Urban dance never did so much good for
the city as it can do this year. The 2020 appointment with the Festival Danza Urbana in Bologna, the twenty-fourth edition of the
international dance festival in urban landscapes, this year is obviously a
little different than usual. But the link between dance and the city
environment was made even stronger.
"The Festival Danza Urbana has
always questioned the relationship between body, public space and community,
proposing experiences aimed at tracing meaningful paths, developing
relationships with the environmental and social context in which we live - the
organizers write presenting the event, held from 2 to 6 September in Bologna
inside the spaces of DUMBO, the former Ravone railway yard, a symbolic place
for urban redesign and regeneration -. Through the language of dance it
re-elaborates in an unexpected, original and extemporaneous way our way of
living the city outside of mere functional logics. Today more than ever we need
to elaborate our present and to build emotional, affective relationships
between our individual existences, the common space and the community. The
twenty-fourth edition of Danza Urbana is necessarily anomalous, like this time,
an opportunity to question ourselves about what our "normality" was
and to project ourselves towards a different way of living our cities ".
The reservation is required for all the
shows (here the program http://www.danzaurbana.eu/festival/en/il-programma/) and, for the first time, a symbolic
ticket is required for almost all the events. The peculiarity, this year, is
that the proceeds will be donated for the planting of new trees as a concrete
gesture to improve the city of Bologna.
To learn more about the Festival:
www.facebook.com/FestivalDanzaUrbana