Keðja & STRETCH
Keðja is a community that supports the strengthening of the Nordic-Baltic dance field and networking of dance professionals internationally. Keðja is Icelandic for "chain".
More information:
Finished projects 2008-2010 and 2012-2015 ›
The evaluation report (2015):
Fertile Ground – an evaluation of keðja 2012-2015
Stretch Gothenburg will happen online
Stretch was scheduled to happen in Gothenburg in August, during the Gothenburg Dance and Theatre Festival. The theme was set to Expanding Movement: participation, community dance, audiences.
Due to the Covid-19 situation the encounter was cancelled, but an online event is organised instead on 20-21st of August. Many keðja partners, including Dance Info Finland, will offer programme content.
See the programme and register here. Participation is free of charge.
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Keðja presents: STRETCH 2019 Turku was organized on 17-20th of October 2019 in Turku, Finland, with the theme Expanding Professionalism.
Read more about the event in the article Stretch 2019 Turku came up with ideas for developing the dance sector locally and internationally ›
More about the programme and the event: www.kedja.net/
Background
The keðja projects have offered opportunities to meet, exchange ideas and work across borders for Nordic and Baltic dance artists, producers, journalists and other dance professionals.
The aim has been to inspire, strengthen and mobilize the dance community in the region and develop the conditions and visibility of contemporary dance in the Nordic and Baltic countries.
There have been two keðja projects so far: in 2008-2010 and in 2012-2015. Dance Info Finland has been a partner in both of them. Thirteen Keðja Encounters have been organised during 2008-2016 around the Nordic and Baltic countries.
More information:
Manager of international affairs Katarina Lindholm, katarina.lindholm@danceinfo.fi
PARTNERS 2019:
Dance Info Finland
Regional Dance Centre of Western Finland (FI)
Kultur i Väst (SE)
Norrlandsoperan (SE)
Dansearena Nord (NO)
Bora Bora (DK)
Danceatelier (IS)
Estonian Dance Agency (EE)
Contemporary Dance Association (LT)
Artist’s Group ”Fish Eye” (LT)
The Work Room (GB)
Tanzfabrik Potsdam (DE)
Dance Theater Ljubljana (SI)
IN COLLABORATION WITH:
The City of Turku
New Performance Festival Turku
WITH THE SUPPORT OF:
Nordic Culture Fund
Finnish Cultural Foundation / Varsinais-Suomi regional fund
Finnish-Danish Cultural Foundation
