

The Body & Eros festival ran at the Arsenale venues and at the Teatro Malibran June 14 to 30. The program included 15 companies and 31 artists and choreographers who presented almost exclusively world premieres. Two cycles of workshops for choreographers and for dancers were also part of the festival program.
On the evening of June 20, Pina Bausch was presented the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.
The Golden Lion for the Best Performance of the Festival was presented to Chris Haring on the evening of June 30.
The art of seduction - Posing Project B had its world premiere in Venice on June 19th at the Teatro Tese delle Vergini. It is the second chapter of the triptych about images and their seduction power.
In the prize motivation the jury says that Chris Haring in The Art of Seduction Posing Project B has found bright, original and multi-faceted solutions to addressing the theme of the Biennale, Body & Eros. Using irony, he has mirrored and transformed the public perception of eroticism into a piece which displays our ubiquitous contemporary taste for exhibiting bodies.