Fiver 2020 - International Film, Dance and New Media Festival
The international platform for support, exhibition and production of audiovisual dance, Fiver, promotes choreographic-audiovisual creation by encouraging the professionalisation of the dance genre by organising an annual festival of international renown from 2012: FIVER. After the success of FIVER 2019, which celebrated its seventh edition with actions in Logroño and Madrid, its two main venues, this 2020 and for the second consecutive year, the Fiver-Cervantes programme is being carried out within the festival. With a selection of works by Spanish and Latin American creators and curated by Samuel Retortillo, it aims to offer a current vision of audiovisual dance through works that have been produced by Fiver or that have been finalists in its international competition. The works of prestigious Spanish film directors from three generations form a perfect selection to show how dance has become a specific language of movement, where the creator gives life to the dance through the screen. There are five works to be enjoyed at Fiver-Cervantes 2020: the winner of the special FIVER 2019 award, I love the maids for being unreal, by Sofia Castro (Argentina); the finalist, Babelian Circles, by Ferrand Romeu, and the collaborative works Fiverlabs 2019, Close up 2.0, coordinated by Esteban Crucci and Jordi Cortes, Wine or Grape? coordinated by Álex Pachón; and Bailaora, by Rubin Stein. This programme is extended with "Confined Bodies", a series of videos that have been made during the confinement, with the aim of analysing and giving value to the creative proposals carried out during this period, by authors of the stature of Elías Aguirre, Richar Mascherin, Asun Noales, Alex Pachón, Jesús Rubio, Antonio Ruz, Guido Sarli and Pablo Venero. This comprehensive programme will be presented as part of the Baila España festival in Bremen, which, in addition to being held in person, will this year have a digital version, offering a wide variety of online activities, which will be accessible to all users of the Cervantes Institute's network of centres.