UPCOMING
2020/21

Our heritage

a German-Dutch community dance project

Our heritage is a community dance project for German teenagers and Dutch elderlies. The contweedancecollective will develop together with the transgenerational group during a period of 8 months a dance performance which will be presented in both cities: Arnhem and Bamberg.

Our heritage is looking from different perspectives on memories and effects of the National Socialism. Borders between historical interpretation, between countries, between old and young and mutual attributions are crossed. It offers the participants a framework to deal with their history in an active, fresh, artistic and (inter-)human way, fostering our collective commemorative culture.

Contemporary dance lays the foundation for the group process of exploring themselves and the own history. The focus of the artistic work is on the body as a store of memories, as a bearer of one's own identity, as a malleable means of expression and on the dialogue between the generations about today and yesterday.

During the 8 months, the two groups will gather several times in the city of Arnhem. Besides these bilateral meetings, they will have separately, regular movement sessions in their home countries to continue the collective process.

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