During the festival “Projeto Brasil”, HELLERAU hosted an Atelier which focused on new models of artistic work in the frame of community work an today’s shared economy values. Presentations and discussions from Germany, Chile, Colombia and Brazil presented different models of transnational co-productions and networks.
The missing link: a transnational dialogue between Europe and Latin America about dance, dancehouses, cooperations, artistic projects, visions
During the festival “Projeto Brasil”, HELLERAU organised an Atelier focused on new models of artistic work in the frame of community work an today’s shared economy values. Presentations and discussions presented different models of transnational co-productions and networks. The perspectives of Brazilian artist Lia Rodrigues, whose dance center is located in the biggest favela of Rio de Janeiro, as well as Daniel Lie, a fine artist who makes installations with fruits and natural materials which decay and rot over the time of the exhibition, enriched the Atelier and its focus.
Being at the Festspielhaus Hellerau, created more than 100 years ago as a “laboratory of modernity”, combining work with community life and nature, seemed like the best spot to have a transnational dialogue between Europe and Latin America about dance, dancehouses, cooperations, artistic projects, visions.
One of the main themes of the project is perspectivism: How to transform yourself in order to see the world from another perspective? Another key question was a discussion about the differenciation between price and value. This Atelier offered the possibility to invite some key figures from the performing arts from Latin America to Dresden to meet and discuss with EDN members and other networks, sharing practices, similarities and differences.
The Atelier started with a presentation of HELLERAU, its story and its current project by its director Dieter Jaenicke and a presentation of the aims of the Atelier by Carmen Mehnert, Program Director of Performing Arts.
Listen to the recording here.
Javiera Peón-Veiga, artistic co-director of the project NAVE in Santiago de Chile (Chile) offered an overview of the project. NAVE is a creation and residency center whose mission is to support, collaborate and nurture processes of creation and investigation of the Live Arts –dance, performance, music, theater and all of its imaginable crosses- opening dialogue with other disciplines.
Listen to the recording here.
Fernando García presented the self-managed initiative mARTadero in Cochabamba (Colombia). It is an integral project of artistic and cultural development for social change working for community development through art and culture.
Listen to the recording here.
Daniel Lie presented Casa do Povo, a project that was founded in 1953 in São Paulo (Brazil) by Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe in memory of those died in World War II. The initiative that in those days advocated a secular and universalist culture is now a space of experimentation for the city linked to contemporary culture.
Watch below the documentation of the Atelier The missing link, organised by Hellerau Dresden in May 2016. Coinciding with the festival Projeto Brasil, it focused on new models of artistic work in the frame of community work an today’s shared economy values.
Picture: Performance of Lia Rodrigues during the festivla Projeto Brasil at Festspielhaus Hellerau, (c) Lia Rodrigues, 2016