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Edinburgh International Festival to be a ‘phone-free’ environment
An increasing amount of touring artists are demanding their concerts be phone-free. Now, Edingburgh's annual celebration of the performing arts is also asking audience members to put their phones away during the performances.
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Suffering in silence: Brussels arts festival tackles childhood trauma
At the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels, French choreographer Boris Charmatz and Italian director Romeo Castellucci turned performance into an exploration of intimate fragility by interpreting childhood trauma through silence and by transforming a parking lot into a cathedral.
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Inside KFDA: Belgium's festival for established and emerging artists
The Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels is small in budget but big in ambition. Each year, it brings together Belgium’s Flemish and French-speaking communities while showcasing artists from around the world — a fitting opening to the European festival season.
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The Royal Danish Theatre makes its debut in Astana
Astana has hosted, for the first time, the Royal Danish Theatre, one of the world’s oldest and most respected performing arts institutions. The Kazakhstan capital is increasingly positioning itself as a place where European and Asian artistic traditions meet and interact.
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Polish theatre uses dance to reimagine 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'
A play without words, but with a whole lot of emotion. Polish choreographer Piotr Jeznach is reinterpreting Oscar Wilde's classic 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' as primarily a dance performance and it makes you want more.
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Meet Antonio Najarro, the choreographer taking Spanish dance global
From the Malaga Fair to the great theatres of the world, from the Olympic Games to Disney: Antonio Najarro's career is that of a creator who has taken Spanish dance beyond its traditional limits without ever losing its essence.
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Renaissance: Angelin Preljocal's Parc is reborn at Paris Opera
Throughout February, Angelin Preljocaj revives "Le Parc", his masterpiece created 32 years ago, with the young dancers of the Paris Opera. Whispers, glances and sensual pas de deux plunge the audience into the heart of the games of love and desire.
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Fiction from fact: María La Ribot's royal portrait of 'Joanna the Mad'
Choreographer María La Ribot brought the curtains down on her illustrious career at Europalia in Brussels with 'Juana Ficción', a poetic portrait of the Spanish queen’s inner world, the men who tormented her and an exploration of the ongoing stigma of madness.
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Jane Austen's 250th birthday: Having a ball at a Regency-era fantasy
Fans of English novelist Jane Austen are celebrating her birth 250 years ago, on 16 December 1775. Nowadays, she's a pop culture phenomenon and, with 'Austenmania' spreading, French "Janeites" have been gathering for a Regency-themed ball to re-enact dancing scenes from her beloved books.
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Berlin and New York ballet stars shine at Kazakhstan’s dance festival
Berlin State Ballet and American Ballet Theatre stars led the IV Freedom Festival with "Paquita" staged by Altynai Asylmuratova in Kazakhstan, while the Berlin Ballet Company’s contemporary program explored the future of ballet.
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A day in the life of an Olympic lighting ceremony priestess
This week sees the Olympic flame pass from Greece to Italy en route to Milan for the Winter Games. Euronews spent a day behind the scenes with the dancers and actors who perform at the historic lighting ceremony as it's been practised since the start of the movement in Ancient Olympia.