The latterly past year Monaco was the scene for the grand biennial Dance Forum. The event happened between 14 and eighteen December 2004 and was held typically at Grimaldi Forum. The a few days unfolded on various levels :
- Performances
- Multimedia Forum
- Dance on Screen
- The ADvANCE Project
- First Job Audition
Exhibitions – monographic and thematic ones, Karl Lagerfeld's photo exhibition
Rendez-vous- excellent opportunities open for the public to meet famous choreographers from every area of the world.</ul>Most outstanding performances included Orfeo ed Euridice, by Emio Greco/PC and Opera North / Netherlands, UK and Fairy, by Jyrki Karttunen and corp / Finland, Henry Oguike Dance Company from the UK and Compania Maria Pages, a Spanish company that blends flamenco with contemporary jazz standards.
The ceremony of the 2004 Nijinsky Awards was held on December eighteen at the Forum Grimaldi in Monte Carlo. The most coveted prizes were awarded to Nicolas Le Riche of the Ballet de l'Opera nationwide de Paris and the Romanian performer Alina Cojocaru of the London Royal Ballet in the masculine and feminine dancer categories.
The multimedia forum constituted a leading edge way to lead dance beyond boundaries of gravity and breathtaking space restrictions, bonding new ties with other humanities – music, film, visible arts.The multimedia projects reunited choreographers, stage designers, musicians, graphic artists etc . 3 forms were accepted : software, live choregraphic pieces making use of numeric devices and choreographic installations.
There were 142 applicants from 29 states. The SACD prize was awarded to the unfinished project'Donât ask the Blond' started by Cosmin Manolescu in collaboration with Kira Riikonen and Roberto Casarotto. The project reunites the collective work of choreographers and other artists from Finland, Italy and Romania and should be developed in 2005. The final show will be accompanied by visible and sonorous creations. Ten folks from the crowd will be invited to partake of the performance each time. The premiere will be in Finland, in July 2005.
The section Dance on Screen was intended to offer to audiovisual producers and dance corporations a chance to meet partners such as directors of holidays, theatre programmers, television broadcasters, general and specialised media journalists with the view of future project development, promotion and promoting.
the outcome of the ADVANCE Project were presented at a conference during Monaco Dance Forum. This project was began three years back by the global Organization for the Transition of pro Dancers ( IOTPD ) aiming to improve the difficulties met by the professional dancers when transitioning to a post-dance career.
On December fourteen and 15, 100 pre-professional dancers selected from around the world had the chance to obtain their first full time contract on the first Job Audition. The audition consisted of one classical ballet class and a contemporary workshop with an invited choreographer. The first Job Audition finished with the Bursary Awards rite which took place on December sixteen at'Espace Karrement' ( Grimaldi Forum ) in the presence of H.R.H. Princess Caroline of Hanover.
Princess Caroline, who is president of the Monte Carlo Ballet, founded by Princess Grace, has worked hard to fulfil her mother's dream about making dance an essential part of Monaco's cultural life. The most important moments of the Forum, terminating with the Nijinsky Awards night at the Salle des Princes of the Grimaldi Forum, were marked by her presence.
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Donald Mann