STRONGER TOGETHER: PERFORMING ARTS & TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT
International cross-sector meeting
Zagreb, Croatia – June 01 – 03, 2022
Cross-sectoral cooperation and networking as leverage to strengthen contemporary dance and circus
Decentralisation and audience development, performing arts across communities and public spaces
Contemporary circus and dance companies are present in most of South-Eastern European countries. They are very active at European level and multiply interconnections across borders – thanks to European projects as well as festivals and inter-operators, networks and platforms like Circostrada, EDM, IETM or Teatroskop. Such international cooperation and networking allow them to share resources and build up together through knowledge and capacities transfer, coproductions and common artistic tours, to enable mutual awareness and to increase the level of professionalisation.
Both sectors have also in common to often develop innovative artistic forms through hybridation, to explore unusual spaces in town, in the nature or in heritage buildings, enabling a broader audience to experience in the same movement a new esthetics and a vivid relationship with the scenery. Contemporary circus and dance have been also carrying out for decades a specific attention towards audience awareness, offering outreach activities, committing themselves in education and for some artists, involving local communities and amateurs in their creations.
Despite their high potential, both sectors have also in common to face similar fragilities: they operate with scarce resources and lack of venues, they hardly access theatre stages… If their institutional recognition is now underway in many countries in the South-Eastern Europe region, there is still a lot of room for improvement to allow them to express their full potential and combine their own development with their contribution to the community.
The purpose of this meeting is to highlight the incredible creativity, resilience and potential of these sectors, but also explore together, by sharing good practices and experiences between European countries, how to improve the development of circus and dance sectors at international level, to encourage mutual insemination and to increase their level of inclusion in social and cultural policies.
June 2nd: JOINING FORCES
Conference link : https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89402371778
10h00-11h15 – Panel 1 : Networking : challenges and roles
Key topics: Networks as drivers of change on national, regional and European level, networks as communities and safe spaces, diversity vs. inclusion vs. equity within networks
Moderation: Tanja Gavrilovic, Teatroskop network coordinator
Participants:
Anera Stopfer, Creative Desk Europe
Chloé Béron, representative of Territoires de Cirque
Laurent Méheust, European Dancehouses Network president (online)
Mirna Zagar, Zagreb Dance Week
Nikola Mijatović, Croatian Circus Network, Cirkobalkana
Antonia Kuzmanić, Circostrada
11:30-13:00 Panel 2 : Beyond the comfort zone: transdisciplinarity and cross-sector cooperation
Key topics: transdisciplinarity of aesthetics and cooperation, cooperation between institutions and independent scene
Moderation: Antonia Kuzmanić, ROOM100, Peculiar Families Festival artistic director and Circostrada board member
Participants:
Valentina Cortese, dance and circus artist
Petra Najman – « Circus without circus« project
Nemanja Jovanovic, circus artist
Mirna Zagar, Croatian Institute for Movement and Dance
Chloé Béron, CIAM
June 3rd: TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT – REACHING NEW AUDIENCES
Conference link : https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82882028083
Panel 1: Decentralisation: good practices and challenges 10h00-11h15
Key topics: Decentralization and public support to encourage artistic settlement across the territory (“netting”/”nesting”); coordination with local authorities : everyone around the same table, allowing spaces for working/showing – reaching to new audiences (circus as popular tool to develop audiences)
Moderation: Thomas Schnabel, Cultural attaché French Embassy to Croatia – deputy director French Institute Croatia
Participants:
opening speech : Irena Kregar-Segota, Ministry of Culture and Media, Department for artistic and cultural development
Dea Vidović, Kultura Nova foundation
Antonia Kuzmanić, Room 100 – Split, Milan Manić, Cirkobalkana – Belgrade
Natali Perić, Zadar Monoplay Festival – Zadar Dance ensemble
Christine Gaillard, Director of Cultural Affairs & Laurent Patole, Head of Cultural events department, Rouen Métropole – online
Panel 2: Performing arts across communities and urban spaces 11:30-13:00
Key topics: performing in urban spaces as a way to meet new audiences ; welcoming artists in urban processes, involving communities ; international projects and collaborations involving artists and local authorities.
Moderation: Catherine Faudry, Cultural attaché French Embassy to Serbia – deputy director French Institute Serbia
Participants:
Irena Kregar-Segota, Rijeka 2020
Chloé Béron, CIAM
Eleftérios Kechiagioglou, director of Plus Petit Cirque du Monde, France – Online
Jonathan Pranlas-Descourts / Christophe Béranger, Sinequanon Art
Nikola Mijatović, Cirkobalkana
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« Plus forts ensemble : arts vivants et développement des territoires »
- La coopération intersectorielle et la mise en réseau comme leviers pour renforcer la danse et le cirque contemporains
- Décentralisation et développement du public, arts vivants dans les communautés et les espaces publics
A l’occasion des festivals Cirkobalkana et Zagreb Dance Week, le réseau Teatroskop et l’Institut français de Croatie organisent avec leurs partenaires une rencontre internationale, alliant programme de spectacles de danse et de cirque et tables rondes pour les professionnels.
Les deux secteurs ont en commun de développer souvent des formes artistiques innovantes par le biais de l’hybridation, en explorant des espaces inhabituels en ville, dans la nature ou dans des bâtiments patrimoniaux, permettant à un public plus large, dans un même mouvement, de découvrir de nouvelles esthétiques et de vivre l’expérience d’une relation vivante avec son cadre de vie. Le cirque et la danse contemporains portent également depuis des décennies une attention particulière à la sensibilisation du public, en proposant des activités de proximité, en s’engageant dans l’éducation et, pour certains artistes, en impliquant les communautés locales et les amateurs dans leurs créations.
Cependant, au-delà du fort potentiel qu’ils partagent, les deux secteurs sont confrontés à des fragilités similaires : ils fonctionnent avec des ressources limitées et manquent de lieux de diffusion, ils ont difficilement accès aux scènes de théâtre… Si leur reconnaissance institutionnelle est désormais en cours dans de nombreux pays de la région de l’Europe du Sud-Est, il reste encore beaucoup à faire pour leur permettre d’exprimer tout leur potentiel en combinant leur propre développement avec la valorisation de leur contribution à la communauté.
L’objectif de cette rencontre est de mettre en lumière l’incroyable créativité, la résilience et le potentiel de ces filières, mais aussi d’explorer ensemble, à travers le partage de bonnes pratiques et d’expériences entre acteurs de différents pays européens, comment améliorer le développement des secteurs du cirque et de la danse à l’international, comment favoriser leur insémination mutuelle et accroître leur niveau d’inclusion dans les politiques sociales et culturelles.
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