BILOURA
In a small village in Northern Italy in the alpine valley where the collective was born, an unique language – RUEGLIESE - is spoken. In this language 'biloura' means 'at this precise moment'. In a Brazilian region, in a local dialect that is only oral and not written, 'biloura' means 'vertigo' or 'madness'.
INTERCULTURAL
In 2013 about 20 artists from different nationalities and artistic backgrounds came together, following the open call of the Italian artist Silvia Ribero to initiate an artistic, intercultural and human exchange, from which the collective was born. From this initial meeting was developed the vision and desire to create artistic forms and languages that can go beyond categories and borders, to address the human directly, through and beyond different cultures.
PERFORMING ARTS
The first four years of BILOURA's work were spent almost exclusively in the creation and refinement of methodologies of the practice of the performer, for innovating performative, dramaturgical and directorial languages. "Per-forming" - hence "crossing forms" – became the focus of the artistic work, dedicating oneself to practice and research continuously, and thus became the core of the collective's work.
COLLECTIVE
Within each working group and in each project the traditional hierarchy of theatrical work (director, author, performer, assistant) is rejected. This is possible and effective thanks to continuous investment of time and effort in perfecting methods of collective creation, directing and dramaturgy and horizontal organisation of work.
A place of creation, dialogue, poetry, experiment, investigation, complexity.
An analogue art form made of organic material: breath and sweat, voices and muscles always searching to overstep limits and boundaries.
ART
MANIFEST
Over the past years BILOURA developed its own artistic research and creation method. Focusing on exploration, Cross Culture Performing Arts is movement through arts and cultures. It causes ripples that expand into the surrounding landscape, in which it has its source. It is a movement of crossing and transcending at the same time. It involves both knowing something and leaving something behind, continuously. Styles, genres, forms, identities, theories.
Cross Culture Performing Arts is based on a simple affirmation: that humanity is one. The encounter with another person, beyond the barriers that separate us, beyond the fragmentations we experience, is worth seeking in order to encounter ourselves. BILOURA developed this method in the belief that the great wealth of variety of cultures and subcultures sustains, nurtures and revitalises art.
Cross Culture Performing Arts is an artistic and political action for a global society less dominated by fear and homologation. Turning around contemporary socio-political issues, it aims to build bridges where there are non. In an era where walls are built and fear and hatred is spread, where people often live as alienated individuals, encounters through cultural expressions are more important than ever.
RECOGNITIONS
- Winner of the research and production residency "Biophilia, Peace and Human Rights" at Asia Culture Center (Gwangju, South Korea, 2021-2022) with the performance SILENT VOICES, part of the long term project 5 VOICES FOR 1
- Winner of creation and production residency at Im_flieger contemporary dance space (Vienna, Austria, 2019) with the performance FLESH, part of the long term project 5 VOICES FOR 1
- Winner of the “Special Mention Award for a Performance by International Artist” at Bangkok Theatre Festival (Thailand, 2018) with the performance AMARSIAMORSI, part of the long term project EFFIMERIA
COLLABORATIONS
- Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo (Piedmont Region, Italy), with the community theatre project POLIMORFA – Performing Arts Festival in Valchiusella (Italy, 2020-2025)
- University College London - Faculties of Art & Humanities (London, UK) with the European artistic exchange project CLASTIC Residency at BILOURA’s space (Valchiusella, Italy, 2018)
- Good Chance Theatre Company (London, UK), with the performing arts project ODI at “La Bulle” Refugee Center in Porte de la Chapelle Paris (France, 2018)
- Finestre sul Giovane Teatro (Bologna 2017 and Teramo 2018), with an international artistic exchange project directed by Lina della Rocca
- SAMAUMA Residencia Artistica Rural, with artistic research residency and creation of the performances SERENATE and SPIRO (Tajacupeba, Brazil, 2015-16)
- University of Turin - Research and Training Hub OfficinaH Ivrea, with the transdisciplinary long term project EFFIMERIA (Canavese, Italy, 2014-16)
- Soppa de Azul contemporary art space, with research residency and creation of the performance "El Sonido de la Memoria" (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 2013)
VENUES
- Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Corea, 2022 – performance SILENT VOICES
- The Lighthouse, Brussels, Belgio, 2022 - research and creation project NAGUAL directed by Mexican artist Betzabel Falfan
- Bangkok Theatre Festival, Thailand 2018 - prensentation of the performance AMARSIAMORSI part of EFFIMERIA project
- Biennale Democrazia, Turin, Italy, 2017 – training course and round table on gender violence "The Stone in the Shoe"
- Oficinas Culturais Osvaldo De Andrade, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2016 – presentation of performance SPIRO, masterclass "The ReActor" and round table on intercultural performing arts
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Angela Gentile
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