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HOW CAN WE SHIFT PERSPECTIVES AS A PLATFORM, AS ARTISTS, AS AUDIENCE?
HOW CAN WE SHIFT PERSPECTIVES AS A PLATFORM, AS ARTISTS, AS AUDIENCE?
HOW CAN WE SHIFT PERSPECTIVES AS A PLATFORM, AS ARTISTS, AS AUDIENCE?
HOW CAN WE SHIFT PERSPECTIVES AS A PLATFORM, AS ARTISTS, AS AUDIENCE?
HOW CAN WE SHIFT PERSPECTIVES AS A PLATFORM, AS ARTISTS, AS AUDIENCE?

Dancing on the edge festival 2024

Legacy & Seeds

23 November – 7 December
Amsterdam, The Hague & Wherever you are

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Join the collective space of an interdisciplinary performing arts festival-as-ritual*

It feels like we are failing as humanity. We witness genocide, domicide, ecocide on our screens. Dancing on the Edge is creating the Legacy & Seeds Festival in relation to the ongoing destruction. We seek to practice solidarity through artistic practices in relation to ancestry, land politics, trauma and grief.

Immerse yourself in multiple (human and plant) perspectives.
Legacy & Seeds is: Dance, Henna, Incense and Festival Labs. The Labs are an open creation and preparation process for the performance rituals on two of the festival days.
Legacy & Seeds is: A Place to Dwell, a seven-day performance program of audio walks and communal Listening Spaces you can join from wherever you are in the world.
Legacy & Seeds is: six festival days in Amsterdam and The Hague. Stories, dance, performance, music and food gestures merge into one continuous program on each festival day. Listen, taste, move, be with us.

Scroll down to Program for the full program.
* No-one will put you on the spot, or ask you to perform. Our shared stage is centre stage. You are part of a collective space. Come as you are.

Legacy & Seeds is the last Dancing on the Edge Festival. We celebrate 18 years of artistic exchange and collaboration with countless artists and partners in the West Asia and North Africa region and Europe.
In recent years we have increasingly responded to a world in crisis, turning the spotlight on constructed (unequal) systems and how we relate to the rest of nature. On how everything is connected. How ‘we’ are inextricably linked to what is happening ‘there’. We work in awareness of context, always asking ourselves, ‘Which artistic forms do we need now?’

In the shadow of the continuing, unrestrained state violence and colossal destruction in the WANA region, the festival (her organisers & artists) mourns and rages in solidarity with the artists who have created and performed with Dancing on the Edge over her life-span:
Legacy & Seeds holds space for layered stories, grief. Being together and listening deeply can shape practices towards justice, change. Ritual is our form.

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