A fish in brooklyn or faso 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. And not afraid to work with pain in the art darkness or things that are. Uncomfortable but a more to give her kind of transformation or transportation or things are moving things to kill 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 were just great physical exertion whats moving the dance world these days we set off to find out starting interest. American choreographer meg stuart invited experts from around the globe to dressed in to attend Dance Congress or tons contest 2019 some 500 people from the world of dance came to share experiences and discuss new ideas is one. That. Is really important it was great to play about this 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. 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 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 where they asked questions for the shared they dance together they mad kind of an exchange out a counter with the world of contemporary dance and the journey to 2 countries where artistic selfdetermination still also meets with resistance. To our 1st stop looking up fast. In the capital well they do go we need to feel lonely. He works internationally as a dancer choreographer and Dance Teacher yes hes had to fight for recognition in his homeland. So. 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 actually leave my family and yeah. Yeah the thought of 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 cars there were no reference or song can actually do what you never put it in fiance. Book and also 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. Feel the need 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 i 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 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. Dances 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 female dancers are prostitutes before non housewives no one wants to marry us and no families are willing to accept us in 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 living by performing internationally. Know she slowly also receiving recognition at how. It was ready to show. That helped me to convince my family who speak now they support me i mean thats why i say to all women its possible with the will. Of the choreographic developments and to. 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 to ask questions. To question what is an equal right in our society. Improvise in front of a symbolic backdrop the rundown formative. The opening of theater as 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 up based here its also home to artists in residence workshops and festivals. Here it is unique in west africa it was founded by study as a new one of the biggest names in contemporary african dogs and his latest project he works with refugees from. 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 but thats false lots of african refugees stay within africa and off 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. Are going to return to campus with new knowledge with a breath of fresh air and hope said new very. They words deal with issues which affect everyone but from an african perspective. Youre trying to do that dance 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 conquests interest and along with dancers from ghana and senegal. Sit there with everything revolved around the arts danceable evolved 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 with it thats what struck me most keep their. 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 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 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 square with the terminator and then be in dialogue. With students its just really i find it really mixed and i feel like it has a real promise for another way of perth to string. 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 navigate social space social interactions and movements. And what causes change which causes people to really mobilize around a certain idea or to get passionate about something where they they stop being neutral and stop being an observer and kind of when theyre becoming empathetic. When theyre they 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. Which of course caribbean beats thats about a ghost teaches an african im going down suddenly you 6 talk. About. Him you know me i grew to like him its a 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. 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 difficult situations. In this sense it seems done stern create new spaces. Got a port city on londons 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. That somebody else was born in kenya and i studied at 3 no. Vote today he teaches there himself. Eat at this institutions students are taught a range of different dance techniques theres everything from ballet to modern contemporary dance. And improvisation exercise. Now that somebody has a place experimental music while the dances let the inspiration guide them in creating a new production born out of the moment. Here our betters rehearsing a performance because leo a student of his from venezuela. They plan to perform the piece in public spaces. On that list coming in. To him like a 70 percent of the population have got there he now has african roots. 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 already pointed me. To him this work here in qatar hannah was a form of dance research. I wanted to really delve into and explore the people of this city. That all of the women the name is el mundo. But it somehow captures the essence of colombians today or d you can go along. And disassembled and out of it puts him among dolls stands for your average person in constant need to come up with a way to survive. To say less but upwards or whatever the man dollar dances in order to earn a living doll. 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 and 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. T. Q. Community for instance. Let me at the queer performance house or to its drawing audience. It was founded back in the coming up in our cars together with other like minded individuals. With a collective combining voting with the south American Dance around get going 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. This to get here i left a lot of experimental film. But with a little bit of a penny it was a professional dancers who were trained done school as michael but theres a lot tomorrow as well talk of lib oratory from movements weve expanded the basic idea of dance and. More expression 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. Fitness and i want to know more you me and. Ill commute 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 artists 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 grace that much as full of progressive creative projects but also discrimination although the clear arts center house of tomorrow as required security it provides a safe space for those who come here. We 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 must get a safe spaces that weve established are not exclusive for others to us but on me. Me and the idea is that everything is in constant flow not just dance. 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 them are as an important have for the scene to connect and run free. I believe the Energy Beauty community of the moves and strongly separated and isolated spaces families when were together we feel that things are changing then we go out onto the street and the surroundings stay hostile like a bug a tough. You know because i believe that our approach is a pretty radical. If you came into theater 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. Put postcolonial. You know the rise of the right the fascism politics 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 this is especially interested in concepts of vulnerability and strength. With you when you. Can dance. 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 one ballet market is not going to stay on the market if this guy like this is that you know he put up at them again our bodies are exposed to all of these things that damage especially here in colombia and theres also a connection to magic they are hidden secret powers and possibilities of exploring the world. As. A situation is that theres a lot of aggression i guess you want to know thats not news you moving your body through such a metropolis simply go past that sharpens your senses. It gives you Something Like a 360. 00 degree view. Of war no 2nd want to respond. On the plus and the sense i get out and i think there are other perspectives you can take to. For instance to listen to me to rediscover my body through the city from the air and until i see your calls and then there are lots of those calls as if theres a place there is and im going to meet the athletes like regis covering the animal within. Its clear what i want to watch. And something or act like my sense of smell. The amount of sense i think is just incredible. Stories and my sense of smell gives me so much information and then theres this allows me to perceive the city in 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 videotapes. She used to Dance Congress 2019 as an experimental space and made new connections. Which were in precarious times and its evident to keep going when there is a limited resource or you feel that rather that youre youre not in the center or that people are not appreciating your work or seeing the word 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 unguarded our shared or breakthrough thoughts in this really structuring element of this other kinds of ways of. Bringing. People together and discussing. Issues and making things more transparent. The dulles congress a long lasting effect a celebration of the body mind and soul and a connection that is sure to leave among. This was asked 21 take head and take a moment to dogs. Its been closed for a year but we can take you inside again. A digital stroll around the Notre Dame Cathedral in paris. Using vi our dogs you can take a tour through the now reconstructed house of god. Sure to notre dom never seen before your own. Next d. W. The 77 percent. Mission edition from kenya in the year 2011 kenya passed along with the basically said that female genital mutilation was. Despite this its still think practiced and you want to investigate why the value of the woman is so low has said so much to experience clooney. The 77 percent. In 60 minutes on the w. B. We know that this is a scary time for us but coronavirus is changing the world is changing. So please take care of yourself keep your distance wash your hands if you can stay at how were d. W. B. For here for you we are working hard listening to keep you informed on all over platforms were all in this together on together to make it. Stay safe everybody Stacey Stacey stay safe the priest used to say. Hello and the welcome to new app is the word of your remarks today im not in the studio but in the middle of berlin at alexanderplatz behind me you can see the famous youre a neo worlds clock in germany