DANCE HIGHWAYS

Cooperation on innovation and exchange of good practices

La Galerie Chorégraphique - Carcassonne - France (lead partner)

· La Fundición - Asociación Puertas Abiertas - Bilbao - Spain

· L'ESPACE ASDC - Palermo - Italy

North Dansearena - Trømso - Norvègia

· Fundacja Rozwoju Teatru 'NOWA FALA' - Warsaw - Poland

· Theater der Klänge - Düsseldorf - Germany

Of all the economic and health crises, the COVID 19 pandemic, in which Europe and much of the world has been immersed since March 2020, is the one that has affected the most vulnerable citizens, materially, psychologically and emotionally. In this unprecedented context, access to cultural rights, as defined in the 2007 Freiburg Declaration, is one of the priorities to support individuals in their personal development, regardless of age, cultural origin or gender.

Even the dancers-trainers have been affected by this crisis from the very beginning; access to dance studios and theaters was prohibited, thus worsening their social situation in a professional sector in which precariousness is already widespread.

In this context, the Dance Highways partners are pooling their financial and operational, but also cognitive, resources to develop a lifelong learning program for adults on pedagogical approaches to contemporary dance. The Dance Highways partners aim to train choreographic artists (disseminators) of contemporary dance. Most of them are also dancers and / or choreographers and develop in their respective territories, innovative, perfectible models of methodologies for the transmission of specific knowledge.