Art and nature come together to offer an evocative stage that will host the eighth edition of "Balai Summer Dance School" , the international dance stage that will offer five days of training and entertainment in the green area of Chico Mendes Park, in Porto Torres .
A window facing the sea of the Gulf of Asinara for an event conceived and organized by Heliogabalus Acsd.
The stage activities will take place on two covered stages set up to act as dance classrooms , in which five intensive days of lessons on the different styles of the dance discipline will be programmed , from 8th to 12th, from 9am to 7pm, with teachers from from some of the most prestigious Academies in Europe.
It begins today, Wednesday 10 July, with the national Endas competition and Talent Award, an important showcase for students, an opportunity for their careers thanks to the prestigious scholarships and rich prizes. Thursday 11th will be the turn of the Dance Haus Company, a production in partnership with AsinArt - the Gulf festival, with the triptych "Roots, Animi, Bromantica" choreographed by Matteo Bittante and Michela Priuli. Friday 12th will be an opportunity to host a choreographic showcase of the main Sardinian dance schools, which will showcase the choreographies performed by their students. Saturday 13th Final gala, open to the public and presented by the sector journalist Monica Lubinu, in which the masters will present the choreographies prepared during the weekly works together with the interns and the guest of honour, dancer or choreographer of illustrious international fame, will hold an open class and a performance for the public. This will also be the opportunity for the presentation of the prestigious scholarships, earned during the lessons and during the competition.
The Balai Summer will make room in the next few days for the first edition of the AsinArt Festival which will offer three prestigious main events respectively located at the basilica of San Gavino, on 5 July, Cala Reale, on 6 July, and the Chico Mendes park, on 11 July . The event was presented by Federico Marras Perantoni, president of the Heliogabalus Acsd association, in the presence of the director of the Park, Vittorio Gazale and the vice-president of the CaaTs association, Giancarlo Murranca. Special guests: on 23 July Zoe Pia's concert in the basilica of San Gavino, on 6 August Antonello Salis' concert in Cala Reale, on the island of Asinara.
«The objective is to enhance the territory of the Island of Asinara and the City of Porto Torres – underlines Marras Perantoni – through the programming of in-depth, cultural and entertainment activities in the main monumental sites and landscape assets present».