With great pleasure Mosaico Danza with INTERPLAY festival announces the winning for the second year in a row of the EFFEA Grant – European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists, co-funded by European Union.
The grant is destined to support projects realized in network with European festivals with the aim of sustaining emerging artists, their professional growth and the mobility of young creativity.
Mosaico Danza has always been playing a crucial role in the national landscape for the scouting and networking activity through which it encourages young artists to discover “other” scenarios through taking part in network projects and internationalisation of Italian performing art.
In partnership with Dance Festival Malta (project leader), Jerusalem International Dance Week, Aerowaves Festival Sofia organizzato da Derida Dance Center and Quinzena de Dança de Almada – International Dance Festival, Interplay Festival has hosted in residency in May 2024 the choreographic project Dance Beyond Borders.
This hybrid residency brings together a collective of artists to investigate storytelling (through Dance & Theatre) that is inclusive of a historical perspective when talking about people seeking safety. It assesses how imperialism, colonialism & racism shape the way we tell stories of Displacement & Borders. The development of the piece is informed by an intertextual approach together with gathering perspectives from local & refugee communities in Israel & Italy. The residency aims to enable the development of a performance & work-in-progress presentation in Malta, and a dialogue between the artists & festival partners about the needs, considerations, & touring management of cross-disciplinary productions, with an eye towards future touring of the performance.
Dance Beyond Borders (DBB) brings together contemporary dancer Julienne Schembri & flamenco dancer Deborah Falzon in their shared inquiry into the power of movement for social change. They unite in their belief that arts & culture can help us see forced migration & displacement differently: by creating connections across differences & representing the voices & experiences of refugees in performance.
