NXTSTP, The Second Generation
The Culture Programme of the European Union renews its support for NXTSTP by attributing a second term 5 year funding to NXTSTP, The Second Generation

NXTSTP is a network European performing arts festivals that came into being in 2007 to provide an extra shot of energy to the co-production and circulation of the performing arts in Europe. Over a period of four years, NXTSTP supported 31 projects from 27 companies of individual artists from 12 European countries, representing hundreds of performance dates. In 2012, the first term of NXTSTP concludes, but another is already under construction.

NXTSTP, the Second Generation was awarded a 5 year funding (2012-2016) under the Strand 1.1 'Multi-annual cooperation projects' from the Culture Programme of the European Union.

Partners: alkantara festival (Lisbon), Baltoscandal Festival (Rakvere), Göteborgs Dans & Teater Festival, Noorderzon (Groningen), Dublin Theatre Festival, steirischer herbst festival (Graz), Théâtre National de Bordeaux en Aquitaine, Kunstenfestivaldesarts (project leader)

Cláudia Dias/RE.AL Lisbon

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Born in Lisbon in 1972, Cláudia Dias started her classical dance training at the Academia Almadense. In 1985, she obtained a scholarship to enrol in the Companhia De Dança de Lisboa, where she would remain until 1989. From 1990 to 1997, she joined the team of the Grupo de Dança de Almada and worked, among others, with Peter Michael Dietz. In 1997-98, she attended the Cours de Formation d'Interprètes de Danse Contemporaine, which is supported by the Fórum Dança.

Cláudia Dias initiated her collaboration with RE.AL in 2001. Since then, she has performed in various projects of João Fiadeiro and has collaborated decisively in the development and systematization of the Real Time Composition method. In the framework of RE.AL Cláudia Dias has created two remarkable solos, One Woman Show (2003) and Visita Guiada (2005), which have been presented in Belgium, Spain, France, Italy, Wales, Portugal and Switzerland.

"The proposal for the new creation," writes Rita Natálio, "is to establish a choreographic relation between a conjunction of actions effected upon an object and its oral narration, scrutinizing, questioning and pushing the implications between action and word. In developing a pattern between a single action and its description, the performance tests the limits of discourse as translator and of gesture as functional action; it tests the variations and differences between definition-commentary-opinion and the connections between time of action and time of image."

NXTSTP partners: Alkantara Festival (Lisbon), Mira (Bordeaux)

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