The Art Explora – Académie des beaux-arts European Award 2023

The project
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Young Europe IV is ETC’s large-scale artistic project, promoting and mentoring 9 emerging theatre authors to write new plays: Diverse stories that haven’t been told or heard enough on stage. The plays will be produced by 9 European theatres and performed in school classes across cities from the UK to Cyprus, and in a festival in Nova Gorica (Slovenia) in Spring 2024.

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The organisation

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As the largest network of public theatres in Europe, the Theatre Convention has 59 European Members from over 30 countries, reflecting the diversity of Europe’s vibrant cultural sector. Founded in 1988, the ETC promotes European theatre as a vital platform for dialogue that responds to and engages with today’s changing societies. With the aim of creating a common cultural heritage in Europe, ETC offers to its member theatres artistic collaborations and professional development opportunities and plays a prominent role in advocacy for theatre towards EU policy makers. These activities are currently consolidated under the groundbreaking three-year programme «TRANSFORMATIONS - Recharging European Theatres and Audiences in a Post-Covid World, co-funded by the European Union.

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The project

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This project was created by David Llari, a CCS associate artist, and initiated this past season with the Strasbourg, Marseille and Williamstown Museums and the FRAME network - all key partners in making this project successful. This collaborative effort – the willingness to provide the project with human and financial resources as well as space and time for educational outreach programmes – allowed this project to have an impact well beyond France.
It should enable young people to conceive the world beyond the boundaries of their neighbourhoods: allowing them to open up to themselves, to others and to the world, through body language, by appropriating cultural venues of excellence in a unique and personal way. Due to their past and their essence, museums and their collections are the ideal partner for bringing this project to fruition.

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The organisation
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The Centre Chorégraphique de Strasbourg (CCS), which has also been a municipal conservatory since 2008, stands out in the cultural landscape as an actor in synergy with others, a partner, an intermediary and a supporter of initiatives. In collaboration with other European organisations, the Centre is now aspiring to extend its initiatives focused on outreach and attracting alienated audiences.
Since this season and for the next three years, the CCS has been working with associate artist, David Llari, whose innovative method makes it possible to conduct this concrete experience of “building together”, by appropriating body language in cultural outreach in a unique and personal way. With this approach, the body becomes a means of moving from a common language to universal expression.

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The project

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The Carroza of the Teatro Real is a mobile stage which travels all over Spain offering different kinds of opera and classical music concerts. The float is 16 meters long, 5.80 meters high and weighs almost 6 tones. This impressive travelling stage was built on a converted sea container. Inside, it can be adapted to create different settings to suit the needs of a particular performance. This project is specially focused on the cultural territorial cohesion, and it pays particular attention to educational mediation for young audiences and families.

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The organisation
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The Teatro Real is considered the leading institution of the performing arts in Spain, the foremost national opera house and one of the most important Spanish cultural institutions. The theatre also enjoys significant international prestige.
The artistic project behind the Teatro Real has led to its current position as one of the main international opera centres and a benchmark for Spanish cultural institutions. Its artistic programme seeks excellence, with an interest in both traditional repertory and contemporary forms, including 20th-century music and the newest avant-garde, with a firm commitment to providing the public with a place where they can discover the best artists and creators of today. It also pays special attention to new audiences, and to popularising opera among children and young people.

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The project

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The « MBASe challenge » is an adventure designed to offer a meaningful experience with art beyond the museum walls for vulnerable children from the ProInfancy Caixa programme. Exploring artworks from different collections and eras, participants are challenged to develop a series of creative tasks rooted in their own observations and responses.

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The organisation

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The Museum of Fine Arts of Seville, popularly considered as “the second art gallery in Spain”, is approaching two centuries of history. Its origin as an institution lies in the nineteenth century Spanish Disentailment Laws, which determined its installation in a remarkable building that had previously been a monastery, and the character of its collections, of which the major part comes from institutions that disappeared at the time. It displays important Baroque works by artists from the Sevillian school such as Murillo, Zurbarán or Valdés Leal. Through the years, the museum has strengthened as an essential element in the cultural identity of Seville.

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