Toolbox

Dansverkstæðið hlaut Erasmus+ styrk fyrir verkefnið TOOLBOX 2024. 

Markmiðið var að auka aðgengi sviðslistafólks og þá sérstaklega danslistafólks að fullorðinsfræðslu, endurmenntun og þjálfun erlendis. 

TOOLBOX 2024 beindi sjónum sínum að leiðum til að auka félagslega virkni, efla sérþekkingu í dramatúrgíu og nýstárlegum hugmyndum í stafrænum heimi. Unnið var að markmiðum verkefnisins með fjölbreyttum námsferðum fyrir kennara og annað starfsfólk. Þátttaka í dramatúrgíu námskeiðum svaraði kalli eftir þekkingu sem fáir geta boðið hérlendis. Aðrar heimsóknir bættu við þekkingu á stafrænum lausnum og nýjum aðferðum í félagslegri virkni. Til að stækka þann hóp sem nýtur góðs af námsferðum innan Erasmus + verkefnisins miðluðu þátttakendur reynslu sinni áfram til samfélagsins í gegnum námskeið, fræðslufundi og opnar umræður í kjölfar ferða sinna. Þannig dreifist sú þekking sem aflað er í gegnum TOOLBOX 2024 til fleiri, nýtist bæði þátttakendum og stærra samfélagi og stuðlar að varanlegum áhrifum til lengri tíma.

Alls tóku 27 aðilar þátt í verkefninu á vegum Dansverkstæðisins og skiptust heimsóknir nokkuð jafnt í “job shadowing” og þátttöku í námskeiðum.

Samstarfsaðilar:

• Dance House Lemesos, Kýpur

• Stichting Iid Company, Holland

• Telocvičňa, Slóvakía

• Site, Svíþjóð

• Dansit, Noregur

• Association Of Theatre Pedagogues, Pólland

• North Atlantic Islands Dance Network, Færeyjar

• Bratislava In Movement, Slóvakía

• Tic Tac Art Centre, Belgía

• Danseinformasjonen, Noregur

• Aviaaja Dance, Danmörk

• Dans i Blekinge, Svíþjóð

• Fundacja Nurt, Pólland

• Davvi, Noregur

• Impulstanz, Austurríki

• Tanzfaktur, Þýskaland

• Fundacja Sanatorium Somatyczne, Pólland

• Miejska Biblioteka Publiczna, Pólland

• Inshadow / Voarte, Portúgal

• Danseateliers, Holland

Með virkri þátttöku í Erasmus+ netinu byggðum við upp og styrktum samstarf við fjölmargar evrópskar stofnanir í 11 löndum með það markmið að stofna til langtímasamstarfs. Starfsfólk okkar tók þátt í jafningjanámi og skiptist á þekkingu og samsköpun menntastefnu, sem tengir samtök okkar enn frekar við Erasmus+ samfélagið. Með sameiginlegri þekkingarleit stækkuðum við alþjóðlegt net okkar og tryggðum sjálfbæra samstarfsmöguleika til framtíðar.

Þátttakendur hafa orðið

Sóley Ólafsdóttir:

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I am writing this letter reflecting on my summer being spent at the Impulstanz festival in Vienna as a DanceWEB’ber. I try to write about DanceWEB, yet I don’t know if I will speak of dancing, unless dance is a way to ask, to deeply know, to care and to fantasize of the unspeakable future. I can’t grasp to corner my impression of this journey from a place of simply telling about.

There were five weeks of madness... sliding between a state of overextended bliss and absolute fatigue... A circus that only exists once.

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A group of DanceWEB’ber’s, brought together by mentor, more than sensational, Raja Feather Kelly. From the first letter sent to us, 23.’rd of January 2025, the tone was SET: “Now is your time to get ready, say goodbye to your old self, a new you will be back in August. If you want, if you lean in. If you find your CUNT - your Curious Underdog of Nuance and Understanding.” The first days we were invited to ponder and explore through notions of; Mask, Persona, Clown, Drag and Camp. These notions became an influential force in my navigation through the festival, coping with self-awareness and identity in absurd scenarios, revealing encounters and new-found performative states. A force of fools in the most wise and aware direction of wind. Force in knowing that we can make new meanings. Dancing is meaning-making in a deeply political and campy way (though, we can’t mention that... camp is unaware of itself, so, stay camp, but... shhh...).

“The old world is dying. And the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.” (From a remarkable performance at the festival, “Work Body” by Michael Turinsky)

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Irony is dead, let the clowns in, cry to the moon and laugh to the stars. Say too much rather than nothing at all. Sometimes we think we want people to be honest until somebody says something so real... It’s easy to put up the Mask and to abstract daily doings of being, then there is an eruption  ́BOOM ́, there is an ever present war and there is genocide. Our earth is crying to the void. We move aimlessly through the simulation. I invite myself and all of us to think about who abstraction really belongs to?

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I need to negotiate with reality and write this semi-poem...

for now:

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Magma is slithering

Norms, or even so, organic stability,

does not exist in the real world.

Stability is a simulation and

the binary perspective is a paper town.

The market

is now a mosquito,

inhabiting the ashes.

Simulation is dead,

the show is over

... a new show must go on ...

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Let's embrace each other's entangled perceptions of this so-called reality and make the most of it together. Our foundation is togetherness and I acknowledge the care and dedication it takes to foster a community. I appreciate Dansverkstæðið’s dedication to the freelance dance scene here in Reykjavík. Without them I can’t imagine what my dance endeavours or community would be or look like. I thank their collaboration with Erasmus in supporting me to co-finance my scholarship to partake in the DanceWEB program and become a part of their global alumni. This experience was profound and I believe life-changing. Thank you for everything... always!

xoxo Sóley