Beethoven Festival to 240th Birthday in 2010
On the occasion of the 240th Birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven, the Beethoven Center Vienna arranged a festival for the first time. The festival aims to contribute to the spread of the European idea, with its humanistic values. Ludwig van Beethoven had this already did with the fourth Part of his Ninth Symphony,which was chosen as closing chorus of the European anthem. Event Period: May, June and July 2010 Continue ReadingCarmen to Doha in June
Inspired by the work of Prosper Merimee Plot, Choreography and lighting by Antonio Gades and Carlos Saura. After great success that film CARMEN had, Antonio Gades decides to produce it’s version for theater, which premiere in Paris was popular and critical success, revealing Gades to be not only one of the best dancers in the world but also one of the greatest choreographers. Creating CARMEN , Gades had his own vision and reasons. This he explained in press conference, showing Carmen in new light, not men-eater, neither frivolous, but an honest woman, when saying she loves she does, when she says she doesn’t love, she means it, a free woman. She doesn’t treat her feelings as her private property too. Continue Reading
Doha Capital of Arab Culture 2010 – May update
After successful performance that Shaman Dance Theater had on the stages of Qatar National Theater, cultural activities of Doha – Capital of Arab culture for month of April were closed. Month of May is also rich of events,during first week of the month were held Iraqi days, with various events, from folk dance performances, theater, traditional music, songs, to modern arts and finally fashion show, which had great success among Dohans and other visitors. Then there was performance of Cuban dance group The Lizt Alfonso Ballet on 6 and 7th of May. Continue Reading
Read about Shaman Dance Theater in Qatari Newspapers
Carthage Jazz Festival
Der Austro-Tunesier Dhafer Youssef begeisterte am Dienstag, den 13. April 2010 beim 6. Internationalen Jazzfestival von Carthage mit seinem internationalen Ensemble das Publikum. Im ausverkauften Saal presentierte der sympathische K?nstler Eigenkompositionen, die Einfl?sse aus den Stilrichtungen Funk und Soufi erkennen lie?en. Die einnehmende B?hnenpr?senz von Dhafer Youssef, seine au?ergew?hnliche Stimme und die zum Teil orientalischen Kl?nge und Rhythmen erzielten eine gro?e Wirkung auf das Publikum, das dem K?nstler mit anhaltendem Applaus dankte. Das Jazzensemble teilte sich die B?hne mit Stars wie John Lee Hooker Jr., Axelle Red, Milow, Hans und Candy Dulfer oder Vaya Con Dios, um nur einige zu nennen. Das zehnt?tige Jazzfestival lockt allj?hrlich Tausende Besucher nach Tunis. Insgesamt treten heuer 15 Jazzgruppen bzw. Einzelk?nstler auf. Mehr: http://www.jazzacarthage.com/
To Brazil in September
If you still didn’t make up your mind and chose yet a festival for your group, then you could have wonderful possibility to go to Brazil to Festival Internacional de Folclore do Mato Grosso. The festival will be held in Caceres/ Mato Grosso in the Pantanal region in Brazil from 21 to 25 September, groups are requested to arrive at 20 September and leave at 26 September from the Cuiaba Airport. Continue Reading
Istanbul in August
Istanbul’s Harmanfolk invites all folk dance groups interested in visiting Turkey to INTERNATIONAL ISTCUP ISTANBUL folk festival, which will be held 27-31 AUGUST 2010. The conditions are: I- Most programs are held in the evenings, however some day time programs are also scheduled. Performances are approximately 10-15 minutes. The time of the performance allowed will be strictly limited. All groups will show their performance max 3 nights. Each group can perform max 15 minutes. Five countries will be invited to the 27-31 AUGUST 2010 festival. Continue Reading
International FolkFest in TN, USA
I have been cooperating with International FolkFest Murfreesboro, Tennessee already 3 or even 4 years and all the groups that I recommended to this festival have had wonderful experience. I keep supporting the organizers in their great work and wish that can do more in helping them to make this festival even more popular. Folk Fest is held from 13-20 of June, 2010 and promise to be “a great week of excitment and education”. Throughout the week, international groups will perform for area schools, youth and senior citizen organizations and for civic clubs. Continue Reading
Ministry of Culture and TV and Radio Broadcasting of Turkmenistan organizes International Exhibition of Arts and Crafts
There is a great possibility for all of you to make a visit to Central Asia – Republic of Turkmenistan.
Ministry of Culture and TV and Radio Broadcasting of Turkmenistan organizes International Exhibition of arts and crafts and Festival of National Folklore “Spiritual treasury of mankind”.
Dubai Shopping Festival 2010
Dubai shopping festival started on January 28th and is going to its end on 28th of February. And we can proudly announce that we have contributed to success of this wonderful event with five participating groups.
Frula Dance company, one of our best dance groups, have been frequently invited to Dubai, for both Shopping and Summer Surprises festivals. They always perform different programs, never repeating themselves, always original, dynamic, beautiful dances.
Egrisi dance group from Tbilisi, Georgia is the second time travels with us to Dubai. They are young, well trained, with fiery Caucasian dances and music, that is becoming more and more attractive for Arabic audience. I thank them for their contribution and sure that we will continue our cooperation.
First time we have been inviting Kazakh group to Dubai and we are great to announce that we were right in choosing this wonderful group called Sazgen Sazy. They have beautiful dance program, the voices of the mysterious musical instruments like the sounds of the dombra, sybyzgy, shankobyz, zhetyghen, syrnai and kylkobyz produce an impression of these instruments coming to life and can cause a delightful rapture with those who listen to these enchanting sounds.(Bagdat Tileghenov ) We thank the group for their contribution and looking forward for other possibilities that can open for us new cooperation horizons. 
It is also first time we work with this professional music band, 6 professional musicians, playing fantastic music, ther program is rich and they can play for hours. I thank them for accepting our invitation and for their professional performance on the stages of DSF. Unfortunately I do not posses the photos of our fifth group from Turkey, but I do thank them as well for their contribution. While I was in Vienna, monitoring the participation, my friend and partner – Mustafa, was doing the work, and he was in Dubai all the time and get most of headaches that could occur during any such large scale participation. Mustafa did great work and I thank him for taking care of all the groups perfectly. Thanking Dubai-es that attended our events, I look forward to offering them new performances of our various groups for upcoming Dubai Summer Surprises events!