Formation. Quality. Experience. Exchange.
Created in 2004, DELTEBRE DANSA is an unique event that brings together dancers, actors and circus performers from around the world to follow a high quality training by renowned international teachers and performers.
DELTEBRE DANSA has consolidated over the years to become a reference for professionals and contemporary artists. To the cultural impact of this event are added each year new goals and iniciatives. Two weeks of intense cultural activity and exchange, bringing together different cultures, artistic disciplines and highly technical expertise in dance and contemporary circus.
THE GENESIS OF THE FESTIVAL DELTEBRE DANSA
Since the first edition in 2004, the pedagogical workshops were linked to daily recreational activities. Wether through student work presentations, teachers improvised performances or other festive events, these stage proposals were promoted from the beginning to complement the formation of the participants. Over the years these activities took breadth, generating naturally a space to be represented under the frame of DELTEBRE DANSA to become today an International Festival. In 2011 DELTEBRE DANSA founded its first meeting and dialogue platform for aesthetic languages.
WHY DELTEBRE?
The village of DELTEBRE is geographically located within a natural, authentic and unique surrounding, where human activity coexists with the conservation of natural habitats. This opens a door to a new perception of the discipline of dance where participants are not used to. This fact decontextualizes dance out of their usual areas of representation: theaters and urban spaces.
The objective of DELTEBRE DANSA is the practice of dance and other arts of movement related, learning and training at a physical and mental level all together in a very particular context. That gives the opportunity to share experiences with teachers, other participants and of course with the social and natural environment of Deltebre and its inhabitants. DELTEBRE is not only the stage for the workshop, but also we want people to participate actively. That’s why there will be many participatory activities open to everyone.
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Roberto Olivan, artistic director of the Festival DELTEBRE DANSA
Spanish by origin, he studied at the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona and P.A.R.T.S. (Performing Arts Research and Training Studios) in Belgium. Roberto performed under the direction of renowned directors such as Robert Wilson, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Josse de Pauw or Tom Jansen.
In 2001 he formed his own company, the ENCLAVE Dance Company, to continue his research in the arts movement. ENCLAVE produced among others “Natural Strange Days” (SACD prize in Belgium in 2001), the acclaimed “Homeland”, “De Farra” and “Mermaid’s Call”, his latest production. Since the very beginning, what is reflected in the creations of Roberto Olivan is its singular vision of dance and the need to establish a dialogue with other artistic disciplines (…) ” Roberto Olivan is the Catalan choreographer and Director of ENCLAVE Dance Company. He lives and works predominantly in the disparate cities of Brussels and Barcelona. Olivan’s work manages to bind together these seemingly opposing influences, using a mix of artistic languages to create primeval, organic physical theatre full of wonderful contradictions. It is rooted firmly in his own origins and experience, and coloured by those of the performers with whom he creates. Although well educated in many forms, in the art of control and precision, Olivan works not with the intellect, the head, but with emotion, physicality and love. He seeks to make his work accessible to audiences, combining the power and energy of circus with the harsh reality of the world in which we live. The result is a genuinely stimulating celebration, fantastical yet somehow heartfelt and down to earth. “**
He has created works for the National University of Arts in Seoul South Korea (KNUA), the Ensemble Walpurgis in Belgium, the company Vertigo Dance Company of Israel, the Iceland Dance Company, the Galician Choreographic Centre, ESAC and (Ecole Superiore des Arts du Cirque, Belgium) and obtained coproductions from CAER (Centre for Performing Arts of Reus) and Mercat de les Flors in Barcelona among others. He is also the artistic director of DELTEBRE DANSA FESTIVAL created in 2004.
** Taken from the article by Joaquim Noguero Roberto Olivan, choreographer cross “for the magazine Transversal. Joaquin Noguera (Manresa, 1964) is professor of cultural journalism in the faculty of communication Blanquerna Ramon Llull University in 1999 and criticism of the Conservatory of Dance (Theatre Institute) from 2004-2005.Dance critic of The Vanguard since February 2002, from 1995 to 2002 it was theater and dance in the newspaper today, where he now works to supplement culture.Director of In Motion, had previously directed the magazine of literature and thought of The Well Arts (1996-2000).
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