5th International Festival of Contemporary Dance

　　Body & Eros is the theme of the 5th International Festival of Contemporary Dance of the Biennale di Venezia, presided over by Davide Croff, and is the final chapter in a three-year program that has allowed director Ismael Ivo to elaborate an articulated reflection on the body. A place that reflects the contradictions, the needs, the questions of our time, the body and dance, which it generates, dialogue with contemporary thought - scientific, philosophical, artistic, poetic...- in a relationship that constitutes the distinctive feature of the Festival.

　　The journey through the body alights this year in the territory of desire, observed through the complexity of the esthetic experience, with its tensions and its limits. The 15 companies and 31 artists and choreographers who will participate in the 5th International Festival of Contemporary Dance 　 in Venice from June 14 through 30 　 have been invited by the Biennale to express, through their work, their personal vision on the fundamental theme of the Festival, presenting almost exclusively world premieres, and all premieres for Italy and the Biennale.