Creative Europe
Desk UK
for Culture

The proposed 2-year project, Beyond Front@: Bridging New Territories, will employ dance-related activities to build physical, social and creative bridges between:
1. dance artists in big and small cities;
2. new “Bridge Partners” in other parts of Europe in order to open the Beyond Front@ network to new ideas and talent;
3. dance and other related artistic mediums – video, photography, visual arts, writing, architecture, design – in order to: connect artists; enhance the language of dance; foster artistic creations and develop dance sensibility; expose dance to diverse audiences and presenting contexts;
4. audiences in different countries, improving access to dance arts, engaging them in dialogues around their respective understanding and perception of dance;
5. different social groups, through these experiences around dance, will better understand each other and accept their differences.
The co-organising partners in Slovenia, Austria, Croatia, Hungary, the United Kingdom and their associate “bridge” partners in Greece, Serbia, Slovakia, Italy and Portugal believe that, as primarily a non verbal art form, dance has a unique capacity to unite artists and people across Europe. United by a shared belief in the power of dance the partnership will produce a dynamic programme of co-productions and networking opportunities, mobilising dancers and audiences, across Europe which will result in:
• 20 audience mobility actions
• 5 Dance Communication Labs (DCL)
• 11 DCL Events presenting results of DCLs
• Dialogues Beyond Front@: forums for artists and audiences discussing dance
• 2 international co-productions each presented in 3 to 5 countries
• Dance Media Beyond Front@: exhibitions and screenings (dance in photography, video and film)
• 5 new short (dance) videos
• an online digital archive of dance material
• an enhanced beyondfronta.eu website
• 20 additional presentations of international dance works in 5 countries.