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Biennale programme

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Performance image Beyond Sensation

BEYOND SENSATION

Jury selection

Performance

Beyond Sensation is based on the concept of “creating the new with tradition and building the old with future”. With cooperation and exchange between the two parties, the  future image is portrayed with the present ...

Theatre

Bounce!

Bounce!

Jury selection

Performance

Bounce! happily discusses the failure, an universal experience, an unexpected start for a new way of living.

Dance

Lower primary school

Middle school

Performance image Čázevulošnieida - The Underwater girl

Čázevulošnieida – THE UNDERWATER GIRL

Jury selection

Performance

Čázevulošnieida, directly translated to The underwater girl, is an interdisciplinary work of art. The work is both an art installation and a dance art performance based on the Sea Sámi story ‘Undervannsjenta’ and ab ...

Dance

Preschool

Chotto Desh (Storbritannien), bibu 2016

Chotto Desh (UK)

Jury selection

Performance

Akram Khan’s Desh was an instant hit with audiences and critics alike when it was first presented in 2011.

Dance

English

De Passant, show image, bibu 2018, Photo: Kathleen Michiels

De Passant

Jury selection

Performance

Some people feel at home wherever they are. Others spend their whole life looking, wandering hither and thither, longing for a place to put down roots and eventually come home to. But what exactly is home? 

Theatre

Dance

Show image, bibu 2016

Echoa (France)

Jury selection

Performance

French dance company Arcosm presents the highly praised ECHOA. The production reflects the company’s objective to build bridges between artistic disciplines and languages.

Dance

Musical

English

Future Beats

Future Beats

Jury selection

Performance

The earliest rhythm can be perceived as ritualized everyday occurrences: Calm and attention, satisfaction and protest, hunger and fulfillment.

Musical theatre

Preschool

Family

Konferenz der wesentlichen Dinge, bibu 2018, Photo: Julius Matuschik

Konferenz der wesentlichen Dinge

Jury selection

Performance

What would happen if you could chose your own family? What kind of freedom would it create? Who would take care of whom? 

Theatre

English

Listening Party

Listening Party

Jury selection

Performance

It's a teenage party and they cry if they want to. 

Dance

Middle school

Lower secondary school

Upper secondary school

Performance image Mantis and the Bee

MANTIS AND THE BEE

Jury selection

Performance

Mantis and the Bee is based on a story of the first people.  It is a visual, musical, and humorous exploration of /Xam mythology and the origin of life. The performance uses dance, masks, puppetry, Khoikhoi, and Eng ...

Middle school

Puppetry

Theatre

Performance image Mitatim

MISTATIM

Jury selection

Performance

An unforgettable story of reconciliation, Mistatim is about the taming of a wild horse and the truest of friendships. Under a prairie sky, a simple wooden fence is all that separates Calvin on his ranch and Speck on ...

Dance

Theatre

Oorlog, show image, bibu 2018

Oorlog

Jury selection

Performance

A balloon, slowly loosing it’s air. Little helicopters falling of a tree. A shower that weeps. An audience that shoots and three soldiers on roller-skates, speaking backwards with shock.

Theatre

SALTBUSH

Jury selection

Performance

Saltbush is a plant that can be found throughout Australia in almost all Aboriginal lands, and so it represents a common thread between all the different nations of Australian Indigenous peoples. The narrative centr ...

Dance

Preschool

Performance image Shel We

SHEL WE

Jury selection

Performance

Shel We is an enchanting, playfully intriguing and visually stunning dance show created by Tupua Tigafua.  A highly accomplished dancer and choreographer who has had an illustrious career dancing for some of Aotearo ...

Dance

English

Middle school

The Ballad of the Apathetic Son and his Narcissistic Mother

The Ballad of the Apathetic Son and his Narcissistic Mother

Jury selection

Performance

This high-energy performance exposes the inherent narcissism that is at the centre of motherhood and how this becomes a burden to the child embarking on adulthood.

Dance

Theatre

Middle school

Lower secondary school

Upper secondary school

English