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Underlying the 2007 Romaeuropa Festival is the strong desire to meet artists whose forceful work could take us on an exploration of modernity featuring highly diverse forms and contents. The variety and dialogue this would generate are an extraordinary source of wealth in the time of globalisation and standardisation.
The works presented are undisciplined and interdisciplinary, whose common denominator is the need to overcome the barriers that separate the arts and, above all, to integrate setting, body, music and images also through the utilisation of modern technologies.
The result is a long journey across the northern hemisphere of the globe, from Tokyo to Vancouver, passing through Shanghai, Phnom Penh, Singapore, Istanbul, Beirut, Jerusalem, Ramallah, Rome, Venice, Stockholm, Rennes, Paris, Brussels, Antwerp, London, Montreal, New York. It is a journey that forms a multifaceted and eclectic mosaic – a mosaic that is structured around several recurrent themes. The first one of which is strictly connected to the relationship between modernity and heritage, the latter intended as a set of both traditions and works. A fruitful relationship that is developed by revisiting and reinterpreting music, texts and choreographies which are revitalised by the creation of original works.
This tension between modernity and heritage also tells us just how vital the issue regarding the memory of one’s roots continues to be. That memory is needed to tackle the momentous changes contemporary society imposes on us, and to process the convulsions of recent history so as to allow reconciliation with a present that is often terribly dramatic.
Though belonging to very different countries, the artists are bound by the urban context they operate in, and by the relationship they have with the sounds and images of our time as filtered by machines.
While strongly renovating its artistic offer, Romaeuropa Festival 2007 has nevertheless remained faithful to some of its classic themes, confirming, once again, its vocation as an international venue for innovation and for the detection of the modern age.
We thank the artists who have responded to our invitation, the public and private institutions who have made the 2007 Festival possible, information operators who contribute to widen interest and, of course, the public, which has always been the centre around which our work hinges.

Monique Veaute and Fabrizio Grifasi