The GERMAN DANCE PLATFORM sees itself as a forum to present recent developments and innovative currents in German contemporary dance. It offers an overview and a presentation platform for the most remarkable positions of present- day creation in the fields of domestic dance and choreographic performance.

The encounter aims at connecting with professional and independent African dance artists and at exploring new ways to share knowledge, to support artistic development and collaborations across the continents, and mutually empower each other.

How do dramaturges or ‘outside eyes’ position themselves in relationship to the various artists and the large variety of creative processes and realities they find themselves in?

This atelier focuses on dance dramaturgy as a social practice. A practice in which developing human relations, social and soft skills are crucial. It puts forward the necessity of developing a learning attitude, when reflecting on someone else’s practice. It emphasises “learning to learn” as a crucial soft skill, in a time in which notions of dance, of quality, of truth and of knowledge are finally becoming as diverse as reality has always been.

EDN invites representatives from the European Institutions and from the dance sector to trace past connections, to dialogue on current challenges, to envision future synergies.

This Atelier at Lavanderia a Vapore (Torino, Italy) collects and connects some of the best audience-oriented practices of the last years and researches how dance can be a device to include people in a social and innovative process. Building on the Atelier in Bassano del Grappa in August 2018, it explores how cultural innovation can transform the concept of audience into the broader concept of citizens, and how this can be a force for active and democratic participation within communities.

The Forum at The Place is a reflection an accumulation of all the Ateliers on Audience Engagement held in the past years of EDN. This gathering of topics and needs within the dance field will result in a manifesto, offering the dance field & policymakers input on potential policy lines for the dance in relation to Audience Engagement.

In this 2-day atelier at Dansmakers Amsterdam, professionals come together to dive into the question: ‘How to build and maintain a sustainable practice as a creator’. By exchanging experience and knowledge about different perspectives on the subject and addressed from different international contexts, it aims to gain new insights and tools that can contribute to building a sustainable practice.

This Atelier hosted by Art Stations Foundation (Poznan, Poland) is built on the thesis that contemporary choreography is a source of mindful collaboration, of acknowledging and implementing diversity, of horizontal working methodologies and of effective strategies for reflection and research. It will develop practical tools to transfer those skills into a wider social context, to see how this can be of relevance for our current and future society.

Strech is the title of a series of encounters organised by Keđja in the Nordic and Baltic region. After a successful Stretch Turku in 2019, join dance professionals in Sweden to expand the conversation.