Dancing Together, Again! Creative Residencies Programme

  1-12 August 2024 Final presentations in Warszawa, Poland. The "Dancing Together Again! Creative Residencies Programme, a project implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance in Warsaw (Poland), the Arts Research Institute of Georgia in Tbilisi (Georgia), Movimento Danza in Naples (Italy) and TRAFIK Dance/Theatre Company in Rijeka (Croatia), took place in 2023-2024 under the Creative Europe Programme, under the Culture strand. The overall objective of the project was to promote cultural exchange and collaboration between dance professionals from Poland, Georgia, Italy and Croatia, with a focus on the creative process and its integration into local communities. The programme aimed to create a new framework for the exchange of ideas, creative methods and practices between artists, curators, arts managers and researchers working in the field of dance. It focused on audience development through direct engagement with local communities, sustainability in the context of dan...

  4-18 March 2024 Residency in Naples, Italy. Topic: INCLUSIVITY Inclusivity in dance and the performing arts was the theme of the two-week residency in Italy, part of the creative residency programme "Dancing Together, Again!" organised by Movimento Danza in collaboration with the Arts Research Institute of Georgia, TRAFIK Dance/Theatre Company and the National Institute of Music and Dance of Poland. The twelve participants in this third residency, which began on 4 March and ended on 18-20 March, were selected through an open call from four participating countries and engaged with the Italian dance community to discuss inclusivity in the performing arts, with a focus on intergenerational and intercultural exchange. The ideas gathered during these exchanges were incorporated into the choreographic creations developed during the residency and presented to the public on Saturday 16 March and Sunday 17 March at Spazio Körper. "Inclusion", explained Gabriella Stazio, ch...

4-24 September 2023 Residency in Rijeka, Croatia. Topic: SUSTAINABILITY   The three-week Rijeka residency explored one of today's burning issues - SUSTAINABILITY - from the perspective of 12 participants - dance artists, curators and producers working in the performing arts from four countries: Georgia, Italy, Poland and Croatia. In the collective reflection on the theme of SUSTAINABILITY, the residency, with the help of Croatian coordinators, was designed so that the work would take place in three different contexts: - in the sea, - in the forest, - in a recycling yard, - in a dance studio. Working in the sea was particularly inspiring as Rijeka is a major Adriatic port. Participants explored the somatic relationship between the body and seawater, the problem of floating plastic and its impact on the marine ecosystem. The warm-up dance training in pairs, led by participant and Croatian dance artist Jasna Čižmek Tarbuk, was interesting, focusing on the supportive anti-gravity and h...

27 May-18 June 2023 Residency in Tbilisi, Georgia. Topic: AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT Dancing Again Together was a unique experience for our whole team. First of all, it brought together representatives from different countries such as Italy, Poland, Croatia and Georgia, with different cultural and social backgrounds. From the very beginning we had in mind to create special tasks for the participants: many different things to choose, introducing local communities and culture, giving theoretical presentations etc. We aimed at making emotional and impressionable visits to the countryside, meeting with local artists, activists, presenting our cases. And all of this must be like a special inspiration for their future creation, as their artistic feedback on what they see and feel from this residency, from the people with whom they meet or work with. From the very beginning, the first meeting with one of the bishops who runs an animation festival, an art school, a shadow theatre and many other init...