This year the International Festival of Modern Dance in Durres Albania celebrates its 3-th anniversary and invites lovers of art to get acquainted with the world’s progressive modern dance culture.

The International Festival of Modern and Contemporary Dance is intended to familiarize albanian audience with various dance theatres and companies or independent dancers from abroad who develop professional modern and contemporary dance techniques and innovative forms of dance expression. This event is an opportunity for its participants to exchange ideas and experiences of dance, which have been developed worldwide, as well as get acquainted with the development of contemporary dance in Eastern Europe. It is a great event not only for the spectators and dance professionals but also for the arts lovers from the whole country to get acquainted with the progressive world culture.

The truth is that the acknowledgment and what’s more important, the application of the forms and different techniques of the modern and contemporaneous art in our country is too missing. The presentation and the perception of the performances in Festival, and the participation of the students or dancers in different work-shops organized during the days of “Dance Meeting”, is approach closer our artists of dancing with the most contemporaneous forms and techniques of dance, in order to apply them.

We think that the above mentioned activity with all its components gave a considerable help in this direction.

But what was more important in the organization of the “Albania Dance Meeting” 2008, is the challenge to offer to the public our tourism too, as a entertaining and educative alternative, qualitative and inductive.

The Festival performances are also accompanied by the workshops of famous masters and everyone is invited to take part in them.