Music : Funky House, Latin House, Soulful House, Deep House, US House, US Garage, Hip Hop, Reggae and Dubstep
This is a daytime event (e.g. starts late morning or early afternoon - see below for times).
Each year in Seeboden in the south of Austria, Europe’s most colorful Event takes place. The “World Bodypainting Festival” is the biggest art event in the bodypainting theme. More then 20.000 visitors admired work from the best bodypainters worldwide in 2005.
Artists from 40 nations will come to this unique event, and put body art into the mountain and lake scenery. On the three main days the World Champion title in 4 categories will be given. In 2005 the night contest for UV effects had a successful premier and will be given again on one of the festival nights.
The Lake Millstätter See region's scenery is the stage, where bodies are boldly put on show, and each artist has the opportunity to show his/her own specialities - bodies painted with many different materials and techniques, and sometimes combined with the most fantastic costumes, masks and show effects.
The bodypainting will take place in the Klauber Park in Seeboden, where the unique surroundings of Lake Millstatt provide the appropriate impressionistic backdrop. The bodypainting work at the event is of a high artistic quality. The female - as well as the male bodies - are painted aesthetically, either to the given theme, or from an artistic viewpoint. The World Bodypainting Festival at Seeboden is the first of its kind in the world and has become the “Mecca of Bodypainting”.
The whole festival week from the 17th July is dominated by the bodypainting theme.
Well kown companys like Paradise AQ by Mehron, Fantasy Worldwide and Kryolan are presenting different workshops for bodypainting, make up, airbrush, special effects, facepainting, photografy and digital artwork. New in 2006 are the oil bodypainting, choreografy and the fluoro effects workshops.
The exhibition “Bodypainting. Another Expression” was a big success. A performance exhibition will be offered by the “BodyZone”, responsible for exhibiting other forms of art.
For the first time we are organizing a fantasy ball, the “BodyCircus ”. On July the 19th the event will take place inside the walls of the fantastic castle “Burg Sommeregg” in Seeboden. Costumes and masks, body art and decoration, make up and fantasy fashion are the dress codes for a magical and mystical event.
The BodyCircus is presented by Make up Institute Stockholm:
www.bodypainting-festival.com
