Dancing Museums: Old Masters – New Traces, is a project bringing together five European dance organisations and eight internationally renowned museums to explore new ways of interacting with audiences. From June 2015 to March 2017, five selected dance artists, embarked upon a two-year period of research and development and take part in a weeklong residency in each of the museums, providing regular opportunities to collaborate with their European partners as the project progresses. Throughout the project the dance artists have been supported by artist mentor Betsy Gregory. The aim of the project was to define and implement new methods to engage audiences and enhance the journeys which people make when walking through the rooms of historical artefacts and art spaces. Drawing the public’s attention to contemporary dance as an inclusive, communicative form, events will be produced where the protagonists are both the artists and the public. The events will place the audience at the centre of the experience, blurring the boundaries between spectator and maker; creative ways of using digital technologies will also extend the reach of the project.

Project coordinator: La Briqueterie – Centre de développement chorégraphique du Val de Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine (France)
Partners: CSC Bassano del Grappa (Italy), D.ID Dance Identity in Vienna (Austria), Dansateliers in Rotterdam (The Netherlands), Siobhan Davies Dance in London (UK).
Museums partners: Gemäldegalerie Akademie der bildenden Kunste (Vienna), Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam), National Gallery (London), MAC / VAL (Vitry-sur-Seine, France), Musée du Louvre (Paris), City Museum of Bassano del Grappa (Italy) and Arte Sella (Borgo Valsugana, Italy).

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With the support of the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.

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360° Building Strategies for Communication in Contemporary Dance was created to assist dance professionals to develop their thinking, skills and practices in the area of communication with all key stakeholders in their career. Over the course of one year, this project allowed a series of best-practice sharing meetings with the staff of six European dancehouses, international communication experts and many dance practitioners at different career stages with diverse practices. The project created an online communication tool for dance professionals.
Project supported by the LLP Programme (Lifelong Learning Programme) Leonardo Da Vinci.
Project coordinator: CSC/Casa della danza Bassano del Grappa (Italy);
Partner: K3 Zentrum fur Choreographie /Tanzplan in Hamburg (Germany), La Briqueterie – Centre de développement chorégraphique du Val de Marne in Vitry-sur-Seine (France), Dance Ireland in Dublin (Ireland), Institute for Movement and Dance in Zagreb (Croatia), Stichting Dansateliers in Rotterdam (The Netherlands).
One of the Best Practice selected by the European Union.

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Performing Gender – Dance makes differences. is a capacity building programme aimed at enabling a new generation of European dance artists and professionals to develop a new form of narrative for LGBTI identities.
Citizens in different parts of Europe live today in dramatically diverse contexts of social and cultural recognition. European citizens, depending on where they were born, grown and where they are living, they face gender and sexual orientations issues in different ways. Performing Gender wants to drive and develop a European dialogue on these themes. Dance, naturally focusing its research on body, is the perfect artistic language to investigate and shape gender expressions.
The project also wants to test a new training model involving different players in the dance industry, building a chain where each of them can work to satisfy their professional needs and grow through the relation with the other groups. Dramaturgs, dance makers and young dancers around Europe at a turning point of their career. During the first year, 5 dance makers face together a traveling training programme: theoretical and physical lectures, meetings and exchanges allow them to dive into the issues of the project. The second step is a one-week workshop for 10 young dancers led by each dance maker, in the context of one of the partner festivals.

Project coordinator: Gender Bender - Cassero LGBT Center, Bologna (Italy).
Partners: CSC di Bassano del Grappa (Italy), City of Women (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Theaterfestival Boulevard (‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands), Paso a 2 – Certamen Coreogràfico de Madrid (Madrid, Spain), Yorkshire Dance (Leeds, UK).

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CRISCO Crossroad of the Regions-fostering involvement of all citizens in local life to Improve Social Cohesion.

Project coordinator: Municipality of Etterbeek (BE)
Partners: ALDA – European Association for Local Democracy, Strasbourg (France); Municipality of Bassano del Grappa (Italy); VIFIN (Videnscenter for Integration), Vejle (Denmark); Municipality of Deft (The Netherlands); Municipality of Jonava (Lithuania); Municipality of Novo Mesto (Slovenia); Municipality of Rezekne (Latvia); Municipality of Vlora (Albania), Municipality of Tartu (Estonia).

The aim of the project CRISCO is to improve social cohesion and mutual understanding among the population of (medium sized) cosmopolitan cities. Most participants in the network are towns with a diversified population tending to form separate socio-demographic groups, not enough involved in local life, sometimes at the expense of social cohesion.
With a view to foster social cohesion and mutual understanding, the target public was not a specific category of population (“community-based approach”) but the local population as a whole in a town (district or suburb) with a diversified demographic profile, including the natives, expats, newly arrived migrants, precarious and vulnerable categories (“land-based approach”).
Based on the local reflexion and actions undertaken during the first months, the CRISCO partners prepared their contribution to the 4 successive CRISCO transnational meetings (reports, PowerPoints presentations, video clips, testimonies…). Each partner sent a delegation to attend and take actively part in each of the 4 CRISCO transnational meetings. These delegations were composed of motivated local representatives, preferably members of the Local Panel of Stakeholders, including local NGOs and simple citizens. In total, the 4 CRISCO transnational events have gathered 177 international participants and more than 200 local participants (direct + indirect). After the transnational events, each partner took advantage of the good practices and lessons learned to further experiment, enrich or adapt (new or existing) local integration initiatives.
Beside the transnational events, CRISCO partners took also part in CRISCO bilateral meetings. On different occasions, representatives of a partner visited the local process of another partner. Bilateral missions were an important part of the project, because they were more customized and very inspiring beside the four main transnational events.

Info on meetings of the European project CRISCO final version

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