festival

AKTO is a regional festival for contemporary arts which includes visual arts, performing arts, music and theory of culture. The main objective of Akto Festival is to open the cultural frameworks of a modern society through "recomposing" and redefining them in a new context.

Today, more than ever, it appears that phenomenon of melancholia is omnipresent and decisive. In any case, the losses in our time are manifold and numerous: the downfall of socialist projects, of the society as a whole, as a project, the disappearance of work and class, the loss of a viable alternative to the political economy of capitalism...

Plateaux is an international production festival for young artists in the field of experimental theater, performance and live-art. The festival aims to promote new experimental forms of performance by providing them with a professional platform.

POLYFORME organizes a video performance festival - Marseille / November 2009. All videos from all artists are accepted, and the "winner" will have the opportunity to have an exhibition in Marseille during the next year.

MIRfestival is an international contemporary art festival, focusing on the experiment at the crossroads of performing arts and visual new media. Named after the old orbital station, it aims to become a place where exciting art is being shown by Greek and International artists with a personal view of the world.

Teatarfest is an international meeting point of theater groups which have a special way to form their theatre expressions. Teatarfest's aims are: - creative and alternative projects, research the directing, performing, speech, movements, costumes, music and other important elements of theatre expressions; - projects which research new spaces and media.

The 090909 Upstage Festival aims to create a participatory space for collaboration, creation, and for the presentation of current cyberformance. The festival provides a platform (and shares the technichal expertise) to enable artists to experiment with the new medium, and to have their work seen alongside performances by internationally renowned practitioners - in a celebration of the evolution and diversity of cyberformance practices.

DISKURS considers itself as a platform for exchange, networking and artistic research. There will be a laboratory for artist collaboration; an internet radio will work towards DISKURS and accompany it during the festival. A retrospective will look back on previous DISKURS festivals. Yet again, the 25th DISKURS wants to trace and bring together new tendencies in the fields of performance, theatre, dance, music and installation.

The sixth edition of Festival NagiB will take place from September 15 to 18 2010 in Maribor, Slovenia. We call for projects that are undertaking a research in the medium itself and investigate new possibilities of expression. The works should not be shorter than 20 minutes, projects taking place outside of the traditional theatre space are welcome.

Newcomer talents and contemporary choreographers and dancers from all over the world are requested to apply for the competition with a new, original, imaginative and unique solo piece, a piece which displays unusual achievement. The solo must be presented either as a premiere or must have been performed on stage only during the previous 12 months.

BDP 2009 will present the latest production of BADco (Croatia), Rosana Hribar & Gregor Luštek (Slovenia), Madalina Dan (Romania), Dragana Bulut, Gillie Kleiman & Lígia Soares (Serbia), Griffon dance co. (Greece), Kinesthetic Project (Bulgaria) and Aleksandar Georgiev (Macedonia).

This is the second edition of the LocoMotion contemporary dance festival that, this year as well, aims to present an overview of the current discourses and practices in the field of contemporary dance, here and throughout the world. In five festival evenings, the audience will have opportunity to see and communicate with different dance creations, film projection and music concert.

Perforations – week of live art is a new festival in Croatia with the aim of initiating and supporting innovation in performing arts, starting collaboration projects with local and international arts organisations and festivals as well as to nurture the environment for further development of independent artists and cultural scene.

Zadar snova festival was founded in 1997 with a mission to provide an up to date art experience. It emphasizes on modern theatre, dance and music productions, art performances and challenges in fusions of arts and media. Festival has a history of presenting and supporting local independent artists, has produced a number of own and collaborative productions and is a member of regional and international culture networks.

POOL is a recurring format for dance- and animation film. Aiming for becoming a platform for dancer, choreographers, directors, artists, organizers and other interested people, POOL offers space for exchange of experiences, developing and advanced training, and presentation.

Crime, sexuality and gender are issues that we would like to explore within the frames of our festival. We are interested in wider definitions of crime (in relation to sexuality and gender) which would go beyond the regular time / geography frame as well as beyond concentration solely on the victims – whose destinies leave them displaced, murdered, raped, tortured, killed.