Be Festival

Touring The UK & EUROPE

Best of BE FESTIVAL 2014

Travel across Europe in a night

This autumn, BE FESTIVAL will again tour the UK – and for the second time, Spain. You can see three award-winning festival favourites in one night, each half an hour long. The shows are followed by a chaired discussion with all the performers.

It’s a unique chance to see the very best of Europe in one evening, so BE part of it.

Dates & Venues

October

November

From the Waltz to the Mambo

loops & breaks

Waiting

From the Waltz to the Mambo

Radioballet (Hungary)

Choreographer / Director
Milan Ujvari

Cast
Milan Ujvari

Lighting design
Milan Ujvari

Photography
Csaba Mészáros

Awards
“Public’s Prize” and “The Best Solo Prize” 2012 Budapest International SoloDuo Festival, “Public’s Final Choice” Prize 2013 Stuttgart Internationales Solo Tanz Theater Festival, “Audience Prize” 2013 Gdansk International Solo Dance Contest

Website
www.radioballet-blog.blogspot.com

Winner: Best Individual Performer Prize, BE FESTIVAL 2014

In the hands and in the body of a single performer, a 1960’s Hungarian ballroom dance manual becomes a tool for questioning today’s dogmas surrounding beauty and education. A disarmingly straightforward, funny, and personal meeting of a vintage text and a contemporary performance language.

Radioballet are Hungarian dance artists, Bea Egyed and Milán Újvári. With cultural differences and shared understanding central to their work, they are particularly looking forward to performing in front of an English-speaking audience (with an English sense of humour!) for the first time at BE FESTIVAL 2014.

loops & breaks

Julia Schwarzbach (Austria)

Choreographer / Director
Julia Schwarzbach
 
Cast
Julia Schwarzbach
 
Music
Nic Lloyd
 
Photography
Ray Farhad Kazemi
David Bess
 
Co-produced by
Toihaus Theater Salzburg

Supported by
Kultur Stadt Salzburg, Kultur Land Salzburg, Austrian Cultural Forum London


Kultur-Land
Kultur-Land

Julia invites you, the audience, to make the action by responding to a series of shifting instructions prepared especially for the BE FESTIVAL crowd. The stage expands to become a blur of watching and performing, interpretation, cooperation and play, where everyone can join the game of finding common ground together, and where every contribution is precious.

Since studying at Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance and Roehampton University, London, Julia has worked with choreographers including Sasha Waltz, Rosalind Crisp, Ted Stoffer and Mia Lawrence. She is a member of tanz_house, a Salzburg based platform for choreography.

Waiting

Mokhallad Rasem (Belgium/Iraq)

Choreographer/Director
Mokhallad Rasem

Concept
Mokhallad Rasem

Cast
Bassim Altayeb
Lore Uyttendaele
Jessa Wildemeersch

Sound design
Saad Ibraheem

Lighting design
Mokhallad Rasem

Video montage
Saad Ibraheem

Camera & interviews
Mokhallad Rasem, Lore Uyttendaele, Jessa Wildemeersch

Photography
Saad Ibraheem

Supported by
Moussem, Toneelhuis

Website
www.toneelhuis.be

Winner: ACT Festival Prize , BE FESTIVAL 2014

It can be an interruption, a pause, or an obstacle to a future not yet begun. We wait for insight or for a bus. Until pain subsides. For word of a loved one, for toilet paper, money or for a visa. Different worlds clash quietly through traces of dance, performance and film in a meditation upon the fundamental human experience of waiting.

Mokhallad worked at the National Theatre of Iraq before the war changed the course of his life. Now resident director at Toneelhuis in Antwerp, Belgium, he won the 2013 Young Director’s award at the Saltzburger Festspiele for Romeo & Juliet.

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