IT STARTED WITH RE-THINKING THE URGENCY OF THEATRE DANCE
FRAMING MY FIRST SUSTAINABLE BELIEFS The urgency to start a blog around re-thinking artistic strategies started mainly from the need to mind the gap between professional dance practice and society, which is addressed on multiple festivals and conferences around the topic nowadays. In the Netherlands art is discussed and dance seen as abstract and useless...except in So you think you can dance. I don't want to trigger the discussion of the value of dance art on television. Actually, I am wondering why an audience always needs to make the movement to go to a theatre or not. It seems to me an old-fashioned expectation, where theatres are build on. In other words, what happens in the theatre, mainly stays in the theatre. This is a problem, because it doesn't stimulate a sustainable connection between art and society. It emphasizes indirectly the segregation between the art world and daily world. People have to make a choice whether they want to be involved i...