Digital Leap project has offered opportunities for dance and circus professionals for deepening their understanding of digital tools and the possibilities they offer for performing arts. Is it possible to create, promote and disseminate performing arts digitally, without compromising the essential live feeling?
Digital Leap has organized four learning modules for artists and producers working with circus and dance. The first module kicked off in spring 2022 and the last one took place in the beginning of 2023. The five-day events were held in the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Catalunya and France. The participants – approximately 28 in each module – were selected in an open call aimed at the professionals working in the partner countries.
The contents of each learning module have been compiled in the form of online learning resources – cookbooks. The cookbooks contain practical tips, essential theory of digital platforms, and thoughts from the experts and artists taking part in the modules. The materials are openly available on the project website.
The project has approached the topic from four different perspectives: promoting artistic work on digital platforms, adapting and creating live performances for digital environments, disseminating artistic work and ideas digitally, and reaching and engaging audiences through digital means. The programme was based on practical exercises and theory. The project invited experts from various fields to work as teachers, mentors and facilitators. As a part of the project, the project partners organized seminars in their respective countries to disseminate the learnings of the project with the local performing arts sector in spring 2023.
Read more about the project and discover the online materials on the project website
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- Digital Leap website
- Contact: Johanna Terhemaa |
Circus & Dance Info Finland is the main coordinator of the project. The project has been realized in collaboration with the project partners: Artcena (FR), Arts and Theatre Institute (CZ), Danscentrum Sverige (SE), Lithuanian Dance Information Centre, Institut Ramon Llull (ES) and Performing Arts Hub Norway.
The project has received funding from the European Commision’s Erasmus+ project.
