I would like to believe it can and. John says moving their bodies in order to live. Without an open atheist hymn book in a 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 status quo. And not afraid to work with pain in the darkness or things that are. Uncomfortable but im. To give her a kind of transformation or transportation or things are moving things will 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 words just great physical exertion whats moving the dance world these days we set off to find out starting interest in. American choreographer makes 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 one. Mound. Was. Its really important it was great to play a backtrace this congress is really that and specialised 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 how 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 cruiser institute 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 actually it started 2 years before with this desire of bringing artists together so we went to different cities and bad law artists and. And phyllis and brought them together where they ask questions for the shared they dance together the. Kind of an exchange. My county with the world of contemporary dance and a journey to 2 countries where artistic selfdetermination still also meets with resistance. Our 1st stop picking up. In the capital what to do we need. Ebooks internationally as a dancer choreographer and Dance Teacher yes hes had to fight for recognition in his homeland. 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. 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 cars there were no reference or song pressure to do what you did 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 working and. 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. 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 article to sure is going to be one positive move to. To you the changing things through contemporary dance is far from easy and booking a fossil. Does 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 and they say the few madonnas are prostitutes before non housewives no one wants to marry us and no families are willing to accept us in our society accepted or. The e. U. Still southernmost a cobra 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 she is slowly also receiving recognition at how the easy. To. Define. It was already the show. That helped me to convince my family now they support me thats why i say to all women its possible with the will. Leave. The Choreographic Developments and to let. The termite mound is a hive of activity in. The. 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 touch the audience questions. To question what is right in our society. Improvise in front of a symbolic backdrop the rundown formative. 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. Is unique in west africa it was founded by a new one of the biggest names in contemporary African Dance and his latest project he works with refugees from mali. There are lots of refugees here the 1st place in africa 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. Its 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 event need to. Evolve the party the new car theyre going to return to the campus with new knowledge with a breath of fresh air and hope said new very little thats why. It works deal with issues which affect everyone but from an african perspective. Just present the dots 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 they were 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 had meals together dance together and combine different forms of art. It was a real Human Element to all the activities we did thats what struck me most thank you. Stuart got to know make stuart in dresden why i said 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. The global community. 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. Them be and dialogue with with students its just really i find it really mix and i feel like it has a real promise for no other way of for us to strengthening 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 do you how do you greet them what or how do we navigate social space social interactions and movements. And what causes change which 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 kind of when they become empathetic. When theyre they yes im involved im with i come with i support so im really interested in these fragile systems of support. Sharing and learning from one another. Caribbean beats thats about a ghost teaches compared to an african im going down suddenly you 6 talk. About mohammed only have like grew to like him get 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 boy. 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. You could always find your freedom through it or save yourself from something. There are codes that help you navigate the difficult situation. In this sense it seems done stern create new spaces. A port 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 don seen. A better body this was born in captivity and studied at the we know. Today he teaches there himself. Hes much to eat at this Institution Students are taught a range of different dance techniques theres everything from ballet to modern to contemporary dance. And improvisation exercise. But thats about his place experimental music while the dances let the inspiration guide them in creating a new production born out of the moments. Here are better as we have seen the performance of the cardio a student of his from venice way. 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 and being white in a predominantly black neighborhood was a challenge for me but i mean to survive here i had to adapt to the environment a. Reader already pointed me. To him this work here in cartagena was a form of dance research. I wanted to really delve into and explore the people of this city but its him down there when im on the name is el mundo. But it somehow captures the essence of colombians today or you can call on. Him to simone down to put him back among dolls 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 man dollar dances in order to earn a living. But a poor fellow 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 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 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. Cheeks you community for instance. In columbia the queer Performance Group house of 2 palmer as its drawing audiences it was found about 100. 00 in august together with other like minded individuals. With a collective combining voting with the south American Dance morongo 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. Our lead because here on the left lot of your experimental film. Might move a little differently that many of us are professional dancers who were trained done school last month but as luck tomorrow were top of the board story for movement and we could spend it the basic idea of dance. More expert and be you know 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. Fields and almost any more you. Alchemy of to know that 1st we didnt want to become an artist collective or activist group. Or. That wasnt your intention at all but we just wanted to have fun together some of the stuff that weve been artist for a long time before tomorrows 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 good home to aggressive machismo full of progressive creative projects but also discrimination although the Queer Arts Center house of to maurice requires security it provides a safe space for those who come here know her book i want to create spaces where were safe from hostility the threats with thomas are very proud of what we have achieved in such a short time period im proud of who we are but i was at a safe space is that weve established are not exclusive for others to out of but i mean. Me and the idea is that everything is in constant flow not just dance volume. 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. To. Look. At i believe the Beauty Community of the moves in strongly separated and isolated spaces thermals when were together we feel that things are changing that often but then we go out onto the street and the surroundings stay hostile. Go because i believe that our approach is pretty radical. It. Into theatre campaigns and activism in music or part of. The. I dont see death as entertainment but i think it can speak about complex issues in the world and their postcolonial. 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. Manages the dance and performance section 3 now and 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 were not going to his likeness is that because this guy like the things that you know he put up at the man our bodies are exposed to all of these things get them it especially here in colombia theres also a connection to magical hidden secret powers and possibilities of exploring the world. As. A situation is that theres a lot of aggression going to stay on her thats not easy moving your body through such a metropolis simply go positive in that sharpens your senses. It gives you Something Like a 360. 00 degree view. Of one second we want to start. On the list and doesnt 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 said to them that they could fill us in your calls and then there was those calls as if theres a poster on this and im going to need to i think its like regis covering the animal within. Which they were not want couples who. Act like my sense of smell. The amount of sense i make out is just incredible. My sense of smell gives me so much information and then theres allows me to perceive the city in a much more encompassing way. What are you going to have brought this high season 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. Very precarious times and its evident to keep going when there is a limited resource or you feel the rather that youre. 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 theres a kind of real like that if you would take whats the source of a kind of unguarded or a shared or breakthrough thats in this really structuring element of this other kinds of ways of. Bringing people together and discussing. Issues and making things more transparent. To dons congress a long lasting effect a set of writes about the body mind and soul under connection that is sure to leave a man. This was all 21 take care and take a moment to dallas. To. Pass their traditions down for centuries the clash people in northwest pakistan. They keep their own face street. Men and women as equals now live in harmony with nature. But now the modern world and islam are reaching deeper into their society how will this change the colorful kolache culture. In 16 minutes on t w. Staying up to date dont miss our highlights. 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