With a press conference, the 42nd Oriente Occidente Dance Festival has been presented. The Festival will be in Rovereto from 3rd to 10th September and its title is Mediterraneans.

Mediterranean means "the sea between the lands." Precisely, the sea is surrounded by 46 thousand kilometres of coastline between southern Europe, northwest Asia and northern Africa, and the lands inhabited by 450 million people, who share the view of the sea and some distant origins. A multitude of peoples, customs, cultures, seas.

Mediterraneans is the world in disarray, the world of migrants and migration, a place where cultures can speak to each other, but also where civilisations can clash. Mediterraneans is about belonging, identity, community and relationships. Mediterraneans is a set of different narratives that can break down and dismantle a univocal universal thought to build a multiplicity of voices.

The festival's endeavour is to translate the melting pot of Mediterraneans through performances that embrace different cultural and geographical backgrounds, blending the influences of diverse artistic styles and disciplines, resulting in innovative forms of experimentation.

To achieve this, the programme is based on three underlying narrative themes that can also help us find a meaning in the performances: telling myths, listening to voices, charting new routes.

Discover the program here.

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