The Legend of Europa (2024 - 2027)
- Project Type
- Theatre
- Title
- The Legend of Europa (2024 - 2027)
- Release Date
- 2024
- Irish Partner
- Border Crossings Theatre Company, Sligo
- Co-Partners
- Riksteatern, Sweden
- Teatro Dell'Argine Società Cooperativa Sociale, Italy
- The Fence, Sweden; Théâtre Du Soleil, France
- Funding Strand
- Cooperation Projects (Small)
- Year Funded
- 2024
- Funding Amount
- €200,000
The Legend Of Europa (2024 - 2027) is a collaboration between five theatre organisations from four countries. The project employs innovative approaches of collective creation to develop a new play in response to the founding myth of Europe.
The performance and the process of making it will directly address the development and promotion of European cultural and linguistic diversity and heritage, questioning narratives that regard these as exclusive, and demonstrating the centrality to Europe of migrant communities and cultural minorities.
The project includes devising workshops led by Border Crossings, Teatro Dell’Argine and Théâtre du Soleil and dramaturgical methodologies developed by The Fence; a green future touring model developed by Riksteatern; a documentary; and a showcase of the work, at Riksteatern in Stockholm.
'THE LEGEND OF EUROPA begins outside Europe on Tyre beach, in modern Lebanon, on the Eastern edge of the Mediterranean. Our journey began on the other side of the continent, at its extremest West, in the town of Sligo on the Wild Atlantic Way. Europa’s name derives from ancient Greek, and implies a wide gaze, looking beyond the self. Europe has always been defined by that which is outside it, or on its edges. Our Creative Europe project, our creation of a new performance responding to the Europa myth in the context of today, has to be intercultural and multi-vocal in the most profound way. We have to open not only our cultural selves but our creative and political processes to multiple inputs and widely varying opinions. And so we began on the edge of Europe. And from that periphery, we are working our way ever inward.’ Michael Walling, Artistic Director, Border Crossings
Irish Partner
Border Crossings Theatre Company (Sligo) was established in 2019 to create new intercultural, multi-media theatre in response to the contemporary globalised world. The company works across the borders between cultures and art forms, and between nations and peoples. By collaborating with international artists and cultural operators of high professional standing, Border Crossings aims to enhance the cultural offer in the Irish Republic, and to generate international opportunities for Irish artists.