Moving Borders explores how three female dance artists from Ukraine – and the migration of millions of women and children escaping from the Russian occupation of their country – are informing approaches to welcoming and engaging refugees through dance, and in the development of inclusive and cohesive practices across Europe.
Moving Borders aims to provide tools to dance and cultural organisations to handle the arrival of forcibly displaced artists and civilians. It facilitates exchanges within social and cultural contexts, as well as exploring issues around the inclusion of newcomers and new challenges brought about the cross-border movement of people. From 2023 to 2025, Aerowaves together with Arte Sella, La Briqueterie CDCN and Tanec Praha is organising international workshops, meetings (live and online), dissemination events and activities, as well as commissioning a research article.
Moving Borders is a cooperation project co-funded by the European Union..
Ukrainian dance artists: Yana Reutova (based in Prague, Czechia), Anna Kushnirenko (based in Bassano del Grappa, Italy) and Rita Lira (based in Paris, France)
Researchers: Monica Gillette – dramaturg, Luisella Carnelli – impact researcher, Karina Buckley – dance writer
Partners: Yvona Kreuzmannova (Tanec Praha Festival, Czech Republic), Giacomo Bianchi and Rosa Zambelli ( Arte Sella, Italy) and Elisabetta Bisaro and Arina Dolgikh (La Briqueterie CDCN, France)
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In pursuit of these objectives, we are initiating a mapping exercise, documenting actions undertaken to support artists and civilians since the beginning of the conflict in February 2022. The results of this will inform our project activities.
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