Kuopio Dance Festival, the largest dance event in the Nordic countries, wants to join cooperation projects dealing with performing arts cooperation that the festival could take part in. Kuopio Dance Festival is the biggest and oldest dance festivals of Scandinavia.

Testing Ground aims to develop ‘reparative methods’, transdisciplinary modalities of creative explorations of potentials for social repair. Drawing from culture’s creative capacities, reparative methods overcome predetermined and already existing frameworks of reaction while avoiding a regressive return to “normality” and using the opportunity for reinventing a more inclusive and just socio-cultural ecosystem. Objectives are 1) […]

Europe is now facing one of its most profound financial, social and ecological crises. Covid-19 and Russian Invasion on Ukraine have exacerbated the already existing challenges that have threatened the unity and well-being of our community. Like all cultural sectors, the music sector needs to adapt to these existential changes in order to survive. It […]

Life Long Burning – Futures Lost and Found (LLB3) continues the cooperation project success stories Jardin d’Europe and LLB1&2 with an extended consortium in a Europe now challenged with more social divisions, currently war, and under the influence of the pandemic and the varying political answers to it, often rendering us immobile to the biggest […]

“Time For Live Art” sees four human-sized live art festivals join forces to underline the resilience of the live art sector, in a contemporary world suffering from ecological and health wounds. These festivals believe that gathering around a live event has never been so precious and necessary, though our current conditions urge us to do […]

The project Movement, Digital Intelligence and Interactive Audience (MODINA) aims to expand the creative possibilities for contemporary dance performances, and augment the experience for the audience, using digital technology – with an emphasis on exploring artificial intelligence (AI) and audience interaction, on-site and online. This aim has two interconnected approaches, targeting dance artists, media artists […]

Bunker Institute is organizing the ACT Creative Europe supported project closing event at the Mladi Levi festival in Ljubljana on 24 August 2023. ACT : Art, Climate, Transition (ACT) is a European cooperation project on hope. Yet: ours is an age of climate breakdown, mass extinction and loss of biodiversity. Ours is a Europe of […]

This project focuses on the interface of performing arts, health and development! Clowndoctors personify the social dimension of performing arts by turning the performance into a therapeutic and restorative experience and not merely a recreational moment. Through humour, interactive play and social/educational theatre, hospital clowning greatly improves the health care environment. Clowndoctors performances provide a […]

Small size, performing arts for early years (SSPAfEY) has turned its attention to children aged 0-6 years, a real “current non-audience”, especially thinking of children under 36 months. The project was conceived and implemented after three other projects aimed at creating a network dedicated to performing arts and early childhood: Small size (2005-2006), Small size, […]

Rasmussen Nordic (DK, lead) and Vocalini (PT, partner) are looking for partners for a small/medium-scale cooperation project in the field of performing arts – opera music. Project proposal: Bring opera and music into more childrens’ lives! We want to develop new formats, experiences and art for children, where they meet opera in many different shapes. Children […]