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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?

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For 12 years, Dancing on the Edge has been presenting the best of performing arts from the Middle East, North Africa and the diaspora in The Netherlands. Every festival, artists, curators, thinkers, theater professionals and audiences from different parts of the world bring together an abundance of stories and perspectives in one place. Only a small part of that richness is communicated through the performances. That is why this year Dancing on the Edge is pressing the reset button. To offer a better opportunity to meet and interact on a deeper level, we are deconstructing the festival format. With the soft radicality of open questions.

With projects that focus on process and time spent together, that are co-curated or made as a collective. With alternative places that allow for another kind of interaction and a crossing of disciplines. With programs in which we can shift roles: the spectator can become a maker, the artist can emerge as the co-curator of the festival, and where the festival exists only when we all engage. Dancing on the Edge is a festival that moves between different borders, bodies, histories and (pre)conceptions. In its working processes and programming, it attempts to challenge singular narratives and identities in representation as well as dominant power structures and (post)colonial relations. Between 13 and 24 November, we would like to invite you all -makers, spectators and partners- to embark with us on a personal and collective journey through the different programs, to unpack themes and urgencies, and to undergo the potentials of the encounter that the festival can provide. This journey is best experienced by starting with identifying one’s position of departure, then questioning one’s endeavor, formulating a quest for the journey, immersing oneself in several events, finding inspiration and connection, then rejecting on where the journey has brought you. We invite you to join some dots on the map, and make your own travel plan.