i subscribe to d.w. books you meet your favorite writer michael jackson when i write is to share what i find beautiful. books on you too. there's a shared space of inspiration and someone in. your life can transform. your tries and i dance for the good while i think the language you know that fell on. my bills are more.

can then change the world knows i mean. i would like to believe they can. dance is moving their bodies in order to live. with it at an open atheist hymn book in a fast so in colorful costumes in colombia or in mosques on the caribbean coast done is universal. and with a contemporary dance company damaged goods choreography makes do it is known for creating productions that challenge the status quo. and not afraid to work with pay in darkness are things that are. uncomfortable about. again for

a kind of transformation or transportation or things are moving things through 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 anywhere it's just great physical exertion what's moving the dance world these days we set off to find out starting interest. american choreographer meg stewart invited experts from around the globe to dress in to attend dance congress or tons congress 29 teams some 500 people from the world of dance came to share experiences and discuss new ideas one who. found. it was. it's really important it was great to go back to this congress is

really the end specialist 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 give the dance team new impetus help people make contacts and break down barriers is. something which required full commitment from everyone present and 2 full years of preparation and planning. with the support of the dusit institute where shops and meetings were held in the lead up to the congress of around the globe. we called the tense congress a long lasting affair so actually it started 2 years before with this desire of bringing artists together so we went to different cities and mad local artists.

certain cities and brought them together. where they ask questions for the shared they dance together their mad kind of an exchange. my county with the world of contemporary dance and the journey to countries where artistic self-determination still often meets with resistance. the 1st stop licking the fast. in the capital do we need. ebooks internationally as a dancer choreographer and dance teacher yes he's had to fight for recognition in his home and. 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 going to have

to leave my family. the thought of more then there were no role models and 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 cars there were no reference or song actually there because once you have a puppet in films. it's really tough to live from dancing and burkina faso i have to go elsewhere to do projects elsewhere to earn a living. to. develop this production together with an artist from 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 i want to use every human being is useful to society i think as an artist i can create a positive change in the world from article shows one in one positive move to.

the changing things through contemporary dance is far from easy and between a fossil. dulces lifestyle a magical grey still face prejudices and discrimination in the. south pacific and i don't know what contemporary dance is they've never seen it yet they criticize it they say the female dancers are prostitutes before not housewives and no one wants to marry us and no families are willing to accept us in our society accepted or seated in the uk still southernmost a cobra a risk at all 'd 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 how the end. to. their. it was really

a show. that helped me to convince my family girls who are now they support me i mean that's why i say to all women it's possible with the will be. the choreographic developments and. all 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 ask questions. to question what is a right to our society. improvise in front of a symbolic backdrop of the rundown former. 980

s. bikini with the country so many pro-democracy movements and cultural projects. today the grounds belong to the choreographic development center several companies are based here it's also home to artists in residence workshops and festivals. it's unique in west africa it was founded by. one of the biggest names in contemporary african dance in his latest project he works with refugees from mali. 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 and off the. poor the 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. they're going to return to campus with new knowledge with a breath of fresh air and hope. it works deal with issues which affect everyone but from an african perspective. dance for such as dance because it's a universal language can communicate transmit emotion and church audiences using words. sound. as a representative of africa's politically active dance scene beyond the neighbors here also to pass in the town's call case interest in along with dancers from ghana

and senegal. sit there with everything revolved around the arts dance above all things but for me it was a bit more than that we were like a family we ate 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. about . stuart got to know meg 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 or no other way to string. 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 do we how do you greet them what or how do we navigate social space social interactions and movements. and what causes change what causes people to really mobilize around a certain idea. or to get passion about something where they stop being neutral and

stop being an observer and kind of apathetic to when they're becoming empathetic. in their legs yes and involved i am with i come with i support so i'm really interested in this fragile systems of support. sharing and learning from one another. caribbean beats but nobody else teaches tempeh and african on the and on site music style. but i always. call him a don't leave my group to like tribute to more over time. it's the rhythm that surrounded me growing up after all. and today i can use this very rich dance language to develop my own steps boy. my only realize now that i draw inspiration from those roots. and from everyday relations

and life. 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. there are codes that help you navigate difficult situations. in this sense it seems done stern create new space is. a poor city on colombia's northern caribbean coast this is the 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 styles mixed here leading to

a vibrant colombian don seen. a better body of us was born in kenya and studied at the renowned. today he teaches that himself. eat at this institution students are taught a range of different dance techniques everything from ballet to modern contemporary dance. and improvisation exercise. that somebody must place experimental music while the dances let me see the ration them in creating a new production born out of the moment. our betters rehearsed in the performance because leo

a student of his from venezuela. they planned to perform the piece in public spaces . that list coming in. to 70 percent of the population have got there hey now has african roots in the language being white in a corporate are mentally black neighborhood was a challenge for me but i mean to survive here i had to adapt to the environment. so whatever you read or a pointed me. to him this work here in qatar was a form of dance research the answer is i wanted to really delve into this and explore the people of this city but it's him on the output of the room and the name is el mundo. but it somehow captures the essence of colombians today or you

know. into simone doubt it puts him among dollars stands for your average person in constant need to come up with a way to survive in the kitchen he had to say less but upwards or whatever the money dance is in order to earn a living. but. not a solo you. know better body has made a name for himself experimenting with new forms of expression and combining improvisation and classical technique. i think their strength an artist or. they come together and they find. spaces outside of institutions that they find their own initiative that they work on their own and their value and their. kind action and how they work

with the city i think this is a kind of empowerment for the l.t.p. t.q. community for instance. in colombia the clear the formants house of to it's drawing audience. it was founded back in the 100 in august together with other like minded individuals. who are collective combining voting with the south american. but we also do other things we got together in order to go out in the evenings and to perform to explore to experiment but. let me think if you're elected last year experiment or feel. bad move a little bit on to that many of us are professional dancers who are trained done school as much but as luck to them are as we're top of laboratory for movements

we've expanded the basic idea of dance. more expert and be you know some of us are still studying at the dance academy but i was going to say movement is actually more of a priority than classic training. fields and i want to know more you me and. 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 some of the stuff that we've been artists for a long time before tomorrow's too. weak. together to vogue and have fun conway would be a. booker tell columbia sprawling capital has a population of over 1000000 it's full of contradictions open and liberal get home to aggressive machismo full of progressive creative projects but also discrimination although the clear arts center house of to morris 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 we're very proud of what we have achieved in such a short time period i'm proud of who we are but i was at a safe space is that we've established are not exclusive for others to. be and the idea is that everything is in constant flow not just dance involving armor but also gender fluid gender but a fluid in our bodies 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 beauty community of the moves and strongly separated and isolated spaces thermals when we're together we feel that things are changing but then we go out onto the street and the surroundings stay hostile. you know because i believe that our approach is a pretty radical. concourse was. the case with o.e.m. into theatre campaigns and activism in music or part of. the. to him. the. i don't see dancers entertainment but i think it can speak about complex issues in the world. post-colonial of. you know the rise of the right the fascism call it the history decolonization.

the cultural center flora and bogota is an independent privately managed institution which supports artists through grants. manages 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. when you. carry them. with them again 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 but it is likely

to stay on the back of this guy like that. but at the again our bodies are exposed to all of these things at the end of it especially here in colombia and there's also a connection to magic there hidden secret powers and possibilities of exploring the world. situation is that there's a lot of aggression because you want to know that's not me you see moving your body through such a metropolis. your cassock you think that sharpens your senses. it gives you something like a $360.00 degree view. of war no 2nd wanted by. since you're on the list and doesn't get out and i think there are other perspectives you can take to. friends this is a lousy me to rediscover my body through the city from the air and until i see your calls when there wasn't close calls as if i suppose there is anything about me that i think it's likely just covering the animal within. it's what i want to. be

learning latin. or something or 5 act like my sense of smell. the amount of sense i pick up is just incredible. and my sense of smell gives me so much information and then there's this allows me to perceive the city on a much more encompassing way. is going to have brought this heightened sensory awareness to dresden and was drawn to old video tapes. she used to dance congress 2019 as an experimental space and made new connections.

which very precarious times is evident to keep going when there is more limited resources or you feel the rather that you're. not in the center or that people are not appreciating your work or seeing the worth so how to strengthen the collective voice so i think there's a kind of real like that if you intake what's the source of a kind of i don't guard or a shift or breakthrough thoughts and this really structuring element of this other kinds of ways of. bringing. people together and discussing. issue isn't making things more transparent. it dulls congress a long lasting effect a celebration of the body mind soul under connection that is sure to leave a man. this was all

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