Patter problem i. Can then change the world knows i mean. I would like to believe they can. Dance is moving their bodies in order to move. 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 choreography makes do what is known for creating productions that challenge the. Status quo. Im not afraid to work with pain in our darkness are things that are. Uncomfortable but im more of a good for kind of transformation or transportation or things are moving things still you know bringing things up so they can kind of. Open up. Yet 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 meg stewart invited experts from around the globe to dress 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. New found. It was. Its really important it was great to go back and see 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 get 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 around the globe as. We called the turn britta long lasting affair. So actually it started 2 years before with this just bringing artists together so he went to different cities. And met artists in certain cities and brought them together. Where they ask questions for the shared they dance together they match kind of an exchange. Counted with the world of contemporary dance and the 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. 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 stuff thats going to actually 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 with dance you could build homes and buy big cars there were no references actually do girls want to have a part in films. Can also see that its really tough to live from dancing and burkina faso i have to go elsewhere to do projects elsewhere to earn a living you know what you know. Villone developed 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 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 a positive change in the world from the new one positive move. To. You but changing things through contemporary dance is far from easy and looking up. Dulce is like selling magical grace still face prejudices and discrimination. Because if you dont know what contemporary dance is theyve never seen it yet they criticize it they say the female dancers are prostitutes before not housewives no one wants to marry us and no families are willing to accept us in our society accepted or seated in the us 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 shes slowly all. Also receiving recognition and. It was really. Helped me to convince my family girls who are now they support me and thats why i say to all women its possible with the will. Of the Choreographic Developments and to let all the termite mound is a hive of activity and looking at. 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 i think you need to ask questions. To question what isnt right in our society. Improvise in front of a symbolic backdrop the rundown formative. Of 980 s. When the country saw many prodemocracy movements and cultural projects. Today the grounds belong to the Choreographic Development center several companies. Its also home to artists in residence workshops and festivals. That tell it here is unique in west africa it was founded by study as a new 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 thats false lots of african refugees stay within africa. To support your 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 camps 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. To try to do that dance for such as dance because its a universal language you can communicate transmit emotion in Church Audiences using words. Sound passive palate. As a representative of africas politically active dance scene beyond the neighbors here also took part in the towns call case interest in 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. About. His record in america i got to know make stuart address the squire said i knew her name from before but weve never met that was the 1st time. I danced congress 2019 make steel 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 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 for no other way of perth to string. Winning this whole dance for me. 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. How do we know if you get social space its natural 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 kind of when theyre becoming empathetic. In their legs yes and involved with i come away i support so im really interested in this fragile systems of support. Sharing and learning from one another. Caribbean beats thats about to go. And african im the new 6 star. Like grew to like more over time. Its 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 but a boy. I only realized now that i draw inspiration from those roots and for me every day 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 difficult situations. Good. In this sense it seems dont spurn create new spaces. A port city of columbus northern caribbean coast the city 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 and dance styles mixed here leading to a vibrant colombian don seen. A better batting us was born in captivity in and studied at the renowned. Vote today he teaches there himself. Eat at this Institution Students are taught a range of different dance techniques theres everything from ballet to modern contemporary dance. There was more. An improvisation exercise that somebody else plays experimental music while the dancers let the inspiration guide them in creating a new production born out of the moment. Here are better as rehearsing a performance with a student of his from venezuela. They plan to perform the piece in public spaces. That list. Percent of the population of 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 whatever we 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 you know the long. Winters and moved out of it but its a common doll stands for your average person in constant need to come up with a way to survive in the kitchen you know to see 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 to strengthen artists know where. They come together and they find. Artists pierces 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. The queer performance house of to come out as its drawing audience it was founded back in the founder of together with other like minded individuals. Who are. 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 i perform. Let me think of your collective lot of your experimental feel. Bad move a little bit on to the penny it was a professional dancers who would train the done school bus michael but theres a lot to cameras where type of laboratory for movement weve expanded the basic rate deal done me and. More expand b. 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. Fitness and im often in more you me and. 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 artist for a long time before tomorrows 2. We got together to vogue and have fun when we would be of no. Bogota colombia 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 tamaras requires security it provides a safe space for those who come here you know took a almost always but we create spaces where were safe from hostility to threats with thomas were very proud of what we have achieved in such a short time period im proud of who we are but i must get a safe spaces that weve established are not exclusive for others to. Me and the idea is that everything is a. Constant flow not just dance evolving. 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 can step to the maras an important have for the scene to connect and run free. The. Look look i believe the l. G. B. To community of the moves and strongly separated and isolated spaces if the most when were together we feel that things are changing with then we go out onto the street and the surroundings stay hostile. In the habit of going ok i believe that our approach is a pretty radical. Concourse. With all them into theater companions and activism music or part of. The. Fancy dance as entertainment i think it can speak about complex issues in the world chen their postcolonial. You know the rise of the. Fascism politics history decolonization. The Cultural Center flora and 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. 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 it is not going to stay on the market if this guy who guy like me says that you know who got it at them again our bodies are exposed to all of these things to get the image especially here in colombia and theres also a connection to magic or their hidden secret of powers and possibilities of exploring the world. So close you dont want a situation is that theres a lot of aggression were going to see only thats not easy moving your body into such a metropolis you simply go ok as a kid i think that sharpens your senses. It gives you Something Like a 360. 00 degree view as we enter. A war no 2nd wanted is focusing on the glitz impulses and get out and i think there are other perspectives you can take to. For instance to listen mows me to rediscover my body through this said to them that they could joyously your call for more and then there was the schools as it was it was there with any of them but me there a few days to go regis covering the animal that within what was a lesson was there were one couple seemed to be lending money. Or something or 5 act like my sense of smell. The amount of sense i make out is just incredible there are things that i will say below nor is it my sense of smell gives me so much information for me day and then this allows me to perceive the situation on a much more encompassing way because that was on the. Want to have brought this heist in sensory awareness to dresden and was drawn to videotapes. To use the Dance Congress 29 seen as an experimental space and made new connections on. The. Screen precarious times and its not evident to keep going when there is or limited resources or you feel the rather that youre 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 there is a kind of real like that if you would take whats the source of a kind of an guard or a sheriff 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. Diddles congress a long lasting effect a celebration of the body mind and soul and a connection that is sure to leave a mark. Just was 21 take 10 and take a moment to times. The book. Hey listen up. Thats what a video game music sounded like 30 years ago. Todays tracks take the experience to another level. To him talk composer no both boy mad song. Featured in many well known to his music is bound to give you cause problems sounds good. 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