Mean. I would like to believe it can and. John says moving their bodies in order to live. With that and open a fearsome bikini a fast so in colorful costumes in colombia or in mosques on the caribbean coast duns is universal. And the contemporary Dance Company damaged goods choreography makes do it 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 till 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. Well thats just great physical exertion whats moving the dance world these days we set off to find out starting interest in. American choreographer make steel with 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 to go down. To. Its really important it was great to play back because 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 that done seen new impetus 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 dusit institute which shops and meetings were held in the lead up to the congress of around the globe and. We called the tense progress along lasting affair so i actually started 2 years before with this just bringing artists together so we went to different cities and mad local artists in certain cities and brought them together and they ask questions for the share they dance together they mad kind of an exchange out counter with the world of contemporary dance and the journey to 2 countries where artistic selfdetermination still also meets with reason. Our 1st stop picking up fast. In the capital weather 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 going to have to leave my family other than you. Know more then there were no role models and on set 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 push it into girls once you know you have a problem in fiance. Its really tough to live from dancing and burkina faso i have to go elsewhere to do projects elsewhere to earn a living what you. Feel the need 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 i think as an artist i can create a positive change in the world from one positive move. To. Changing things through contemporary dance is far from easy and because you know. Dance is like selling magical grace still face prejudices and discrimination. You dont know what contemporary dance is theyve never seen it yet they criticize and they say the few mountains are prostitutes before non housewives no one wants to marry us and no families are willing to accept us from our society accepted or. 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 home in the e. U. Theyre funny it was ready to show. That helped me to convince my family got to speak but now they support me i mean thats why i say to all women its possible with the will be pleased with the choreographic developments and to let all the termite mound is a hive of activity in book enough. The unger small firm another 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 to ask questions. To question what is an equal rights in our society. Improvise in front of a symbolic backdrop the rundown formative. Is a relic of 900. 00. 1 the country so many prodemocracy movements and cultural projects. Today the grounds belong to the choreographic development. Several companies. Its also home to artists in residence workshops and festivals. Here and is unique in west africa it was founded by study as a new one of the biggest names in contemporary africa. And 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 often. 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 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. Just as a dance for such as dance because its a universal language you can communicate transmit emotion and touch audiences but it using words. Sound passive. As a representative of africas politically active dance scene beyond the neighbors you also took part in the towns caucus interest in along with dancers from ghana and senegal. Said there were everything revolved around the arts dance above all 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 thats what struck me most. Record in america i got to know make stuart in dresden. I knew her name from before but weve never met that was the 1st time. I danced congress 2019 makes to do it as 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 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 or no other way of both 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. To get passion about something where they stop being neutral and stop being an observer and kind of when theyre becoming empathetic. When theyre like 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. With caribbean beats about job adios teaches champaign and african ambient dance on music style. But i. Dont mean i grew to like him peter 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 realise 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 difficult situations. In this sense it seems dont spurn 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 see. All that about in the us was born in kenya and i and studied at the renowned. Vote today he teaches the himself. That this institutions here and students are taught a range of different dance techniques theres everything from ballet to modern contemporary dance. There was more. And improvisation exercise. That somebody who has a place experimental music while the dances let the inspiration guide them in creating a new production born out of the moment. Here or better is rehearsing a performance because leo a student of his from venice way. They plan to perform the piece in public spaces. That list coming in. To him and to 70 percent of the population have got there hey 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 forward so whatever you read or a pointed me. Going on. Is that our whole casing got to him this work here and cut a hand out was a form of Dance Research that. Is i wanted to really delve into this and explore the people of this city but its in the output of the room and the name as well it would look like that he said it somehow captures the essence of colombians today or you can go along. And to suborn down to put him among dolls stands for your average person in Constant Media offices to come up with a way to survive you know again you know to say less but upwards or whatever the man dollar dances in order to earn a living without a doubt 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 strengthen artists know where. 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. Let me at the queer Performance Group house of to us is drawing audience. It was found about a 100 of you not together with other like minded individuals. With a 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 mr get your electorate a few experimental feel. Bad with a little different every penny it was a professional dancers who were trained to dance school so much but as large supermarkets were top of lib oratory for movements it expanded the basic rate deal done. More expand the use 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. Fields and i want to know more you me and. I commute for no 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 stuff that weve been artists for a long time before tomorrows to. Go. Together to vogue and have fun can we would be a. Joke 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. We create spaces where were safe from hostility the threats. With the promise are very proud of what weve 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. Be 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 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. I believe the l. G. B. To community after 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 like a bachata. You know because i believe that our approach is pretty radical. Concourse was. The case on point where im into theatre companions and activism music or party. To eat. I dont see dance as entertainment but i think it can speak about complex issues in the world and their postcolonial of. You know the rise of the right the fascism call it the history you had to call innovation. The Cultural Center flora in bogota is an independent privately managed institution which supports artists through grants. Say a fund manager is 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 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 but a market is this is a sound and i can see this guy like his record or he going to get them again our bodies are exposed to all of these things to get there i mean especially here in colombia theres also a connection to magic there hidden secret powers and possibilities of exploring the world. As. A situation is that theres a lot of aggression. Not easy moving your body through such a metropolis simply took as a good thing that sharpens your senses. It gives you Something Like a 360. 00 degree view. Of war no 2nd want kids by. On the placenta doesnt get out and i think there are other perspectives you can take to. For instance here this is a louse me to rediscover my body through the city from the felicity your course and then there was a place called as if theres a poster on this and im going to need it i think its like regis covering the animal within. Its clear what i want. And something or act 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 on a much more encompassing way because that was on the. One who brought this crisis in sensory awareness to dresden and was drawn to old video tapes. She used the 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 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 theres a kind of real like that if you would take whats the source of a kind of an guard 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 for. The dons congress is a long lasting effect a celebration of the body mind the soul under connection that is sure to leave a mark. This was all 21 take care and take a moment to dallas. A. Little. Problematic powering lithium batteries we use this Precious Resource for almost everything in the 21st century but supply is our live. 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