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DanceMap

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Station is a partner of DanceMap, a pioneering heritage initiative funded by Horizon Europe, the European Union’s funding programme for research and innovation. This ambitious project, which will run for three years from January 2025 to December 2027, operates under the research cluster “Culture, creativity and inclusive society” and aims to develop a cross-sectoral strategy for safeguarding and promoting Europe’s rich dance heritage. The total funding amount is just under 4 million euros. 

Project partners are sixteen research centres, universities, dance archives, arts organisations and policy experts in ten countries. Together they are working to create a blueprint, or roadmap, for effective and sustainable policy solutions for European dance heritage, championing an integrated approach that incorporates empirical research, data science, artistic practice, outreach, advocacy and policymaking. The partners believe that this approach is transferable and can serve as a model for safeguarding other embodied practices and forms of immaterial cultural heritage. 

Over the next three years, DanceMap will: 

  • Map and increase the visibility of existing dance heritage initiatives across Europe, creating a comprehensive directory of archives, collections and knowledge bases. 
  • Develop an interactive digital platform comprising both a digital workspace for researchers and a curated, public-facing website. The platform will offer a unique insight into the diversity and richness of European dance heritage, making it accessible to and attractive for a global audience. 
  • Advance a holistic, artist-led approach to safeguarding intangible cultural heritage, combining digital tools with practice-based methods. 
  • Advocate for stronger policy frameworks that recognise and support the preservation and promotion of dance heritage at local, national, and European levels. 

For Station and its partners from the Nomad Dance Academy network, the project will enable the continuation of work on our regional digital dance archive NADA – NonAligned Digital Archive (link), started through the project (Non)Aligned Movements (link).

The DanceMap partners: 

The DanceMap partners:
Bureau Ritter (Berlin, Germany)
C-DaRE (Centre for Dance Research) at Coventry University (Coventry, UK)
University of Antwerp (Antwerp, Belgium)
Motion Bank research group at the University of Applied Sciences Mainz (Mainz, Germany)
Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln (Cologne, Germany)
STUK House for Dance, Image and Sound (Leuven, Belgium)
Culturgest (Lisbon, Portugal)
Station Service for Contemporary Dance (Belgrade, Serbia)
Lokomotiva Centre for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture (Skopje, North Macedonia)
Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Nomad Dance Academy Croatia (Zagreb, Croatia)
Brain Store Project (Sofia, Bulgaria)
Rosas (Brussels, Belgium)
Culture Concepts (Berlin, Germany)
Goethe-Institut – Associate Partner (Germany)

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Graphic: DanceMap Logo
Logo: Funded by the European Union

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