Moving Borders 3 - 4 June at Dance Ireland Dublin
Moving Borders, an EU cooperation project, explores how three female dance artists from Ukraine – and the migration of millions of women and children escaping from the Russian occupation of their country – can inform approaches to welcoming and engaging refugees through dance, and in the development of inclusive and cohesive practices across Europe.
On 3rd and 4th June at Dance Ireland, Dublin, Aerowaves will announce the results of research conducted over 2 years as part of Moving Borders. Moving Borders –approaches to dance from the Ukrainian diaspora across Europe is a project led by Aerowaves which brings together the museum Arte Sella (IT), La Briqueterie CDCN (FR) and Tanec Praha (CZ), and is supported by the Creative Europe programme of the EU.
Through this cooperation project co-funded by the European Union, Aerowaves and its partners have aimed to expand inclusion and wellbeing practices when welcoming and engaging refugees through dance. With the support of the Arts Council of Ireland and Dance Ireland, the two day event will consist of workshops, talks, and a presentation of the publication which is open to the professional and non-professional dance community.
Dancer and choreographer nora chipaumire will give a workshop on an animist decolonial practice, ‘Nhaka’ (‘inheritance’, ‘legacy’ in the Shona language), which she has been cultivating for more than a decade. nora chipaumire was born in 1965 in what was then known as Umtali, Rhodesia (now Mutare, Zimbabwe). She is a product of colonial education for Black native Africans – known as group B schooling – and is invested in knowledge acquisition and sharing outside of prescribed parameters. chipaumire’s latest works are her performances acontinua- an obituary, a manual for a life lived chasing LIFE – (2025) premiered at MITsp Brazil, and Dambudzo premiered in the frame of Wiener Festwochen amd NEHANDA (2021), a large-scale opera, and the installation afternow (2022).
Register for Moving Borders programme by 20th May 2025.
Moving Borders Programme
3rd June
10:00-13:00 workshop for professional dancers with nora chipaumire
13:00-14:30 lunch break
14:30-15:30 talk/dialogue Monica Gillette and nora chipaumire in conversation about Borders
15:45-17:45 dance practice for non-professionals co-led by Anna Kushnirenko, Rita Lira and Yana Reutova (Ukraine) based on explorations developed during the journey across Europe, and encounters with citizens and communities in Italy, France and Czech Republic.
4th June
10:00-12:00 workshop for professional dancers with nora chipaumire
12:15-13.30 presentation of the publication by the MB research team Monica Gillette, Karina Buckley, Luisella Carnelli, with Anna Kushnirenko, Rita Lira and Yana Reutova.