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Dance, Migration, Cutural Exchange
 Movement

Dance is movement – and movement over borders also shapes dance. For about 300 years now, travel and migration have had a strong influence on an increasingly globalised dance scene. Our portrait series shows: cultural exchange across and beyond all borders and limitations gives dancers impulses for creative work and enlivens their art.

Paula Rosolen: “Aerobics!”Paula Rosolen: “Aerobics!”
„Act and Thought“ by Mamaza in the context of Performing Architecture / International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2016© Goethe-Institut, photo: Federico Sutera

Dance and Cultural Exchange
 Typologies of Migration

In dance migration is not a phenomenon confined to modern times. Artists were and still are “travelling people”. And in many cases this professional mobility is neither voluntarily nor casually chosen as a working basis. [more …]

Dancers in Portrait

Canan ErekPhoto: privat

Canan Erek
 Conspiratorial Journey

Pina Bausch’s Wuppertaler Tanztheater beckoned Canan Erek from Istanbul to Germany, where she studied dance and choreography. Today she works with young people and realises projects in public space. [more …]

Ahmed Soura© HML art

Ahmed Soura
 Return Migration

He wanted to go to France, but ended up to Germany instead – with Christoph Schlingensief. Now, with his dance experience from Europe, Ahmed Soura is working once again in his homeland Burkina Faso. [more …]

Paula RosolenPhoto: privat

Paula Rosolen
 Through Spaces, Places and History

In exile in Argentina, German dance Renate Schottelius was a powerful influence on the Latin American dance scene since 1936. Paula Rosolen came to Germany because of her interest in this artist. [more …]

Meg Stuart© Eva Würdinger

Meg Stuart
 Biographical good Fortune

To Meg Stuart, borders are irrelevant. Her artistic life began in the USA, today she lives in Berlin and with the location of her company Damaged Gods has a professional focus in Belgium. She works internationally. [more …]

Fabián BarbaPhoto: privat

Fabián Barba
 Broaden the Horizon

He came from Ecuador to Europe via Brussels. Fabián Barba already had experience as a dancer. One focus of his work is bringing 1930’s dance into the present. [more …]

Pina Bausch © Winfried Krüger

Pina Bausch
 Epitome of Cosmopolitanism

Superficially one might think of Pina Bausch as unvarying and place-bound. But in her art, interculturalism was at the heart of her work in dance more than almost anyone before her. [more …]

Mette Ingvartsen
 Extend and Vary

Denmark, Belgium, Holland, France, Germany – unlike many other choreographers Mette Ingvartsen’s moves from one central workplace to the next covered no great distances. But there were many – very many, in fact.
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