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AKTION KOLECTIVA

Pioneers of dance, performance, physical theatre and video dance in Caracas, Venezuela.

Between 1985 and 2004, under the direction of Julie Barnsley, some of the events in which Acción Colectiva participated include: Several editions of the Congreso Latinoamericano de Danza, Encuentro Internacional de Creadores, Festival Internacional de Teatro de Caracas, Venezuela. I Festival Internacional de Danza, Cuba. The Haus der kulturen der welt, Berlín, the Mousonturm, Frankfurt, the Kampnagelfabrik, Hamburgo, and the Brotfabrik, Bonn, Germany. I y III Gran Festival Internacional, México City, I Festival de Arte Contemporáneo, León, IX Festival de Danza, San Luís, Potosí, Mexico. Two seasons at La Mama E.T.C in New York, U.S.A. II Festival de Nueva Danza, Barranquilla, Colombia. III Festival Independiente de Danza, Santiago de Chile. I International Meeting of the Art of Movement in Solo, Java. Indonesia.

The company has also intervened in several art exhibitions in La Galeria de Arte Nacional, El Museo de Bellas Artes and El Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Caracas, in Venezuela. The audiovisual productions of the company have been seen in La Casa Encendida in Madrid, Spain, IX Dance screen Mónaco, Il Coreógrafo Elettrónico, Nápoli, Italia and La Cinemateca Nacional in Caracas.

Between 2004 and 2006 the Acción Colectiva laboratory temporarily closes and the artistic director Julie Barnsley undertakes theoretical investigations which result in the publication of her book El Cuerpo como Territorio de la Rebeldía ( Iudanza, 2006.) In 2006 Barnsley reinitiates the practical laboratory, renaming the project Aktion Kolectiva.

In Venezuela, for her work with Acción Colectiva / Aktion Kolectiva Julie Barnsley has received: The Critven Award (Critic’s Associations of Venezuela), The National Award, Casa del Artista, and is 6 times winner of the Municipal Dance Award.