Italian Dance Connection Announces 3rd Annual Festival Week

ITALIAN DANCE CONNECTION ("IDACO nyc"), Vanessa Tamburi, Artistic Director announces its 2017 Festival Week, May 30 through June 4, the organization's third annual contemporary dance and art event in NYC.

A wide variety of artistic styles await audiences, with more than 25 dance companies, artists and filmmakers to participate. Dance workshops, thematic round tables, site specifics, dance performances and an free, public, opening event on Wednesday, May 31th at 6pm at the Italian Cultural Institute, 686 Park Avenue, will be included in the Festival week.

A weekend of IDACO nyc dance performances will be held at Baruch Performing Arts Center, Friday, June 2nd and Saturday, June 3rd at 7:30pm, and Sunday, June 4 at 5:00pm and 7:30pm. Emerging choreographers and established Italian/international choreographers and artists will be showcased in four different programs of innovative and experimental works. Presentations will also include film screenings and intermission dance performances in theater-specific spaces. *Full line up below. Tickets: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/970130

"IDACO nyc" 2017 will focus on the theme TransformAction, in an effort to draw attention to artistic responses to ongoing personal, social and political change. Our lives are defined by continuing transformation, by the constant reshaping of our circumstances. The act of making art is a response to this alteration/substitution. The actuality of becoming different drives our actions.

ITALIAN DANCE CONNECTION, "IDACO nyc," is a platform for Italian artists visiting and living in New York, and for New York artists who want to take part in a dialogue with Italian culture, exploring and sharing their unique paths through movement, choreography and the visual arts. "IDACO nyc" seeks to encourage networking and artistic research between multiple creative resources, cross cultural boundaries and offer an artistic platform while cultivating a sense of shared identity. The organization hopes to create space for new collaborations and offer a supportive, inspiring and creative environment for dancers, movers, performance artists, video artists, musicians, and all creative people interested in the "art of movement."

IDACO nyc was founded by Vanessa Tamburi and Enzo Celli in 2015. The IDACO Festival is curated and produced by FLUSSO dance project, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute New York and The Baruch Performing Arts Center and in partnership with INSCENA Festival - Radio Nuova York - VIVO Ballet - Mare Nostrum Elements ECS - Anabella Lenzu Dance Drama - Umanism - Between the Seas - Ticino in Danza - Valentina Celada - Italytime.

IDACO 2017 PROGRAM:

OPENING EVENT - Italian Cultural Institute Wednesday, May 31 at 6pm will include a reception, program presentation, video screening and site specific performance. Italian Cultural Institute, 686 Park Avenue. Free and open to the public.

"IDACO Nyc 'ON & OFF'" - June 2nd and 3rd at 7:30pm, June 4th at 5:00 and 7:30pm. BARUCH PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, 55 Lexington Ave, NY (Entrance on 25th St.)

Cast to include: Abarukas, AlphaZTL/ Fabula Saltica, Anabella Lenzu/DanceDrama, Azul Dance Theatre, Balletto Teatro di Torino, Compañía Improvisada, Cie Twain/physical dance theatre, DaCru Dance Company, Douglas Dunn + Dancers, Jacob Kruty /ECS Mare Nostrum Elements, Equilibrio Dinamico, FLUSSO dance project, Milano Contemporary Ballet, Clarissa Fattoruso & Giorgia Vitali, Grazia Capri, Gessica Cipriano, Parcon NY, VEICOLO DANZA, Sarah Nagle & Justin Ross

FILMMAKERS PRESENTING AT IDACO nyc EVENINGS: Angelo Silvio Vasta, Coreografo Elettronico, Experimental Film Virginia, FrameaSubstantia, Nancy Allison Dance & Film

OPENING EVENT - WED., MAY 31 AT 6PM
THE Italian Cultural Institute
686 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021
Free and open to the public.

IDACO nyc "ON& OFF" PERFORMANCES - THE BARUCH PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 55 Lexington Ave, NYC (Entrance on 25th st.) New York, NY 10010 (646) 312-1000

Friday, June 2, 2017 - 7:30pm
Saturday, June 3, 2017 - 7:30pm
Sunday, June 4, 2017 - 5:00pm, 7:30pm

TICKETS: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/970130

General Admission- $30
Baruch Alumni - $25
Baruch Faculty/Staff $20
Students - $15 (ID required)

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