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Aug 31 2006 - 16:00

Palazzo della Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Trento e Rovereto

Encounters of Cultures. The Commitment of a Festival and a City

PAOLO BALDESSARI, LANFRANCO CIS, PAOLO MANFRINI E GUGLIELMO VALDUGA

For twenty-six years, Oriente Occidente has been a fixed event in the cultural life of the city of Rovereto. It is an opportunity to explore the existence of new horizons and to observe the world through dance and its interrelations with other artistic disciplines.

Paolo Baldessari, Lanfranco Cis, and Paolo Manfrini, president and artistic directors of the Oriente Occidente Festival, along with Guglielmo Valduga, mayor of Rovereto, discuss the identity of the festival and the city. It is a dialogue about culture as a journey and art as a meeting of cultures.