Learn something new this summer – Digital Leap Cookbooks are available online

The project Digital Leap has offered dance and circus professionals learning opportunities for deepening their understanding of digital environments and the opportunities they offer for performing arts. The project brought artists together for four learning modules held in different countries. The ideas and know-how emerged in the modules are shared with everyone curious about the topic in the form of online learning resources. 

The Digital Leap Cookbooks are digital handbooks that give food for thought and provide ingredients with which to develop skills with digital platforms. The Cookbooks cover the same topics as the four learning modules organized in 2022 and 2023, and the knowledge can be applied for all fields of performing arts. 

The learning materials come in four parts. The Cookbook no. 1 focuses on digital promotion of performing arts and how to get the most out of social media. The second part delves into the digital production of performing arts – like creating works for XR and live streaming and how to engage the audience using storytelling and immersive sound. 

The third Cookbook explores the different ways of digital dissemination of artistic work and how to connect with the international performing arts scene. The fourth part of the material looks into audience engagement through digital means. 

The materials are openly available on the project website. The cookbooks contain practical tips from experts, basic knowledge of helpful tools, thoughts and take-aways from the learning modules and exercises to help you think more digitally. 

Digital Leap was a collaboration project between seven European partner organizations. Dance Info Finland – later Circus & Dance info Finland – was the coordinator of the project. Digital Leap received funding from the European Commission’s Erasmus+ programme.