This panel discussion was part of our UK Dance Showcase in Birmingham International Dance Festival’s Outdoor Dance Collection 2021.
What is happening in the dance festival scene across Europe? How is Covid affecting plans? What is the future of touring after Brexit?
Develop your knowledge of the outdoor dance and festival scene across Europe in this roundtable discussion, which aimed to kickstart conversations and build partnerships between UK and European artists and companies.
Speakers included Artistic Director of Sismògraf Festival (Olot, Spain) Tena Busquets and Gintare Masteikaite, Artistic Director of the international contemporary dance festival, New Baltic Festival, and the event was chaired by Stéphane Segreto-Aguilar, Head of International Development at ARTCENA, the French National Center for Circus Arts, Street Arts, and Theater, as well the Coordinator of Circostrada, the European Network for circus arts and street arts.
The ODC21: UK Dance Showcase was a brand new showcase programme that took place online 3-4 June 2021 as part of Birmingham International Dance Festival‘s Outdoor Dance Collection 2021, devised and delivered in partnership with XTRAX as part of the international showcase programme Platform 4:UK; Dance4 as part of Dance from England; and DanceXchange, producers of BIDF.