Rio de Janeiro’s City Hall, through the Dance Support Fund – FADA 2012 of the City’s Culture Office, once again brings to Rio the largest dance event in Brazil nowadays: Festival Panorama.

Celebrating the 21st edition, the Festival presents an intense program of national and international shows and several activities that include residencies, seminars and workshops for professionals and students, a series of works specially aimed at children and audience development initiatives for the general public. Combined with excellence and professionalism acquired over the years, the ample scope offered by the festival renders makes it a unique moment in the city’s calendar.

Recognizing the important role achieved by Festival Panorama, which perfectly complements the growing dance scene in Rio, the City’s Culture Office salutes all participants, guests and the audience for this great celebration of dance in our city.

Emilio Kalil
City’s Culture Secretary

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With the cultural project Accenture Performances, Accenture supports performances of acclaimed ballet and contemporary dance companies and large concerts of jazz, classic and popular music.

The sponsorship of Festival Panorama reaffirms Accenture’s Corporate Citizenship. Besides, the initiative extends to the world of the arts the company’s corporate strategy of ensuring innovation to transform, in an ongoing evolution of results in all sectors.

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Festivals are, by nature, unique opportunities for encounter and exchange, among creators, from different backgrounds and lines of works, and between those artists and the audience. Fundamentally relevant in any city’s cultural calendar, these gatherings invariably bring new airs to the local scene and round up audiences, always in a healthy way.

By reaching the amazing mark of 21 editions, Festival Panorama only confirms the commitment of its curatorship and a solid trajectory. The most long-lived festival in Brazil dedicated to the arts of the body, dance and performance reaches 2012 taking over Rio de Janeiro, from Zona Sul to Zona Norte, going through Centro.

With a program that brings together important international artists and Brazilian companies, in an always surprising composition, Panorama has accomplished another feat: to please very diverse audiences. And more: the festival has truly contributed to develop new audiences, with a well-established educational project through which members of social projects and students become privileged spectators of an important part of the program, besides having direct contact with the companies.

Here’s an invitation for all to come watch, at Oi Futuro Flamengo, the work of Luis Garay and Cia. Buenos Aires, from Argentina, and contact Gonzo, from Japan, who spread over many parts of our cultural center, in a must-see occupation.
Enjoy the festival!

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As BNDES – Brazilian Development Bank completes 60 years; it continues to act in the most different areas of Brazilian economy and to work towards sustainable development, creation of jobs and social inclusion.

Besides financing projects ranging from large infrastructure constructions to small businesses, the Bank also dedicates great attention to all the different forms of expression of Brazilian culture.

Aware that the culture and entertainment sector is currently one of the most dynamic in world economy and essential to the consolidation of a country’s identity, BNDES continuously invests in film, music, literature and dance projects and in different cultural enterprises.

The sponsorship of Festival Panorama, one of the most important platforms for contemporary dance in Brazil, is an initiative that contributes to spread the work of national and international dance companies, promote debates about this form of artistic expression and develop new audiences.

BNDES is proud to be a partner of the project since 2008 and to contribute to bring this elaborate portrait of Brazilian and international contemporary dance to the public.

BNDES