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06 iDans Istanbul

Cinta Blanch Istanbulite, Only-Be, Practical Guide to Istanbul

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... read more

The Cranberries concert in Barcelona and Madrid

Diana Rodríguez Pretel Barcelonian, Only-Be, Things to do in Barcelona

The Irish rock band returns to Spain. The Cranberries will present on October 5 at the Palace of Vistalegre in Madrid their sixth album called “Roses” But it will not be the only concert by the Irish, the day before they will be playing in Barcelona at the Club Sant Jordi. It has been two years since the Irish rock band visited our country, just at the time when they got back together after seven years apart. Now back on track with a new album which was released on February 14, produced by Stephen Street and recorded in May 2011 in Toronto and London called “Roses”, this is the first studio album by the band in ten years. For them, of course, it is very special. But, how did the form?. The Hogan brothers, once they finished school, began to help their parents who ran a bakery. One night during a concert they met Fergal Lawler, a hairdresser of Parteen. And this curious mix between bakers and hairdressers formed into what we now know as The Cranberries. Their rise to fame happened in the 90s with the album “Everybody else is doing it, so why can’t we?” Which achieved them stardom for the album became a commercial success with over 5 million copies sold in the U.S. and more than 40 million albums worldwide. Their other successes are “No Need To Argue”, “To the Faithful Departed” and “Bury the Hatchet”. In 1999 they surprised us with “Just My Imagination”, undoubtedly one of my favorite tunes by them . “Just My Imagination” was the third single from their fourth studio... read more

Films Shot in Barcelona (without Seeming Like It)

Maria Climent Barcelonian, Only-Be, Practical Guide to Barcelona

“Walking around New York is like walking through a large-scale Hollywood set” is a comparison well known in the history of world tourism. Obviously, Barcelona is not characterized as a city in this way but because of other no less special reasons: sun, sand, sangria and paella… Most people known of the Sagrada Familia, the parties in Gracia and even Joan Clos dancing to the rhythm of Carlinhos Brown. The truth is that this city has more often played a secondary than central character. But if you’re interested in finding the settings that you’ve seen on the big screen, we will name a few of the movies that were shot inBarcelona. They capture a bit of the city but not the whole. The Perfum by Tom Tykwer, 2006 Although this film is set in eighteenth-centuryParis, it was shot between Figueres, Besalú (Costa Brava) and Barcelona. The director, Tom Tykwer, chose to shoot it between Girona and Barcelona because these are places that “have better preserved the essence of the architecture” of the time. So, in the Gothic quarter they set up a market with tons of authentic fish that would have been worthy of the time period before sewers. Another part was set in the Laberint d´Horta and others, in the Poble Espanyol, where they filmed the famous final scene. REC by Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza, 2007 This film was shot almost entirely in the same block of buildings in the Rambla Catalunya (no. 34). Of course, they could also have been done in my town and no one would have noticed, but I... read more