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Romaeuropa Festival: Performance, Dance and more!

To stage our bodies, is without doubt one of the oldest forms of expression in history. A scenario. The public. Facing the scene is divided between the audience and the performer role, perform a dance, sing a song. The impact of the performing arts continues till our days. Facing with all the current possibilities in which the spectator can access real-time to intervene in digital or virtual reality spaces, where there is no accurate judgment to the scope of work submitted, and also reduces the aesthetic experience in a group monitor and some other devices, performing arts remain a possibility to open a dialogue and a confrontation. The dance thus becomes meanings and senses equipment, performance, an intervention in semantic fields that are above the common denominator. Live music in the same way, generates extremely important sensory moments: no disk is similar to the experience of hearing a live band, and the unique possibilities of this experience, the concert as a source of new music which, despite sounding like will never be in the document that is a studio recording. Unlike the rest of formants of nowadays-contemporary art, performing arts have the ability to impact the public at a much deeper level yet in a traditional way. Facing the great morass of recent conceptual possibilities of art in which ideas are indistinct or matter, or mind and becomes dissolved in the white cube of the gallery, but dance, drama and current performance handle both complex concepts and the implementation stage, the shock generated in front of people, which is always much more immediate, and thus the reaction to the...

Trinity College Rome

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Alessandro Dari Jeweler

One of the most original jewelers in Florence, with designs which are reminiscent of modernism.

In-Edit Festival in Barcelona

Until the 6th of November, you can enjoy the ninth edition of Beefeater In-Edit 2011 in Barcelona, or what we know as the International Musical Documentary Film Festival in Barcelona, which this year will delight the crowd with the presentation of 54 documentary films, of which 45 are premieres. Despite this being the ninth Beefeater In-Edit in Barcelona, it´s the festival´s 24th edition around the world, made for the people who enjoy this particular film genre in which great filmmakers have worked, such as Murray Lerner, director of the film ´From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China´, to whom they will pay a deserved tribute. This Festival has given origin to the second edition of the Beefeater In-Edit International Musical Documentary Market, which goes from the 3rd to the 6th of November. In this space created for producers, distributors, programmers and television and film professionals from all over the world. you can find the documentaries which were presented last year at the Beefeater In-Edit Festival and the ones which will premiere in this edition. The screening locations are the same ones as the 2010 edition, among which we find the cinemas Aribau Multisalas Sala 5 and Aribau club Sala 2. Also, the Hotel Pulitzer and the Hotel Regina will be ready for the press meetings. The jury of this contest is formed by Lidia Zimmermann, Juanjo Javierre, Eddie Berg, Brad Adamson and Álex Navarro. In the programme of national premieres of the Official Section, we find the documentary ´Jaime Urrutia: The strength of habits´, which runs for 115 minutes and we se the route of this composer, musician...

Carta Alta Masks Venice

Venetian masks are n essential object, not just to be used in the famous Carnival, but also to collect.

Ambassador Theatre New York

The Ambassador Theatre on Broadway has been showing successfully for many years ´Chicago´, the musical.

Disneyland Paris

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Beatriz Preciado in Seville

The Andalucian International University and Centre of Art will carry out, between the 2nd and 4th of November, ´Cuerpo Común. Guía de Modelos Somatopolíticos´ (Common Body. Somatopolitical Model Guide and of their possible diverted uses ), a cycle of seminars and conferences on the compelx relation between the body, as a ´soma´ or live body, in which our society has fixated into a physical body handled and manipulated by a hegemonic power and bio-politics. The activities in workshops, seminars and conferences will take place in the Monastery of La Cartuja in Seville. In this interesting meeting of intellectuals, students and people interested on the subject of how current society regulates and modifies somatopolitics, we can get to know and influence our environment and ourselves, creating self-conscience from our existance and the sociopolitical relations which determine the place of the body in the public eye. At the seminar there´ll be the famous Spanish philosopher Beatriz Preciado. Born in Burgos in 1970, she´s revolutionized the world of discussion with her contributions on Queer theory, which refers to the sociopolitical construction of sexual identities generated from hegemony. Preciado is an architect, philosopher and got a doctorate from Princeton University, she has a masters in Contemporary Philosophy and Gender Theory from the New School of Social Research in New York, and has been a disciple of Jacques Derrida and Agnes Heller. Her work is, today, one of the most outstanding in Queer Theory and she´s published a series of books which are a route of thought on the invention of the biological body as a political body. Her book ´Counter-sexual Manifest´ is a...

SegwayCAT in Barcelona

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