A renewed project for the dramatic arts and dance scene

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF PERFORMING ARTS HUESCA 2010

At the 2009 Conference we placed emphasis on the reasons for programming contemporary dance and theatre, but this time we are going to focus on the actions to implement a new model of artistic production and programming. We will leave restrictive possibilism and paralysing victimism on one side and we will simply enter into action. In this sense, we will define the tools necessary to carry out the performing arts “revolution”.

The necessary bases and some solutions were already presented at the last Conference (the presentations can be downloaded here). The focus of the debates was on contemporary artistic creation, artistic spaces for the future, the role of the artistic creator as a social entrepreneur, the ethics of public theatre programmers and the spectator as an active subject. Following this script, the guest speakers and participants will start to reflect upon how to determine the lines of application for this new model of performing arts.

The “changes” that the guest speakers are going to propose will be set out in three themed sessions, according to a criterion that was already developed in the previous year. So, on the first day, changes will be proposed in the artistic and creative universe: “Creative revolution”. The second day will address the changes in connection with people and society: “Spectator’s revolution”, and the third will propose solutions to transform the political and economic model that sustains the cultural system: “Institutional revolution”.

In times of crisis, the system contradictions are heightened and new points of view appear as well as new transformation possibilities. Bearing this in mind, we will combine our efforts to seek the new model that is going to emerge from the crisis. This must adapt to the social reality of the moment, adapting to the changes and perspectives of the post-industrial society, which is starting to find its way in the majority of the countries in the world. A new type of society, strongly influenced by new technologies and by a global feeling that will enable it to break the barriers of cultural isolation and reach out to an open, critical and participative future.

“Creative Revolution”

Tags: “contemporary artistic creation”, “digital technology”, “contact with reality”, “critical vision of the world”, “creative collaborations”, “nomad creation”, “diversity of spaces”, “multi-disciplinary creation”, “diversity of disciplines”.

Moderator:
Nati Buil (Director of TRAYECTOS festival)

Speakers:

• Jean-Marc Adolphe (Director of MOUVEMENT magazine - France)
• Sonia Gómez (Dancer / performer / promoter)
• Juan Nicolas (Director of CENTRO PARRAGA creation centre - Murcia)
  

“Institutional Revolution”

Tags: “political independence”, “creative entrepreneurs”, “social economy”, “arm’s length”, “peers assessment”, “cultural sustainability”, “single thinking”, “ethic codes”

Moderator:
María López Insausti (President of ARES – Performing Arts Companies Association of Aragon- and TEATRO DEL TEMPLE producer)

Speakers:

• Leo Pot (General Director of THEATERS TILBURG – the Netherlands)
• Florenci Guntin (Platform for a Catalan Arts Council)
• Denis Bergeron (Management and distribution consultant & Director of ART CIRCULATION – Canada)

“Spectator’s Revolution”

Tags: “participation”, “education”, “active theatres”, “social communities”, “public spaces”, “minority social groups”, “different cultures”, “empowerment”

Moderator:
Juan José Vázquez (Deputy Minister of Education, Culture and Sports of the ARAGON GOVERNMENT)

Speakers:

• Jean Michel Lucas (Lecturer at the RENNES 2 UNIVERSITY - France)
• Cesc Casadesus (Director of MERCAT DE LES FLORS theatre – Barcelona)
• Doro Siepel (Director of THEATER ZUIDPLEIN in Rotterdam - the Netherlands)
  

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