Dancers Without Borders have been invited to participate in the cultural exchange trip of cultural educators to Accra, Ghana, This event is organized in close collaboration with the Federal Association for Cultural Child and Youth Education (BKJ) as part of the weltwärts Encounters / Teams up! funding program by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation […]
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A participatory dance project with hundreds of people from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Brandenburg and Poland. The performers are:Residents of the “Abendsonne” retirement home in Penkun, Penkun primary school, “Pusteblume” kindergarten in Penkun, Schwennenz countrywomen’s group, Krackow senior citizens’ sports group, Teatr Tańca EGO VU Gryfino, Gmina Kołbaskowo, Wallmow free school, Krackow fishing club, Penkun hunting horn players, […]
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Dancers without Borders is excited to be part of the selected projects of this years process fund from Fonds SozioKultur! The focus of „Profil: Soziokultur“ funding is on independent non-profit organisations and institutions of participatory cultural work, to primarily sharpen and anchor their profile. Development processes at the organisational, program, personnel, communication or funding levels, […]
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Balance plays an important role in many aspects of our lives: physical, inner, social balance. Also in construction and composition. Together we investigate: What is balance, what is symmetry, equilibrium or disharmony? How does it feel when I get out of balance? Stumble? Can I draw the feeling, dance it, make it heard. What means […]
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Every challenge, every obstacle also offers new possibilities.A participative dance project with pupils of the 3rd-4th grade of the elementary school Kastanienallee in Halle/ Saale in cooperation with the WUK Theater Quartier. Artistic direction: Anja Schäplitz, Kostis Spyrou Costume Design: Jule Bosch ⠀ Production Management: Franziska Massa, Anne Sommer Project period: May 2022 ⠀ Funded […]
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Only the moment counts is an intergenerational dance film project for people with and without dementia and seven professional dancers. With this project, we oppose ageism and together contribute to the creation of an inclusive, age-friendly, active, lively and open-minded society.⠀ ⠀ ⠀ Artistic direction, choreography, dance: Anja Schäplitz, Be van Vark Choreography, dance: Anna […]
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Since we spoke / We made a promise / Since we spoke / We were silent / Since we spoke / We would be /Since we spoke / We did not speak /Since we spoke / Could we be / Since we spoke / We were / Since we spoke SINCE WE SPOKE is an […]
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Dancers without Borders developed performative formats for public spaces with young people from the video group of the secondary school “Am Baumschulenweg” in Genthin towards the end of the school year 2020/21. The aim was to enter into a conversation with the city and its inhabitants. Interviews with the audience and the performative actions themselves were […]
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“The moment is that ambiguity in which time and eternity touch each other.”⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Søren Kierkegaard “Moments” formed the conclusion of the trilogy “A City dance”. A contemporary dance piece that not only took Halle’s urban society along as spectators, but emerged from their midst. A city dances! People between the ages of 15 and 90, young and […]
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AFUERA in Spanish stands for out or outside. In this experimental short film, which is structured like a filmed abstract essay, two nameless figures find themselves isolated in a room. A wordless dialogue unfolds between them, although it remains unclear whether one of them is merely left to the imagination of the other. Fragments of […]
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