Connecting Dance For All Erasmus Project

Project Title

Connecting Dance For All

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Partnerships for Creativity

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Disabilities – special needs; Inclusion – equity; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

Connecting Dance For All is a project that aims at uniting skills, experiences and resources from the three organisations involved (Cía. Danza Vinculados from Granada, Piccolo Theatre from Cottbus and Fuori Contesto from Rome) to provide a unique creative, training and life experience that will enrich the young people and the professionals involved as well as the wider community. The three organizations will collaborate during 24 months, March 2021-February 2023 to exchange, develop and apply together new inclusive and participatory dance methodologies that aim at empowering 46 young people with and without disabilities. The young people will be selected from the existing partner organisations and through an open call in Granada, Rome and Cottbus to access new participants. This project aims at:
1) Empowering young people (dancers and non dancers), with and without disabilities, at a personal and social level (developing new skills in creative researching methodologies, contemporary dance, performing skills, community dance, danceability, inclusive and accessible dance skills, sign language, communication skills, non violent communication skills, theatre of the oppressed, collaborative and team working skills, dance therapy skills, choreography skills, digital media and leadership skills).
2) Offering inclusive and safe opportunities for young people with disabilities to participate in training, performing, creative, traveling, group bonding and inspirational activities.
3) Developing existing and building on new inclusive dance experiences and methodologies. Through the exchange of good practices between the three organisations involved, workshops and collaborative research with and for young people.
4) Empowering the organisations and professionals involved. Through the development of new skills, uniting resources and sharing experiences.
5) Exchanging good practices between the project organisations and participants, in inclusive dance, creative choreographic work, participatory and inclusive dance techniques, development of youth projects, project management, audience development, innovation, cultural and educational digitalization, ways of facing the new challenges brought by the COVID-19.
6) Opening new professional and training opportunities for young dancers. And provide inspirational experiences, such as workshops with the Spanish National Dance Company, Sasha Waltz Company and the Accademia Nazionale di Danza Roma.
7) Learning about other cultures and realities, offering the opportunity to the participants to travel together to each other’s countries and cities (Granada, Rome an Cottbus), to share experiences, training activities, creative process, to perform together and to build the project together.
8) To address specific issues emerged from the COVID-19 crisis, such as:
a. Social isolation and ways to relate to other people.
b. Contact with the body.
c. Physical contact.
d. Access and new ways of incorporating digitalization to training and creative dance programs and activities.

The project will develop:
1. A joint communication plan to disseminate the project and share the results and outcomes to be used during and beyond this project. Some of these outcomes are: an inclusive international youth dance piece, a project blog, a project documentary, a You Tube Channel, Social Media Channels, an inclusive dance visual and write guide.
2. Open call for participants to reach young dancers with and without experience and with and without disabilities between 13-22 years old in Rome, Granada and Cottbus.
3. Mobility preparation activities: online collaborative exchange of research and creative dance tasks between the participants of the three countries, local dance and choreography workshops, sing language workshops, introductory language activities and inclusive and participatory workshops.
4. Mobility activities: the young participants will travel during 5-8 days to Granada, Rome and Cottbus (with the choreographers and support team from the organisations) to share workshops, creative development, cultural experiences, inspirational experiences and to develop, together, an inclusive and collaborative dance piece around the theme of families (sharing and bringing together different realities and challenging stereotypes) and to perform this piece in the Festival Internacional de Música y Danza in Granada, the Festival Fuori Posto in Rome and the InterTWINNed Youth Theatre Festival in Cottbus.
5. Transnational meetings between the organisations and professional team in Rome, Granada and Cottbus to coordinate the details of the project, evaluate the impact and development, make any adjustments needed, supervise the budget, exchange methodologies and collect all the results to build documents, guides and videos that record the successes and reflects upon the challenges of the project.This guide will include inclusive dance tips and exercises to work with young people.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 131597 Eur

Project Coordinator

Compañía Danza Vinculados & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Associazione Culturale FUORI CONTESTO
• Piccolo Theater gGmbH