Dance Highways Erasmus Project

Project Title

Dance Highways

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 : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Access for disadvantaged; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

Background
Among the economic and health crises, the VIDOC 19 pandemic, in which Europe and much of the world has been immersed since March 2020, is the one that will affect citizens most materially, psychologically and emotionally, especially the most vulnerable among them. In this unprecedented context, access to cultural rights, as defined in the Fribourg Declaration in 2007, is one of the priorities to support individuals in their personal development regardless of their age, cultural origin or social situation.
Dancers-trainers have also been impacted by this crisis since the beginning and are unable to work in dance studios and theatres and see their social situations deteriorate in a professional sector for which recourse to partial activity and short-term fixed-term contracts was already the norm.
In this context, the partners of Dance Highways are pooling their financial and operational, but also cognitive, resources to develop a lifelong adult education programme on pedagogical approaches to contemporary dance. The Dance Highways partners aim to provide training for choreographic artists (disseminators) of contemporary dance. Most of them are also dancers and/or choreographers and develop on their respective territories innovative, but nevertheless perfectible, models of specific knowledge transmission methodologies.

Objectives
These workshops will be based on the sharing of different dance teaching practices and will be enriched by the diversity of the participants’ individual pedagogical approaches. They will be selected from among those that already integrate into their transmission process, experiential techniques for a simulation using martial arts, digital arts, dramatic or plastic arts.

This cycle of training courses (5) and specialised transnational meetings (5) will be accompanied by practical application “on the ground” as part of a programme for the acquisition of knowledge and know-how, extended to the population in all its cultural, social and generational diversity.

At the end of the course, the aim will be to enable each participant :
– to transpose the new skills and methodological tools acquired to his or her own professional field.
– To strengthen the links between training, experimentation, research-action and generate the production of tools by confronting the research and experiences of trainers and “associated artists” with the trainees’ creative and/or training practices.

Participants
18 Contemporary dancers and adult professional trainers without age limit
12 Professionals in the choreographic sector involved in the dissemination of knowledge in contemporary dance

Target Audiences
30 dance professionals, working as actors in informal education: teaching, animation, socio-cultural work.
Final Beneficiaries
– 60 dance professionals: dancers, choreographers, teachers
– 20 popular education professionals: special educators
– 30 health care professionals: nurses, health care aides
– 30 personal assistance professionals: home helpers, EPHAD personnel
– 3000 citizens living in deprived neighbourhoods and in a situation of social exclusion

Activities
– 5 5-day workshops in Palermo, Carcassonne, Warsaw, Trømso and Düsseldorf
– 5 transnational 3-day meetings in Carcassonne (2), Warsaw, Bilbao, Düsseldorf

Methodology used
Workshops to exchange “best practices” between participants
Exchanges with resource persons outside the project
Implementation in the territories in partnership with local structures
Reports from partners and participants at the end of each workshop
Establishment of a steering committee composed of at least one person from each partner structure

Impacts
– The strengthening of the European North-South network (Bilbao-Trømso-Palermo-Carcassonne Düsseldorf-Warsaw) specialised in the specific sector of contemporary dance.
– The establishment at local level and according to national contexts of partnerships between dancers-trainers and actors from the social, health and social support sectors.
person: conferences, practice workshops.
– The production and acquisition of pedagogical methodologies of contemporary dance and their use in adult development.
– The recognition of the pedagogy of the contemporary dancer as a tool for lifelong training and development of adults.

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EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 152808 Eur

Project Coordinator

La Galerie Chorégraphique & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Fundacja Rozwoju Teatru ‘NOWA FALA’
• L’ESPACE APS/ASD
• La Fundición – Asociación Puertas Abiertas
• THEATER DER KLÄNGE e:V.
• Davvi – Centre for performing Arts