Fiver 2020 - International Film, Dance and New Media Festival

The international platform for the support, exhibition and production of audiovisual dance Fiver promotes choreographic-audiovisual creation by promoting the professionalization of the film dance genre with the organization, since 2012, of an internationally renowned annual festival: 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 program is being carried out within the festival, with a Selection of works by Spanish and Latin American creators and curated by Samuel Retortillo, wants 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 of three generations are a perfect selection to show how cinedance has become a language of specific movement, where the creator brings dance to life through the screen. There are five works that can be enjoyed at Fiver-Cervantes 2020: the winner of the special FIVER 2019 award, I Love the Maids for Unreal, by Sofia Castro (Argentina); the finalist, Babelian Circles, by Ferrand Romeu, and the collaborative works Fiverlabs 2019, Body to Body 2.0, coordinated by Esteban Crucci and Jordi Cortes, Wine or Grape ?, coordinated by Álex Pachón; and Bailaora, by Rubin Stein. This program is expanded with «Confined Bodies», a series of videos that have been made during confinement, in order to analyze and give 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 program will be presented within the framework of the Baila España festival in Bremen, which, in addition to its face-to-face celebration, will have a digital version this year, in which a wide variety of online activities will be offered, which will be accessible to all users of the Instituto Cervantes network of centers.