literature invites us to see people in particular that i like to see myself as the kids find the strange growth. my only objective is to share with a fine beautiful. she does leave books on you to. there's a shared space of inspiration and dialogue with someone and you or your life can transform. that dance for. my bigger more. solemn past it.

can then change the world no i mean. i would like to believe it can. dance is moving their bodies in order to live. with it at an open atheist hymn book you know faso in colorful costumes in colombia or in mosques on the caribbean coast duns is universal. and the contemporary dance company damaged goods choreographer makes do it is known for creating productions that challenge the status quo. and not afraid to work with pay in the art darkness are things that are. uncomfortable but i'm always looking

for a kind of transformation or transportation or things are moving things to you know bringing things up so they can kind of. open up. contemporary dance pushes emotional physical and social limits it makes a political statement without using any. it's just great physical exertion what's moving the dance world these days we set off to find out starting interest in. the american choreographer make stuart invited experts from around the globe to dressed in to attend dance congress or tons congress 2019 some 500 people from the world of dance came to share experiences and discuss new ideas is going to go down. it's really important it was great to play back it's this congress is really that

and special it's not that people have different interests but that intimacy can really break barriers that people can really. meet in intimate settings and feel like they're being heard and seen. the congress was about the body as well as the mind the global exchange of ideas was to get that done seen new impetus help people make contacts and break down barriers. something which required full commitment from everyone present and 2 full years of preparation and planning. with the support of the good institutes where shops and meetings were held in the lead up to the congress of around the globe. we called the tense progress a long lasting affair so i actually started 2 years before with this desire of bringing artists together so we went to different cities and mad local artists in

certain cities and brought them together where they asked questions for the share they dance together they mad kind of an exchange out counter with the world of contemporary dance and the journey to 2 countries where artistic self-determination still also meets with risk. well 1st stop picking the fast. in the capital rather do good we need. internationally as a dancer choreographer and dance teacher yes he has had to fight for recognition in his homeland. it was difficult because my parents didn't accept my choice. they didn't want me to give up building houses and become a dancer because for them dancing had no future. it was really tough to leave my

family. then there were no role models there wasn't a dancer you could point to and say oh with dance you can be somebody with dance you could build homes and buy big car slid down there in a reference to a song because she did it because once you get in films. you know. it's really tough to live from dancing and burkina faso i have to go elsewhere to do projects and elsewhere to earn a living. you know. developed this production together with an artist from the ivory coast a collaboration that wouldn't have been possible without financial support from france. the stage is littered with trash which symbolizes the chaos of

conditions in many african countries. how can they rise above the chaos and free themselves from dependence on the former colonial powers and what role can. these are questions younger african artists ask. people here are afraid to say when things aren't working but i see it as my role to contribute something to change that you want to every human being is useful to society i think as an artist i can create a positive change in the world is not among positive move. to. to the

changing things through contemporary dance is far from easy and booking a fast. is like selling magical grace still face prejudices and discrimination. you don't know what contemporary dance is they've never seen it yet they criticize and they say the female dancers are prostitutes before non housewives no one wants to marry us and no families are willing to accept us in our society accepted or. to still southernmost or cobra a risk at all she left her fiance because he couldn't accept to work as a dancer. the single mother owns a living by performing internationally. no no she's slowly also receiving recognition at home in the e.u. . to. define

a zit was ready to show. that helped me to convince my family got to speak out now they support me and that's why i say to all women it's possible with the will be released in the choreographic developments and to me t.f. or the termite mound is a hive of activity in book enough. the unger small firm enough project which puts women center stage is also based here. created by the directors of the company. it profiles the work of female dances and choreography. to talk to the audience questions. to question what isn't going right in our society. improvise in front of a symbolic backdrop the rundown formative. an atheist is

a relic of $900.00. 1 the country so many pro-democracy movements and cultural projects. today the grounds belong to the car a graphic development center several companies are based here it's also home to artists in residence workshops and festivals. the damage here is unique in west africa it was founded by. one of the biggest names in contemporary african dogs and his latest project he works with refugees from. there are lots of refugees here the 1st place an african refugees head is elsewhere in africa europe. people think africans are going to cross the mediterranean and invade europe for that's false lots of african refugees stay within africa. to support your purpose of the beyond borders

project is to go into the camps and get refugees to dance. this allows them to regain control and self-confidence and to overcome boredom and loneliness. are going to return to campus with new knowledge with a breath of fresh air and hope. they words deal with the issues which affect everyone but from an african perspective. she tries a dance for such as dance because it's a universal language you can communicate transmit emotion and church audiences using words. as a representative of africa's politically active dance scene beyond the neighbors here also to pass in the town's called case interest in along with dancers from

ghana and senegal. everything revolves around the arts dance above all but for me it was about more than that we were like a family we had meals together dance together and combine different forms of art there. was a real human element to all the activities we did that's what struck me most. record in america stuart got to know make stuart in dresden. i knew her name from before but we've never met that was the 1st time. i danced congress 2019 makes do it is the 1st choreographer to be made artistic director. she hopes to create lasting connections collective experience through dance improvisation and perhaps even that utopia of

a global community. their connections are real the conversations are grounded and they're all sharing different experiences together. and it's great to be in a square with the term attorney and then be in dialogue. with students it's just really i find it really mix and i feel like it has a real promise for another way of perth the strength. ending this whole dance community. so i look at the movements between people i'm interested in social courtesy. they can be so simple when we go to meet someone new how do you greet them. how do we navigate social space social interactions and movements. and what causes change what causes people to really mobilize around a certain idea. to get passion about something where they they stop being neutral

and stop being an observer and kind of when they're becoming empathetic. and they're like yes i mean i'm with i come with i support so i'm really interested in this fragile systems of support. sharing and learning from one another. can reveal. that about a ghost teaches and african i'm the in dance and music style. i grew to like to pay to more over time. it's the rhythm that surrounded me growing up after all. and today i mean i can use this very rich dance like which developed my own steps but. i only realized now that i draw inspiration from those roots and from everyday relations and life.

look. gestures are part of a sign language that's hard to put into words. you could always find your freedom through it or save yourself from something so. there are codes that help you navigate difficult situation the. good. in this sense it seems john's can create new spaces. a port city on his northern caribbean coast the city center has been a unesco world heritage site since 984. in the 16th century it was the center of slave trade as a result of cultures and they music and dance styles mixed here leading to

a vibrant colombian done scene. of that about in the us was born in captivity and studied at 3 now and. today he teaches there himself. eat at this institution students are taught a range of different dance techniques everything from ballet to modern to contemporary dance. and improvisation exercises that somebody else plays experimental music while the dancers let the inspiration guide them in creating a new production born out of the moment. here or better is rehearsing a performance with

a student of his from venezuela. they plan to perform the piece in public spaces. that list. percent of the population of african roots being white in a predominantly black neighborhood was a. and for me but i mean to survive here i had to adapt to the environment a saudi read or a pointed me. to him this work here and carter was a form of dance research that. i wanted to really delve into and explore the people of this city but it had more. room on the name as a doll. but it somehow captures the essence of colombians today or you know.

into simone doubt that it puts him among dolls stands for your average person in constant need to come up with a way to survive in the cliche you know to say less but upward so what are we the mundo dancers in order to earn a living moved out with. a solo you. know better body has made a name for himself experimenting with new forms of expression and combining improvisation and classical technique. which. i think should strengthen artists net where. they come together and they find. spirit is outside of institutions that they find their own initiative that they work on their own their value and their.

kind action and how they work with the city i think this is a kind of empowerment for the l.g.b. t.q. community for instance. in columbia to quit the formants houses to come out as it's drawing audiences it was found about a 100 of us together with other like minded individuals. who. collective combining voting with the south american done. but we also do other things we got together in order to go out in the evenings and to perform to explore to experiment before. i let me think of here on the electoral experiment i feel. bad with a little bit better that many of us are professional dancers who would train the done school last month but as luck tomorrow we're top of laboratory for movement on

my left and we've expanded the basic idea of dunce. expand be some of us are still studying at the dance academy but was going to the movement is actually more of a priority than classic training. fitness and i'm often in my. i'll commute for no 1st we didn't want to become an artist collective or activist group. or. that wasn't their intention at all but we just wanted to have fun together. and that we've been artists for a long time before tomorrow's 2. we got together to vogue and have fun when we would be a. joke or tell columbia sprawling capital has a population of over $1000000.00 it's full of contradictions open and liberal get home to grace that much is full of progressive creative projects but also discrimination although the queer arts center house of tamara's requires security

it provides a safe space for those who come here. we create spaces where we're safe from hostility the threats with thomas are very proud of what we have achieved in such a short time period i'm proud of who we are but it was a safe spaces that we've established are not exclusive for others to us but on. me and the idea is that everything is a. constant flow not just dance. but also gender fluid gender but at the fluid in our bodies through a fluid in a latin american city fluid and nightlife like in america. you have to come are as an important have for the scene to connect and run free. the.

look. i believe the edgy beauty community of the moves and strongly separated and isolated spaces i thought was when we're together we feel that things are changing then we go out onto the street and the surroundings stay hostile like a. bit of a bit of good because i believe that our approach is a pretty radical. concourse. came into theatre if there are comparisons and activism in music or parks vs. the. sea dance as entertainment i think it can speak about complex issues in the world. post-colonial. you know the rise of the. fascism politics history decolonization. the cultural center

flora in bogota is an independent privately managed institution which supports artists through grants. and fund managers the dance and performance section the renowned artist commutes between new york and her hometown bogota and is especially interested in concepts of vulnerability and strength. believe you you. can get them going i'm interested in understanding our bodies which are confronted with a harsh reality in colombia in the midst of a political crisis a social crisis an economic crisis as well as an ecological crisis a market is what he says yeah they're going to say call her guy like we think that

you know he looked at them again our bodies are exposed to all of these things to get the i mean especially here in colombia there's also a connection to magic or their hidden secret of power and possibilities of exploring the world. as some of those young want a situation is that there's a lot of aggression that they're going to see only that's not easy moving your body through such a metropolis as simply go ok as a kid in that sharpens your senses i hear it gives you something like a 360 degree view. a war no 2nd want kids fighting see on the placenta doesn't get out and i think there are other perspectives you can take to. for instance to listen mows me to rediscover my body through the city when the good joyous new york will thaw and then there are a lot of those calls as if those who post here with and i'm going to but me there are 3 ways to go regis covering the animal that within's because unless he was

there were. lending money. or something or 5 i clearly like my sense of smell. the amount of sense i make out is just incredible there are things that i will say the noise and my sense of smell gives me so much information but me day and then this allows me to perceive the city in a much more encompassing way because that was on the. brought this heightened sensory awareness to dresden and was drawn to old video tapes. and. she used the dance congress 2019 as an experimental space and made new connections.

in. very precarious times and it's evident to keep going when the earth or limited resources or you feel the rather that you're here or not in the center or that people are not appreciating your work or about seeing the worth so how to strengthen the collective voice so i think there's a kind of real like that if you would take what's the source of a kind of ivan guard or sheriff or breakthrough that's in this restructuring element with other kinds of ways of. bringing people together and discussing issues and making things more transparent. the dunns congress a long lasting effect a celebration of the body mind. and a connection that is sure to leave a mark. this was

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