DANCE ROADS OPEN PROCESS BEGINS ITS JOURNEY
PRESS RELEASE
25.07.2013
This week the first ever DROP survey was circulated to dance organisations and venues across Europe to identify cross-border networks supporting choreographic development in Europe. This study will provide an overview of each participating network, their activity brief, scale and partners’ information with the data collected used to form an interactive digital mapping tool which will be disseminated in September through numerous dance venues and organisations across the EU and beyond in 3 languages English, French and German.
These finding will also be used to form intelligent discussions during the 3 day DROP Platform to be held at Chapter Arts in Cardiff 26 – 28 September 2013. The project hosted by the Dance Roads network is being funded with support from the EU Culture Programme and aims to provide the European dance sector with useful tools and contacts as well as supporting the development of five talented emerging choreographers recruited through the network partners from Wales, Italy, France, The Netherlands and Canada.
DROP Project will encourage intercultural dialogue and the transnational circulation of artistic and cultural works and understanding. This will enable DROP to reach beyond the partnership countries to different European countries and will be inviting dance professionals from across Europe to join us in Cardiff for the September Platform.
The Platform will highlight the profile and experiences of eight delegates: 4 making short presentations about their networks, and another 4 presenting their working practices. Along with various focussed discussions about choreographic practice and working within networks, the five participating artists will present their work-in-progress pieces mentored by French choreographer Emmanuel Grivet to delegates and other guests at an evening performance.
Coreo Cymru’s Creative Producer, Carole Blade said: We are already receiving a high number of surveys returning on a daily basis which will form this unique mapping tool for the contemporary dance community in Europe and beyond. Our planning for the Platform in September is also underway so this is a very exciting time for us alongside our partners and artists and I look forward to welcoming everybody to taste what we have to offer here at Chapter in Cardiff in September and providing a platform for new working relationships to be formed.
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use of the information contained therein.
Partner Network DANCE ROADS
Chapter, Cardiff (Gran Bretagna) – membro dal 2001
One of Europe’s largest and most dynamic arts centres with cinemas, theatres, exhibition spaces, studios, café, award-winning bar and over 60 cultural workspaces. Working in partnership with Coreo Cymru the creative producer for dance in Wales initiative to develop dance talents, product and international links.
Glob Théâtre, Bordeaux (Francia) - membro dal 2011
An independent artistic venue located in a former factory in Bordeaux with a small theatre and a studio for independent work and rehearsals. Between 2013 and 2015 the venue will be renovated to increase its capacity and support to dance artists.
www.globtheatre.net
Generale Oost, Arnhem (Netherlands) – membro dal 2009
Arnhem’s professional working space for emerging choreographers and theatre makers with an environment that allows artists to explore, discover, develop and put into practice their new artistic ideas and approaches to work.
Tangente, Montreal (Canada) - membro dal 1993
Founded in Montréal in 1980 by a collective of artists, Tangente – Laboratoire de mouvements contemporains was the first venue in Québec, Canada, dedicated to the programming of contemporary dance.
HISTORY
The international project Dance Roads was created in 1995 as an exchange between the Tangente in Montreal and P.S.122 in New York. The initiative was followed up by eight bilateral projects between organizations promoting dance and Tangente‚ and then developed into a circuit of six cities‚ with a tour taking place upon 5 small stages in five countries.
The first partners included The Place in England‚ Le Gymnase CDC in France‚ Limelight in Belgium and Tanz Performance Cologne in Germany.
Mosaico Danza Cultural Association‚ directed by Natalia Casorati‚ was accepted as the fifth partner in 2008‚ and is the only Italian organization that supports the mobility of young choreographers.
Dance Roads soon became a biennial event‚ gravitating toward smaller cities rather than Paris or London.
Of those first partners who are still active today‚ there are Tangente‚ as well as ‘Welsh in Dance’ and Mosaico Danza‚ with its second tour. The structure and principles remain those of a biennial tour to different cities for five or six artists‚ organized by the promoters and producers. After selecting the choreographer to present‚ each country that’s a member of the network organizes the tour together with the other partners‚ planning ‘v;stops’ hosted by the structures in each country that is a member of the project.
One of the network’s main objectives is precisely that of aiding the circuiting of the shows produced by the young choreographers‚ offering them the extremely rare chance to promote their works and helping the visibility at prestigious international choreographic centers.