Dancing at the crossroads (as we walk) is a space for coming together to write, work and converse. We are a group of non-european, migrant dance professionals that have transited or are based in flanders. Our work seeks to unveil and confront coloniality and racism in the international dance networks established in western europe. We also constitute a mutual aid sociality of re-membrance where we cultivate love and beauty.
At the moment we meet regularly online and are house artists for 2 years (2021-2022) at Workspace Brussels and were artists in residence at PACT Zollverein in Essen in 2021.
We met in a similar configuration in 2019 at dancing at the crossroads, a program curated by Fabian Barba at deSingel in Antwerp, where Fabián Barba, Varinia Canto Vila, Cecilia Lisa Eliceche, Radouan Mriziga, Jolie Ngemi, Rolando Vázquez, Collectif Mémoire Coloniale, Carlos Maria Romero aka Atabey Mamasita and many others diasporic artists met during 3 days to listen to each other about our experiences in european dance education and professional field.
‘Dance in the Crossroads’ was a three-day event featuring dance performances and discussions about dance at the crossroads between a range of cultures. Choreographer Fabián Barba is the curator. He studied modern dance in his native country Ecuador before training in Brussels at P.A.R.T.S., Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s international dance school. Along the way, he increasingly saw himself as someone who is part of two dance traditions that are related to each other in a complex way. For ‘Dance in the Crossroads’ he now invites fellow choreographers to present their work at deSingel. All come from migrant backgrounds, which form the starting point for their artistic practice.