alkantara festival 2010

alkantara festival 2010


At the end of May, artists from the four corners of the world will set sail for Portugal to board the various stages of Lisbon and Porto.

From May 21 until June 9, the alkantara festival will host over thirty performances of dance, theater, and everything in between. The participating artists come from countries as diverse as Argentina, Austria, Canada, Croatia, Switzerland, Egypt, USA, France, Portugal, Belgium, Japan, China, the Netherlands, Brazil, Spain, Hungary, New Zealand, South Africa, Denmark, Ecuador, Greece, and Italy.

They will bring their stories of the local and the global, the universal and the particular, the past and the future—tales of beauty and of bewilderment in a quickly changing world. But they will all have one thing in common: the desire to enter into dialogue with the spectator, in an effort to understand these disconcerting times. Perhaps they will seek to grasp at some answers; probably, they will rephrase our questions. Potentially, they will simply add to the confusion.

Twenty days of fresh, innovative, and titillating performances that promise to challenge our perspectives and push us to view the world from a different angle.

www.alkantarafestival.pt