Official Spotlights

Official Spotlights

15 Episodes

15 short highlight videos of production from international companies creating performance for youth

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Official Spotlights
  • Spotlight - The Dig

    Episode 1

    Paul Curley
    Title of Performance: The Dig
    Country: Ireland

    Performance of THE DIG. This show was created in 2018, toured Ireland 2019 and is ready for International and Festival Presentation. As an independent Theatre Artist, I am very focussed on collaborative processes that draws on the excell...

  • Spotlight - Juan Salvador Tramoya

    Episode 2

    Juan Salvador Tramoya
    Title of Performance: Juan Salvador Tramoya
    Country: Chile
    The show is a tragicomic and Chaplinesque tinged delirium, in which the gesture game and laughter tell us about the subtle and important difference between what they say we should be and what we really are. Juan Salv...

  • Spotlight - Caution _ Fragile

    Episode 3

    Samsara Théâtre
    Title of Performance: Caution : Fragile
    Country: Canada
    Two bubble-wrapped beings are delivered on stage. On their boxes are printed the words Fragile and Caution, those simple words naturally becoming their names. Fragile and Caution are akin to the First Man and Woman of this of...

  • Spotlight - Origins of Hip-Hop

    Episode 4

    Versa-Style Dance Company
    Title of Performance: ORIGINS of Hip Hop: A Journey through the Cultural History of American Streetdance
    Country: United States
    “ORIGINS of Hip Hop: An Educational Journey through the Cultural History of American Streetdance” is a one-hour educational, interactive show o...

  • Spotlight - Life-Cycle

    Episode 5

    DynamO Theatre
    Title of Performance: Life-Cycle
    Country: Canada
    The project stems from a meeting between circus artist Guillaume Doin and DynamO Théâtre coartistic director Yves Simard following a training session he previously gave. With his wide experience in street and circus performance in Fr...

  • Spotlight - Inflatable Space

    Episode 6

    Thaddeus Phillips
    Title of Performance: Inflatable Space
    Country: United States

    A visually stunning theatrical odyssey exploring space, time and our human condition, from internationally acclaimed theatre artist, Thaddeus Phillips. In 1977, the Golden Record was launched on the Voyager probe in ...

  • Spotlight - A Song of the Boyar

    Episode 7

    Olive & Jjinkong Theater
    Title of Performance: A Song of the Boyar
    Country: South Korea

    ''Boyar' means 'wind' in Rohingya. It symbolizes refugees who wander around the world like the wind, and it has the meaning of the song “The Wind,” a storyteller who hears and tells the stories of suffering c...

  • Spotlight - Ayiti _ Stories and Songs from Haiti

    Episode 8

    Inez Barlatier
    Title of Performance: Ayiti - Stories and Songs from Haiti
    Country: United States
    Miami native, Inez Barlatier is a multifaceted performer of Ayisyen (Haitian) decent. In Ayiti, Stories and Songs from Haiti, she celebrates Haitian art and culture through energetic drumming and sing...

  • Spotlight - oZe

    Episode 9

    Destins Croisés
    Title of Performance: oZe
    Country: Canada
    To create oZe, Ismaël Mouaraki immersed himself in the captivating universe of L. Frank Baum’s legendary tale The Wizard of Oz. Inspired by the fantastic journey of the four protagonists of this literary masterpiece, the choreographer depi...

  • Spotlight - Strange Feathers

    Episode 10

    Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Theatre
    Title of Performance: Strange Feathers
    Country: Ireland
    A co-production with Riverbank Arts Centre (Ireland), Fidget Feet (Ireland), & the Bird & Bat (Iceland).
    Two little birds are learning to fly with the help of their surroundings in nature. Feathers drop from ...

  • Spotlight - The Road That Wasn't There

    Episode 11

    Trick of the Light Theatre
    Title of Performance: The Road That Wasn't There
    Country: New Zealand
    This is a story about a girl who followed a map off the edge of the world...
    In New Zealand there are some 56,000 kilometres of paper roads–streets and towns that exist only on surveyors’ maps. Or do ...

  • Spotlight - The Spirit of Harriet Tubman

    Episode 12

    Leslie McCurdy
    Title of Performance: The Spirit of Harriet Tubman
    Country: Canada

    For a breath-taking hour, Leslie McCurdy invokes the "spirit" of Harriet Tubman, captivating audiences as she portrays the life of the famous Underground Railroad conductor, recreating stories familiar and some ra...

  • Spotlight - The World Inside Me

    Episode 13

    Spellbound Theatre
    Title of Performance: The World Inside Me
    Country: United States
    The World Inside Me is a celebration of the ways our bodies grow, develop, move, and explore from birth to age 5. Told through music, sensory play, and bold theatrical moments, this show creates a welcoming world ...

  • Spotlight - The Writing Project

    Episode 14

    Proyecto Escritura
    Title of Performance: The Writing Project
    Country: Chile
    The Writing Project is about collaborative writing in public spaces. Typewriters are installed in different places so that passers-by can use them, relate to the context and place they are in. We exhibit and share the pro...

  • Spotlight - Yellow

    Episode 15

    Stichting 2-ater/Mime Wave
    Title of Performance: Yellow
    Country: Netherlands
    Yellow will take the audience on a journey to a world where everything is yellow.
    That is no understatement, even the cushion you sit on during the play is yellow. Yellow is the color of the sun, but also the color of ha...