Bedizzole Marching Band

Bedizzole Marching Band

Founded in 1880 under the name “The Band of the Citizens” from Bedizzole, the Italian band is one of the few that have been active for three centuries. At the beginning, the band used to play on the occasion of the religious ceremonies within the Italian commune, and then it was invited to participate in local festivals in the neighboring countries. In the 1950s, the number of members increased considerably and the band became famous outside the province of Brescia. In 2006 it was renamed Bedizzole Marching Band, and in 2013 it won the third place in the Competition of  IMBS Parades in Monza. Today it comprises fiftymembers and it is invited to take part in festivals, carnivals, and parades in Italy and Europe.

Festival Parade

Festival Parade

The parade will start right after the end of the show TRANSTIT.ion, in George Enescu Square, and will march on Calea Victoriei and Regina Elisabeta Boulevard up to the University Square. The parade of the last B-FIT in the Street! weekend will be joined by artist on stilts, flag wavers, cabaret dancers, and drummers from Russia, Italy, Romania and Spain.

WILMARK DANCE ACADEMY

WILMARK DANCE ACADEMY

Wilmark Dance Academy revives the Brazilian cabaret atmosphere with an exotic show
where colorfully dressed dancers invite spectators to dance Samba, while Capoiera fighters
perform various acrobatics and leaps accompanied by percussionists.

We

We

“We” was first played in April 2018; it is a thematic show produced by Masca Theater in the Centennial Year and it features the trip made to Alba-Iulia by ten peasants one hundred years after the Great Union. Making use of dance, the parade-show proposes an overview of Romanian traditional values. The Dances in the play “We” draws on the beauty and the subtlety of the patterns on the peasant carpets.

Harap-Alb

Harap-Alb

First big scale Romanian production with giant muppets

The first ample Romanian production, Harap Alb, reinterprets Ion Creangă’s famous story with the help of technology. The characters Păsări Lăți Lungilă, Ochilă, Păsărilă, Ochilă, Spânul, Gerilă, and Fomilă come to life under the form of some giant four-to-seven meter high   mechanical puppets.

TRANSIT.ion

TRANSIT.ion

The theater company Pan.Optikum from Germany is renowned for its productions with impressive scenographies, made on a large scale, which are spectacular from a visual point of view. Starting from

the notion “people always look for happiness and they find war”, the show TRANSIT.ion is inspired from the play “The Sun and the Death” written by Lebanese writer Wajdi Mouawad. With a team made of thirty actors, dancers, musicians, artists, and technicians, the production TRANSIT.ion resorts to aerial acrobatics, light shows, fire, and fireworks in order to create a visual parable of the contemporary society.

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The Cries of Paris

The Cries of Paris

The Cries of Paris is one of the premieres staged by Masca Theater in 2018; by means of living statues, it features 19th century Paris with its colorful and noisy characters, from merchants to the artists in Montmartre described in the works of Molière, Beaumarchais, Victor Hugo, and Emile Zola.

Batucada from Canary Islands

Batucada from Canary Islands

Along with dancers, musicians, and primitive characters, the drummers Batucada from Canary Islands bring the Brazilian samba rhythms with African influences to the streets of Bucharest. Unforgettable as they are thanks to their tribal costumes, the drummers will be seen in Bucharest only during the last weekend of FITSB, while on Saturday, the 4th of August, they will join the parade of the festival on Calea Victoriei

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Passage

Passage

Passage, the installation-show which turns the public space into a visual poem, was included on the list of the best artistic pieces at FETA International Street and Open-Air Theater Festival (Gdansk, 2014). The production Passage includes a show of acrobats on stilts and an installation entirely made of recycled materials and objects.

Shades Workshop

Shades Workshop

In Shades workshop, children imprint the shape of their body or only of their hands in colored lycra walls, thus forming their own abstract art.

Hand Doll Workshop

Hand Doll Workshop

The workshop teaching children to craft their own hand dolls is the first step into initiating the little ones in the fascinating world of puppetry. Easy to handle, the hand dolls help develop children’s imagination, assisting them in expressing their emotions freely.

Continuu

Continuu

The easiest and the most pleasant way to help children discover themselves and become more self-aware and aware of their qualities is to have them play. Within the workshop Continuu, the little ones are given intensive acting and improvisation lessons based on techniques meant to develop their communication skills, relationship skills, self-confidence, self-awarenes, and awareness of the environment.

Historical Acrobatic Flag Wavers

Historical Acrobatic Flag Wavers

In the Middle Age Europe, scarred by wars, the flags with the emblem of various cities were worn in the battle as symbols of noble houses. In peaceful times, the flag handlers of a community used to meet in order to establish the rituals needed to start the fight. Throughout time, these rituals were developed up to the point of becoming themselves a show. This is how the street performances inspired by the Italian traditions of fight flags appeared.

Founded in 1976, the group Historical Acrobatic Flag Wavers put forth a show based on historical events and Renaissance choreographic techniques. The Italian flag throwers held performances in Mexico, Turkey, Malaysia, Ireland, the U.S.A, Cyprus, Columbia, Russia, Germany, France etc.

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Russian Folk Stilt Walkers

Russian Folk Stilt Walkers

Acrobats on stilts in costumes inspired by Russian stories and traditions, Russian Folk Stilt Walkers bring color, opulence, and eccentricity in the streets of Bucharest.

Bubble Street Cirkus

Bubble Street Cirkus

Juggling and tightrope walking are the main ingredients of a dynamic and effervescent show which gets the public involved, it fascinates and amuses them. Bubble Street Cirkus was created by professional street theater artist Juriy Longhi from Italy, the winner of the first prize of Festival Artisti in Montagna (2007 and 2012), of the critics’ prize of Festival Strabilandia (2011) and of the second prize of KleinKunstFestival – Insel Usedom (Germany, 2015).