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Beatrice Basso
Curation
Curatorial projects by Beatrice Basso include New Strands Festival, the artist exchange platform Práctica, and Cultural Consultancies for Pixar Animation.
Exchange Practice Across a Border
Intercambio Artistico Tijuana/San Diego
More here on: Práctica
Howlround article
New Strands Festival, A.C.T.
A four-day takeover of a new space with new work from multiple disciplines, featuring accomplished artists and MFA students.
FEATURED ARTISTS
Christina Anderson, playwright • Byron Au Yong, composer and musician • Melia Bensussen, director • Stephen Buescher, choreographer • Luciano Chessa, composer and musician David Coulter, composer and musician • Humaira Ghilzai,
social entrepreneur • Joanna Haigood, choreographer • Keith Hennessy, performer • Khaled Hosseini, author • Dohee Lee, composer and musician • Melinda Lopez, playwright
Miwa Matreyek, animator • Carey Perloff, A.C.T. artistic director Lachlan Philpott, playwright • Dion Reiner-Guzman, DJ
Lady Ryan, DJ • Ursula Rani Sarma, playwright • Sheldon B. Smith, multimedia artist • Daniella Topol, director • Darron L. West, sound designer • and more.
"The New Strands Festival provided a community of adventure and daring. At New Strands, the energy was one of creativity, generosity, and shared possibility."
- Melia Bensussen, Director of Yerma by Melinda Lopez
New Strands Festival in American Theater Magazine
New Strands Festival in San Francisco Chronicle
Pixar Animation: Cultural Consultancy for "Luca" and "Ciao Alberto"
The Oscar-nominated "Luca" is set in a fictionalized 1950s Liguria, Italy, which required cultural and linguistic specificity and dynamism for both dialogue and visuals, done in close collaboration with director Enrico Casarosa, producer Andrea Warren, and writers Jesse Andrews and Mike Jones.
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