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Turkish artists, especially dancers, musicians and videoartists have difficulty creating new productions. The scarcity of grants and subsidies from institutions, have resulted, that artists independently has sought a way out of this problem. In this framework iDans was born in Istanbul, and has been organized for the last 6 years by the Bimeras Cultural Foundation. The International Festival of Contemporary Dance and Performance of Istanbul is one of the best in Turkey, and now one that is among the 14 best in Europe since iDans has been accepted, for their professionalism, in the European Culture Commission´s program .
This sixth edition will be held from October 2012 to May 2013, under the name of “Silk Road of Dance”. So iDans 06 will be structured around the metaphor of the Silk Road.
Recall that the Silk Road was a network of trade routes between Asia and Europe that stretched from China, Syria and now Turkey (formerly Constantinople) to Europe. So it was a huge network of exchange of goods, but not only that, but its ramifications had other exchange, crosses between cultures, religions and people …
This is precisely what we want to convey in iDans 06. In addition to established artists and young talents in Europe and the Mediterranean coast, also contemporary performing arts of East and Southeast Asia take part. Thus, different styles, movements, expressions, will converge, to cross, to mix and be influenced in a contest dedicated to an intercultural mix, taking as its theme or main thread, the Silk Road.
In parallel, iDans also develops Critical Endeavor Turkey, journalistic criticism workshop performing arts as an education and development program for those specializing in contemporary dance and performing arts journalism.
If you want more information you can visit the 06 iDans website and find out about artists, performance spaces: http://www.idans.info/2010/index.php?Festival=idans06&Application=index&Language=en&Url=&
If you rent apartments in Istanbul, do not forget that the streets will be celebrating the iDans 06, one of best Contemporary Dance and Performance festivals in Europe.
