Meet the project: Performing Gender presented in Bassano

The first public presentation of the new edition will be hosted by B.motion festival on Saturday 26 August 

B.motion Dance, the international festival organised each end of August by the Municipality of Bassano del Grappa (Italy), is one of the most important events about contemporary dance around Europe.

Among the many performances of this 2017 edition, the festival features the première of Minor Place, the new work by the Italian dance maker Giorgia Nardin who was one of the protagonists of the first edition of Performing Gender, with her performance Celebration.

On the occasion of the festival, our new project Performing Gender – Dance Makes Differences will be officially presented for the first time to the professionals in the field of dance attending the festival and to a larger audience. The invite is to join all the partner organisations, on Saturday 26th August at Museo Civico in Bassano del Grappa, at 11.30 am.

The artistic directors will present to the audience the activities taking place in the next two years, and the capacity building model that will involve 5 dance makers, 5 dramaturgs and 50 young dancers around Europe in a unique artistic experience.

Minor Place by Giorgia Nardin (photo by Alice Brazzit)