Lisbon time), six events entirely dedicated to dance are going to be broadcasted on the official website clashproject.eu every day. Screendance performances and talks will animate a unique online program created and produced by the six European partners involved in the project Clash! When Classic and Contemporary Dance Collide and New Forms Emerge – promoted by Balletto di Roma (Italy) and co-funded by Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
Coordinated by Sapienza University of Rome (Italy), every day of CLASH! International Festival is curated by each partner-dance company ‒ Balletto di Roma (Italy), 420PEOPLE (Czech Republic), Companhia de Dança de Almada (Portugal), Derida Dance Center / Art Link Foundation (Bulgaria), Polski Teatr Tanca/ Polish Dance Theater (Poland) – and focus on a particular issue explored along the initiative. Topics such as Audience Development, Dancer’s Training, Cultural Diplomacy in the Dance Field, and Choreographic-Making Processes are going to be displayed during the event programmed to allow the users to interact in creative dialogues with choreographers, dance pedagogues, and keynote speakers. Each day of the festival will end with a screendance performance created for the occasion by each partner.
Under the theme Creative Processes, Companhia de Dança de Almada is the curator of the program on December 12th, in which the play "Noir" will be premiered, on stage and in a screen version, accompanied by a conversation with choreographer Bruno Duarte and the director Marta Romero. There will also be a place to listen to the creators participating in this project - Bruno Duarte (Portugal), Vaclav Kunes (Czech Republic), Jivko Jeliazkov (Bulgaria), Agnieszka Jachym, Jerzy Kaźmierczak and Zbigniew Kocięba (Poland) and Davide Valrosso (Italy), - who will share experiences and reflections on the creation / production of their screendance pieces for the CLASH! festival.
Each day of the Festival starts at 6 pm CET (Bruxelles time) and is introduced by a brief presentation of the theme of the day by the representatives of the CLASH! project partners.
Day 1
Theme: Audience Development. The Positive Impact of Pandemic Situation on Relationship with our Audiences.
Day 2
Theme: Optimal Training for the Contemporary Dancer & Involvement of the Public in Dancer’s Everyday Life.
Day 3
Theme: Hybrid Training for Today’s Dancers & New Training Path Strategies.
Day 4
Theme: Culture Diplomacy as Tool for Better Achievements Before and After the New Normal.
Day 5
Theme: Creative Processes.
Day 6
Theme: CLASH! Experience: Lessons Learnt, New Paths and Perspectives.
