While the global lockdown is putting many activities of the dance sector on hold, artists and venues are connecting online. You can be a professional dancer or trying to find creative ways to be active at home - more and more resources are available every day.

In the sections below you can find an overview of video platforms, projects, dance publications and more. Resources from our members are marked with an *.

Please feel free to email us to share links you know about - let's make this list grow together!

Updates are listed in bold. Last update on 2 April.

Emergency resources information pages

• Dance Ireland*
• Centre National de la Danse* (France) & CND* resource pages
• Dansateliers* (The Netherlands)
• Tanssin Talo* (Finland)
• The Place* (United Kingdom)
• On the Move (global)

Worth noting this special open call for South-East England.

Coronavirus in the dance sector

• Tanznetz.de provides an overview of online developments from the dance sector. The overview is regularly updated (in German).
• Dancing Alone Together aims to be a central resource for the dance world during this time of “social distancing” - 3 sections on MOVE, CREATE, WATCH
  
• "Digital Body: how can dance and choreography exist in a purely digital form?" An exploration by Alexander Whitley, London-based choreographer.

Online programming

From 1-day exclusives to online video platforms and festivals, dance performances are coming to you! Check here below a "first" selection:

• Dansateliers* comes to you! From Friday 3 April until Sunday 5 April, the dance film Le Faune by Joseph Simon will be available online. The film was supposed to be on show during Cinedans last weekend, but for obvious reasons that didn't happen.
• Watch section on "Dancing Alone Together" provides a good overview of online offer.
• Artist's focused German platform Dringeblieben has many livestreams - have a look for new content.
• SpectYou is a new (German) online platform for theater, dance and performance - for now in beta version to check out ca. 25 performances
• Sofa Cinema - exclusive online private screenings from the CoisCéim archives
• Les Trois C-L* presents its "3 du Trois" performances online ONLY on April 3rd for 24h hours!
• Sadler’s Wells* digital stage
• Mercat de les Flors* performance from March 2020
• Take a seat! at Trafo*
• HELLERAU* online programme - here below one selection from HELLERAU
• Tanec Praha & Ponec* Online
• Rosas’ open streaming
• Festival Cinedans WEB
• Numeridanse.tv (in Fr and En), one of the most extensive web platform for dance videos hosted by Maison de la Danse*
• Overview from Dance Ireland*
• Danses sans visa, a special selection of INA + A_CDC + La Place de la Danse* to discover dance from around the world
• CND* online video resources (French)
• TQW* Mediathek performances
• "Chronique danse" with Maison de la danse* Dominique Hervieu (French), on France 3 TV regional channel

Interesting also to look back at the 2017 edition of Repères, the dance magazine of La Briqueterie* on Video-dance - in french only.

Classes for all levels

• Many classes listed on the very active platform Dancing Alone Together. Have a look!
• Moot the Movement Lab is an online movement training platform. Trainings are prerecorded, accessible for free - donations welcome.
• Tanzhaus Mousonturm (Germany) shares its professional training for all on the Tanzplattform Rhein-Main website.
• Overview from Dance Ireland* (including links to Youdance, Dancio and Danceplug)
• Sadler’s Wells* dance classes and workshops
• DanceEast* offer - warm up already with the video below!
• A dance video of artist Yaniv Cohen and his daughter made at home (in Norwegian), via Dansens Hus Oslo
• Stopgap inclusive dance classes, via The Place*
• James Wilton at home dance classes, via The Place*

And just a reminder: DANCE IS HEALTHY! If you need any proof of this, check the ARTE video in German, French, Polish and Spanish.

Join in these special initiatives

• Take part in the project Animal Kingdom, an initiation between Numeridanse and Akram Khan Company: "Forget the public outdoor places for now and escape to your living room, bedroom, kitchen, balcony, garden ... and bring to light your animal kingdom, solo, with family or with your roommates." Send in your video before 13 September.
• Keren Rosenberg (associated artist Dansmakers Amsterdam*) proposes to join her and other dancers 2xweek via instagram
• Rosas danst Rosas: follow the intro videos of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Samantha van Wissen, and then do your version - see the short video below too!
• Brakkesnakk, an initiative of Ines Belli and Louis Schou supported by Dansens Hus Oslo* to promote online content on Facebook (from classes to reading groups, lectures and performances) - more info here in Norwegian
• Dance Base* proposes Bush Hartshorn Online Surgeries (for Edinburgh & Scottish artists in priority)

Radios online

• ADC* Station debout
• Maison de la danse* - Entrez dans la danse at RCF Radio

Blogs from houses & artists

These blogs are in written and/or video formats.

• Dansateliers* recommends the creative process behind Panflutes & Paperwork by Ingrid Berger Myhre & Lasse Passage in a beautiful way - documented on Draff.net. The piece is selected for Aerowaves Twenty20. 
• Danza & Danza Web interviews with Italian dance professionals about the impact of Coronavirus on their work (including an interview with Roberto Casarotto, EDN board member | CSC Bassano del Grappa*)
• Dansens Hus Oslo* written interviews during the lockdown, with Orlando Zeps Molina in English and others in Norwegian
• TQW* artists videos
• TQW* Mediatheque, including artists' interviews
• Mercat* portraits of choreographers
• Mercat* blog
• Bora-Bora* video interviews
• The Place* blogs

Readings on contemporary dance

• K3 Magazine (German) - first edition released in March 2020 - is a platform for practical dance tutorials, choreographic instructions, thematic and artistic contributions and more. Done by our member K3 Zentrum für Choreographie*
• Springback Magazine
• La revue Repères (French), from La Briqueterie*  - archives accessible online on Cairn
• Journal de l’ADC* (French), online for free
• Documentation center of the ADC* (French + other languages) with some content online
• CND* Mediatheque (French/other, including multimedia)
• Overview of other online publications listed by CND*
• Mercat* Dan Dan Dansa didactic dossier for dance education
• "La Glaneuse, magazine de la danse au Luxembourg et au-delà" by Les Trois C-L*
• The international journal of Screendance
• Choreography.no, anthology consisting of texts written by artists arctive within the field of dance and choreography in the Nordic countries
• Disability Art International posted an article written by Chiara Bersani, Italian performing artist and choreographer on COVID-19 and disability

Projects on contemporary dance

• Data-danse, discovery of dance for people aged 8 to 99 (in french)
• Dancing Museums (supported by Creative Europe) resources and recent blog from Dansateliers*
• Empowering Dance (supported by Erasmus+, 2018-2020): see project findings and research report on the left column as well as a recent blog from Dansateliers*
• Mind the dance (supported by Erasmus+), guiding and giving resources for the art of reflective teaching
• Performing Gender (supported by Creative Europe, 2017-2019): check out the resources of the project
• Migrant bodies, moving borders (supported by Creative Europe, 2017-2019): check out the film and closing publication

Upcoming events

Digitally or in person, mark these dance & performing arts events in your calendars for the months to come!

• Spring Forward festival comes to your home on 24-26 April! Announcement here, more details to follow!
• IETM meeting in Tromso will happen online on Thursday, 30 April, between 12:00 - 13:30 CET
• Circostrada Lab#5 Manchester (UK) on leadership, equality and advocacy in the Outdoor Arts and Circus sectors will happen online  (details on participation to be published later)
• Dance Week Festival Zagreb, organised by HIPP*, 4-12 June
• Czech Dance Platform, organised by Tanec Praha*, postponed to 24-27 November

Picture: Nepřestávej by Tereza Hradilková (2018). Dramaturgy: Lukáš Jiřička. Costume: Marjetka Kürner Kalous. (c) Divaldo Ponec