Performing and Visual Arts
dal 4/5/2000 al 27/5/2000
Segnalato da
4/5/2000
Performing and Visual Arts
KunstenFESTIVALdesArts, Bruxelles
Come Together for a Month of Events
In the plural because it is a festival
of the arts. Each element in the
programme is the result of an
individual encounter with an artist.
Each is free to choose Theatre,
music, dance, cinema, multimedia
and/or visual arts or a combination
of these, and each is free to leave his or her usual
discipline to try a new one.
Kunsten ET des Arts. Take a look at the street
signs. Two languages can be seen all over
Brussels, our federal capital. As a truly international
city we were duty-bound to bring together French
and Dutch-speaking artists and audiences and then
to listen to the creative resonances of the many
communities now rooted in Brussels. It is a festival
of both here and there.
Contemporary. In this instance we mean having a
sensitivity towards the here and now. Nothing to do
with the old idea of the impenetrable avant-garde!
International. Inter is the idea of a reciprocal
relationship, like intercontinental, intercommunity,
intercultural, interdisciplinary and interaction.
Identity withers when not irrigated by exchange. For
the audience and artists to understand each other
fully, the Festival is providing surtitles in French and
Dutch, as at the cinema, with each creation
performed in its language of origin.
Creation. The Festival s focal point is the creation
of exciting new projects that it initiates and follows,
produces or co-produces. In May 2000 it is offering
premieres in Brussels of twenty creations from
Belgium and abroad.
1994/1995/1996/1998/2000/2001. Having started
annually, the Festival is now offering its second
biennial event. The good news is that from 2001 the
KunstenFESTIVALdesArts will be taking place each
spring.
KunstenFESTIVALdesArts
Brussels,
BE Belgium