What is cav_a ?
This is a cultural exchange programme devised to share, understand and create awareness of contemporary creative performing arts practices in Catalonia, and in return learn about such practices in each host country we visit. By encouraging international cooperation between independent cultural research centres in the field of multidisciplinary arts, we hope to increase cultural perspectives and propagate new forms of creative expression.

Why?
The programme aims to stimulate creativity by basing artistic development on exchange and knowledge, bringing Catalan contemporary performing arts creativity onto the international arena, and transcending frontiers.

To this end we want to work with other, like-minded centres in direct collaborations on productions, as well as engaging in one-to-one exchanges between artists, cultural organisations, and even cities. Using performances, workshops and training, we will create a channel of information between artists, creators and arts professionals, moving them out of isolation and into the wider community, helping them to meet the changing social, political and professional challenges that face the artist as citizen.

Who is it for?
It will allow artists from Catalonia to show their work and their creative processes to the different communities that welcome them, sharing knowledge and interests with local artists and audiences, while opening the way for artists from our host countries to make the reciprocal journey to Barcelona, nourishing local contemporary performing arts with international programming, meetings and debates. Ultimately our goal is to facilitate opportunities for artists of all nationalities to show their work to a wider audience, and to help them develop their relationship with the audience, making it a two-way process with a free flow of opinions that can lead to the creation of new languages of expression and the development of new ways of seeing and understanding contemporary stage arts.

Where?
It has Europe as its first target. But why stop there? The world is out there…

Past editions:

Catalan artists visiting Slovenian artists. Ljubljana, December 2011 (Glej Theatre). →

Catalan artists visiting Croatian artists. Rijeka, December 2012 (HKD). →

Catalan artists visiting French artists. Saint Ouen/París. June/December 2013 (Mains d'Oeuvres).→
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Catalan artists visiting Greek artists, Athens/December 2014 (Vyrsodepseio). →

Zagreb Dance Center, which opened its doors on October 26, 2009 is a unique cultural facility in Croatia developed purposefully for dance. Its primary function as a choreographic centre is to foster and create opportunities for the development of a new generation of Zagreb and Croatian choreographic talent. The objective is to support the production and dissemination of contemporary dance works. An important part of the work focuses on the development of a space for dialogue and engagement between dance professionals and the public at large in an effort to enhance the interest and support for contemporary dance in Zagreb and Croatia.

The Zagreb Dance Centre is a hub for dance, located in the heart of the city, which also engages the broader public not only as spectators but as active participants by inviting them to follow creative processes, participate in a range of dance activities and to enlist as volunteers. For the youth this is an ideal space to encounter and develop unique and different skill sets and work practices.

Residencies, workshops, classes, film projections, performances, round-table discussions, networking, exhibitions, artist talks, lectures and specific dance related activities engaging the general public regardless of age are all part of the year-round programming at the Zagreb Dance Centre. Collaboration with similar venues across Europe and engaging in partnerships with the local community are geared to prompt a more dynamic relationship among Zagreb based artists and the international dance community. The Dance Point as well as the Dance Monthly publication are key sources for dance related information for events at Zagreb Dance centre, while web based information provides news from beyond. Information flow about and for dance is also an important service for the general public who can subscribe to Dance News.

Zagreb Dance Centre, operated by the umbrella nonprofit organisation Croatian Institute for Movement and Dance (Hrvatski institut za pokret i ples), became a member of the European Dance house Network in 2015. This is a Europe-wide network of dance houses and organisations. Zagreb Dance Centre is now the 27th member of this dynamic structure that supports the development of dance as a vital component in contemporary art development.

More information:
www.plesnicentar.info →

Antic Teatre is one of the reference points for cutting-edge independent performance arts. Antic Teatre - Espai de Creació is an independent Cultural and Social centre based in a cultural heritage building, dating from 1650, in the very heart of Barcelona, in the Sant Pere neighbourhood of the city’s Gothic Quarter.
It is a resource centre for mulitdisciplinary arts focusing on research, innovation and the development of new languages in performance.

We are THE ONLY VENUE IN THE CITY WITH REGULAR PROGRAMMING (365 days a year) based entirely on research. Our MISSION is to support and encourage professional artists who avoid established techniques and repetition of methodologies in their experimentation, creation, production, exhibition, promotion and dissemination endeavours, by freeing them from market pressures and demands and so boosting innovation and risk.

We are members of the international network Trans Europe Halles, an European based network of cultural centres initiated by citizens and artists.

More information:
www.anticteatre.com →