Dance People - Le Happening
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An international three-day dance festival that places artists and citizens at the heart of a collective dynamic. Conceived as the final celebration of the European project SHIFT, this gathering reinvents the very notion of performance by questioning spatial hierarchies and dissolving the boundaries between stage and audience. Bringing together choreographers, dancers, architects, poets, and thinkers from across Europe and the Mediterranean, Dance People – Le Happening becomes a living space of encounters, where artistic expression and civic participation enter into dialogue. Performances, laboratories, and collective explorations unfold throughout the city — in theatres, on esplanades, and in in-between spaces — transforming Lyon into a vibrant platform of movement, exchange, and coexistence.
SHIFT
Co-funded by the European Union, SHIFT, which stands for ‘Shaping Harmony, Innovating Forms & Thought’, questions the forms of space organization in people’s lives culturally, politically and socially. The project seeks to explore new formats of artistic expression, community engagement, and audience interaction, involving artists, experts, and citizens from multiple EU and Mediterranean countries. By fostering a shift from mere observation to active participation and immersion, SHIFT focuses on investigating new spatial relationships, and shifting the emphasis from 'visual aesthetics' in conventional venues to dynamic 'aesthetics of action' in adaptable, non-dedicated performance spaces The project is led by Cie Omar Rajeh & Maqamat (France), Fondazione Fabbrica Europa per le arti contemporanee (Italy), Albania Dance Meeting (Albania). In association with France Travail Scènes et Images- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (France), Beit El Raqs (Lebanon), Teatri Kombetar Eksperimental Kujtim Spahivogli (Albania)
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