Setting the tone of connection and collaboration that will dominate Expo 2020, the first event of the ‘Expo Beats’ festival series will feature artists of various genres, from every corner of our planet. 

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Expo Beats

Featuring: Step Afrika! , Kerekes Band, Jill Barber, Beolach, Niki Mukhi and Friends, Parekh and Singh, Hayajan, Arwa, and Miguel Poveda.

Expo Beats: World Beats - Day 2

Expo Beats is an all-day festival that celebrates traditional and contemporary music, dance and spoken word, encouraging highly visual and original collaborative moments woven throughout.

The Beats Festival series is focused on integrating artists from Expo participating countries across six festivals, generating meaning-making and cross-national collaboration.

Visitors can enjoy performances that enhance collaboration and solidarity between nations, local and international performers in a celebration that that brings people together and connects global communities.

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The Beats Festival series is focused on integrating artists from International Participants.

Showcasing artists from participating Expo nations across six festivals.

Festival of contemporary and traditional music, dance and spoken word.

A mesmerising show of Colombian dance, music and theatre featuring stunning choreography and traditional sounds. Renowned for its rich, vibrant culture, this show at Dubai Millennium Amphitheatre showcases Colombia's incredible art, dance, and music scenes. 

Travesia Colombia

Take in a mesmerising show of Colombian dance, music and theatre.

The Dubai Millennium Amphitheatre is a performance space hosting cultural performances and live music for seated crowds, located in Al Forsan Park. The venue’s design features a model of two Ghaf trees that intertwine above the centre of the stage. 

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Colombia Pavilion

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From the streets of Bogotá and beyond, the entire world dances to the beats of Colombian music stars like Shakira and J Balvin. At the lively Colombia Pavilion, you’ll see — and most importantly, hear — how this infectious rhythm connects the nation to a thriving future of culture, innovation and urban growth.

The pavilion’s airy, free-ranging design represents Colombia itself, open and unbounded. In and around its four light-filled floors, an abundance of rhythmic attractions awaits: interactive instruments that let you play along with the music, a giant digital jukebox, holographic light shows and more.


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The Colombia pavilion’s airy, playful design looks more like a three-dimensional checkerboard than a traditional building. The structure trades typical walls for a rectangular grid of colossal white metal beams and transparent panels and floors, which meet at varying levels to create a four-story tower of platforms, open air plazas, and spacious rooms that peek out in unexpected directions. 


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Colombia: Travesia Colombia

The New Zealand Kapa Haka or traditional Māori performing arts, forms a powerful and highly visual part of the New Zealand cultural experience. Kapa haka literally means to form a line (kapa) and dance (haka). Come and experience an authentic performance!

Kahurangi

An authentic traditional dance from New Zealand, known as the Kapa Haka.

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New Zealand Pavilion

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The Whanganui River is so important to New Zealand’s Maori people that in 2017, it was granted a special legal identity, giving it the rights of a citizen. Now, the New Zealand Pavilion offers a sweeping cultural tour narrated by the Whanganui River itself.

With a design inspired by the Maori tradition of hand-crafting containers to safeguard items of value, the pavilion leads you on a journey of conservation where the greatest treasure to be protected is our natural world. Immerse yourself in the river’s story, deepen the experience with the pavilion’s web-based app, and journey through a 10-metre-high “vertical river” of water droplets.


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The New Zealand Pavilion features a tall box clad in titanic wavy panels of chainmail-like architectural mesh called Kaynemaile. Its flexible façade pulses to evoke a living building and sits on a base crafted from New Zealand Abodo eco-timber. The ground floor’s wooden exterior lends a warm feel to the modernist design, welcoming visitors through a small gap beneath the mammoth Kaynemaile panels.

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Watch the incredible Shilpakala Adacemy perform a group dance piece that highlights the culture and heritage of Bangladesh. Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy is the principal state-sponsored national cultural center of Bangladesh. It is the national academy of fine and performing arts. The academy was established through an act of Parliament in 1974 as a statutory organization under the Ministry of Cultural Affairs. 


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Bangladesh: Shilpakala Academy Performance

Watch the incredible Shilpakala Adacemy perform a group dance piece that highlights the culture and heritage of Bangladesh.

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Once a farming economy, Bangladesh is rapidly becoming a mighty innovation and manufacturing hub – a leading exporter of clothing and consumer goods. The Bangladesh Pavilion at Expo 2020 offers a wide-ranging tour of what the emerging nation has to offer, from scientific advancements to handcrafted treasures. Learn about Bangladeshi culture and industry, explore its mangrove forests and sandy beaches and much more.

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