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Murcia hosts an international festival and touring dance featuring artists with Down syndrome (04/05/2010)

Murcia is one of three European cities that host the Itínere Festival, organized by the Centro Municipal Puertas de Castilla, and then visit Cardiff (Wales) and Glasgow (United Kingdom).

Murcia City Council once again shows its commitment to the integration of people in all walks of life.

Thus, in the area of leisure and culture, 'Just Us' is a resident company at the center doors of Castile, a venue of this international festival and touring of contemporary dance artists have starring syndrome Down.

In all three companies involved: 'Just Us', founded in 2003 within the Partnership for People with Down Syndrome (Assido) of the Region of Murcia, 'Take This', established in Cardiff in the early 90's past under the auspices of the nonprofit organization Tan Dance, e 'Indepen-Dance', formed in Glasgow in 1996 to teach modern dance and creative movement composed of people with diverse abilities.

The objectives of this dance are ambulatory promote the exchange and dissemination of national and international dance stage products and dance-theater mobility support and make visible the collective movement arts and works by inserting them into programming in cultural offer of rooms, schools and theaters around the world, active exchange of professionals and performers, choreographers and teachers with diverse abilities, disabilities, erroneously called, and offer workshops, case studies, panel discussions, master classes and open rehearsals for the training methodologies and building processes.

These three companies will star in three days full of dance, workshops, master classes and open rehearsals in order to support mobility and highlight the artistic work of this group.

The event, which begins tomorrow and runs until Friday, will have two scenarios: Bernal and Teatro Municipal Center Gates himself of Castile.

Installation of El Palmar host three performances, starting at 21 hours, and the entrance is free:

Wednesday, May 5

Take This company, Cardiff, Wales (United Kingdom)

First part: "In dispute"

Second part: "This life"

Thursday, May 6

Indepen-Dance Company, of Glasgow, Scotland (UK)

First part: "To enjoy, joke and wander through life"

Part Two: "Whistler"

Friday, May 7

Company Así Somos, de Murcia

First part: "The journey of Bubul" (excerpt)

Part Two: "Alter Ego"

Doors at the Civic Center of Castile, after 17 hours, will take place on open rehearsals, also free of charge.

So tomorrow we will test the company, on Thursday and Friday Take This Indepen-Dance.

These activities are complemented by the implementation of creative dance workshops will be held tomorrow and Thursday.

Both will have the presence of special guest Haselbach Barbara, a professional from 1994 to 2005 was director of Advanced Studies of music education and dance at the Orff Institute, Mozarteum University in the Austrian city Salzburg Institute who was director between 1979 and 1982 and between 1986 and 1990, a position he reached after studying in that country, in Switzerland and Germany, after which he conducted international courses on the subject in various cities of these nations and in Spanish in Vitoria until he arrived in 2007 to address a symposium in Salzburg International elemental music and dance training in interdisciplinary contexts, as well as his work as a professor in the dance program of the German University of Munich.

The morning workshop will feature participation by the Indepen-Dance and The Way We Are, and choreographers Haselbach Barbara (Austria) and Karen Anderson (United Kingdom), while on Thursday, with the participation of companies Take This and That We, and the choreographers Onil Vizcaino (Spain), Barbara Haselbach (Austria) and Carol Brown (United Kingdom).

To participate in these workshops only have to enroll in the school itself.

In summary, the objectives of this festival is to promote the exchange and dissemination of national and international dance stage products and dance-theater mobility support and make visible the collective movement arts and works by inserting in programming cultural supply of rooms, schools and theaters around the world.

You are looking for active exchange of professionals and performers, choreographers and teachers with diverse abilities, disabilities, erroneously called, and offer workshops, case studies, panel discussions, master classes and open rehearsals for training in development methodologies and processes.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia

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