Billy Cowie confirms his presence at the 2010 RNTF

The Scottish artist Billy Cowie will participate in the Bucharest festival with A Stereoscopic Trilogy, an installation show that combines choreography and video art, placing the viewer on the border between live performance and recording, between real sensations and the distance given by the screening.
Billy Cowie is a choreographer, composer and filmmaker. His work concentrates chiefly on dance/theater performance, screen dance and installation. With Liz Aggiss he has put up over twenty live perfromances as Divas Dance Theatre, a company that won him fame all over Europe. Sandler’s Wells Theatre and Victoria and Albert Museum in London, EMPAC in New York, and Bargate Gallery in Southampton are among the well-known venues of contemporary art where Billy Cowie was a guest. Also, major dance and film festivals compete to present his works and give him awards (Shoot Festival – Sweden, IMZ Festival – Austria, Cinecity Festival – UK, Temps d’Images – Germany). In 2006, Anarchic Dance, a book about the two choreographers, was published by Routledge.
The shows included in A Stereoscopic Trilogy (In the Flesh, The Revery Alone, and Tango de Soledad) use a special type of 3-D projection that gives the audience the feeling that they share the same space as the dancers. Cowie is daring in choosing his projection spaces: the floor, with the image of the dancer mingling with the viewers, or the ceiling, giving the audience the sensation that the dancer is hovering above their heads in delicate balance. He combines elements of theater, cinema, poetry and music to create small gems of visual art in surprising, sensitive shows.
On its 20th edition, the RNTF invites you to meet a complex artist whose work is “confounding reality and replacing it with something mystical, haunting, rare” (Glasgow Herald about The Revery Alone), and is perceived as “a tactile poem of love” (Il Manifesto about In the Flesh).