Front@ Contemporary Dance Festival

Contact

Front@ mednarodnega plesa - festival

Puhova 14 (office), SI-1000 Ljubljana

http://www.flota.si/fronta/fronta.html

flota@flota.si

Phone386 (0) 1 530 2255

Organised byFlota Institute

Matjaž Farič, Artistic Director

matjaz.faric@guest.arnes.si

Frequencyannual

Front@ Contemporary Dance Festival was organised for the first time in 2006 by the Flota Institute. Taking place annually in the end of August in Murska Sobota, a town in the eastern region of Slovenia known as Prekmurje, the festival aims to contribute to the decentralisation of contemporary dance in Slovenia with the presentation of high quality Slovene and international dance performances.

The fifth edition of the festival was co-produced by Dance Theatre Ljubljana, MIKK Youth Information Cultural Club, Murska Sobota, Murska Sobota Gallery and the Cultural Societies Association Murska Sobota. The national support is matched with the Municipality of Murska Sobota grant, as well as international funding (European Cultural Foundation, European Commission's Culture Programme). With co-organising partners in Croatia, Austria, and Hungary the Front@ Festival participated in the project Beyond Front@ to enhance international attendance at the festival and exchange among contemporary dance and other artists from the participating countries and beyond.

Programme

The festival's programme presents contemporary dance performances, focusing on productions from Slovenia and its neighbouring countries. Thus far, Front@ Contemporary Dance Festival has featured Slovene groups and artists, such as En-Knap Dance Group, Fourklor, Rosana Hribar and Gregor Luštek, etc. and international groups, such as Chris Haring and The Liquid Loft (Austria), Company Pal Frenak (Hungary, France), D.ID/Liz King (Austria), the dance collective Les SlovaKs (Slovakia), Histeria Nova (Croatia), Liberdance (Croatia), Compagnie Coline & Philippe Jamet (France), Debris Company (France), the Zagreb Dance Ensemble, etc.

Workshops and accompanying events

In addition, the festival organises dance workshops and classes (in 2009, a practical workshop for stage technicians was also organised), as well as presentations of dance films, and seminars and discussions related to issues in contemporary dance, as well as conversations with artists appearing at the festival.

The festival also hosts improvisation evenings, entitled Improvisation Attack, in the frame of the project Dance Communication Lab (DCL), featuring invited dancers, musicians, and other guests from different countries. The festival also features music concerts; thus far it has hosted Yapa World Jazz Quartet (France), SLO A3 (Slovenia), Kleemar & Därectalchex, etc.

International cooperation

Festival activities in 2008, 2009 and 2010 were boosted by funding from the European Commission's Culture 2007–2013 programme. With co-organising partners in Croatia, Austria, and Hungary the Front@ Festival participated in the project Beyond Front@ to enhance international attendance at the festival and exchange among contemporary dance and other artists from the participating countries and beyond.

See also

• Flota Institute

External links

• Front@ Contemporary Dance Festival web page (in English)
• Flota Institute website (in Slovenian and English)
• Dance Explorations Beyond Front@ project in the CCP Slovenia database (in English)

Gallery

Improvisation Attack, in the frame of the project Dance Communication Lab (DCL), featuring invited dancers, musicians, and other guests from different countries, Flota Institute, 2009

Monster Tamer, joint production of the Dance Explorations Beyond Front@ network, 2009

Monster Tamer, joint production of the Dance Explorations Beyond Front@ network, 2009

Humorous performance of bedtime antics Expedition Paddock by Tango Sumo (F), performed at Front@ Contemporary Dance Festival, 2013

The Memory of Water written by British playwright Shelagh Stephenson, choreographed by Maša Kolar (HR), performed at Front@ Contemporary Dance Festival, 2013

The Memory of Water written by British playwright Shelagh Stephenson, choreographed by Maša Kolar (HR), performed at Front@ Contemporary Dance Festival, 2013