Can change the world knows i mean. I would like to believe it can. Dance is moving their bodies in order to meet. With at an open air seriously in bikini faso in colorful costumes in colombia 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 pain in the darkness or things that are. Uncomfortable. But im always looking for a kind of transformation or transportation or things are moving things still you know bringing things up so they can kind of. Open up. Contemporary dance pushes emotional physical and social democrats it makes a political statement without using anywhere its just great physical exertion whats moving the dance world these days we set off to find out starting interest in. American choreographer makes do it 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 to. Mount. Its really important it was great to play 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 theyre 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 good institutes workshops and meetings were held in the lead up to the congress of around the globe. We called the tense progress along lasting affair so i actually started 2 years before with this desire of bringing artists together so we went to different cities and mad. And brought them together. Where they ask questions for the share they dance together that. Kind of an exchange. My counter with the world of contemporary dance i did journey to 2 countries where artistic selfdetermination still also meets with resistance. Our 1st stop licking the fast. In the capital to do good we need. Ebooks internationally as a dancer choreographer and Dance Teacher yes hes had to fight for recognition in his homeland. So. It was difficult because my parents didnt accept my choice. They didnt want me to give up building houses and become a dancer because for them dancing had no future. It was really tough so thats going to actually leave my family. More then there were no role models and there wasnt 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 pressure to do gods work you didnt feel almost. You know. Its really tough to live from dancing and burkina faso i have to go elsewhere to do projects and elsewhere to earn a living. To. Develop this production together with an artist from the ivory coast a collaboration that wouldnt 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. For people here are afraid to say when things arent working but i see it as my role to contribute something to change that i want to every human being is useful to society so i think as an artist i can create a positive change in the world from the new one positive move to. New but changing things through contemporary dance is far from easy and because you know fossil. Dolls is like selling magical grace still face prejudices and discrimination in the. South pacific and i dont know what contemporary dance is theyve never seen it yet they criticize it 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 seated in the way still southernmost akubra a risk at all she left her fiance because he couldnt accept to work as a dancer. The single mother earns a living by performing internationally. No no shes slowly also receiving recognition at how the end. To. The ads. It was really the show. That helped me to convince my family girls who speak out now they support me for me thats why i say to all women its possible with the will be. The choreographic developments and. All the termite mound is a hive of activity and look enough. Him 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 the audience to ask questions. To question what is right in our society. Improvise in front of a symbolic backdrop the rundown formative. Of 900. 1 the country so many prodemocracy movements and cultural projects. Today the grounds belong to the car a graphic Development Center several companies. Its also home to artists in residence workshops and festivals. That to me is unique in west africa it was founded by said he has a new one of the biggest names in contemporary african dogs 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 thats false lots of african refugees stay within africa and off 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 selfconfidence and to overcome boredom and loneliness. Theyre going to return to the campus with new knowledge with a breath of fresh air and hope. It works deal with the issues which affect everyone but from an african perspective. Just as a dance for such as dance because its a universal language you can communicate transmit emotion and Church Audiences using words. As a representative of africas politically active dance scene beyond the neighbors here also to pass in the towns caucus interest and along with dancers from ghana and senegal. Said there were 2 everything revolved around the arts dance above all 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 thats what struck me most. About. His record in america still i got to know meg stewart in dresden. I knew her name from before but weve 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. Connections are real the conversations are grounded and theyre all sharing different experiences together. And its great to be in thurso then square with the term attorney and then be in dialogue. With students its just really i find it really mix and i feel like it has a real promise or no other way of to string. Ending this whole dance community. So i look at the movements between people im interested in social currency. It can be so simple when we go to meet someone new 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 thats when they become empathetic. When theyre there yes im involved im with i come with i support so im really interested in this fragile systems of support. Sharing and learning from one another. To reveal and be its about job adios teachers tempeh and african im going down sign music style. Like grew to like to pay to more over time. Its the rhythm that surrounded me growing up after all. And today i can use this very rich dance language to develop my own steps. I only realized now that i draw inspiration from those roots and from everyday relations and life. Gestures are part of a sign language thats hard to put into words. But out of the 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 spaces. Got a poor city on colombias 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 their music styles mixed here leading to a vibrant colombian don seen. A better body this was born in country and studied at 3 no. Vote today he teaches there himself. At this Institution Students are taught a range of different dance techniques theres everything from ballet to modern contemporary dance. And improvisation exercise. That somebody must place experimental music while the dancers let them use the ration them in creating a new production born out of the moment. Here other actors rehearsing a performance because leo a student of his from venezuela. They plan to perform the piece in public spaces. On that list to me in. The hand i get 70 percent of the population have got there he 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. Is the casing got 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 its had moved out of the room and the name is el mundo. But it somehow captures the essence of colombians today or d you know. And to send mondello to put him back among dolls stands for your average person in constant need to come up with a way to survive the other sailors but upwards or whatever the money dance is in order to earn a living. But a boy not a solo you. Know that a body has made a name for himself experimenting with new forms of expression and combining improvisation and classical technique. I think that 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. 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 columbia to clear the form and strip house of to its drawing audience. It was down to about a 100 of you knock us together with other like minded individuals. With a collective combining voting with the south American Dance marang. But we also do other things we got together in order to go out in the evenings and perform to explore to experiment but follow. Our lead because here on the left lot of experimental film. But with a little bit about the money it was a professional dancers who would train the done school as much but as large supermarkets were top of the board sorry for movement weve expanded the basic idea of dance. More expand be some of us are still studying at the Dance Academy but was going to see movement is actually more of a priority than classic training. Females and im often in more. Ill come in for no comment 1st we didnt want to become an artist collective or activist group. Or. That wasnt their intention at all but we just wanted to have fun together some of the 1st that weve been artists for a long time before tomorrow is to. Go. Together to vogue and have fun can we would be a. Book or tell columbia sprawling capital has a population of over 1000000 its 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 tipper maurice requires security it provides a safe space for those who come here. We create spaces where were safe from hostility the threats. With thomas were very proud of what we have achieved in such a short time period and proud of who we are but i must get a safe spaces that weve established are not exclusive for others to work with but on. Me and the idea is that everything is in constant flow not just dance involving armor 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. Look. I believe the Beauty Community of the moves and strongly separated and isolated spaces thermals when were together we feel that things are changing but then we go out onto the street and the surroundings stay hostile like a bug a tough. You know because i believe that our approach is pretty radical. You can stomp with o. E. M. Into theatre campaigns and activism in music or part of. The. Week end. I dont see dance as entertainment i think it can speak about complex issues in the world. Postcolonial of. You know the rise of the. Fascism while the history decolonization. The Cultural Center flora in bogota is an independent privately managed institution which supports artists through grants. To media has set up a fund manager is the dance and performance section every now and artist commutes between new york and her hometown bogota and is especially interested in concepts of vulnerability and strike. You. Can connect with them again im 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 because we are going to his neck and his neck and if this guy like the things that. Look at them again our bodies are exposed to all of these things get there i mean especially here in columbia theres also a connection to magic or a hidden secret of powers and possibilities of exploring the world. As long as situation is that theres a lot of aggression were going to see only thats not easy moving your body through such a metropolis simply because a good thing that sharpens your senses. It gives you Something Like a 360. 00 degree view. Of war not saying we want kids by. On the list and doesnt get out and i think there are other perspectives you can take to. Friends listen mows me to rediscover my body through the city youre going to play or arent until i see your calls and there are lots of those calls as if theres a poster on this and im going to need their affluence degree just covering the animal within. If there were one couple. Or something or. Like my sense of smell. The amount of sense i think is just incredible. My sense of smell gives me so much information and then theres this allows me to perceive the city on a much more encompassing way because that was on the. One who brought this heightened sensory awareness to dresden and was drawn to a little video tapes. She used to Dance Congress 2019 as an experimental space and made new connections. Very precarious times and its evident to keep going when there is more limited resources or you feel there rather that youre youre not in the center or that people are not appreciating your work or in seeing the worth so how to strengthen the collective voice so i think theres a kind of real like if you would take whats the source of a kind of unguarded or a shift or breakthrough thats in this restructuring element of this other kinds of ways of. Bringing people together and discussing. Issues and making things more transparent to. The adults congress is a long lasting effect a celebration of the body mind and soul under connection that is sure to leave a mark. This was all 21 take care and take a moment to dons. The the. Guy. He told africa. The mothers of the elephant thats what these women kenyans come up Wildlife Conservancy call them so. They work. 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