we are working tirelessly to keep you would have formed on all of our platforms and we're all in this to get on together make it through. to you see everybody in the city's history so stay safe please stay safe. there's a shared space of inspiration and dialogue with someone and your your life can transform. that dance for. as you move f.l. . across my bigger more. solid passive problem i. can then change the world who knows i mean.

i would like to believe they can. dance is moving their bodies in order to move us. with that and open if this in-between afonso in colorful costumes in columbia or in mosques on the caribbean coast duns is universal. and with a contemporary dance company damaged goods choreography makes do what is known for creating productions that challenge the status quo. and not afraid to work with pay in the darkness or things that are. uncomfortable. but i more to give her

a kind of transformation or transportation or things are moving things to go 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 in. the american choreographer make steel with invited experts from around the globe to dressed in. congress or tons congress 2019 some 500 people from the world of dance came to share experiences and discuss new ideas one to. mount. 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 dancing new impetus to 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 future institute workshops and meetings were held in the lead up to the congress of the club as. we called the progress a long lasting affair so actually it started 2 years before and with this desire of bringing artists together so we went to different cities and. certain cities

and brought them together. where they ask questions for the share they dance together that. kind of an exchange. my county with the world of contemporary dance i did journey to country where artistic self-determination still often meets with resistance. to our 1st stop picking up. in the capital we need. international me as a dancer choreographer and dance teacher yes he's 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. 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 car slowed down some parent reference or song actually to do because once you have a part in a film. it's really tough to live from dancing and burkina faso i have to go elsewhere to do projects elsewhere to earn a living. you know. developed 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 i 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 every human being is useful to society i think as an artist i can create a positive change in the world from the shores not of one positive move to.

you but changing things through contemporary dance is far from easy and because you know fast. dances like sun a magical gray still face prejudices and discrimination. they 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. in the way still sodomize a cobra a risk at all she left her fiance because he couldn't accept to work as a dancer. the single mother earns a living by performing internationally. no no she's slowly also receiving recognition at how the end. to. the. it was really the show. that helped me to convince my family girls who are now

they support me and 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. small fermanagh 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. the audience questions. the question what is a right to our society. improvise in front of a symbolic backdrop of the rundown formative. 900.

1 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. to meet here it is unique in west africa it was founded by. one of the biggest names in contemporary african. in 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.

is. 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. are going to return to campus with new knowledge with a breath of fresh air and hope. they were deal with the issues which affect everyone but from an african perspective. president i dance for such as dance because it's a universal language and you can communicate transmit emotion and church audiences without using words. sound passive. as a representative of africa's politically active dance seem younger neighbors year also took part in the town's caucus interest in along with dancers from ghana and

senegal. said there were 2 everything revolved around the arts danceable evolved 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. after . recording america 2 i 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 social dance class with the term attorney and then being dialogue. with students it's just really i find it really mixed and i feel like it has a real prominence for no other way of earth to string. ending this whole dance for me. so i look at the movements between people i am 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 interactions and movements. and what causes change what causes people to really mobilize around a certain idea. to get passion about something where they stop being neutral and

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

i look. through the 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 situations. in this sense it seems done can create new spaces. a port 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 and dance styles mixed here leading to

a vibrant colombian don seen. each. other after burning us was born in captivity in and studied at the renowned. today he teaches there himself. at this institution students are taught a range of different dance techniques there's everything from ballet to modern to contemporary dance. and improvisation exercises that somebody else plays experimental music while the dances let the mystery ration guide them in creating a new production born out of the moments. here other actors rehearsing a performance with

a student of his from venezuela. they plan to perform the piece in public spaces. that list coming in. 70 percent of the population have got there he now has 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 forward so what are we really wanted me. to him this work here in cartagena 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 is el mundo. but it somehow captures

the essence of colombians today or 'd you can call on. him to say more than doubt it but it seemed common doll stands for your average person in constant me to come up with a way to survive the indication you know to say less but upwards or whatever to be the monday dances in order to earn a living. 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. i think to strengthen artists know where. they come together and they find. our despair is outside of institutions that they find their own initiative that they work on their own their value and their. connection 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 colombia the clear the formants houses to come are as it's drawing already and. it was founded back in the hunter banacos together with other like minded individuals. who. collective combining voting with the south american dance. but we also do other things we got together in order to go out in the evenings and perform to explore to experiment before. i let me think of your. experiment or feel. bad with a little bit of that many of us are professional dancers who would train the done school as much but as large superman as we are type of laboratory for movement with

expanded the basic rate deal done. more expand some of us are still studying at the dance academy but was nothing movement is actually more of a priority than classic training. fitness and i want to know more you me and. i'll commute for no comment 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 from a happy furthermore 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. go go tell columbia sprawling capital has a population of over 1000000 it's full of contradictions open and liberal good home to aggressive machismo full of progressive creative projects but also discrimination although the clear arts center house of to maurice 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 must get a safe spaces that we've established are not exclusive for others to put on me. me and the idea is that everything is a. constant flow not just dance involving armor but also gender fluid gender but if they were fluid in our bodies through a fluid in a latin american city fluid and night life. you pass that to them are as an important have for the scene to connect and run free.

i believe the g.p. to community of the moves in strongly separated and isolated spaces i thought was when we're together we feel that things are changing but then we go out onto the street and the surroundings stay hostile like a. bit of a bit of you know because i believe that our approach is a pretty radical. concourse was. the case on both of them into theater companions and activism in music or parties vs. the. sea dances intertainment 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. 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 stray. well 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 but who recognizes we're not going to say i'm going back to this guy who guy like me is

that you know he put up with them again our bodies are exposed to all of these things to get them but especially here in colombia there's also a connection to magic or their hidden secret powers and possibilities of exploring the world. as a simple strong horse situation is that there's a lot of aggression that we're going to see only that's not easy moving your body through such a metropolis as simply your cassock in that sharpens your senses. it gives you something like a $360.00 degree view. warnell 2nd wanted is focused on the descent was and get out and i think there are other perspectives you can take to. for instance your list of mows me to rediscover my body through the city when the joyous new york will fall and then there are a lot of the schools as if there's a poster on this and i'm going to put me there i think it's like regis covering the

animal within but it is unless you still want to work with couples who. are sensing. i clearly take my sense of smell him go back to the amount of sense i think is just incredible or since the most ideal nor is it 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. do you want 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 make new connections.

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

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