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)

Pieter de Buysser & Hans Op de Beeck Brussels

Book Burning

Philosopher and director Pieter De Buysser has invented a new genre: the “transformatador”. It is “a performative, literary and visual genre that transforms everyday energy into a mythical creature with delicate legs, grotesque wings, political claws and big inquisitive eyes. In short, a being that would make even matadors nervous.” In Book Burning, De Buysser tells stories about the traumas of history, fate and friendship. Monstrous stories that enter into obscure territories. A collection of tales that question the contemporary form of censorship represented by the dissemination of information. For doesn’t the dogma of freedom of information also hamper the development of a critical mind? The narration is supported by an object, a wunderkammer created by artist Hans Op de Beeck. Like a computer screen, this cabinet of curiosities opens up the world, revealing it room by room, detail by detail, getting ever closer… and ever more alienating.

NXTSTP partners: Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels),Baltoscandal Festival (Rakvere), Göteborgs Dans & Teater Festival

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