Bora Bora together with dance dramaturg Thomas Schaupp are inviting you to join a hands-on public symposia on “Contextualizing Dance – Dance Dramaturgy as a practice of interlinking Art with the Society” happening 13th and 14th of December 2019 at Bora Bora in Aarhus, Denmark.

Building on the experiences of the Atelier on Young Audiences in Hamburg in May 2019, this Atelier at Klap (Marseille, France) will deepen the strategies for creating for and connecting to young audiences.

Inspired by the structure and efficacy of EDN, representatives of the Asian dance field established the Asian Network for Dance+ (AND+) in 2017 in order to support and promote dance in the Asian context. Since then, a fruitful exchange between the two networks has been established with different encounters and formal and informal meetings. To consolidate this relationship, explore dance in different contexts and to investigate possible collaborations between Asia and Europe, this encounter in Yokohama, Japan, is organised.

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.

Dramaturgy is a viable tool for contextualizing an environment, a context or a program. This atelier at Dansateliers (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) will dive deeper into dramaturgical strategies for enhancing the impact of artistic outcomes on the environment in which they are shown.

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.

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.

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.