Sola Festival

Sola Festival (international festival of solo choreographies, performances and photographs) is the first festival of that kind which will be held in our country, produced and organised by the Belgrade Dance Institute. The festival will be held in May 2021 and will last up to five days, with the idea to become a regular annual festival.

Why Sola Festival, especially in the situation when there has already been the Belgrade Dance Festival, the Monodrama and Pantomime Festival in Zemun, as well as many other festivals?

This festival will offer presentations of artistic forms characteristic for the 21st century, which lean on the history of dance and visual arts but have grown into some new forms that correspond excellently with contemporary audience and with the time we live in.

The process of creating a solo dance show or a solo performance implies only one performer on the stage, just as the festival name speaks for itself; on one hand, the process contains deep individual research, and on the other hand, it contains the capacity for revealing and putting in the state of vulnerability not only of the performers but also of the audience. A festival of this kind celebrates the exciting possibility of solo performing as a form of personal and artistic expression and rebellion. An individual voice, a solo instrument, a body has the power to create a visible and loud gesture, which often makes a stronger effect than a group work.

Modern stage forms such as contemporary solo dance, or the forms coming from modern visual art, such as performance and photograph, are most present on the world art scene, so that a festival of this kind would put our country and city at par with the world artistic events.