Moving Borders International Workshop Meeting at Arte Sella

‘Moving Borders – dance approaches from the new Ukrainian artistic diaspora across Europe’, is a project led by Aerowaves which brings together the museum Arte Sella (IT), La Briqueterie CDCN (FR) and Tanec Praha (CZ), and is supported by the Creative Europe programme of the EU. Through this cooperation project we are exploring how three female dance artists from Ukraine  are informing approaches to welcoming and engaging refugees through dance, and in the development of inclusive and cohesive practices across Europe.

The meeting at Arte Sella – The contemporary mountain museum will combine workshops where participants share their practices working in foreign contexts and engaging people (non-professionals of all ages) with dance. The encounter is devised by Anna Kushnirenko, one of the three Ukrainian dance artists involved in the project, who has been living and working in Bassano del Grappa for 2 years. Discussions will be facilitated by the dance dramaturg Monica Gillette. Arte Sella, the host partner of the meeting, has also invited ten Ukrainian dance artists now based in Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Ukraine. They are: Olena Polianska, Anastasiia Rembetska, Olesksandra Lytvyn, Polina Bulat, Ira Kifa,Aline Tskhovryebova, Kateryna Pogorielova, Anna Lutsenko, Daria Heraschchenko and Maria Bakalo.

They will join the rest of the Moving Borders team formed by:

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), Elisabetta Bisaro and Arina Dolgikh (La Briqueterie CDCN, France) and Roberto Casarotto, Morgan Steele, Anna Arthur (Aerowaves).