Oriente Occidente festival 2022

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Oriente Occidente festival 2022

Festival

https://youtu.be/p4-s23eWncw Taking place in Rovereto, Italy, from 3-10 September 2022, Europe Beyond Access partner Oriente Occidente will be incorporating SubPac technology and audio introductions to performances to ensure that Deaf, hard-of-hearing, Blind and visually impaired audiences have access to the festival programme. The performances that will feature the use of SubPacs are: é

Oriente Occidente presents PRESENTI ACCESSIBILI


Europe Beyond Access partner Oriente Occidente is leading on PRESENTI ACCESSIBILI (ACCESSIBLE PRESENT), the first major all-Italy conference on arts and disability taking place from 27 to 29 April 2022. The initiative – run in conjunction with the Italian Ministry of Culture and the Region of Lombardy as part of

Two white female dancers. The first is a wheelchair user with her back on the ground and legs facing upwards. The other does a headstand against the wheels of her her chair with both her legs off at opposite jaunty angles.

Mixed Doubles at Oriente Occidente

Festival

The Oriente Occidente Dance Festival presents the Italian premiere of Mixed Doubles, four duets with disabled and non-disabled dancers created by Faizah Grootens, Venetsiana Kalampaliki, Diego Tortelli, and Roser López Espinosa. The duets have been commissioned by Holland Dance Festival (The Netherlands), Onassis STEGI (Greece), Skånes Dansteater (Sweden) and Oriente

Chiara Bersani’s Moby Dick at Oriente Occidente

Festival

Oriente Occidente Dance Festival (Italy) presents the world premiere of Moby Dick, Chiara Bersani’s new creation for Swedish integrated Danskompaniet Spinn, directed by Veera Suvalo Grimberg. This dance production has been co-produced by Dansnät Sverige and Oriente Occidente Festival in the framework of Europe Beyond Access. Click here to book tickets. In a

Stopgap Dance Company: Frock and Frippery


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-ceQEuhgZU 6 September 2019 at Oriente Occidente Dance Festival Stopgap Dance Company is a British company who make exhilarating dance productions with disabled and non-disabled artists. In Frock, six dancers collide in an uplifting dance riot set to an exclusive art rock soundtrack by Hannah Miller of Moulettes. In this quirky dance

A disabled white female performer with blond hair balances on one leg above a man writhing on the floor. A black and white photo of a performance outside.

Mixed doubles at Kalamata Dance Festival


Cornered (Holland Dance Festival). The Kalamata Dance Festival, in partnership with Onassis STEGI presents Mixed Doubles, four duets with disabled and non-disabled dancers created by Faizah Grootens, Venetsiana Kalampaliki, Diego Tortelli, and Roser López Espinosa. The duets have been commissioned by Holland Dance Festival (the Netherlands), Onassis STEGI (Greece), Oriente Occidente Dance Festival (Italy),

Two white female dancers. The first is a wheelchair user with her back on the ground and legs facing upwards. The other does a headstand against the wheels of her her chair with both her legs off at opposite jaunty angles.

Time to Act: preliminary findings


Time to Act: How lack of knowledge in the cultural sector creates barriers for disabled artists and audiences An international closed-group webinar for European policymakers, funders, directors, staff at Ministries of Culture, and cultural professionals. On 27 April, the British Council and On the Move presented the initial findings of a major

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Subpac: tactile audio at Oriente Occidente Dance Festival

Festival

Part of Europe Beyond Access is focused on increasing access to theatre and dance performances for disabled audiences. In Italy, our partner Oriente Occidente have been working to engage the Deaf community in their region with the innovative use of SubPacs, a technology that provides a physical experience of sound

Huge neon pink writing displays the words 'Peep Show'. Underneath sits a red chair facing a hole in the wall and red velvet curtains either side.

Teatro La Ribalta: Un peep show per Cenerentola


Premiere: A peep show for Cinderella Tickets: 3 Euros | 20:00 and 21:30 By La Ribalta Theater, a company of predominantly disabled performers, who exclaim on their website: "theatre is a necessity, a needle for sewing relationships, a political act, a place of social redemption, a place in Bolzano for both

Two female performers sit on a sofa as they create a site-specific work

Artist laboratory #4 : the dramaturgy of movement transitions


The fourth Europe Beyond Access lab has been hosted by Oriente Occidente on the theme 'Highlighting the grey zones. Research on the dramaturgy of movement transitions'. In this instalment, participating artists have explored how their unique movement vocabularies can be recorded and documented through the dramaturgical process. It's been an in-depth artistic process, led by Gaia Clotilde Chernetich.   The