Some passive problem or. 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. With that an openness is him because you know fast so in colorful costumes in colombia or in mosques on the caribbean coast duns is universal. And with a contemporary Dance Company damaged goods choreographer makes do it is known for creating productions that challenge the. Just. Im not afraid to work with pay in our darkness are things that are. Uncomfortable but im always looking for 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. To a contemporary dance pushes emotional physical and social limits it makes a political statement without using any way its just great physical exertion whats moving the dance world these days we set off to find out starting interest. American choreographer make steel with invited expos from around the globe to dressed in to attend Dance Congress or tons congress 29 team some 500 people from the world of dance came to share experiences and discuss new ideas one you found. Was. Its really important it was great to play back its 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. Something which required full commitment from everyone present and 2 full years of preparation and planning. With the support of the cruiser institute which 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. Actually it started 2 years before with this just bringing artists together so we went to different cities and met artist and certain cities and brought them together. But they asked questions for the share they dance together that. Kind of an exchange. My county with the world of contemporary dance i did journey to 2 countries where artistic selfdetermination still also meets with resistance. Our 1st stop looking. In the capital do we need. Ebooks internationally as a dancer choreographer and Dance Teacher yes he has had to fight for recognition in his homeland. Defense since 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 to leave my family. There were no role models and there wasnt a dancer you could point to and say oh with dance you can be somebody looking up with dance you could build homes and buy big car slowed down some parent references song actually did it because once you get in films. Its really tough to live from dancing and burkina faso i have to go elsewhere to do projects elsewhere to earn a living which you know. Flown to develop this production together with an artist from 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. Or 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 i think as an artist i can create positive change in the world from article to short amount of money to move. You to. The changing things through contemporary dance is far from easy and booking a fossil. Dulces lifestyle a magical grey still face prejudices and discrimination. They dont know what contemporary dance is theyve 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. In the end still southernmost akubra a risk at all she left her fiance because he couldnt accept to work as a dancer. The single mother owns a living by performing internationally. No no she slowly also. Receiving recognition and how. It was ready to show. That helped me to convince my family now they support me i mean thats why i say its possible. To be. The Choreographic Developments and tell. All the termite mound is a hive of activity. The fermanagh project which puts Women Center Stage is also based here. Created by the directors of the company. It profiles the work of female dancers and choreographers. To the audience to ask questions. To question what is right in our society. Improvise in front of a symbolic backdrop of the rundown formative. Years is a relic of 980. 00. When the country saw many prodemocracy movements and cultural projects. Today the grounds belong to the Choreographic Development center several Dance Companies are based here its also home to artists in residence workshops and festivals. That tell it here is unique in west africa it was founded by sally s. 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 and the 1st place in africa refugees head is elsewhere in africa europe. People think africans are going to cross the mediterranean and invade europe but thats false stuff lots of african refugees stay within africa and off he. Is just to put 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 need to. Evolve. Theyre going to return to the campus with new knowledge with a breath of fresh air and hope said new very yes while. They were still with the issues which affect everyone but from an african perspective. Just present that balance for such as dance because its a universal language you can communicate transmit emotion in 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. Sit there with 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. The 2nd i. Got to know make stuart in dresden. I knew her name from before because weve never met that was the 1st time. I danced congress 2019 makes do it is the 1st choreographer to. Made artistic director. She hopes to create Lasting Connections collective experience through dance improvisation and perhaps even that utopia of the global community. Their connections are real the conversations are grounded and theyre all sharing different experiences together. And its great to be in a social dance class 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 prominence for another way of perth to strengthening this whole dance community. So i look at the movements between people im 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 never get social Space Shuttle interactions and movements. And what causes change which 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 when theyre becoming empathetic. In their legs 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. Caribbean beats about about a ghost teaches tempeh and african im being downsized music style. But obviously. I made only of my group to like to play 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 but. I only realize now that i draw inspiration from those roots. And from everyday relations and life. I look to. The gestures are part of a sign language thats 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 stern create new spaces. Got put 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 they music styles mixed here leading to a vibrant colombian done scene. All that about in the us was born in captivity and studied at 3 now and. Today he teaches there himself. At this Institution Students are taught a range of different dance techniques theres everything from ballet to modern to contemporary dance. And improvisation exercise. This but thats about it was a place experimental music while the dancers let their inspiration guide them in creating a new production born out of the moments. Here are better as rehearsed in the performance of the cardio a student of his from venezuela. They plan to perform the piece in public spaces. That list coming in. To 70 percent of the population have got there he now has african roots in the language being white in a corporate amelie 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 hear born into me i stand on. Its the casing got to him this work here in qatar was a form of Dance Research that. I wanted to really delve into and explore the people of this city. The realm of the name is el mundo. But it somehow captures the essence of colombians today or d you can call on. Him to simone down to put him on 1. 00 stands for your average person in constant need to come up with a way to survive in the kitchen you know to say less but upwards or whatever the mundo dances 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 that strengthen artists network. They come together and they find. Spaces 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. T. P. Chicks you community for instance. In columbia the queer the formants house of 2 cameras is drawing audience. It was found about a 100 of you knock us together with other like minded individuals. Were a 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 but for. Let me stick with your electronics your experiment or feel. Bad move a little bit on to the penny it was a professional dancers who would train the done school so much but as luck to them are as were type of laboratory for movement weve 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 from classic training. Fitness and im often in more union. I commute for no 1st we didnt want to become an artist collective or activist group. And that wasnt their intention at all but we just wanted to have fun together for most of the stuff that weve been artist for a long time before tomorrows to. Go. Together to vogue and have fun when we would be a. Bogota colombia 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 Queer 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 to threats people with thomas are very proud of what we have achieved in such a short time period and proud of who we are but i was at a safe space is that weve established are not exclusive for others to mitt. Romney and the idea is that everything is in constant flow not just dance evolving. But also gender fluid gender but it will fluid in our bodies fluid in a latin American City fluid and nightlife like in america. The maras an important have for the scene to connect and run free. To. Look at. I believe the edgy Beauty Community of the moves in 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. Because of the i believe that our approach is pretty radical. In the case on both of them interfering with their campaigns and activism in music or part of. The. I dont see dance as entertainment but i think it can speak about complex issues in the world. Postcolonial. You know the rise of the right the fascism call it the 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 strength. You. Can get 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 but we are going to have. A child in there because this is a guy who guy like me says that you know he put up with them again our bodies are exposed to all of these things at the end of it especially here in colombia and theres also a connection to magic there hidden secret of powers and possibilities of exploring the world. As. The situation is that theres a lot of aggression were going to see only thats not easy moving your body through such a metropolis simply go past to think that sharpens your senses. It gives you Something Like a 360. 00 degree view. Of war no 2nd want to aspire. On the list and this isnt good and i think there are other perspectives you can take to. For instance your little mouse me to rediscover my body through the city from the air and until i see your calls then there was a place called as it was it was here on this and im going to need it i think its likely just covering the animals with them but. If there were one couple things belonging. And 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 this allows me to perceive the city in a much more encompassing way because i was on the bus we are. 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 connection. Very precarious times and its evident we will keep going when there is a limited resource or you feel the rather that you are youre 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 theres a kind of real like that if you would take whats the source of a kind of unguarded or a shared or a breakthrough if its 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 a long lasting effect a celebration of the body mind soul under a connection that is sure to leave a man. This was almost 21 take a take a moment to dallas. With. Going. To. Keep going to. Keep learning marched realises wait a 2nd we want the whole picture. Facts instead of make ideas shift deliver us. 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