Sound passive. Can then change the world who knows i mean. I would like to believe they can. Dance is moving their bodies in order to meet. With at an open a fearsome bikini faso in colorful costumes in colombia or in mosques on the caribbean coast dones is universal. And with a contemporary Dance Company damaged goods choreographer makes do what is known for creating productions that challenges. The status quo. Im not afraid to work with pay in our darkness are things that are. Uncomfortable but i more to give her a 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 limits it makes a political statement without using any well its just great physical exertion whats moving the dance world these days we set off to find out starting interest in. American choreography and next year 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 hes going to go down that. Path its really important it was great to play practice 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 give 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 cruiser Institute Workshops and meetings were held in the lead up to the congress around the globe as. We called the turns progress a long lasting affair. So i actually started 2 years before and with this just a of bringing artists together so we went to different cities. And met artists in certain cities and brought them together. For their questions for the shared they dance together they met kind of an exchange. My county with the world of contemporary dance and the journey to country where artistic selfdetermination still often meets with resistance. To. Our 1st stop licking the fast. In the capital what to do we need. Ebooks internationally as a dancer choreographer and Dance Teacher yes he has had to fight for recognition in his home and. 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. More 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 and a reference or a song she did it was what you did 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 working. 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 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 do for every human being is useful to society i think as an artist i can create a positive change in the world from shores on the moon positive move in a new. View but changing things through contemporary dance is far from easy and booking a fossil. Dulces like sell a magical grey still face prejudices and discrimination the. South pacific and i 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 by. The way still southernmost akubra a risk at all she left her fiance because he couldnt accept to work as a dancer. The single mother owns a living by performing internationally. The no she slowly. Also receiving recognition and. It was really the show. That helped me to convince my family girls who speak out now they support me thats why i say to all women its possible with the will. Of the Choreographic Development center let me t. F. All the termite mound is a hive of activity and looking at. The under 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 a right to our society. Improvise in front of a symbolic backdrop of the rundown formative. Years is a relic of 900. 00. 1 the country so many prodemocracy movements and cultural projects. Today the grounds belong to the Choreographic Development center several towns companies. Its also home to artists in residence workshops and festivals. That tell me 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 for 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. Theyre going to return to the campus with new knowledge with a breath of fresh air and hope. They words deal with 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 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 there were 2 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 we did thats what struck me most. About. Stuart 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. Their 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 promise for no other way of perth to string. And in 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 what causes people to really mobilize around a certain idea. To get passion about something where they just stop being neutral and stop being an observer and kind of when theyre becoming empathetic. When theyre like yes im involved i am with i come with i support so im really interested in this fragile systems of support. Sharing and learning from one another. Workshop with caribbean beats about job adios teachers champ asia and africa and im going down sun music style. But obviously. I grew to like hip its 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 realize 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 skurnick 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. All that about in the us was born in captivity and studied at the renowned. Today he teaches that himself. Eat at this institutions students are taught a range of different dance techniques and theres everything from ballet to modern contemporary dance. And improvisation exercise. That somebody has a place experimental music while the dancers 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 70 percent of the population have got there he now has african roots in the language being white in a corporate i mentally black neighborhood was a challenge for me but i mean to survive here i had to adapt to the environment forward so what are we to me. 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. The output of the room and the name is el mundo well isnt that correct that he said 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 in the kishin 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 its 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. 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. In colombia to clear the foremans house of 2 palmer as its drawing audience. It was founded back in the founder of you know 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 to perform to explore to experiment before. Because he left a lot of experimental film. Might move a little bit down to the penny it was a professional dancers who were trained to dance school last month but as luck tomorrow as were top of the board sorry for movements weve expanded the basic rate deal done. More expert and be some of us are still studying at the Dance Academy but it was the movement is actually more of a priority than classic training. Fitness and almost any more you. Alchemy and so 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. Book or tell columbia sprawling capital has a population of over 1000000 its full of contradictions open and liberal get home to a 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 and 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 work with but on me. Me and the idea is that everything is in constant flow not just dance involving armor but also gender fluid gender but if they were fluid in our bodies through a fluid in a latin American City fluid and nightlife like in america and. The e. U. That to them are as an important have for the scene to connect and run free. To. Look. I believe the Beauty Community of the moves and 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. You know because i believe that our approach is pretty radical. Keep. The case on point or im into theater campaigns and activism in music or politics. The. I dont see death 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 of 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 are just 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 because we are going to have. A child and theyre going to this guy like the things that. Look at them again our bodies are exposed to all of these things that damage especially here in colombia theres also a connection to magical they are hidden secret powers and possibilities of exploring the world. As. The situation is that theres a lot of aggression because youre. Not easy moving your body through such a metropolis simply go casting that sharpens your senses. It gives you Something Like a 360. 00 degree view. Of war no 2nd want to fight. On that this impulse and i get out and i think there are other perspectives you can take to. Friends this allows me to rediscover my body through the city you can fill us in your calls and then there are a lot of those calls as if theres a poster on this and im going to need that i think is degree just covering the animal within. Its what i want to. Be learning money. Or something or father or 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 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 not 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 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 sheriff or breakthroughs its in this restructuring and this other kinds of ways of. Bringing. People together and discussing. Issues and making things more transparent to. The dulles congress a long lasting effect a celebration of the body mind and soul and a connection that is sure to leave a mark. This was our last 21 take care and take a moment to dance. In a. Good. The be. Cool. From a popular sport to pay it to the laughing stock of an entire nation the local montana almost no other class a car. 1st such a tattered image in germany isnt just a funny name some fans and find out what it amounted schilens its reputation. Read. The 13th. Dream destinations was Majestic Mountain scenery. Im going to use turns on the. 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