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EMPOWERING DANCE - The Soft Skills Teaching and Learning Approach

Empowering Dance - The Soft Skills Teaching and Learning Approach (ED2) is the necessary sequel of Empowering Dance - Developing Soft Skills, a previous Erasmus+ strategic partnership - cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices project (10/2018 - 02/2020).
This project demonstrated the development of a large variety of soft skills through the practice of contemporary dance such as: the ability to reflect upon oneself, effectively manage time and information, work with others in a constructive way, the ability to cope with complexity and to lead a health-conscious, future-oriented life, empathizing and managing conflict in an inclusive and supportive context. The project aimed at empowering dance artists/educators to become aware of their implicit knowledge and skills in the field of soft skills teaching in order to strengthen their self-confidence and help them develop strategies to transfer their competences to other fields of teaching and expand their job opportunities and competitiveness.

ED2 aims to develop an Intellectual Output (IO), a Digital Handbook, that serves as an online learning and teaching toolkit supporting dance artists/educators in their professional practice. It will help them define language, articulate their teaching approach, broaden their skills, competences and scope of working possibilities. It will help them acquire new qualifications and apply with awareness their embodied knowledge that is too often operating in the background and rarely named in detail for its unique potential in diverse settings. 
The previous project has identified, collected and articulated the implicit soft skills developed through contemporary dance practice which have proven to be helpful in developing strong personal, social and learning skills. ED2 includes similar dance practices as case studies led by dance artists/educators who are specifically experienced in working with non-professionals.

Partners:
Kampnagel Internationale Kulturfabrik Gmbh / K3 - Zentrum für Choreographie | Tanzplan Hamburg (Germany)
CSC Centro per la Scena Contemporanea-Casa della Danza/Comune di Bassano del Grappa (Italy)
Dansateliers Rotterdam (Netherlands)
La Briqueterie - CDCN du Val-de-Marne (France)
University of Roehampton (London): Dance Department
HIPP Zagreb
Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb

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VIBES

VIBES A project which aims to involve the audience in a shared participatory dance experience, promote cultural and linguistic diversity, engage in new innovative ways with the audiences through two levers: the media, and the public space.

The purpose of this project is to create opportunities of collective meeting and sharing of rich experience emotions, and to bring new audience to explore dance by offering a complete infrastructure mixing digital and human resources.

Delivered by a partnership of: Orbe (FR); CSC Centro per la Scena Contemporanea / Comune di Bassano del Grappa (IT); ICK Amsterdam, founded by Emio Greco and Peter Scholten (NL); HOLONIC SYSTEMS (Finland); C-DaRe, Centre for Dance Research - Coventry University (UK).

 

 

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COMMUNICATING DANCE

COMMUNICATING DANCE was a biannual leadership program that aimed to find, cultivate and invest in the next generation of cultural entities in the field of contemporary dance.

 

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LEIM

LEIM was a biannual leadership program that aims to find, cultivate and invest in the next generation of cultural entities in the field of contemporary dance, meaning: curators, planners and managers. It was an innovative research and action program, which offers participants specific and valuable hands-on experiences within national and European organizations that are highly competent in the dance field. The program intended to build a community of cultural entities able to perform multiple roles within different horizontal organizations (i.e. “multi-players”) and to stimulate the creative development of these by the exchange and interaction with government authorities, with artists, as well as with the communities external to the usual cultural context in which they operate.  It was a cooperative program between five major European dance companies in addition to the CSC “Casa della danza” of Bassano: “Dance Ireland” from Dublin (Ireland), “Mercat de Les Flors” from Barcellona (Spain), “Dance House Lemesos” (Cyprus), “Tanzhaus nrw” from Dusseldorf (Germany).

 

 

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Modul Dance

Modul Dance A quinquennial project (2010/2014) promoted by EDN: the European network of Dance Houses of which CSC/Casa della Danza is a partner since 2011 (the only Italian member). Module Dance aims to provide contemporary dance creators with the best conditions with which to fulfill their artistic paths through 4 phases: research, residency, production, and presentation of works. The CSC for this project has hosted during the year numerous residencies of artists and companies promoted by the program. It has also sustained for Italy the choreographer and dance author Alessandro Sciarroni, who has developed for Modul-Dance his new work “Untitled-I will be there when you die”, also present in the program of “B.motion Danza” on 24th August. During the same evening, The Loose Collective, the Austrian company, has been performing, supported by the same European project.
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