On stage in Venice from July 17 to August 1, the 20th edition.
140 artists for more than 60 performances and a program full of new works: 9 world premieres, 3 European premieres, and 8 Italian premieres.
The Lions of the Dance Biennale bring to Venice Bangarra Dance Theatre (Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement), the first company composed entirely of Australian Aboriginal dancers, and the dancer, choreographer, director, and activist Mamela Nyamza (Silver Lion) with her eponymous company.
Among the artists featured, Emanuel Gat returns to Venice; Eiko Otake, trained in Japan, and Wen Hui, a charismatic pioneer of modern dance in China; the Lapland-based choreographer and director Elle Sofe Sara alongside the Icelandic choreographer Hlín Diego Hjálmarsdóttir; the Franco-Malagasy choreographer Soa Ratsifandrihana; Omar Rajeh, a central figure in the dissemination and development of contemporary dance in Lebanon and the Arab world; and Adam Linder, an Australian artist based in Los Angeles and Berlin.
Additionally, Molissa Fenley, the American dancer and choreographer who has made history, will be in Venice in the triple role of creator, performer, and teacher for the sixteen young dancers and two choreographers of Biennale College.
Enriching the Festival is the exhibition Life Lines, created in collaboration with the Biennale Historical Archives – ASAC, which, through films, photographs, texts, documents, objects, and installations, “will fascinate and inspire, reminding us that the body is a living archive and that the living archive is itself a body.”
