Mission & Vision

EDN cooperation

EDN is a network for trust and cooperation between European dancehouses sharing a common vision regarding the development of dance art across borders.

Our key mission is to cooperate in securing a sustainable future for the dance sector and to improve relevance for diverse dance among society.

To do so, EDN works on different aspects:

• Enhance art management skills, offer team teaching and mentoring
• Sustain a continuous audience education programme and share tools for audience development
• Support a platform for intercultural exchange, develop joint projects, share insight and redevelop our organisations thanks to input from associations
• Use projects to address cultural themes whilst integrating minorities to encourage active cultural participation
• Campaing, conduct best practice model testing, offer support and provide information
• Promote exchanges for artistic development, curate, present and co-produce

The future outlook

The future outlook for EDN is to:

• Promote the idea of a diverse Europe and strengthen the importance of dance
• Become a strong constellation of structures to support dance
• Be able to contribute to transforming ourselves into better professionals and to pass this knowledge on to the next generation of cultural multipliers
• Be an umbrella for projects among our members and with new partners, continuously enriching the array of possibilities
• Think as a network maintaining our individualities and differences and to working horizontally in methods and practice
• Become a real and virtual meeting place, a constellation of all manner of cooperation in favour of creating and promoting dance art in all regards