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FEDORA Prizes Biennale Nominees 2025 Announcement
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30 October 2024
FEDORA Prizes, Nominee
On Saturday 26th October, we were pleased to host a special event at the Palais Garnier to officially announce the 12 nominees for the FEDORA Prizes Biennale 2025 and to kick off their crowdfunding campaigns. Amongst the 12 nominated projects, 77 artists are featured representing 36 organizations from 11 countries.
The gathering provided a valuable platform for the nominees to present their projects and creations, engaging directly with esteemed jury members, dedicated sponsors, donors, and committed partners, in the presence of Judith Videcoq, Head of Unit Creative Europe, DG Education, Youth, Sport and Culture of the European Commission. We extend our sincere gratitude to everyone who attended and supported these talented artists on their journey to reach the stage.
Together, we look forward to championing their visions and bringing these inspiring projects to life. Join us and be part of this vibrant creative community by making a donation during the crowdfunding campaign to one or more projects of your choice, with contributions starting at €5 and possible until the 15 January 2025.FEDORA Opera Prize 2025 with the support of The Silver Company and in collaboration with Opera Europa
Between Two Lights - an opera about death
Netherlands Chamber Choir
This piece by Chinese composer Huang Ruo is a ritual in which we look death in the eye. Not knowing what it exactly is. But knowing that it is inevitable. Join is in breaking the silence. Let's talk. About death.
Hôtel Moctezuma
Opéra Orchestre National de Montpellier Occitanie
A multi-language existential thriller about decolonization and climate change.
The Curing Line
Straymaker
An opera that deals with themes of healing, interconnectivity, loss of culture and environmental collapse through the story of a woman who inherits a life-saving cure but forgets how to use it.
FEDORA - VAN CLEEF & ARPELS Dance Prize 2025 with the support of Van Cleef & Arpels and in collaboration with Opera Europa
My Fierce Ignorant Step
LEON KAI LYKOS ETAIRIA AGRION ZOON
A collective entity on stage, with eyes fixed on the horizon, strides forward embodying a unified voice and purpose for a change to come, transforming breath into movement, movement into sound and sound into words.
Gentleman Jack
Northern Ballet
A new ballet based on the life of Anne Lister, an extraordinary, fiercely independent 19th century woman. Often called ‘the first modern lesbian’, she inspired the hugely popular BBC series, Gentleman Jack.
Dance People
Omar Rajeh | Maqamat
A creation that weaves its composition out of the intimate stories, a question of the purpose of space and how its distribution defines the nature of our relationships and our concepts of equality and hierarchy.
FEDORA Education Prize 2025 with the support of CARLARA International and in collaboration with RESEO
YALLAH DANSE
ECO Company
A cooperation project aimed at Algerian youth, focusing on training and creation within the dance sector, structured around the development of two pieces of choreography.
Melisma
Greek National Opera
An ongoing educational and artistic program for residents of all ages in Northern Evia Island that has been severely affected by the unprecedented wildfires of summer 2021.
Future Directions
Music Theatre Wales
A group of neurodiverse young people devise and make a digital opera, learning from and inspiring each other to addressing the need for greater social inclusion and diversity in making new opera.
FEDORA Digital Prize 2025 with the support of Kearney and in collaboration with IMZ International Music + Media Centre
Do the Dance
AROP - Association pour le Rayonnement de L'Opéra national de Paris
An interactive experience in mixed and virtual reality and available online, allowing the viewer to experience the movements of classical and contemporary dance alongside the dancers and choreographers.
Echoes of Time: A Dance of Centuries
Stara Zagora State Opera
An innovative performance merging live dance with real-time digital projections across Bulgaria and Finland, celebrating the Stara Zagora Opera's 100th anniversary while showcasing groundbreaking technology.
YUM!
Studio M.A.R.S.
A Participatory XR Music Theater, infusing satire and dark humor with an immersive ostentatious dining experience that delves into themes such as climate change, class, identity, and self-obsession.
