UKREP - Taking Measures - Festival of Dance Perspectives

UKREP, Festival of Dance Perspectives was conceived as a biannual festival by PTL in 2008. Its basic goal is to respond to the respective needs of our cultural space and contemporary dance practice, to place them in a creative dialogue, to induce reactivity to the artistic and social problems of the current moment, to work towards development, to encourage contemporary dance in a given moment to redefine and rearticulate its contemporary and emancipatory mode, and to take action.

The focus of this year’s festival, entitled RAIL2DANCE4UKREP are site-specific performative practices. The program of RAIL2DANCE4UKREP opens towards the city. The content of the festival will be approached to the audience by dis/re/ locating performances on public spaces, streets, parks and important traffic nodes. Shift towards the city becomes the shift towards the public, the shift itself becomes the movement, the movement becomes the dance, Ukrep becomes the dance of the city. And the city becomes a dance partner. This year’s program will be composed of artists coming from Canada, Korea, Austria, Finland, Sweden, Germany and Slovenia.