Wake Up!

Creating space for solidarity

In times when certain democratic processes seem in crisis, the CND and EDN thought it important to take a global look at Europe and the world so as to understand better the realities of each country in danger and conceive more exactly spaces for international solidarities. Giving a podium for artists and groups committed to struggles which are at once societal, political and intimate seems to us to be the best way to bear witness to today’s artistic realities.

What to talk about?

Dance in changing Europe and Beyond Europe

Hellerau - European Center for the Arts (Dresden, Germany) organised an international forum to discuss the development in contemporary dance globally. Annette van Zwoll reports on the event.

Inventur #2

An analysis of the current situation of contemporary dance and the performing arts

The EDN Conference Inventur 2 took place at tanzhaus nrw from 1 to 3 June 2017 and analyzed the current situation within contemporary dance and performance, across genre boundaries and in a cross-sectorial manner.

Dance Production and Funding in Europe

An EDN workshop in Brussels

EDN organized the Information Workshop on Dance Production and Funding in Europe in Brussels. The aim was to consider the current realities of producing dance for the contemporary dance sector in Europe, the impact of funding schemes on artistic practice and the possibilities for closer collaboration and information exchange with institutions involved in cultural funding in Europe.

How to make dance relevant?

Examples and best practices

The conference How to make dance relevant? Examples and practices took place in April 2016 in the Catalan town of Olot. Organized by Mercat de les Flors in Barcelona, the conference proposed a community-based working space to generate questions and encourage collective thinking around the topic of relevance.

Meeting in Athens

Commitment of dance with the current social and political reality

In November 2015 Athens and The Isadora and Raymond Duncan Dance Research Center (DDRC) would be for the first time the host and meeting point of the artistic directors and curators of EDN.

Read here an overview of the whole proposal by Penelope Iliaskou, director of DDRC Athens.

(UN)Conference

Imaginary Relationships

EDN celebrated its first conference in Vienna from 22 to 25 April 2015 under the title Imaginary Relationships.