Exchange
Dancing on the Edge believes in the value of cultural exchange and has developed a number of programs in different areas:
Artists in Residence
Dancing on the Edge has set up a program of artistic residencies in the Netherlands for artists from the Middle East and North Africa. These are organized in collaboration with Dutch production houses or professional companies. Partners include Dansmakers Amsterdam, Korzo, ICKamsterdam, and the Henny Jurriëns Foundation. Artists are chosen through open calls from which a selection is made, and occasionally on the request of an artist or organization.Choreographers and theater makers greatly benefit by a period of residence away from their normal surroundings, and in a place where good facilities, new input and experienced feedback are available.
For information about coming calls, please contact us.
Archive Residences (view listing)
Atefeh Tehrani (Iran) | ICKAmsterdam (2011)
Ali Chahrour (Lebanon) | ICKamsterdam (2011)
Training
Dancing on the Edge regularly organizes dance training in the Middle East and North Africa. These are usually done at the request of groups or institutions in the region, who also provide the information about what kind of training or workshops are needed. Dancing on the Edge also has the long-term aspiration of contributing to the setting up of structural training centers and institutions. As the second of these is a complicated enterprise which requires strong local institutional support, until now Dancing on the Edge has concentrated on sending trainers to different countries to give technique classes and/or workshops about specific techniques or subjects.
For information about coming training, click here
Archive Training (view listing)
2011
Hillary Blake Firestone | Al Balad (2011)
Rita Vilhena | Rezodanse (2011)
2010
Patricia Bardi | Al Balad (2010)
2009
Feri de Geus/Noortje Bijvoets | Al Balad (2009)
Pieter de Ruiter/Eva Villenueva | Damascus (2009)
2007
Co-productions
Dancing on the Edge has coproduced a number of successful pieces in the last years which have gone on to tour in Europe, the MENA region, and the wider world. Dancing on the Edge encourages collaborations between choreographers and theater makers from the MENA region and Dutch/European-based ones. Artistic affinity with each other’s work and a wish to develop new pieces together are the basic requirements for a co-production.
Although the organization has limited resources and only project-based funding, Dancing on the Edge can help finance, or can help find financing or collaborative production partners for new pieces, as well as presenting them in festivals or theatres.
Archive Co-productions (view listing)
2012
2011
2009
The Assassination of Omar Rajeh (2009)
2008/09
2007
Last Supper in Palestine (2007)
International Projects
Dancing on the Edge collaborates regularly with international partners on a number of programs. The organization is open to other such initiatives and encourages interested potential partners to contact us.Archive International Projects
» Dance Refl-action Project (main funder: by the Anna Lindh Foundation)
» EU J.M. Liverato Project (main funder: European Union Culture Program)
» Revolutionary Bodies (main funder: by the European Cultural Foundation)
» Increasing Cultural Awareness (main funders: DOEN Foundation and Anna Lindh Foundation)