𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑜𝑟 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑎 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑑𝑜𝑜𝑟 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 (𝐵𝑒 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑚) 𝘢𝘵 𝐹𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑜𝑚 𝑆𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝐹𝑀 𝐷𝑎𝑦 3 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑚𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠. 𝐾𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑙𝑦 𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑐𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛.
🎟️ 𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐓𝐒 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐍𝐎𝐖 🎟️
𝑇𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑡𝑠 𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐷𝑎𝑦 3 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑡 ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑎𝑦 3 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑚𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦.
𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬: Douglas Comley (Malta/Wales) - Danae & Dionysios (Greece) - Clémence Juglet (France) - ŻfinMalta (Malta) - Min Kim (South Korea) - Dr Paula Guzzanti (Q&R Session)
🩰 𝐃𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐎𝐍 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐉𝐄𝐂𝐓 - 𝐃𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐥𝐞𝐲 (𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐚/𝐖𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬)
Led by distinguished dance artist and choreographer Douglas Comley (Wales/Malta), this initiative is dedicated to honouring the creativity, diversity, and life experience of mature dancers, culminating in a live theatre performance during Dance Festival Malta 2025.
Supported by: St Michael's Foundation For Education
🌄 𝐅𝐀́𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐀 - 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐞 & 𝐃𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐬 (𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐜𝐞)
“Sitting on top the horse's back, sleep took me over and the mountains laughed. It has been forever since the first day yet we walk, carrying the weight of the memories our ancestors left. Kings and Queens, beggars and thieves, are masks that we wore to survive the dream. Is the sun burning my face? Or it’s just a cold breeze? That cleansing my fate from the unforgiving sin. Now the nightmares have gone hearing David's song and I can rest into peace.I swear to the bird and I swear to the tree, I will not stop walking until I find the sea”. “Fárisa” is a duet created for outdoor spaces in the context of the “Pilgrims” project. The work follows two characters’ need for genuine connection and contact as they remain in close proximity. It is inspired by the notion of pilgrimage as a simulation of the human journey through life, of our relationship with animals and the natural world. How can two separate trajectories meet and travel together? How do we build relationships on shared connection and mutual support? How can the established hierarchy of humans and animals be redefined?
⚙️ 𝐈 𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐎 - 𝐂𝐥𝐞́𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐉𝐮𝐠𝐥𝐞𝐭 (𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞)
Time becomes a measure instrument of excellence. It obsesses us, terrifies us, makes us feel guilty and give us a sense of urgency. We put our heart and soul into our work. We constantly want to master time, to control it but it is an illusion. We must maintain an idealised self-image, until the point of ignoring its own value and wealth in the benefit of work. Only one objective remains: to make the most of this time again and again, until you get satisfaction, and then, eager for the best, we repeat this pattern indefinitely. You are trapped in a race against time, in which we exhaust ourselves providing more and more energy.
👥 𝐒𝐎𝐌𝐈𝐆𝐋𝐈𝐀𝐍𝐙𝐀 - 𝐙̇𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐚 (𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐚)
Somiglianza (Prélude à l’Après-midi d’un faune) is an ironic and joyful homage to Nijinsky’s legendary creation and his renowned modern ballet, L’après-midi d’un faune. Combining fin de siècle imagery with exotic staging, Somiglianza questions symbolism in Western society. Nijinsky’s creation of Debussy’s L’après-midi d’un faune, one of the most famous modern ballets, serves as a starting point for Kor’sia to showcase their unique vision of dance iconography. Blending end-of-century imagery with contemporary entertainment, the work is a captivating journey through the history of dance, reinterpreted with a modern and innovative perspective.
⚖️ 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐆𝐔𝐈𝐋𝐓𝐘? - 𝐌𝐢𝐧 𝐊𝐢𝐦 (𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐊𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐚)
Are You Guilty? Explores the famous ‘bystander effect’, the social psychology theory that people are less likely to help someone in need if there are other people present. Shall we stay silent or act? Who is the perpetrator and who is the victim?
💬 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐃𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐚 𝐆𝐮𝐳𝐳𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢
Dr Paula Guzzanti is a dance artist, scholar, somatic movement practitioner, and tango dancer and teacher. She specialises in artistic and embodied research practices. In her research, Paula explores the role of the sensorial body in fostering responsible decision-making when designing urban landscapes that connect us to the natural environment. She is particularly interested in developing methodologies to deepen our interaction with the world, including the use of digital technologies to document sensory connections to places. She began her dance training in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and later continued in Ireland, where she earned a practice-based PhD in Dance Improvisation and Collaborative Performance Making at Queen’s University Belfast. She now resides in Malta, where she is the Head of the Dance Studies Department at the University of Malta.
This event is supported by Teatru Manoel
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