INTERNATIONAL RESIDENCY NAGUAL


16 November to 16 December 2022


The Forest Lighthouse  - Brussels, Belgium



Two artists from BILOURA Collective, Angie Rottensteiner and Silvia Ribero, are invited to participate in the second residency of the international research project NAGUAL in Brussels, Belgium. Together with the Mexican director Betzabel Falfan, the Belarusian dancer Tanya Galibus, the French performer Aurèle Belliard and the Congolese dancer Diego Liendo, they conduct an artistic research on the theme of transformation.

THE NECESSITY OF PERFORMING
Masterclass
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by BILOURA Intercultural Arts Collective

Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 December 2022, h10 – 17

The Forest Lighthouse - Brussels, Belgium

THE NECESSITY OF PERFORMING is a performing arts masterclass for improving the tools of the performer and for digging into the original impulse of art creation: the “necessity”. 

It is a tool for artists in order to deepen the understanding of their own peculiar and unique artistic doing, and its evolutionary potential.

Two artists of the Collective will share some of BILOURA’s unique practices.

IETM NETWORK MEETING BELGRADE

29 September - 2 October 2022

Belgrade, Serbia



IETM Meeting- International network for contemporary performing arts


WORK HARD, LIVE HARDER



BILOURA participates in the annual international network meeting for contemporary performing arts.

INTERNATIONAL ARTISTIC RESIDENCY NAGUAL

25 - 30 August 2022

Brussels, Belgium - The Forest Lighthouse



BILOURA is invited to participate in the international artistic residency THE NAGUAL PROJECT: an artistic exchange under the direction of Mexican dancer and performer Betzabel Falafan that is also the beginning of an artistic collaboration.

SINKING ISLANDS
national premiere 
3 June 2022 - h 21:00


@ POLIMORFA Performing Arts Festival

Valchiusella

The performative concert SINKING ISLANDS by the dreamlike band SATOYAMA from Ivrea in collaboration with two performers Silvia Ribero and Angie Rottensteiner from BILOURA and the poet TZARINA Sara Casiccia will be staged. A journey between music and performance that reflects poetically on the threat of the rising oceans.

CORTO CIRCUITO POLIMORFA Festival editions 2023, 2024 and 2025

Winner of the three-year call for proposals,

BILOURA is among the 22 Piemontese companies awarded a grant for the realisation of a performing arts programme aimed at disseminating artistic works of cultural value. We sincerely thank the Foundation Piemonte dal Vivo and the Municipality of Val di Chy for their trust and collaboration on behalf of ourselves, the artists and the audience of POLIMORFA.

SENDEROS DE FUGA

International Artistic Residency

1-8 May 2022 – Valchiusella (Italy)
@ POLIMORFA

Performing Arts Festival in Valchiusella

First appointment of the POLIMORFA programme! Welcome Betzabel Falfan (Mexico), Yunjung Kim (South Korea), Chiara Bosco (Italy), Alina Pietrareanu (Romania), Elena Brea (Spain), Angie Rottensteiner (Austria) and Silvia Ribero (Italy) on board of this creative journey that sees international artists and inhabitants of the valley co-creating a performance.

POLIMORFA

Performing Arts Festival
2° edition
7 May to 3 June 2022 - Val di Chy (Italy)

Second edition of the festival POLIMORFA! This year, in addition to the theme of interculturality, the performances will address the theme of human relationship with the environment from different points of view.

Find the programme here.

SILENT VOICES

19 February 2022

h 17:00
Theatre 1 - Asia Culture Center

(Gwanju - South Korea)

Public presentation of the performance SILENT VOICES, the result of the 3-month artistic residency of BILOURA at Asia Culture Center in Gwangju, South Korea. The research and creation residency dealt with the theme of female sexual exploitation, which is part of the long term project 5 VOICES FOR 1.

SILENT VOICES Residency Korea

December 2021 - February 2022

Asia Culture Center
Gwanju - South Korea

We have come all the way to South Korea to create SILENT VOICES. We are in the middle of our collective creation that brings together 6 artists from Europe and Asia to build the performance. Special thanks to the invaluable and indispensable support of Asia Culture Center, which created this insight for you.

ODI in Verona

22 - 27 November 2021

The intercultural performing arts workshop "ODI" travels to Verona as part of the beautiful EU Forum project "Art against racism" conduced by Association Le Fate Onlus.
Intercultural performing arts as a tool to sensitise young adults from day centres of the city of Verona around the issue of discrimination. We are happy to be with them in this European project for intercultural dialogue and civic participation against the stigmatisation of migrants and refugees #forumproject.

AMARSIAMORSI

at Q77 Theatre in Turin 
22 October 2021 – h 21:00

@ “PATHOS - From the Individual to the Absolute” Festival 
by Areté Teatro

Andiamo in scena con il nostro “cavallo We are going on stage with our award-winning performance AMARSIAMORSI, which speaks not only about migration, homosexuality and death, not only about EFFIMERIA project but also contains very much of the first half of BILOURA's artistic life.

AMARSIAMORSI
at the Bertagnolio Theatre in Chiaverano

2 July 2021 - h 21:00
@ MorenicaNet Festival

Let's welcome on board of AMARSIAMORSI light designer Oscar Rositani and costume designer Francesco Balbusso and go on stage!

Find everything you need to know about the performance here and everything you need to know about the festival here.

LIBERI DA…
29 May 2021 - 16:00
@ POLIMORFA Festival of performing arts
in Valchiusella

The heart of the festival, an experiment in participatory performance and collective creation, will be a performative journey through the village of Alice Superiore to reflect together on the concept of freedom and democracy. On stage 7 international artists and 18 participants of the performing arts workshop LIBERI DA.

Lockdown videoperformance n°3

8 March 2021

International Women's Rights Day

Today we can contribute to this important day only with an online content. We decided to use the voice of the African artist Muthoni Drummer Queen to bring attention to women which are subjects of discrimination within patriarchal societies.
We are tired, we want guaranteed rights to self-determined health, elimination of discrimination and gender-based violence, access to opportunities, work and income on par with our male friends.

Lockdown videoperformance n°2

ALIENATION 2021

Prolonged and repeated isolation. The only other we encounter is nature, where we may happen to loose ourselves, or find ourselves.

Text (found below the video) and performance by Silvia Ribero.

PERFORMING+

Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo and Compagnia di San Paolo October 2020 -  November 2021

BILOURA joins this interregional (Piedmont, Liguria and Valle d'Aosta) education and mentoring project on sustainability issues and strategies for the world of culture.

BILOURA selected for CORTO CIRCUITO
Piemonte dal Vivo Foundation



BILOURA won the open call CORTO CIRCUITO and will launch a multidisciplinary performing arts festival in Valchiusella!

A new chapter opens for us and our relationship with the territory.

BILOURA gets selected

for an artistic residency

in South Korea in 2021

BILOURA has won a 3-month production residency at the Asia Culture Center in Gwangju, South Korea. With its new project SILENT VOICES, BILOURA will create a performance about women’s exploitation in the sex industry in collaboration with three South Korean artists. Stay tuned!

BILOURA at CinemAmbiente

4 performative interventions to present the films

BILOURA presents the first 4 evenings of CinemAmbiente Film Festival in August 2020 in Valchiusella! With 4 performative interventions BILOURA introduces 4 films with environmental themes: La Glace Et Le Ciel, Anthropocene: The Human Era, TheHarvest, GoodThingsAwait
— PROGRAMME

DESTINAZIONE FUTURO

Final performance of the workshop ODI

 19 December 2019 - h 20:30 - Teatro Giacosa in Ivrea

HANGAR POINT 8

Piemonte dal Vivo Foundation
June – December 2019

BILOURA is among those selected for the tutoring offered by the Cultural Department of Piedmont on the sustainability of cultural entities. Mentoring that involves the implementation of techniques from the business world and adaptation to the cultural and non-profit sector.

AMARSIAMORSI

Bangkok Theatre Festival Thailand

 17 and 18 November 2018

BILOURA Collective flew to Thailand and won the

"Special Mention Award for a Performance by International Artist”. 

The performance AMARSIAMORSI (final result of the EFFIMERIA project) was selected at the BangkokTheatreFestival 2018 and was staged on 17 and 18 November in Bangkok!

ECHOS Sound Installation

22 August 2018 - Vienna, Austria

During the 5 VOICES FOR 1 project that BILOURA held in Vienna from January to May 2018 with trafficked women, BILOURA conducted several interviews and together with fragments from the creative workshops, created a sound installation that presents the ECHO of these women.


22 August 2018 – 19:00 Volkskundemuseum, Vienna


As part of the programming of the 20th anniversary celebration of LEFÖ, BILOURA will present a first excerpt of the sound installation ECHOS.


In collaboration with: LEFÖ IBF Wien and dotdotdot Kurzfilm Festival

 CLASTIC PERFORMANCE

20 July 2018 - @ ZAC! Ivrea

Final presentation of the international residency CLASTIC in Ivrea. On stage
HYENAZ (Berlin), I Patom Theatre (France), Iva Korbar - Theatre of the Inconceivable (Croatia), TanzTheatre Adrian Look (UK), Elena Brea (Spain) and BILOURA Collective.

Funded by University College London - Faculty of Arts & Humanities.

SCENES FROM AFAR

videoproduction

DalVivo Trio in collaboration with BILOURA

Together with the musician Federico Bessone and the band DalVivoTrio, BILOURA Collective produced the music video SCENES FROM AFAR, shooting at the Cavallerizza Reale in Turin in June 2018.

AMARSIAMORSI
in BOLOGNA

Read more:

EFFIMERIA project

AMARSIAMORSI performance

Poverarte Festival Bologna