Rail2Dance (Rail to Dance)

The environmental crisis and the pandemic have deeply shaken our realities and have provided dance professionals overall with a unique, yet challenging, opportunity to reflect on current and future challenges, by re-examining audience engagement, sustainability and mobility paradigm in performing arts.

Rail2Dance brings together 4 established dance organizations in Europe, Städtische Theater Chemnitz – Ballett Chemnitz in Germany, Tampere Dance Theatre in Finland, Plesni Teater Ljubljana in Slovenia and Norrlandsoperan in Sweden to develop dance and performing art within trains, stations and places of mobility.

Projekt Rail2Dance s podporo Ustvarjalne Evrope. Foto Drago Videmšek.

Rail2Dance aims to revitalize these places with dance, to engage large-scale and new audiences, but also to train European dance professionals to develop new skills in audience development, performing in public spaces and sustainable mobility, in order to encourage the European dance scene to shift towards carbon-less solutions.

Rail2Dance has 3 main objectives aligned with the Creative Europe priorities :
1. Audience development / Develop and engage new audiences for dance across Europe, including those with less access to culture, through physical and virtual performances in places of transport and mobility
2. Sustainable mobility / Develop a mobility programme for dance artists using sustainable transports and VR technologies, to test new models for environment-friendly mobility
3. Capacity Building / Develop and share new methodologies and skills for the dance sector, to improve its professional development and opportunities A core team of 5 artists selected from Germany, Finland, UK, Slovenia and Sweden will join this 2-year project and be joined by local communities of artists in the activities, which include: A mentored residency in Slovenia A 3-month local action research A VR experience development Rail2Dance on tour, the core mobility phase of the project in Germany, Finland, Slovenia and Sweden A virtual/physical conference in Germany and a final toolkit.

Dance Theatre Ljubljana (PTL)

(Partner) Ljubljana

All projects of Slovenian producer

Be SpectACTive! (2018-2022)

Foreign producers in the supported project

Festival TANZ|Moderne|TANZ (partner)

Germany (EU)
Tanssiteatteri MD Dance Theatre MD (partner)

Finland (EU)
NorrlandsOperan (partner)

Sweden (EU)

Funded projects

CAFÈ: Redefining Historic Cafés as European Cultural Heritage

ArtElevate – Fostering inclusive cultural expression in Europe

CARE – Culture for Mental Health

Glassmaking Between Tradition and Innovation

WONDERCUT – Collaboratively Exploring the Public Value of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Next Level Cultural Experiences

Heroes Unleashed: Implementing a Sensory Reading Program in European Public Libraries

DATAS – The Data and the Sovereign

TALKING HEADS – Conversation with the art of the past

Libraries of Emotions for Good

GreenHeritage – Nurturing a sustainable future in the gardens of time

G-BOOK 3

PAGE: a Project for Advancing coGnitivE accessibility in publishing

DIGITAL on STAGE – Unleashing the Performing Arts Experience through Digital Innovation

OASis – Open Art Spaces in Synergy

Transport: Sustainable puppet co-creations for European young audiences

Danube Dance Alliance for Development of Contemporary Dance Scene in the Danube Region

Mind the GAP

Beletrina Digital

WOMEN interACT - participatory theatre against the double exclusion of women

TECH(ing) TALES WITH A TWIST for the children of the present

DoSEL – Drama of Smaller European Languages

MUSICVILLE – Green European Opera

Operation Nova

Kino x Games

FASIH - Future Art and Science Industrial Heritage

Cultural BEES

Is this us?

Climate Art Fusion Caravane (CARAVANE)

Moving Balkans

Youth Art for the Earth (YAFE)

Shadow Pandemic: Hidden Voices

Open House Europe (OHEu)

Third Stage

VERSOPOLIS – WHERE POETRY LIVES

December: Uncomfortable Beings, Azra, Best Imaginary Friends Forever

LINA - Learn, Interact, and Network in Architecture

Reactivating unused urban spaces through architecture and arts (ReCITYing)

Art Nouveau: a new EUtopia

Creative Industries Development Centre (KUL)

Web 3.0 Accelerator for Sustainable Cultural Tourism (Web3Tour)

Studiotopia: Enter the Symbiocene with Arts and Science (Studiotopia 2)

Bio Awakening - developing bio-art practices in Western Balkan

TestArt

GREENSTAGE

Connecting Emerging Literary Artists (CELA)

Transmedia stories of insularity (TRAST)

Female Digital Creativity (FLUX)

Planet Hope (New European Fiction) (PH)

More than a Book (MTaS)

Our Little Library: Through literary bridges to reading adventures (OLLLB)

Connected with Books (CWB)

Exploring Expanded Publishing: EX-Pub

Thinking Publishing (ThinkPub)

Novel Europe (NovelEU)

REVIVE

Temporama: Mini Slate 2023

Studi Virc: Mini Slate 2023

The 10th and 11th edition of FeKK - Ljubljana Short Film Festival

The 20th and 21st Kino Otok - Isola Cinema International Film Festival

20. and 21. ANIMATEKA International animated film festival

Film in Hospital 2.0

EU Youth Cinema: Green Deal 2024-2026

Cinema without barriers (CWB)

Literary Agent Platform: Capacity building (LAP CB)

Tramal Films Mini Slate 22 (TFMini22)

Vertigo Slate 2022: Chestnuts, Memory of Autumn Mists, OHO, Splashing around

Staragara slate 22

Our Little Library: Literary exchanges (OLL LE)

Testing Ground (TestG)

Better Live

Variola - Dark Spring TV series

SEMA

Paradiso

Leave the door open

The Big Green

The Long Way Down

New approaches for local media (NEWLOCAL)

Life Long Burning – Futures Lost and Found (LLB3)

Time For Live Art (LIVETIME)