Official Spotlights
15 Episodes
15 short highlight videos of production from international companies creating performance for youth
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14:53Episode 1
Spotlight - The Dig
Episode 1
Paul Curley
Title of Performance: The Dig
Country: IrelandPerformance 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...
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14:22Episode 2
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... -
14:59Episode 3
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... -
13:30Episode 4
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... -
14:59Episode 5
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... -
14:34Episode 6
Spotlight - Inflatable Space
Episode 6
Thaddeus Phillips
Title of Performance: Inflatable Space
Country: United StatesA 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 ...
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15:18Episode 7
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...
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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... -
14:12Episode 9
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... -
12:00Episode 10
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 ... -
14:04Episode 11
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 ... -
15:07Episode 12
Spotlight - The Spirit of Harriet Tubman
Episode 12
Leslie McCurdy
Title of Performance: The Spirit of Harriet Tubman
Country: CanadaFor 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...
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15:16Episode 13
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 ... -
11:00Episode 14
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... -
15:00Episode 15
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...