14 - 29 June 2008

The 6^th Festival of Contemporary Dance of Venice Biennal, directed by Ismael Ivo and entitled Beauty, this year is going to propose twelve performances – five of which to be world premiered – a workshop of chorographical training whose results will be an experiment of production for four young choreographers and a video-installation visible for the whole period of the festival. The festival will be held in the venues  of the Arsenal and at the Malibran Theatre and it will be introduced by a symposium to discuss the theme of beauty, together with dancers and choreographers as well as studiers, writers and journalists.

PROGRAMME
Beauty Symposium
Meetings and lectures
Entrance to the Corderie – Arsenale
14 June, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. / 3 p.m. – 6 p.m.

David Michalek (USA)
Slow Dancing [European premiere] video-installation
Entrance to the Corderie – Arsenale
14 - 29 June, 6 p.m. - 11 p.m. (closed on 18 and 23 June)

Ballet National de Marseille (France)
Métamorphoses [Italian premiere]
Teatro alle Tese – Arsenale
14 - 16 June, 8 p.m.
15 June, 10 p.m.

Bonachela Dance Company (UK)
Square Map of Q4 [Italian premiere]
Teatro Piccolo Arsenale
14Man will June, 10 p.m.
15 June, 8 p.m.

Stephen Petronio Dance Company (USA)
Beauty and the Brut / Bloom / This is the Story of a Girl in a World [Italian premiere]
Teatro Ma

libran
15 June, 6:00 p.m.
17 June, 7:30 p.m.

Balletto Civile (Italy)
Creatura [world premiere]
Teatro alle Vergini - Arsenale
16 - 17 June, 10 p.m.

Choreographic Collision Part 2
Presentation of the choreographic research workshop
Telecom Italia Future Centre
19 - 20 June, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
24 - 25 June, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.

The Francesca Harper Project (USA)
The Fragile Stone Theory 2K8 / Interactive Feast [world premiere]
Teatro Piccolo Arsenale
19 June, 10 p.m.
20 June, 8 p.m.

Ballet Preljocaj (France)
Larmes Blanches / Eldorado (Sonntags-Abschied) [Italian premiere]
Teatro Malibran
20 June, 8 p.m.
21 June, 6 p.m.

Wayne McGregor - Random Dance (UK)
Entity [Italian premiere]
Teatro alle Tese - Arsenale
20 June, 10 p.m.
21 - 22 June, 10 p.m.

Letizia Renzini (Italy)
La bambola di carne [world premiere]
Teatro alle Vergini - Arsenale
21 - 22 June, 10 p.m.

Susanne Linke (Germany)
Schritte verfolgen II – reconstruction [Italian premiere]
Teatro Piccolo Arsenale
24 - 25 June, 10 p.m.

Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet (USA)
Irregular Pearl [Italian premiere] / Rasa [Italian premiere]
Teatro alle Tese – Arsenale
26 - 27 - 28 June, 8 p.m.

Spellbound Dance Company (Italy)
Don Giovanni – Il gioco di Narciso [world premiere]
Teatro Piccolo Arsenale
28 June, 6 p.m.
29 June, 8 p.m.

Pneuma Dance Theater (Italy)
Chain of Feathers [world premiere]
Teatro alle Vergini - Arsenale
28 - 29 June, 10 p.m.