With the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
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The XVI International Festival of Contemporary Dance Open Look
The organizers of the festival each year present the global trends in contemporary dance and related disciplines – performance, movie dance, multimedia – to the audience of St. Petersburg.
The professional community is offered with intense master classes held by leading teachers from Europe and USA on various techniques of modern dance as well as debates, round table discussions, joint projects with guest choreographers and dance companies.
The new stage of Aleksandrinsky theatre for two weeks will turn into the festival house that will host the projects of Open Look festival: Dance is Great / Britain, Teachers' Gala, Russian Look, British KinoDance, 3-D Dance-labyrinth, gallery Open Photo Look, Open P.S. laboratory and other events.
The special part of the festival will be the project Russian Look (on July 4-5) that not for the first year provides Russian choreographers with the opportunity to present their works to the professional community, experts of Russian and Western festivals, while spectators may get acquainted with contemporary dance and new names from different regions of Russia.
On the night from July 5 to 6 the dance marathon Dance 24 will begin.