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. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
In terms of strategic partnership, the consortium, composed of an equal number of specialised production offices and performing arts companies, wished to encourage a sustainable and democratic dialogue throughout the project between producers and freelance choreographic artists, from the South and North of Europe, around the issue of the inclusion of new audiences. In terms of lifelong professional training, we wanted the Workshops to be aimed at professional artists, with an equal number of men and women, and to be intergenerational, drawn from the artists' communities in the respective partner countries. We wanted these workshops to be based essentially on exchanges of good practice in the transmission of contemporary dance, with the aim to enable the participants to gain autonomy, confidence and creativity, thanks to the various dance techniques, enriched by the diversity of their respective pedagogical approaches. We wanted to produce and acquire knowledge to adapt the practice of contemporary dance to target audiences and accompanying workers.
How to contribute to the development of individuals through the practice of choreography and how to extend the fields of action of the stakeholders of this professional sector to new beneficiaries? These were the questions that led the consortium of six European partners from Norway, Spain, Italy, Germany, France and Poland, all chosen by La Galerie Chorégraphique, initiator and leader of Dance-Highways, in a network of independent structures specialised in contemporary dance equally represented in Southern and Northern Europe. During the preparatory meetings for drafting the project, the consortium identified the need to develop the skills of dance professionals in terms of transmitting knowledge related to their art to audiences who are excluded from cultural offerings and artistic creation. This consortium wished to develop an innovative format of continuous training for dancer-trainers in contemporary dance on a European scale, aiming to develop skills and acquire new knowledge in terms of sharing their practices with new beneficiaries and target audiences.