Perform Europe

📣 Our new article is out! Curious to see how #PerformEurope projects are shaping the future of touring? 🗺️ From slow travel to amplifying underrepresented voices, discover their innovative strategies and gain insight into how they’re leading the way in rethinking cross-border touring. 🔗 Read the article  https://cutt.ly/GeHKU1O9 #InclusiveTouring #GreenTouring #CreativeEurope #PerformingArts ------------------------- Perform Europe is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union and implemented by IETM - International network for contemporary performing arts, European Festivals Association, Circostrada, European Dance Development Network, Pearle* Live Performance Europe and IDEA Consult.

🗯 Perform Europe isn’t just about touring — it’s about making change.  💡 By supporting training and skill development, Perform Europe ensures that the 42 selected partnerships can bridge skills gaps and achieve broader objectives.  🌱 From training on carbon literacy and trauma-informed work to relaxed performances, all partnerships are unlocking opportunities for a more innovative, sustainable, and equitable performing arts sector. #PerformEurope #PerformingArts #training #CreativeEurope

🗺️Today marks the International Day of Persons with Disabilities! We celebrate #inclusivity in the arts and stand for accessible, inclusive performing arts experiences for all. 🎪From circus performances designed for children with hearing impairments to dance workshops that engage individuals with disabilities, Perform Europe projects highlight how all people can participate in creating, experiencing, and touring performing arts. Did you know?  ✔️ Nearly a quarter of our selected projects — 10 out of 42 — focus on disability or involve artists, creators, or audiences with disabilities. ✔️ 79% of our partnerships prioritise inclusion in their touring projects. Visit our website’s ‘selected projects’ page, and filter for ‘disability’ to explore projects that address disability in the performing arts. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/enKXHjV7 #PerformEurope #InclusiveTouring #PerformingArts #InternationalDayOfPersonsWithDisabilities

🪄 Perform Europe projects are setting examples on how to tour, present, collaborate, and interact with the audience in new ways. Discover 4 examples of Perform Europe projects reshaping the future of performing arts: 🌱 Animalarium’s Constellations: Addressing climate change locally 🤝 Body Landscapes: Building cross-border eco-feminist collaborations 🪀 (M)others on Tour: Creating space for artists balancing parenthood and creativity 🪁 Manual of Adaptation to the Planet: Playfully exploring solutions for ecological adaptation Read more: https://cutt.ly/GeHKU1O9 Check out all 42 projects: https://cutt.ly/TescikHt #PerformEurope #PerformingArts #CreativeEurope #GreenTouring #InclusiveTouring

👀 What’s reshaping the touring of performing arts? From rethinking touring models to amplifying underrepresented voices, Perform Europe's 42 projects are paving the way for touring with #inclusion, #diversity, and #greening at their core. 🗺️ ⚡️Read our latest analysis of the creative approaches and trends our projects are using to address the sector's biggest challenges. 💡 Dive into these 7 strategies of change we identified. Check out the overview: https://cutt.ly/GeHKU1O9  Read the full analysis: https://cutt.ly/ceKkFAjb * Strategies were researched by Eglė Valintėlytė, IDEA Consult. #PerformEurope #PerformingArts #CreativeEurope

#MeetOurProjects Buried Secrets: Responses to Raw Materials Exploitation – Bringing together artists, venues, NGOs and civil society to examine the profound consequences of extractivism on earth and its inhabitants. ⛏️ ‘Mining doesn’t disappear, it just happens somewhere else’ –  Through a performance, three video installations and talks, ‘Buried Secrets’ delves deep into the consequences of mining, from the Pacific Ocean 🌊 to Fukushima, Siberia and British Malaya. Touring in 🇩🇪 🇵🇱 🇵🇹 Join their first tour stop with performances, screenings and a panel talk in Cologne, Germany at Freies Werkstatt Theater from 15-23 Nov. 🔗 https://cutt.ly/veDf073d Partners: Freies Werkstatt Theater Cologne, art center CAMPO, KOMUNA WARSZAWA and Sciaena.

#MeetOurProjects HAND IN HAND – A collaboration of seven partners touring Caterina Moroni’s participatory and intergenerational performance ‘Bloom & Doom’, promoting dialogue, collective action and environmental sustainability. 🪁With a vision that children and nature may hold the key to guiding us forward, ‘Bloom & Doom’ empowers children as change-makers. This performance, a guided walk through the city, led by local children for an adult audience, is a call to action and celebration of resilience. Touring in 🇮🇹 🇷🇴 🇱🇻 🇵🇹 Don’t miss their workshops in Romania at Teatrul BASCA from 13-23 Nov and the performance on 22 Nov 🔗 https://cutt.ly/deDffHpf Partners: Indisciplinarte, Caterina Moroni, Asociatia Solidart - Teatrul BASCA, Valmiera Summer Theatre Festival, Mexe, Teatro dei Mignoli Aps and ARTIPIC.

#MeetOurProjects Building Bridges: Playback Theater for a Minority Adaptation – Four theatrical playback groups unite to perform ‘Echoes of Identity.’ During the performances, audiences are invited to share personal stories related to identity, cultural heritage, migration, discrimination, or resilience and see them transformed into compelling theatrical pieces. 🌻 The project culminates in Dnipro, Ukraine, where the voices of refugees and European communities intertwine. 💬Did you know? #PlaybackTheatre is a unique form of improvisational theatre in which audience members volunteer personal stories and see them played back on the spot. Touring in: 🇩🇪🇱🇹🇺🇦 See them performing in Vilnius, at Teatras Atviras ratas Studija on 2 November. 🔗 https://cutt.ly/deSDW02J Partners: Prosperis, NUKC , Playback theatre VAKHTERY, playback theatre GRUND, Power of the Future, Norddeutsch-ukrainischer Hilfsstab e.V. and playback theatre Feld.

#MeetOurProjects Diversely Typical – A collaboration of three partners touring Diane Portelli’s contemporary dance performance, which is inspired by real testimonies from neurodivergent children and adolescents. The performance aims to challenge the stigma around neuroatypical behaviours. Both the presentations and workshops of Diversely Typical are designed for differently-abled audiences, ensuring accessibility for everyone. Touring in 🇷🇴🇲🇹🇮🇹 Catch their first show at Dinam Festival, Romania on 25 October. 🔗 https://cutt.ly/oePU9Q1P Partners: Moveo Dance Company, Junio Company Bari and Unfold Motion.

#MeetOurProjects Root and Branch – This interdisciplinary project raises awareness about deforestation through circus performances, talks, and workshops that incorporate trees into the artistic experience. 🌲 Throughout its European tour, ‘Root and Branch’ will connect with local forest conservation initiatives, sharing strategies and tools to combat deforestation through the power of art. Touring in 🇮🇹🇩🇪🇧🇪🇫🇷🇪🇸🇸🇪 Catch their performance of BURN in Settevoci, Italy, on 12 October. Explore more tour dates: 🔗https://cutt.ly/xevyqcEl