B-FIT in the Street!, the International Festival of Street Theater Bucharest, organized bythe City Hall of Bucharest and ARCUB,is about to start. For three days, between the 12thand the 14thof July, two hundred international artists will come to Bucharest with seventeen showsand more than sixty performancesin key areas of the city. At the top of the festival agenda there are award-winning shows, interactive performances, workshops for children, acrobatic feats, juggling, the parade B-FIT in the Street!, contemporary dance performances, and, for the first time, demonstrations of free running on the roofs of Bucharest.

The festival will officially start at 7 p.m. on Friday, the 12thof July, in University Square, the central location of the festivalwhich will host, throughout the festival, samba, Scottish music and marching band performances, the Italian flag wavers’ acrobatic feats, as well as artists on stilts, mobile shows with fantastic characters and contemporary dance shows combined with circus elements, and the Mascot of B-Fit in the Street!

Entitled “Point Zero/Zéro Degré”, the show has been rescheduled for Saturday, July 13th, starting at 7 p.m., in “George Enescu” Square. “Point Zero/Zéro Degré” is one of the much awaited premieres of this year’s edition and is brought to Bucharest by the French company La Fabrique Royale.

“Point Zero/Zéro Degré” has been especially created for the festival in Bucharest and presents an authentic free-running demonstration on Calea Victoriei.

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