E.D.C.
EUROPEAN DANCE CARAVAN
The project - lead by the BM Duna Art Ensemble - was carried out in the cooperation of eight nations: Hungary, Cyprus, Finland, Greece, Italy, Poland, Romania and Spain promoted by “Culture 2000” programme of the European Union.
The dance and music artists of the eight countries created a unique dance theatre composition in artistic co-production on the basis of authentic traditions. Besides presenting the own folklore heritage of the individual nations in the dance scenes most parts were showed in joint performance of the international team. It carried the message of entity without uniformity.
The dance production – in the framework of the one year long project (October 2004-October 2005) – was performed in all co-organising countries at world festivals.
The dance-theatre piece acted like an imaginary caravan traveling around Europe disseminating the good practice of tradition and innovation.
The groups that took part in the European Dance Caravan were:
1) BM DUNA ART ENSEMBLE (BUDAPEST-HUNGARY)
2) AKRAGAS FOLK GROUP (AGRIGENTO-ITALY)
3) OTTOSET FOLK DANCE AND MUSIC GROUP (KAUSTINEN-FINLAND)
4) INSTITUTO EUROPEO PARA LA PROMOCION DEL FOLCLORE Y LA DANZA (ALMERIA-SPAIN)
5) EL.KE.LA.M. HELLENIC DANCE ENSEMBLE (ATHENS-GREECE)
6) HAROMSEK FOLK DANCE GROUP (SF. GHEORGE-SEPSISZENTGYORGY-ROMANIA)
7) FOLK DANCE ENSEMBLE OF MARIA CURIE-SKLODOWSKA UNIVERSITY (LUBLIN-POLAND)
8) PISSOURI FOLKLORE ASSOCIATION (PISSOURI-CYPRUS)
The program of the shows of the European Dance Caravan was:
6-13 February 2005 in Agrigento, Italy
10-19 June 2005 in Budapest, Hungaru
1-6 July 2005 in Lublin, Poland
9-17 July 2005 in Kaustinen, Finland
22-29 July 2005 in Pissouri, Cyprus
15-22 August 2005 in Almeria, Spain
26 September-2 October 2005 in Athens, Greece
10-14 October 2005 in Sfantu Gheorghe , Romania
Because of the European Dance Caravan’s great success the programme was presented again in Agrigento-Italy (2006, 2007,2008) and in the cities of Hungary: Debrecen (2007), Budapest (2008) and Pecs (2008).