Breakfast Dialogues / Simon Cole & Denis Plassard
Sunday, 21 June, 2026 @ 10h - Les Subs / Tilleul
Talks
60 min
Les Subs / Tilleul
Breakfast Dialogues opens a simple space to think together - an informal encounter where artists, citizens, and guests share questions, ideas, and perspectives before the day unfolds.
Over coffee and conversation, we gather to listen closely, challenge assumptions, and let the festival’s themes resonate through voices in dialogue.
Simon Dove is an artistic curator and educator. He is currently Executive Director of CEC ArtsLink. He co-curated the programming of the Crossing the Line Festival, an annual transdisciplinary festival held in New York, from 2008 to 2018. He served as Professor of Practice and Director of the School of Dance at Arizona State University from 2007 to 2012.
His previous roles include curator and artistic director of Springdance, an international festival in the Netherlands dedicated to new developments in dance and performance; director of the Yorkshire Dance Center in the United Kingdom; founder and curator of Vivarta, the first British festival devoted to contemporary South Asian performance; and dance officer at the Arts Council of Great Britain.
He has published articles in specialist performance journals and in the South Asian press, conceived and presented a series of programs for BBC Radio 3 dedicated to dance and music, and has mentored numerous students and professional artists from different countries in developing their creative practices.