Bolzano Danza is a leading festival of contemporary dance, both nationally and internationally. Organised by the Haydn Foundation, it brings its contagious energy to the city every July, attracting a diverse and enthusiastic audience. Inclusion, participation and sustainability are key to the festival. It is open to societal diversity and ready to capture our world in a state of flux \u2013 through the universal language of dance.<\/p>\n
The performances, which showcase the best contemporary choreographers and dancers and encompass a wide range of genres and languages, are centred around the Teatro Comunale, from which they radiate out to a number of prominent venues throughout the city, reshaping its perception thanks to projects involving artivism and social interaction. Alongside the performances, the festival also offers dance workshops of all styles organised by the S\u00fcdtiroler Kulturinstitut.<\/p>\n
A seasoned cultural manager with years of work in France and Italy, Anouk Aspisi<\/strong> (Montpellier, 1968) read Political Sciences at the University of Montpellier and then went on to obtain a Master\u2019s degree in Communication and Media from the Audiencia Business School in Nantes. Her twenty-five years of work featured collaborations with prestigious public administrations and private entities. Aspisi has created numerous projects, focusing on conversations with the public and audience development. She has collaborated with the Romaeuropa Festival advising them on international relations (2000-2004), with the Fran\u00e7ois Pinault Foundation in Venice (2008-2010), with the Institut fran\u00e7ais Italia as cultural attach\u00e9 (2012-2017) \u2013 where she created the multidisciplinary La Francia in Scena<\/em> \u2013, as the General Secretary of the Fondazione Nuovi Mecenati (2013-2018), as the Head of Communication at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia (2017-2018) and as the General Secretary of the Maison de la Danse in Lyon (2018-2022). She was also a consultant for artistic creation between 2022 and 2024 to French Minister of Culture, Rima Abdul Malak, on matters such as live performances, festivals, music, and the visual arts.<\/p>\n After his exceptional international career as a dancer, Olivier Dubois<\/strong> (Colmar, 1972) has been giving space to his creative endeavours since 2006. His first work, Pour tout l\u2019or du monde<\/em>, won him the Prix Jardin d\u2019Europe in Vienna, which is a European Prize for Emerging Choreography. His oeuvre <\/em>features Faune(s), <\/em>made for the 2008 Avignon Festival, Spectre, <\/em>made for the 2010 Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, and L\u2019homme de l\u2019Atlantique<\/em>, a duet for the Biennale de la Danse in Lyon. In 2009, he started the \u00c9tude critique pour un trompe-l\u2019\u0153il <\/em>trilogy with R\u00e9volution<\/em>, followed by the Rouge<\/em> and Trag\u00e9die<\/em> solos in 2011 and 2012 respectively. When Marseille was chosen as 2013 European Capital of Culture, he staged the \u00c9l\u00e9gie<\/em> for the Ballet National de Marseille; he staged Come out <\/em>for the Ballet de Lorraine in 2019. In 2013, he won the Italian critics\u2019 Danza&Danza Prize, and in 2014 he was appointed Director of the Ballet du Nord-Centre Chor\u00e9graphique National de Roubaix by the French Ministry of Culture. He was also awarded the Prix Fedora Van Cleef & Arpels and, in 2019, was nominated Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. Dubois is no stranger at Bolzano Danza, having been invited as a guest to numerous editions. Indeed, he created choreographies for the festival such as Les M\u00e9moires d\u2019un seigneur<\/em> (2015), Swan Blast<\/em> (2019), and For Gods Only\/Sacre #3<\/em> (2024).<\/p>\n The Haydn Foundation of Bolzano and Trento is one of the most eminent centres of artistic innovation in Trentino-Alto Adige. Its mission is to support high-quality symphonic music, opera and dance, promoting intercultural dialogue and encouraging social and personal growth. Since 2015 it has been organising Bolzano Danza, a festival that has developed its own strong identity by focussing on inclusion, sustainability and experiments with various styles and languages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bolzano Danza is a leading festival of contemporary dance, both nationally and internationally. Organised by the Haydn Foundation, it brings its contagious energy to the city every July, attracting a diverse and enthusiastic audience. Inclusion, participation and sustainability are key to the festival. It is open to societal diversity and ready to capture our world […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-festival.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1106","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n