Website: Oriente Occidente
Website documenting Europe Beyond Access in Italy
Contact: info@orienteoccidente.it
We need to create new role models. Disabled people should be able to envision themselves as artists, and those that already have that in their imagination should have the possibility to train professionally.
Oriente Occidente (Rovereto, Italy) was founded in 1981 as a dance festival. It is now a cultural organisation and still works actively to strengthen the role of contemporary dance in Italy. As a dancehouse – and beeing one of the leading European dance festivals – the organisation hosts artist residencies, seminars, lectures, community projects, exhibitions alongside performances.
Oriente Occidente is a research centre where exchange between cultures, genres and languages of contemporary dance. Oriente Occidente has always hosted leading artists and companies premieres from all over the world at the cutting edge of the form. The programme is of the highest quality to promote development, availability and diversity of dance for audiences and mass media. Since 2022 Oriente Occidente is part of EDN – European Dance Development Network.
Oriente Occidente has been part of the first generation of Europe Beyond Access and is working on accessibility since 2016. In Italy, Oriente Occidente is making a difference and is now recognised as a leader organisation with an important know how on accessibility.
