Biennale Dance  6th International Festival of Contemporary Dance  6th International Festival of Contemporary Dance to take place in June 2008 


Ismael Ivo will conclude a four-year period in the Biennale’s Dance section with a nomination for one year to realise the 6th International Festival of Contemporary Dance, entitled Beauty, Art is beautiful! from 14th to 29th June 2008. How to define and express beauty? Is art perhaps the secret lover of beauty?

In the last three years, the Dance Festival has focused on the theme of the body, in reference to choreography and contemporary thinking. Ismael Ivo has found that the best way to conclude this cycle is with a reflection on beauty: although in today’s world this concept is seen exclusively in terms of its physical expression, leaving aside any interior value, the art of dance, which is pure beauty in movement, may be able to open up new horizons of sense and sensibility.


Venice, 16th January 2008